Treblemaker

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The flawed three-cueing system for teaching reading(apmreports.org)
187 points by Treblemaker 7y ago|162 comments
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by Treblemaker 7y ago
I well remember my confusion and frustration years ago trying to find an address on Kifer Rd between Sunnyvale and Santa Clara in California. I think I must have turned around four times before I realized what was happening...
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by Treblemaker 7y ago
But doesn't that carbon footprint assume that the energy to manufacture and transport the panels comes from fossil fuels? Then it seems we would eventually reach a point where a sufficient fraction of the energy to produce and transp
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by Treblemaker 7y ago
"That's the first lesson in basic nanotechnology. First, program the off switch. Everybody knows that." https://qntm.org/gorge
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by Treblemaker 8y ago
Businesses pay property tax on capital equipment, and the vast majority of small and medium businesses function just fine with the existing tax rates. But when you look at cost of capital equipment per job created, there's a difference
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by Treblemaker 8y ago
I wonder if there was sufficient institutional memory to consider this during the 737MAX certification. In a 1992 recorded interview David P. Davies -- chief pilot of the UK Air Registration Board (ARB) from the 1950's through 1970&#x2
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In 1959, A 707 variant had design issue similar to 737MAX (1992) [audio](soundcloud.com)
3 points by Treblemaker 8y ago|5 comments
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by Treblemaker 8y ago
Vernier calipers capable of measuring 0.001 inch were available in 1851. Agree on your first point, however.
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by Treblemaker 8y ago
"Based on reports made to the company and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, less than one tenth of one percent of the millions of Pyrex products sold each year experience thermal breakage" So, that's potentially thousan
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by Treblemaker 8y ago
Is your disagreement with characterizing the air compression as "violent", or do you have a different understanding of what causes the heating during re-entry?
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by Treblemaker 8y ago
Depends on the how the charging controller is implemented. There is, at the very least a state machine -- if not an MCU -- managing the charging process. So I think it's highly unlikely to _start_ charging with the clock stopped, and
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by Treblemaker 8y ago
When chips are manufactured there are process tests using test structures embedded in the pad ring and scribe area between the die images, as well as functional tests that are specific to the design. Risk production just means the "cus
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by Treblemaker 8y ago
I know, right? https://pasteboard.co/Hn35e51.png
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by Treblemaker 8y ago
I found this article [1] to be much more enlightening [2]. The problem is not so much that puns are bad, but that so many puns are just bad puns. As described here [3], > "It's not enough to just substitute a word that sounds
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by Treblemaker 8y ago
Could it be connections to other nearby signals for synchronizing the lights?
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by Treblemaker 8y ago
> Prop 13 is flagrantly unfair How do you define "fairness" in this context? * Edited to less confrontational question.
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by Treblemaker 8y ago
> do you mean to tell me you'd opt to show them the oscilloscope representation of the sound wave that each bird makes rather than playing them an actual recording of each call? Useful visual representations of bird calls do exist.
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by Treblemaker 9y ago
Ah, one little slip of the pen and everything changes. It's more like 3.6 * 10^16 meters.
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by Treblemaker 9y ago
If one arbitrarily defines "zero force" as less than the force sufficient to accelerate one proton at one planck length per age-of-universe^2, I come up with a distance of 10^12 meters between two protons (+/- an order of mag
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by Treblemaker 9y ago
> and even then that's not wise. The girl who ran a red light three feet in front of me while looking at her phone would agree with you -- that is, if she even realized she had done it. (I was in the crosswalk and I stopped when it
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by Treblemaker 9y ago
The first question that comes to my mind watching this, is, why didn't the _pedestrian_ see the _car_? It looks as though she didn't even look up until the car was only a few feet away from here. I'm not just trying to &
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by Treblemaker 9y ago
That's another advantage of the mechanical knob: a large detent at "zero". Provides both tactile and acoustic feedback. So, no worries of turning past zero.
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by Treblemaker 9y ago
And yet I keep playing it....
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by Treblemaker 9y ago
I found the process of discovery (including the ship orientation hints mentioned below) was part of what made it enjoyable. Of course, after about five minutes the rules and strategies have become apparent and it does become truly mindles
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by Treblemaker 9y ago
Someone did take that tone with him. Granted, it was Linus himself, but still, he is someone and he did it. "In fact, it seems to be such a fundamental bug that I suspect I'm entirely wrong, and full of shit. So it's an int
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by Treblemaker 9y ago
This question touches on something I've wondered about for a while. Why are large actors' usage questioned as if they alone were responsible for their internet traffic? Bits go in and bits come back out somewhere. There are a
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by Treblemaker 9y ago
I've been thinking about this recently, too. This was just on the front page of HN yesterday: "Does anyone remember websites?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631565 "Search engines like Google
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by Treblemaker 9y ago
What I appreciate most about this is that he just set up the camera and let the scene unfold without cutting away every two seconds, or worse, every just-long-enough-so-i'm-relaxing-and-starting-to-get-immersed-in-it-when-you're-s
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by Treblemaker 9y ago
1) "In 1969, Sears, Roebuck & Co. was the largest retailer in the world, with about 350,000 employees. Sears executives decided to consolidate the thousands of employees in offices distributed throughout the Chicago area into one b
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by Treblemaker 9y ago
Is this a case where getting the search warrant would have just been an inconvenience, or would they likely have been refused if they had asked for one?

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