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by _tom_ 5y ago
My favorite example is "login before you know what's here". I'm always amazed by this. I hear about a new website, open it up, and there's a sign up pop-up. 100% close and go away.
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by _tom_ 5y ago
I know! Isn't it lovely? I used that to break my reddit addiction. Haven't been on for a while.
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by _tom_ 5y ago
That was 20 years ago. Life spans are falling, as is height.
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by _tom_ 5y ago
> ZFS is far more battle tested. They say its stable now, but they had said that many times. It eat my data twice Did you mean "it ate my data" to apply to ZFS? Or did you mean BTRFS?
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by _tom_ 5y ago
Anyone else think we should make it illegal to pay ransom? These people are just financing the next generation of cyber criminals. Once people stop paying, people will stop attacking.
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by _tom_ 5y ago
Not a lawyer. I seem to recall that setting this to a year other than the correct one can affect copyright. Set it to the last modified date, not the current year.
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by _tom_ 5y ago
Way over budget!
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by _tom_ 5y ago
Ha! Funny that there are two attack of the plants episodes.
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by _tom_ 5y ago
A similar ambiguity that I had to give up on using was “next Friday”. If it’s Monday, half the people think next Friday is the one in next week. The others that it is the next Friday, the one that occurs in five days. Now it’s “this Friday”
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by _tom_ 5y ago
Check out the Aymara language, where the past is in front of you and the future is behind you! As a non expert, I think the general idea is you can see the past, therefor it is in front of you, and the future is unknown, so it’s where you c
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by _tom_ 5y ago
Simply googling would answer many of your questions in thirty seconds. For example, search for by lesson plans and you’ll discover there are many marketplaces for lesson plans. People unfamiliar with problems frequently think they are easy,
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by _tom_ 5y ago
Open source textbooks are available and usable online for free. Why do you need printed copies? Frequently, open source textbooks can also be printed on demand for much less than the cost of a new textbook, in any quantity. If you can affor
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by _tom_ 5y ago
Site seems to be missing a clear opt out on privacy. Not gonna recommend anyone click through.
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by _tom_ 5y ago
"The Great Vegetable Rebellion"? With perhaps the worst costuming ever found in science fiction. https://lostinspace.fandom.com/wiki/The_Great_Vegetable_Rebe...
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by _tom_ 5y ago
What's the best modern replacement for Heathkit? Something to get newbies started in electronics. Arduino?
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by _tom_ 5y ago
The ones best at appearing beautiful and rich. Google “Instagram reality” for the former and consider https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/style/baller-busters-onli... for the latter.
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by _tom_ 5y ago
The real question is “how many types of parasites ALREADY modify human behavior”. We know toxoplasmosis does it, but how many have we not yet detected?
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by _tom_ 5y ago
Two years would cause most technical books to miss a market window. Other will have written on the topic, and perhaps be established as a standard by then. It’s great that the book is improved, but that delay is a killer.
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by _tom_ 6y ago
Elasticsearch has done a good job of focusing on the log analytics space, and Kibana is a great tool. I'd probably use ES for any log analytics and Solr for things like website and ecommerce search. Of course, you could do both with ei
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by _tom_ 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network
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by _tom_ 6y ago
Not a lawyer. I was surprised that it was possible to prosecute faking admissions to colleges as a crime, but apparently you can. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_college_admissions_briber... This would seem to be si
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by _tom_ 6y ago
Buy a monitor. Hook it to an Apple TV, or some other reasonably well behaved source.
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by _tom_ 6y ago
It's not all fraud. I've recently started ordering from a national fast food restaurant that does curbside delivery. Of five orders, four had problems. This is curbside, no one but me and the employee touched my order. If someone
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by _tom_ 6y ago
There seems to be a bug with figures with boundaries that cross each other. Perhaps there is an issue with determining inside vs outside for the figure. An infinity symbol drawn so the line crosses itself has issues. If you trace the outsid
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by _tom_ 6y ago
I recommend the book "Wrong", which talks about a number of failings in our current research system, why invalid results persist, and how people game the system to get the results they want. https://www.amazon.com/
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by _tom_ 6y ago
My uncle still has his father's Model T, from about the same time. Even has the original bill of sale! I've ridden in it. It's scary even at 5mph. Not a single safety feature.
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by _tom_ 6y ago
Perhaps because it's relatively easy to get started?
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by _tom_ 6y ago
And large improvements to the language could result in millions of dollars of productivity losses! :-) I'm not a big fan of "Now this language has gotten popular, let's add all the features to it that made our other language
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by _tom_ 6y ago
Who has the encrypted key? The statement is meaningless if you have the key.
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by _tom_ 6y ago
Dolphin Fish -> Mahi Mahi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahi-mahi

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