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by _tom_ 4y ago
Yeah, there would be mass and nothing visible. Like a black hole, dark matter, etc. :-)
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by _tom_ 4y ago
"Next step intelligences"
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by _tom_ 4y ago
My other pet theory is that organic life forms are an intermediate step in the development of intelligence. No one will bother with us, until the inevitable artificial intelligences develop.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
The Fermi paradox assumes that "intelligent" is one threshold, and we are beyond it. We couldn't communicate with the most advanced primates from a million years ago. A civilization a million years past ours would be unlikely
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by _tom_ 4y ago
Not folk, not imprinting. Here you go: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/science/dutch-famine-gene...
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by _tom_ 4y ago
So, he wants to ask the question "What was the OpenSearch Annual Contract Value from 2021?" But I don't see that he got an answer. He later asks a different question, and gets results of a simple search, with nothing like the
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by _tom_ 4y ago
Or better still, to something that actually lets people know what the topic is.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
The fundamental problem that car companies have wrapping their head around the fact that writing the software is harder than building cars. It's not an add on. The car is becoming a vehicle for delivering software. If you don't re
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by _tom_ 4y ago
They did the same for modern art. https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/ With similar results.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
> How can either side get an accurate assessment of the other in such a short time? There is little evidence that longer interview cycles produce better results. "Years ago, we did a study to determine whether anyone at Google is pa
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by _tom_ 4y ago
As I mentioned in another thread, people were complaining that there were not longer any workarounds for the artificial limits.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
Reviews specifically mentioned that this was not overridable anymore.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
Or it didn't really use Oauth, and just outright stole his password.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
Was reading reviews for Brother recently. "The printers keep track of every page that goes through it whether or not you use any consumables and forces you to replace the toners the belt the drum and the fuser regardless of the actual
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by _tom_ 4y ago
Write and speak. Have an online presence in some area. Open source something related to what you want to work on. Help them find you.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
> The thing that made math so much easier to learn for me was that as soon as I understood a concept or method of logic, it was effortless to internalize and recall. Exactly!
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by _tom_ 4y ago
She uses words that don't mean what she thinks they mean. "Rote learning for understanding" Yeah, that's the opposite of the meaning of rote. She says "practicing" when most people would say "working on un
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by _tom_ 4y ago
While backing up to a cloud is good, and gets the data offsite, bear in mind the chance of losing data there. The primary issue is not the 10 to the minus X failure rate they quote, but the much more likely chance that you will lose access
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by _tom_ 4y ago
https://ffmpegfromzerotohero.com
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by _tom_ 4y ago
That sounds right. It's been a while.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
Strong recommendation (echoed by many I've talked to). Write in word, format in Vellum. Don't use Vellum as an editor, that's not its strength. If you make any changes to the word doc, you just use "reimport word documen
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by _tom_ 4y ago
InDesign is great, if you want to precisely layout print books. It does not support ebooks at all. Doing both at once is Vellum's sweet spot. If you don't want to pay subscriptions, I've heard Affinity Publisher is a good opt
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by _tom_ 4y ago
Yeah, I gave up on Scrivener for anything to do with formatting. If you are going to use Scrivener, use it for an editor/organizer, and export the result as a word doc, and then process that in Vellum. Then you get good tools doing wha
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by _tom_ 4y ago
This was in the early IBM PCs. I know, because I remember I had to replace my 8088 when I got the 8087 floating point coprocessor. I don't recall exactly why this caused it to hit the interrupt bug, but it did.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
And practice, practice, practice
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by _tom_ 4y ago
Lucene in Action covers Lucene 3.0, and is from 2010. Current version is 9.4.2. So much has changed.
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Without cutting DOWN trees. I was trying to guess how they could grow square trees.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
You can still choose to do practice or stories. Stories are under dumbbell icon/collections/stories.
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by _tom_ 4y ago
People hate change. It's not news. I have a two year streak. It doesn't really change anything for me, except making fewer choices. If they had changed from the new UI to the old one, the same articles would be written. It's
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by _tom_ 4y ago
Native English speaker here. > "Shall we go to the shop or the café" "Yes" -> café Not a pattern I run into. Maybe it's regional?

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