aaronbrethorst

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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
Seems like you're being reflexively cynical There are plenty of things in the world for me to spend my limited supply of outrage on. Calculator pricing doesn't make it into the top 100.
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
Shrug. The SAT and ACT don't let you use an iPhone on their exams. $160 is what the market will bear. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, it just is, and perhaps there's a market for a much cheaper competitor to beat TI
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
A TI-83 was about $100 in the year 2000, and it doesn't look like it's that much cheaper today. I would've expected Texas Instruments to try gouging their very captive market.
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
$160 at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instruments-TI84-TI-Calculator/... Not as bad as I would've expected. Also, apparently it includes a very simple Python environment? https://education.ti.com
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
Tangential: the favicon for dustri.org is from a really delightful (and hilariously dark) children's book called "I Want My Hat Back" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_My_Hat_Back
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
I guess he was busy photographing hamburgers or hanging out with criminals.
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
Was this in the PNW? The idea of getting rid of spiders. Oof, what a joke.
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Coyote vs. Acme (1990)(newyorker.com)
2 points by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago|0 comments
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
Too bad, you could run a lot faster in a vacuum...except for that whole breathing thing.
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
I wonder if U2, or Bono, has taken a significant stake in Headspace recently (kidding).
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Trump Fires the National Science Board(theverge.com)
33 points by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago|2 comments
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
Gimme five bees for a quarter you’d say!
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
Their hours are pegged to the hogshead, and are about 3 seconds shorter than American hours.
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
The lead author on this paper is a professor of anesthesiology. I think it's fairly safe to describe its conclusion as crank-adjacent, if not outright cranky.
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
I'd love some sort of "so what?" explainer in the README.
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
Assuming that the announcement video Ben Collins posted represents the new logo, it's a delightfully pride rainbow-colored InfoWars logo with an onion in place of the 'o'. https://bsky.app/profile/bencoll
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
that's a lot of syllables.
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How to Set Up OneBusAway Maglev with Bay Area Transit Data(opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org)
3 points by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago|0 comments
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
Do you think you might have also broken up if it had only been stairs?
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
how does it work? (the multiplication)
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
I am so excited for this. I’ve used Amazon SES begrudgingly for years and have wanted a better UI and easier routing level automation.
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
Stock’s up 600% on the ‘news’
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
What was the better mp3 player than the iPod?
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
One interesting detail about Denmark's renewable energy infrastructure mix is that Vestas, the largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world, is a cornerstone of Danish industry. Note in the article that wind supplies about 40% of Den
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
Nihilism is not a great start for serious dialogue either.
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
I find this kind of 'lol nothing can ever improve' mentality to be pointlessly cynical, boring, and reductive. Oddly, it's of a type I mostly associate with the so-called dirtbag left of the United States.
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
42 days, for anyone else not accustomed to thinking in terms of large numbers of hours.
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
ACB, Kavanaugh, and Roberts were all on Bush's legal team for Bush v. Gore. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/17/politics/bush-v-gore-barrett-...
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
Name checks out.
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by aaronbrethorst 6mo ago
Is that the guy who kept running those quixotic campaigns against Nancy Pelosi?

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