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by abruzzi 7y ago
I reread Cat's Cradle every couple of years. You can read the entire book in a 3-4 hour sitting. It is funny and sad, it loves humans and hates them. It is one of my favorite books of all time.
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by abruzzi 7y ago
The unusual thing though is my first exposure to "lock-out/tag-out" was as a minimum wage employee at WalMart ~30 years ago. Among other things, they had a large cardboard bailer that compress all the empty cardboard boxes i
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by abruzzi 7y ago
Reminds me a bit of Andy Goldsworthy's "Storm King Wall" (one of his few permanent art works.) Not that he was doing it to save stones, or protect fruit trees. That shape is just a common part of his art: https:/&#x2F
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by abruzzi 7y ago
Reminds me of the ode to a shipping label: http://i.imgur.com/4J7Il0m.jpg What these things all reinforce is that a lot of programmers take text encoding as a given, and don’t realize all the potential places for errors to
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Chelsea Apartment Only $90 a Night (Ignore the Nycha Sign)(nytimes.com)
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by abruzzi 7y ago
Some pensions (mine at least) have periodic cost of living adjustments (COLAs) that hypothetically takes care of that.
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The premise of the article seems odd to me. Am I just unusual in the fact that my interests and curiosity are very closely aligned?
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technically it is spelled "scat"
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Fear of Facebook spurs momentum for Fed to build its own digital currency(politico.com)
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Was Heidi the Octopus Dreaming?(nytimes.com)
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by abruzzi 7y ago
You are correct, but they force the same purchase type on all consumer, rather than let people decide.
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As I understand it birds are not sensitive to capsaicin, and unlike mammals who will eat the entire fruit, seeds and all, passing it through their digestive tract, birds are careless eaters and will drop half their food while eating, effect
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by abruzzi 7y ago
I'm assuming that you are querying tags to find the images? I did notice a image that shows up under "Kodak Gold 200", but when you visit the flickr page it is clearly "Kodak Colorplus 200" (yes apparently they are
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by abruzzi 7y ago
nice clean presentation. Where are you sourcing your images from? Also, based on the samples I looked at, it would be nice to have larger images.
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by abruzzi 7y ago
Perhaps the difference is you told the group of workers “I want trees A and B trimmed in this way”, but you probably weren’t saying “Tom, I want you to trim tree A, Dick, I want you to trim tree B, and Harry, I want you on the ground passin
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by abruzzi 7y ago
The story that the OP is referring to is not the story (if any) portrayed by the art, but the story of the work itself. So it is bound up in the story of the artist, the history of a particular work, and the path from the artist's con
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by abruzzi 7y ago
I think it’s less about “coddling their emotional state” and more about the futility of getting dragged into argument with no end. It reminds me of the saying, attributed to Mark Twain, among others: “Never argue with an idiot. They will d
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by abruzzi 7y ago
I had a car—a 1971 Toyota Landcruiser FJ55–that technically had a tilde(~) in the VIN. It was in the format: FJ55~123456. When I bought it, the title had the VIN as FJ550123456. I just accepted and ignored it for a while, but when I deci
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by abruzzi 7y ago
Once upon a time, the mad scientist cliché was surrounded with beakers filled bubbling fluids. I haven't seen that cliché in a movie in a long time. Now we have the "mad hacker" cliché where the hacker does similar things,
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by abruzzi 7y ago
When the older voice in the article says the dark red light protects the fragile negatives, it perpetuates a common misunderstanding about film darkrooms. Most undeveloped film would be destroyed by the red light, except very uncommon ortho
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by abruzzi 7y ago
I would wonder, given that many scientific words--especially in chemistry--are a jumble of root plus prefixes and suffixes (de-oxy-ribo-nucleo-tide), and there are a LOT of these chemistry words, would it be productive to treat the signs th
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by abruzzi 7y ago
I was always surprised at the popularity of the "Delicious" apples. My favorite is still Granny Smith, but then I prefer tart apples. I have noticed the explosion of types in the last few decades, but nothing I've tried is
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by abruzzi 7y ago
really? I always thought that a lot of the low cost domestic airlines in the US managed costs by maintaining a fleet of a single type of plane. Southwest Airlines for example is entirely Boeing 737 (according to wikipedia, 513 737-700, 20
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by abruzzi 7y ago
generally defined as 3mhz to 30mhz.
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by abruzzi 7y ago
I remember an image processing application back in the late 90s that would do FFT/reverse FFT that I used a couple of times to “paint out” certain regular artifacts. Same basic idea as this, but not nearly as successful. I can’t remem
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by abruzzi 7y ago
Ultimately it depends on how frictionless it is to convert it back to dollars, pounds, euros, etc. This has always been an issue for bitcoin. When I first heard about bitcoin, one bitcoin was worth less than a US dollar. I was curious so
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by abruzzi 7y ago
Funny, I visited the Moscow museum just a couple weeks ago. What I especially enjoyed was was this solenoid based basketball game. Two player, about 15 places on the playing field where the ball could land. Each player the to hit the rig
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by abruzzi 7y ago
I don't know if its still there, but west Philadelphia (somewhere around 49th St.) had a Carrot Cake store. They made the best carrot cake I've ever had, and made nothing else.
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Not if they had reason to believe that your tires were worn out. The problem is that your tire is being marked when there is no evidence that you will overstay your parking. Everyone is marked indiscriminately. At least, thats how I under
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by abruzzi 7y ago
is "zombie deer virus" a new term? I've known about CWD (and CJD, mad cow, and scrapie) for a long time but this is the first time I've heard it referred to as zombie deer virus.

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