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by abruzzi 9y ago
> Take away death and what do you get? Overpopulation?
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by abruzzi 10y ago
While I'm not a fan of this approach, sick leave abuse is a common issue. While I've never seen actual studies to back that up, anecdotally I've seen it a lot. My employer had to institute a policy that if you take sick leav
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by abruzzi 10y ago
In my job, sick leave is officially authorized for immediate family members, though the wording is a little vague on who that covers: > Sick leave may be authorized due to personal illness or injury; to care for an immediate family membe
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by abruzzi 10y ago
Also, colorsync works much better on Apple monitors. I have two monitors on my desk, a Dell P2815Q and a Apple Thunderbolt Display. The Apple had a default colorsync profile that looks perfect, the Dell, I got close, but I can't get
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by abruzzi 10y ago
The problem with that is it defeats the reason I use an SE. I imagine some people use it because they want a physically smaller device, but I use it because I use my phone one handed almost all the time. Keeping the same size but making t
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by abruzzi 10y ago
Since I live somewhere now where I can't get sharp provolone, I get the stuff the supermarket sells and leave it out on the counter for a month before I eat it. It tastes much better that way.
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by abruzzi 10y ago
Am I the only person who finds talking to these personal assistants profoundly uncomfortable? Like I've spent all my life learning how to interact with a computer, and now these companies want me to interact with it like it's a h
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by abruzzi 10y ago
Even though the key signature for a major and its relative minor are the same, that is only part of the story. When you see that A Minor has the same key signature as C Major, what you are seeing is the "natural minor" scale. Thi
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by abruzzi 10y ago
This is not nearly as complex a sequence, but has a bit of tool making. Specifically, bending a wire into a hook to retrieve food: https://youtu.be/TtmLVP0HvDg
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by abruzzi 10y ago
> Such technology can make the phone or other device appear smarter because it anticipates the types of activities people want to do. Currently all the attempts I seen to anticipate what I want make applications far more annoying (do you
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by abruzzi 10y ago
isn't the MPEG4 container based on the Quicktime container?
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Demon in the Freezer(nytimes.com)
3 points by abruzzi 10y ago|0 comments
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by abruzzi 10y ago
In the motorcycle apparel world, "YKK Zippers" is frequently on the bullet list of features that the jacket has. Though they will also advertise the cloth the jacket is made from as well such as "500 wt Cordura with 2000 wt
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by abruzzi 10y ago
I love the last paragraph: > Of course, small mammals cause problems in all sorts of organizations. Yesterday, a group of children took National Public Radio off the air for over a minute before engineers could restore the broadcast.
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by abruzzi 10y ago
While I don't follow the autonomous vehicle news too closely, this is the first article I seen that really directly confronts the potential limitations of AVs in edge cases, and how that may affect development of them and how they&#x27
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Will it have a steering wheel?(vox.com)
1 points by abruzzi 10y ago|1 comments
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by abruzzi 11y ago
Reminds me of Brazil. Information retrieval charges.
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by abruzzi 11y ago
12 tone is a historical scale. Initially (Pythagoras) the scale was based on perfect fifths. Over time the notes in between the diatonic scale note were added. Tuning started becoming a big deal because if you tune all your fifths to be
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by abruzzi 11y ago
is that a bug? I was using that to hear chord, until I got to the bottom and saw I can also do it with my keyboard.
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by abruzzi 11y ago
My read is that the title here is a bit misleading. The article implies that the illegality is not outsourcing to India, but rather that the Indian contractor was not approved to handle the data it indexed. Am I misreading this?
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The Secrets of the Wave Pilots(nytimes.com)
1 points by abruzzi 11y ago|0 comments
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by abruzzi 11y ago
This is pure hypothetical, but I've wondered what would happen if apple were to lose in court, then make this custom iOS signed to work only on the specific phone in question, and provide the installer to the FBI with a bill for $5 mil
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Facebook Is Making a Map of Everyone in the World(theatlantic.com)
7 points by abruzzi 11y ago|0 comments
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by abruzzi 11y ago
So much for Comey's claim that they don't want to set a precedent - "The San Bernardino litigation isn’t about trying to set a precedent" (this macrumors article comes from a WSJ article, but WSJ has a paywall)
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Justice Department Wants Apple to Extract Data from 12 Other iPhones(macrumors.com)
1 points by abruzzi 11y ago|1 comments
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As Marijuana Sales Grow, Startups Step in for Wary Banks(nytimes.com)
68 points by abruzzi 11y ago|28 comments
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by abruzzi 11y ago
My favorite book, even if you don't have a VW, is John Muir's "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot". It is great because it was written for someone with no mecha
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by abruzzi 11y ago
But most people who sign up for medical trials are not terribly well informed of how dangerous the drug is. They are also usually from the poorest part of society (except terminally sick people hoping the latest trial may bring a cure.)
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by abruzzi 11y ago
I've been wondering, when we get to the point that there is a mix of autonomous and human driven vehicles on the road, if we will see the human driven vehicles start to game the autonomous vehicles' collision avoidance systems? F
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by abruzzi 11y ago
I think the persistence of the myth is at least partly due to the fact that it aligns well with informal observations. You have a class, and some of the students have difficulty absorbing the material. So those students are taken aside an

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