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by abruzzi 5y ago
This is fascuinating. Fortunately I live in a state with very low numbers, both absolute and per-100k, but I was curious about how infections had spread across the country, so I found this data at the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov&#x
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by abruzzi 5y ago
yeah, this breaks one of my fundamental web expectations--things don't scroll left to right, scrolling is up and down. If it would translate my scroll wheel to into left right action, or if it was changed to stacking old pages at the
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by abruzzi 5y ago
not an expert in optics, but I thought the limitation of curved sensors in achieving the hypothetical reduction in lens complexity is every focal length would require a different curve radius? So you'd have one focal length that would
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by abruzzi 5y ago
the history of photographic lens design starts with simple single element meniscus and bi-convex lenses. Those early lenses were awful at accurately focusing what was in front of it, and over the next 170 years or so, there were hundreds o
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by abruzzi 5y ago
Just don't store your potassium ferricyanide for cyanotypes, too close to the sulphuric acid you use as a photgraphic bleach. They don't do too well together.
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by abruzzi 5y ago
I find receiving compliments to be very uncomfortable, so I don't practice it. Instead of complementing, I thank people. So instead of saying something like "you did a great job at this" I say "thank you for doing this
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by abruzzi 5y ago
This sums up my thoughts perfectly. I would add a comment--all of the anti-apple voices in the article talk only about the poor business that will be hurt. The never talk about the benefit or drawback to the people being tracked. Their a
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by abruzzi 5y ago
My insulin copay every three months is $100 ($50 for the Novolog fast acting, and $50 for the Tresiba slow acting insulin.) My insurance's portion is closer to $4000 for that 3 months, lst time I looked. Type I Diabetes is expensive,
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by abruzzi 5y ago
Last week I camped for the entire week in a national forest and didn’t see another camper the entire time. The issue is we have high demand national parks that “everyone” visits and lots of national forest and BLM land that is very sparse.
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by abruzzi 5y ago
My use of old computing technology is really in support of old music synthesizer technology. For instance my Yamaha VL1, one of the first and greatest waveguide physical modeling synthesizers, does not allow full editing of the model param
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by abruzzi 5y ago
This is really the opposite of what I always loved about Legos as a kid. All these complex kits seem more like jigsaw puzzles--only one way to go together. What I loved about Legos as a kid was making my own creations.
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by abruzzi 5y ago
He does mention in the article that programming is different from some other fields in that it is not regulated: "Unlike other fields such as medicine and civil engineering, in most countries, software programming is not regulated.&qu
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by abruzzi 5y ago
they also (in my limited experience) treated sales as an afterthought. Its the only time I've contacted a company to inquire about a product, and had them actively dissuade me from buying the product (IAM).
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by abruzzi 5y ago
I need to separate work from home and home from work. My home is filled with distractions and the first couple of months of the pandemic were horrible becuase I couldn't get anything done. I started going back in to work in the summe
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by abruzzi 5y ago
I'm an American, but I don't smile by showing my teeth, though I will sometimes do a closed lip smile. For me I don't think it is cultural, but rather that smiling always feels to me like baring my teeth, i.e. aggressive and
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by abruzzi 5y ago
I don't ever want to go back to the "Kai's Power Tools" era of UI design. Computers don't excite me, they are a tool to get things done, and consistancy makes every application easier to learn. Granted, I know I&#
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by abruzzi 5y ago
The headline is misleading, it is unlicensed _concealed carry_ that is being legalized, from what I can tell. I don't know Texas gun laws but I suspect its already to open carry without a licenses. Also the article mentioned that Tex
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by abruzzi 5y ago
I did this for a bit during the pandemic (because my productivity approaches zero at home) unfortunately, it gets hot in the summer here, so working on a park bench in 110F heat isn't a year round option. I suspect there are few plaes
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by abruzzi 5y ago
My pet parrot definitly laughs. It sounds like a staccato clucking sound. He usually does it when he's lying on my belly playing with me. He lays on his back, both feet grabbing my finger (or fingers) and play-biting my finger with h
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by abruzzi 5y ago
I really hope this happens (well the blood glucose thing), but this rumor has come around more than once. Admittedly this is the first time I've seen it name a company that is actually working on the tech. I wonder if including this
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by abruzzi 5y ago
unfortunately, the real, invasive blood glucose meeters are already pretty inaccurate. The current requirement in the US is +-15%, before 2016 it was +-20%.
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by abruzzi 5y ago
100% agree. After 3 month of WFH, I started coming in to the empty building. I was the only one here, but it is so much easier to get work done when I'm not at home. Most of my co-workers feel the opposite from me, but my home is a s
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by abruzzi 6y ago
Fuel injected motorcycles don’t have reserve (at least, none that I’ve seen.) instead they have low fuel lights or full fuel gauges. I’m guessing it’s because the fuel pumps are in the tank and the fuel injection system needs high pressure.
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by abruzzi 6y ago
Up until 5 years ago, my employer's primary system (government, property tax assessment, billing, and collection) was from a company that had gone belly-up in the early 90's. We fortunately had the source, but it ran on a VERY le
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by abruzzi 6y ago
it doesn't sound like modern software. At my current employer (to remain unnamed) when I started there were a bunch of MS-SQL servers with an SA password of <blank> (i.e. no password). It took a long time to fix that because we
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by abruzzi 6y ago
This is very interesting to me. On of my (perhaps irrational) fears with solar and wind is how much land it potentially could take to supply power. I live in a very sparsely populated state because my greatest joy in life is being as far
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by abruzzi 6y ago
The final line of the article is pretty dismissive of the whole project: > While the /e/ Foundation does have an ambitious goal of protecting people's privacy, we live in an age where nothing is really private, so a phone
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by abruzzi 6y ago
the northeast of the state is actually pretty far from WSMR, and no launches from WSMR leave the range that I'm aware of (or at least haven't for a long time. They did launch a V2 after WWII, and it went the wrong direction and h
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by abruzzi 6y ago
I'm completely the opposite. 50 years old and I have never once in my life remembered a dream. Never. I see things about dreams, such as this like, as interesting, but can relate to them at all, because they are things that happen t
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by abruzzi 6y ago
This makes me wonder about a lot of "how will this work" questions. For example will it legally require 100% of taxation be used to provide services, or will taxation become profit center for the owning company? Another is will t

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