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In the early 90s my daily college paper had a dot matrix printer for the AP news feed. My last year I think they discontinued the service. Editors would take the stories and type them into our system again. The agony was mitigated by the
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Speaking of energy use. Microsoft is literally in talks to restart a nuclear plant where they will buy all the power[1]. It happens to be "Three Mile Island" plant [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-
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There are some which are more casual. My partner plays fornite. She's got a group she games with, and half the talking is about the game the other half is basically a catch up session with a game in the background. there was a game c
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Its a pure failure of the Patent office issuing dubious patents. The patent office is financially encouraged to keep issuing patents no matter the quality because it keeps the patent fees and those are payed by the applicants. The patent o
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Someone in the research offices at IBM had a bumper sticker that said “the lottery, a tax on people that don’t understand math” Also the local conscience store I frequented at one job in newton, the owner put up a sign saying “people here h
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It’s Mac only, which means it follows the Mac UI conventions and is probably, should run faster and is integrated into the OS a little better. I’m paying for jetbrains now. I’m on Linux but it’s clearly a non-native application, which has
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I’ll second p5.js and the coding train video series. They are quite good, fun and more advanced than than the videos make them out to be. P5 also has an online dev environment which is good enough. If you create an account you can save stu
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I think they’re hoping for coincidences and the higher the numbers the more likely they’ll find one. I got a real letter from the IRS two days before I got the scam message on my answering machine. The timing was uncanny and I might easily
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My mom was a German / English technical translator in the US. At one point she said those Germans need to decide, English or German. I guess the French from time to time make French words for those with English roots. Though the Germ
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I played a little informally in the 80s. Even young me knew it never seemed to be a realistic portrait of the past world, or claimed to be. Way too many dragons compared to the historical record. the monster manual seemed to be a mash up
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I always think to a professor that was consulting on some civil engineering software. He found a bug in the calculation it was using to space rebar placed in concrete, based on looking at it was spitting out and thinking that looks wrong.
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Reminds me of a mash up of Datatables editor ( https://editor.datatables.net/ ) and phpMyAdmin. With the nice addition of forms. But I can see an all in one database/mini application tool making custom business applicati
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Reading Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" on the Simpsons. It was shortened but great...
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It’s wasteful because it contains a chip to verify the cable’s fee was payed to Apple. They’re small but there are a lot of them and they are uneccessary and annoying when they fail and you can’t charge your device.
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There is a good list of Rust learning resources though… I’ll agree that it’s mostly about its like using Rust compared to Julia. It’s not very dismissive of Julia. The first paragraph lets you know what your in for.
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I’ll agree they are pests. They are cute, especially the little ones. I grew up in the woods and almost let one inside because I thought it was our cat (I wasn’t fully paying attention). Like mini bears.
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I work on a website for a non-profit. We have a hybrid wordpress symfony site. We're always being pulled two ways, we like that we switched to wordpress for the more static parts of the site (CMS). We have some minor custom function
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I dont blame NASA, who knows what else is wrong with that capsule. I feel bad for Boeing. Though to be honest when I worked on a project where we were a Boeing sub (defense)we didn’t really care for them.. Competition is good, and it’s sa
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In this case the emotional experience is likely because the person was physically there before and his brain was filling in the gaps. Not saying it’s not a a great experience..
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We use Vega lite for our web base graphs at work. We love the “export as svg” feature. It’s by the same people but with fewer options but easier to set up. Like all graphing libraries, it’s chasing the gold standard which is R’s ggplot2.
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I’ve been daily driving popos for about 5 years. I’m not an admin by any stretch and it’s worked great. Upgrades and everything mostly flawless. I came from a 13” MacBook Pro (2015), it took a little adjustment but it’s been great overall
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Back when I worked on this hardware/software integration, we often didn't have the hardware to test. So we coded to the specs. I spent a lot of time reading those and trying to figure out what they meant. It was a little challen
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There are lots of examples of politicians resigning from press reports about them. Just recently a senator from NJ stepped done because his court case caused tons of negative publicity. Public shaming has been less of an issue the past 10
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You make a valid point. I live in a small city and something’s that matter (what’s going on with road work: bike lanes). I went to a meeting a few years back and had to explain what was going on to a neighbor, because no coverage and the
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They don’t. Mainly for legal reasons. They don’t want to responsible for stupid/libelous things users post.
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I have a couple pocket operators. They’re pretty fun. I have the robot(28), which has some interesting scales and “rhythm” which is drum machine. Unlike the more expensive products these are harder to work into a computer based work flow. B
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We use cytoscape for some of our genetics tools. It works well. It does tend to “hairball” (technical term) at about 500+ nodes. That’s not the tools fault, just large graphs tend to be difficult. It’s just hard to imagine visualizing a mi
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“nocturnal creature of the Playa” in the text would seem to indicate it’s a burning man project (never been but I know a couple people that go). Things in the world are a lot more fleeting than I expected, so I enjoy them in the moment. Thi
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I use amd notebooks. They’re fast and do last decently on battery life. They tend to drain a bit more than they should sleeping (but they can run lid closed without a power cord). This will be helpful for the portables that use and (steam
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When I shot events years ago, I always used a flash for fill, even outdoors. People like the glint in the eyes that it added. Before the photoshop times you could sus out lighting setups based on the reflections.

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