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by alister 7y ago
What's not explained is the difference between this latest miracle machine called ECMO and the plain old heart–lung machines (aka cardiopulmonary bypass or CPB) which I'm confident that most people have heard of. Note that heart
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by alister 7y ago
I think the author's page (Alex Spartalis) deserves to be mentioned: https://www.alexspartalis.com/cheat-sheet.html He has the same version (v2.10) there and mentions that, "The Web version does not include the di
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by alister 7y ago
The article holds up Netflix as a shining example of movie recommendation engines but Netflix has only 3000 to 5000 distinct movie titles (depending on your country). You cannot get interesting or surprising movie recommendations from such
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Americans Need Generic Drugs. But Can They Trust Them?(nytimes.com)
3 points by alister 7y ago|0 comments
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by alister 7y ago
The interview starts at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o&t=450s Brian Kernighan coined the word “Unix” and is the “K” in K&R (co-author of the The C Programming Language book). Ken Thompson co-invented Un
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Brian Kernighan (Coined Word “Unix”) Interviews Ken Thompson (Co-Invented Unix)(youtube.com)
2 points by alister 7y ago|1 comments
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by alister 7y ago
> we cannot lookup a phone number on the internet with accuracy and ease I wondered the same thing and just to speculate, here's my list of reasons on why phone number search is so awful: - As far as I know, not a single cell phon
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by alister 7y ago
Why does Google deeply index those useless telephone directory sites? Try searching for the impossible U.S. phone number "307-139-2345" and you'll see a bunch of "who called me?" or "reverse phone number lookup
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Drones Become Pizza-to-the-Neighborhood (PTTN)(cringely.com)
2 points by alister 8y ago|0 comments
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by alister 8y ago
One result of doors being controlled by facial recognition -- or any other kind of biometric system -- is that you have to get permission from someone whenever you have a regular visitor. You can no longer give your girlfriend, boyfriend, d
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How Differential Steering Works (1937)(youtube.com)
1 points by alister 8y ago|2 comments
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by alister 8y ago
A Logitech wired optical mouse. At the very end of the article, he gives links to all of the gadgets and software he uses. (Actually, I like that he did it that way, rather then polluting the article with lots of products mentions -- other
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by alister 8y ago
> SSDs require power at least once per 1-3 years or otherwise they can lose the stored data. This information needs to be better known. I assumed--and I think many people would assume--that SSDs would be an excellent medium for long te
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by alister 8y ago
> except when I got to Iran and I got a "real job" with a driver and everything. But then that kind of blew up in my face when the revolution in 1979 came... He left us hanging there! What kind of job can a 26 or 27-year-old
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by alister 8y ago
> I left home with 500 rolls of film in my backpack. It was close to $5 a photo in today's money just to develop and print the photos. So I had to really think about it each time I pressed that shutter. At 24 frames per roll, the co
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by alister 8y ago
Surprisingly, Ycombinator co-founder Paul Graham was a philosophy major for most of his college years. He has a lot to say about it in one of his essays: http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
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by alister 8y ago
This reminds me of the scene from the remarkably prescient original Blade Runner (1982) where Deckard is able to look around corners in a photograph -- he tells the computer to "pull out, track right, track 45 right, enhance,..."[
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by alister 8y ago
The article says that the cause is not yet known, but I'm thinking it might be an electrical fault or bad wiring, which seems like a common problem for older structures in Brazil (or anywhere in the world). A short circuit caused a mas
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by alister 8y ago
Talking about museum heists in Rio, I went to see the Museu da Chácara do Céu -- an art museum hidden away on a mountain top -- because they had a Dalí, a Picasso, a Monet, and a Matisse according to a guidebook. I didn't see any of th
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Are You Living in a Computer Simulation (2003) [pdf](simulation-argument.com)
1 points by alister 8y ago|0 comments
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by alister 8y ago
I'm wondering if what Sivers feels about himself is true for everyone. Maybe those sharp people who give an insightful reply right off the bat would give an even better reply if they had more time. This is why I prefer email over ins
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by alister 8y ago
> I'm often sent stories that are way too long or too short for the publishing industry. The average novel is at least 50,000 words. I find it fascinating that there are sweet spots for the length of an economically successful boo
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by alister 8y ago
> But fiction is harder Too general a statement. Sure, an engaging consistent story is much harder than, say, the average cookbook or travel guide. But many textbooks in science and math seem like absolutely Herculean effort. Gravitati
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A human has been injected with gene-editing tools to cure his disabling disease(sciencemag.org)
3 points by alister 8y ago|0 comments
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by alister 8y ago
You're correct that the Netflix catalog is different for each country. However, the shows you're offered are based on your current location as determined by your IP address, and not according to where you bought the subscription.
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by alister 8y ago
> no way to turn off captions for some of their shows There are all sorts of inconsistencies with subtitles and dubbing. For example, suppose a show has options for 5 languages, but not Portuguese. If you switch your profile to Portugues
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by alister 8y ago
The parent says that Netflix costs ₹500/mo in India, or $9.60 in Canadian dollars, which is almost exactly the price it costs in Canada. I wonder if Netflix prices their plans at approximately the same price worldwide to prevent arbitr
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by alister 8y ago
Personally, I'd happily pay for an appliance or add-on to the plumbing that increases water pressure in the shower. (Maybe such a thing already exists?) Some places have good water pressure, but lots of places don't and weak press
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by alister 8y ago
> Showers appeared in sports clubs and other communal facilities but remained uncommon in private homes in Britain before the 1970s/80s. I wonder why the exact opposite happened in Brazil? "Brazilians love showers (twice a da
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by alister 8y ago
In Montreal, people line up in a neat straight long single file to board a bus, or for other kinds of queues. In many other parts of Canada/US, people either huddle around the entrance ready to push in or reluctantly make a disorganize

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