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by andrewl 5y ago
I’ve heard there’s a lot of Smalltalk (not necessarily Pharo) used on Wall Street. There’s a fairly extensive page listing companies who use Pharo at: https://pharo.org/success.html
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Psychedelics May Ease Cancer Patients’ Depression, Anxiety(washingtonpost.com)
113 points by andrewl 5y ago|93 comments
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by andrewl 5y ago
Regarding how hard it is to get a handle on the actual size of Africa, I’ve found The True Size Of ( https://thetruesize.com ) immensely helpful.
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Robot Made of Magnetic Slime Could Grab Objects Inside Your Body(newscientist.com)
3 points by andrewl 5y ago|0 comments
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Unraveling the Mystery of Parrot Longevity(phys.org)
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How a Jetpack Design Helped Create a Flying Motorbike(bbc.com)
1 points by andrewl 5y ago|1 comments
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Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity(inference-review.com)
33 points by andrewl 5y ago|28 comments
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John von Neumann Thought He Had the Answers(newrepublic.com)
10 points by andrewl 5y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 5y ago
You could be a good developer with a manager who gets angry if it’s discovered you took that kind of initiative.
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by andrewl 5y ago
The article quotes Feynman’s letter as saying “I am not sure how I did it, but I goofed.” What he meant is that he doesn’t know how he made such a simple error, not that he doesn’t know what the error was. Like if I wrote in an article
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Feynman’s advice to W&M student resonates 45 years later (2020)(wm.edu)
203 points by andrewl 5y ago|78 comments
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by andrewl 5y ago
Firebird, maybe: https://firebirdsql.org/manual/fbint-structure.html
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by andrewl 5y ago
I just checked, and the O RLY Cover Generator is still active if you want to make your own: https://dev.to/rly
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by andrewl 5y ago
A RAND Corporation study from a couple of years ago concluded the upward redistribution of income has cost American workers $50 trillion over the past several decades: https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/how-much-has
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by andrewl 5y ago
Here's the Washington Post's story on it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/05/dave-batema...
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by andrewl 5y ago
I just started looking into Neovim, and I had the same concern about it being terminal-only. But then I saw this on the Neovim site: "Graphical interfaces are not packaged with Neovim. GUIs are not limited by terminal capabilities and
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by andrewl 5y ago
One nice thing about podcasts is I can listen to them while I’m driving, if I'm not in the mood for music. The same goes for when I'm walking. And although you can read on a train, I sometimes find I can't if the train is s
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by andrewl 5y ago
When I was in grad school at UT Austin we spent a lot of time studying in the map room. As I recall, the tables were quite large and gave us space to spread out books and printouts. We weren't doing anything map-related. It was just a
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The Rise and Rise of Corrugated Iron(economist.com)
67 points by andrewl 5y ago|55 comments
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by andrewl 5y ago
For a good idea of what chimpanzee musculature looks like, do a search for "hairless chimpanzee." Here's one: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-36924808
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Why Germans Celebrate School with a Cardboard Cone(bbc.com)
3 points by andrewl 5y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 5y ago
As retrac says, it’s easier to cast for humanoids. And decades ago the special effects technology was nowhere near what we have now, so there were fewer options for more unusual forms and they were expensive. Novelists had no such restricti
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by andrewl 5y ago
A larger and much more legible version of the map is at: https://i.insider.com/55b273a2371d2211008b9793
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by andrewl 5y ago
Strobe Data's site reminds me of Berkshire Hathaway's: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ I think neither business needs to convince anybody of anything. If you need what Strobe is selling and can afford it, they
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by andrewl 5y ago
SQLite is a big part of our tool chain, and has been very good to us. We’ve been using DB Browser for SQLite[1] for several years. It runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Rosefinch looks nice, but I’m not seeing a real use case. If I had a bunc
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by andrewl 5y ago
Regarding this: Also there’s a bit of implication in this argument that wizards are some sort of genetically differentiated group (likes elves, humans, hobbits, etc) while I have always assumed that wizards are just humans (or others I sup
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by andrewl 5y ago
You can still be damaged by a drug even if you are not addicted to it.
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The Ant Man’s World: ‘Edward O. Wilson’ and ‘Scientist’(wsj.com)
1 points by andrewl 5y ago|0 comments
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Spain’s Untapped “Liquid Gold”(bbc.com)
3 points by andrewl 5y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 5y ago
It's a wonderful podcast. It's nothing like Joe Rogan. Here's the episode list: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player And note that when you click to an episode to see who t

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