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An Illustrated Guide to Mouth Gestures and Their Meanings Around the World(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
1 points by andrewl 3y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 3y ago
OpenProject (www.openproject.org) is a fork of Redmine. I have not used it, but I did extensive research on it a couple of years ago while looking for a new project management system for our division. I think it is worth a look.
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by andrewl 3y ago
The headquarters of the Army Futures Command are in an Austin skyscraper. Their task is to develop the technologies and concepts that will enable the Army to stay up to speed with developments in areas such as robotics, quantum computing, h
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An Army Command Like No Other Seeks to Master the Future of War(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by andrewl 3y ago|2 comments
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Think You Can Land a Plane? We Put Average People to the Test(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by andrewl 3y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 3y ago
The article recommends Bite Size Bash by Julia Evans. Does anybody have an experience with it?
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Eliezer Yudkowsky on What Superintelligence Can or Can’t Do(twitter.com)
2 points by andrewl 3y ago|1 comments
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by andrewl 3y ago
There is a list at: https://pharo.org/success/
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by andrewl 3y ago
They have an extensive list at https://pharo.org/success/ .
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by andrewl 3y ago
I’ve never heard of such a service, but I’d love to get data like that. Where do you live?
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by andrewl 3y ago
This article is worth reading. The ideas are good, and the writing is clear. As in: An error of omission occurs when an individual or organization fails to do something it should have done. For example, when Kodak failed to acquire Xerox w
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Executive Behind ChatGPT Pushes for a New Revolution: Psychedelics(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by andrewl 3y ago|1 comments
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Paper Airplane Designed by Boeing Engineers Breaks World Distance Record(cnn.com)
2 points by andrewl 4y ago|1 comments
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by andrewl 4y ago
Exactly. The famous Chesterton’s Fence.
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The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science(lrb.co.uk)
1 points by andrewl 4y ago|0 comments
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End of BreachForums Could Take a Bite Out of Cybercrime(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by andrewl 4y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 4y ago
I thought this was particularly interesting: I had the opportunity to conduct an oral history with John Backus—one of the pioneers of functional programming—in 2006 on behalf of the Computer History Museum. I asked John why functional progr
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The philosopher: A conversation with Grady Booch(infoworld.com)
22 points by andrewl 4y ago|4 comments
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by andrewl 4y ago
Yurii Rashkovskii, the developer, wrote a short intro last month: https://betterprogramming.pub/what-happens-if-you-put-http-s...
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by andrewl 4y ago
The sub-head on this article is Good luck trying to become a professor if you don’t have family money. It discusses the problems of people stuck in what would be called adjunct positions in the United States.
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by andrewl 4y ago
The Wikipedia page for the Tunguska event says it was “a stony asteroid about 50–60 metres (160–200 feet) in size.” How far out would something that size be detected? This is very much out of my area.
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by andrewl 4y ago
A similar event in or near a populated area today might be interpreted as a nuclear attack.
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The Age of the Silicon Valley ‘Moonshot’ Is Over(washingtonpost.com)
16 points by andrewl 4y ago|10 comments
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A ‘Climate Solution’ That Spies Worry Could Trigger War(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by andrewl 4y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 4y ago
I had an anthropology professor in college who did some work on genetic diseases in the Amish. It is a problem. This Wikipedia has a short overview and a lot of references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_among_the
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The IRS Should Not Be Running on 60-Year-Old Technology(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by andrewl 4y ago|2 comments
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by andrewl 4y ago
This is interesting. I’d always assumed the stripes were camouflage, similar to a tiger’s stripes. Tigers look orange and black to us , but many prey animals perceive color differently, and the tiger’s stripes help it blend in among jungle
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by andrewl 4y ago
This is the only thing I ever read about healthcare in the Netherlands (and it’s from 2007, so I have no idea what things are like now): https://supasuze.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/the-dutch-midwife-... I first
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What Was It Like to Grow Up in the Last Ice Age?(aeon.co)
2 points by andrewl 4y ago|0 comments
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I Tried Ketamine to Treat My Depression. It Was Terrifying(washingtonpost.com)
42 points by andrewl 4y ago|67 comments

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