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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I am unsure about that last bit. From website design (style) to UX to how a given application works, I have found the people who want these things to be unable or unwilling to articulate what it is they actually desire, nor are they likely
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
It really depends on the chemical. I advise anyone interested in pharmaceuticals to read The Old Vegetable Neurotics: Hemlock, Opium, Belladonna and Henbane, Their Physiological Action and Therapeutical Use Alone and in Combination , from
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
This is interesting. The abortion section doesn't seem to mention ye olde menstrual extraction. Some decades ago, I believe the early seventies, some feminists figured out how to basically get the whole "eject the sloughed menst
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Someone with more examples and a greater understanding, not to mention eloquence, than I ought to come out with a book going over, in tremendous detail, how much of our chemical engineering "miracles of science!" were created to r
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Not good with people, I had developed a facade full of weird coping mechanisms as I attempted to fake not being tremendously shy and avoidant of rejection. I was just into my twenties, working at a dating service as a kind of factotum (dat
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
It certainly could be helpful, as it is a reminder that the people making the observations also have functioning brains and, being more expert in the topic than the naive querent, would most likely have already considered the obvious. Af
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I would like to see more instances of this kind of thing going on, the fallout, and so on.
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I wonder if there is a good list of these kinds of incidents going on in open source. It might be helpful in trying to figure out exactly what kind of clauses and verbiage, precisely, invite these kinds of takeover attempts like some kind
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Aaaah, once again community guidelines and codes of conduct reveal their nature as the thin edge of the wedge, the camel's nose in the tent.
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
A bit like trying to find steel made before all of the atomic testing started, I suppose. You know, the Hathi Trust might not be a bad way to collect that data as a start.
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I will step a bit to the side of "censorship" and just talk about "misinformation." The trouble with labeling something "misinformation" is that you also need to be one hundred percent right, forever or you n
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Somewhat adjacent, I have been interested in generating mazes of the "cave" form. Many algorithms exist here, even some cellular automata approach for a more realistic simulationist approach. However, I have been kicking around
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Well, protons beat out electrons for at least keeping the divergence down, any volume of lightsaber with a net charge is still going to be vulnerable to fridge magnet attack. Also, I have a strong feeling that it wouldn't look very
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Exploring this, I think lightsabers would be Really Hard. Not transporter-level hard, but still tough. I see two paths: 1) Using actual photons in something laser like. The problem here is that your lightsaber would go on forever, photon
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I used to keep a text file on hand back when people had some irritating Markov chain bots on IRC. Fed enough of the lines, the bots veered off into some new valley of chatter, appearing quite mad. Used to get some "What did you DO to
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I despair thinking about this. I long for a world where I could be upfront about my strengths and weaknesses, then receive honest answers in turn, such that a great fit could at least be on the horizon. Instead, everything is saturated wi
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Again, which items? Google Sets? Ain't nobody gonna pay for that! Chromecast? Google Domains? I am scrolling through the list and not seeing much that would stand on its own two feet. Stadia? Google+? I'm just not seeing muc
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I have no love for Google but, in light of the Google Graveyard, I am at a loss to see how to cut it up in a way where almost anything can remain profitable on its own. Imagine chopping Search and Ads out to be their own things. GoogAds tur
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Again, and continuing with the flight safety, all of it was an iterative process, learned the hard way. Flight safety rules did not emerge whole and unchanged with the Wright brothers. Every change was prompted by one or more incidents du
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An irritatingly overlooked issue is the tension between procedure and results . Obviously, a well-refined procedure learns from past issues and evolves, growing ever more adaptable and useful, the way that aircraft rules are "writ
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Sorry, I was being brief. I usually say "anything with a non-zero rest mass-energy" for anything for a photon, photons never being at rest. Briefly, some had thought that neutrinos might be little more than floating carriers of
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Neutrinos were originally a kind of mathematical placeholder to allow for conservation of lepton number (electrons, muons, etc). Turns out that they're real! More to the point, you have six basic leptons (and their antiparticles) if
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Easiest method is to simply take your idea at face value. In our first version, imagine all of the stars at rest. Now, we emphatically know this not to be true locally due to all kinds of measurements, but let's go with it. What happ
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This is one of the reasons why, as an undergrad, I switched from nuclear engineering to physics: at the end of the day, we're still using heat and turbines, just with extra, more dangerous steps; although the materials engineering aspe
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
They all seem so terribly expensive. I have wondered if there is a cheaper, stopgap solution while I gather the money, something like aerating the soil along a path, the path that a drain would take, such that the water flows preferentially
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I'm not sure if I have O'Reilly's System Administration book. I used to get pre-prints back in the early nineties when they were still quite new. In any case, yes, I have read and I have Been Around. And I still think tha
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The command line is king, but sometimes the king is mad. Which is to say, it can be difficult to work with the monarchy when the syntax is shit . And there's a lot of bad syntax out there: overly cute, so terse as to be cryptographi
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I used to work for a guy who was the exact opposite of the shock absorber, "crap umbrella" who can make for a good boss. Instead, this was the guy who was mixing up the Flavor Aid at Jonestown. I recall a bit where he was relayi
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
A few bits: 1) I think only a few of his plays are really at the level for high-schoolers, so you're not entirely wrong. 2) When I was a private tutor, I had a methodology for teaching these plays, which was a little vocabulary first f
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I mean, that's well and good but I bought it because that kind of thing deserves at least some sort of compensation for the work.

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