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by bch 8y ago
Yes, and to be clear, I’m interested (enamoured, even) in heat, by my long-running interest in air-cooled engines (VW, BMW, Porsche), and am fascinated with what’s going on here. My citation above was really a cheap shot at bad copy.
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by bch 8y ago
From the blog post: > Malta’s solution is to store electricity as heat in high temperature molten salt and cold in a low temperature liquid for days, or even weeks, until it’s needed. The key insight behind Malta is that electricity can
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by bch 8y ago
As Siddhartha listens to the river: Siddhartha listened. [...] Already, he could no longer tell the many voices apart, not the happy ones from the weeping ones, not the ones of children from those of men, they all belonged together, the lam
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by bch 8y ago
I’ve read (and love) his book and enjoy thinking about function and design. I think there’s a risk of designing at the expense of joy and beauty though, and Don Norman seems to have qualified his position post-The Design of Everyday Things
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by bch 8y ago
I used to refer to the tape like this, but we can now utter “If you can’t Duck it, fuck it.” in (casual) technical conversations.
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by bch 8y ago
Ditto NetBSD
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by bch 8y ago
May not be what you’re thinking of, but there’s the frequency illusion or Baader–Meinhof effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
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by bch 8y ago
Five “why?”’s in practice.
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by bch 8y ago
> In the 90s early 00s I got really into car audio, specifically Sound Pressure Level (SPL) competitions. The goal is to make your car into a resonance chamber for a single note and see how high you can get it. [...] > One of the thin
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by bch 8y ago
I honestly don’t know if this is tongue in cheek or not (if it is: bravo!), but does your car radio not serve that purpose?
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by bch 8y ago
Isn’t it early to say Boston Dynamics has had any impact, outside of the occasional cool YouTube video? Neat, without a doubt... Re: other modern equivalents - would free software, in general, count? We get to observe first hand, tinker-wit
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by bch 8y ago
Ahhh... I think we were talking past each other a bit above, but your comment above is clear, and probabaly what everybody in the thread really meant...
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by bch 8y ago
It is actually. Tkinter is the python interface to embedded Tk, which necessarily includes Tcl. Larry Wall once quipped “Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers”. If only he knew... Ref: https://stackoverflow.com&#x2
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by bch 8y ago
OpenBSD kernel? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17929234
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by bch 8y ago
> You pretty much can tell the scenes when you see them. There was one especially, (lamp, leaving Zeniba’s house) that stood out, but I don’t recall others? Give some hints?
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by bch 8y ago
And “Net”BSD. Collaborating over the Internet was novel at the time.
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by bch 8y ago
More importantly, pokey the penguin.
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by bch 8y ago
Maroon 5 is apparently a riff on yellow5[0][1]. [0] https://www.yellow5.com/pokey/ [1] ref: the author is a friend of mine. I don’t know how they determined the relationship, but I’ve no reason to doubt the author. Upd
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by bch 8y ago
Indeed. People do just love hearing words... Presenter: “This display goes from its start...” (Audience gasps) Presenter: “...all the way until it ends! We call this ‘entire’.” Audience: <mad applause> Audience Member 1: (whispering)
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by bch 8y ago
JO (John Ousterhout) is so thoughtful and lucid. My experience with him is firstly through Tcl, which I like more than he does now (time for a TIP: "-jo" switch to [unset] which removes complaint to unset non-existent variables)[0
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by bch 8y ago
I was so hopeful for cmake in the early days, but have come to be a bit disappointed and avoid it everywhere I can. I shake my head in amazement at the project that spawned cmake (ITK, a medical imaging project) was using Tcl as an embedded
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by bch 8y ago
Also has his fingers in NetBSD, though mostly in fortune(1) files, iirc. https://queue.acm.org/blogposting.cfm?id=27326
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by bch 8y ago
Ural was not a BMW. It was a Russian product based off an (old) BMW design. There’s a difference. Construction and materials don’t naturally follow just because they liscensed a design.
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by bch 8y ago
Interestingly that’s up my alley :)
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by bch 8y ago
Is there no way to criticize GPL without being considered a dead-weight parasite? Is there no case for not releasing code (immediately) than greed? Is there no other way to support a person/project other than that code? Are profit&#x2F
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by bch 8y ago
> ...which do not contribute in any way > ...to improve our profit margin and IP portfolio. Pretty black and white presumptions (but license talks often end up that way).
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by bch 8y ago
Tcl is a joy in the right context, and there’s a lot of places “that context” is present. Tcl is also conceptually simple enough, but sufficiently powerful that it’s a really interesting language/environment to develop in, and indeed
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by bch 8y ago
Reminds me of coffeepot for masochists (c. 1969) https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/impossible-objects
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by bch 8y ago
I think I never see her coasting. Fixed gear?
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by bch 8y ago
“Of you”... https://youtu.be/NdSD07U5uBs?t=1514

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