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by berntb 11y ago
One thing that would have helped me avoiding burnout -- make certain you are healthy. E.g. no bacteria infections, no sleep apnea, and no food intolerances that make you chronically tired. And many other possibilities.
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by berntb 11y ago
That was my explicit point in the first two sentences. The parts are here. Add a transparent box to a soon existing drone, add self-driving and you have a flying car. Military drones fly themselves already. There will be routing systems for
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by berntb 11y ago
That should finally be close? Just add drones and self driving cars together. Soon we will have drones to deliver larger stuff than a small package from Amazon, so all the basic parts will be there. Take a drone which can carry two people&#
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by berntb 11y ago
Regarding this... I got sick at a similar time as the big IT death. I took time off to study organic chemistry and biochemistry. The subject really bored me in high school, but it really interested me after reading a pile of books. I always
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by berntb 11y ago
Thanks for that link!
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by berntb 11y ago
They implement logical gates by turning on/off transcription, so the result of one gene turned on will be that another is turned off (a NOT gate). And so on. I assume the idea is less to build an adder and an ALU ( :-) ) and more to bu
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by berntb 11y ago
If this life is DNA based they just need a PCR (+) and sequencing, to see if it is from Earth. Does anyone have a link that discuss if they tried that? (Edit: Listening to the interview, sigh.) (+) https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by berntb 11y ago
He put lots of hard work into the project, he wouldn't have done that if he had nothing positive to say. (But sure, lots of stuff have been backported to Perl 5, so the step up to Perl 6 is smaller today.) He seemed a bit unhappy with
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by berntb 11y ago
So, what do you do if you get a job with Java or iOS and 30++ char method names? (Not being snarky, I would like to do some iOS development for fun but want lines under 78 chars, so it don't go over 80 with diff.)
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by berntb 11y ago
TL;DR: Japanese treat the worst type of job as if their lives depended on them. If I ever see a Japanese tourist with problems, I'll storm the gates of Hell to help them. :-) I went to Japan for vacation a few years ago. I have some ba
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by berntb 11y ago
But... at every cell division, two half cells will be built. So after twenty divisions, there will (on average) be a millionth part of the original cell in every descendant. I don't really see the point in creating all organelles outsi
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by berntb 11y ago
I was an Emacs user that read about Org Mode, then started using it. After a few days of memorizing commands and learning -- my reaction was "WTF, I could have gotten 90% of the functionality I use from a (web) GUI app with 15 minutes
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by berntb 11y ago
Could you design a language which do a JIT style compilation to data flow calculations, by creating some arithmethic and logical functions onto a FPGA? (I assume the FPGA would need a way to take over the computer bus and access memory? How
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by berntb 11y ago
I know quite a few people that spend most of their days in ssh, even running Emacs over the link. That is a natural for the iPad, now that it have good ssh clients. (I tend to run my Emacs local, but I could change.)
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by berntb 11y ago
But OK, let's talk weird... IMHO, you can't be more metal than to play black metal in a country where you would be killed if identified... :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS73YZgqGx0 Here is an article about a
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by berntb 11y ago
Ten+ years ago, I used to weird out people by telling them about my favourite technical death band Meshuggah ("It is like modern jazz or something, really complex and interesting. Just faster...") Today, it seems that half the kid
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by berntb 11y ago
Smokers could just google "home made snus". Nicotine, no cancer, no smoke and no lung damage. (It won't be sold in the EU, because of tobacco company lobbying.)
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by berntb 11y ago
I have been on both sides of the fence. I had continuous allergy problems without knowing it for a large part of my life. Among the effects were a minor depression. When I got rid of the allergies I had a bit of an identity conflict, I wasn
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by berntb 11y ago
Also, fast update rates are critical to browse a document. Browsing is needed for manuals and similar, those are also where you need a larger screen for PDF files. (Literature is totally ok on a small screen with slower refresh.)
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by berntb 11y ago
Many of the people I've seen doing really well at university already learned about the subjects they study. A few studied in another country but couldn't get the courses transferred. Another did a year of math studies before unive
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by berntb 11y ago
There has been lots of pencils for iPads for years -- and keyboards in the cover (3rd party). And then we have Newton. The thing is -- when Apple adds a feature, you know it will work well. If Apple can't make it work well, it won&#x27
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by berntb 11y ago
In bash I use a few aliases (which load different libraries for DB and specific data structures) for perl -E I have simple shell aliases to do SQL queries and pipe the output to shell aliases which transform that to perl data structures (al
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by berntb 11y ago
I can understand the resistance against psychological explanations. Over a decade ago, I had some completely different problems (worsening allergies and a bacteria infection) which made me really tired. I thought it was burn out, so I took
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by berntb 11y ago
Then the Scandinavian countries would have two levels, like the Persian Gulf countries. We tried hard to create a society without a "gastarbeiter" group; no real poverty and no desperate/hungry people. Because how immigration
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by berntb 11y ago
Does MacOS still support multiple format variants of copy/paste? Sounds like a small add on, in that case?
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by berntb 11y ago
If you insist that you know better and aren't trolling, explain why Lisp isn't used in the real world then? CL is like the scripting languages in capacity and ease of development -- but more. And it is both faster and earlier than
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by berntb 11y ago
But the whole Tolkien thing? 19th century writers? Some of the books which most influenced my world view are English; Dawkins (game theory, other writers criticize religion better) and Orwell ("Down and Out in Paris and London", p
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by berntb 11y ago
The whole stateful/stateless choice isn't intuitive unless you've at least read discussions about a few protocol designs/implementations which made these choices. It isn't about intelligence. No wait, I might be wro
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by berntb 11y ago
Fun environment. A couple of weeks ago I installed 8th to learn a Forth as a hobby. (It promised iOS integration, so it might even be useful. I'm not there yet. :-) )
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by berntb 11y ago
You are mixing up dark matter and dark energy. The main effect of dark matter is not universal expansion, it is from both influences of gravity on galaxies and theory. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#

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