billbrown

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by billbrown 2y ago
I remember getting a drag-and-drop, sortable interface for a blog-widget configurator in Go Daddy's Quick Blog app using script.aculo.us back in 2006 or 2007. Worked perfectly except in IE6 and it took three days of hard dev to get tha
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by billbrown 2y ago
I suspect that he'll dismiss all this on some irrelevant grounds but this is supremely patient and helpful. You've given him all the feedback and tools to completely change his life if he can lower the shields and soberly introspe
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by billbrown 2y ago
Here's a complete archive of the Bell System Technical Journal from 1922–1983. https://archive.org/details/bstj-archives
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by billbrown 2y ago
This is why nearly all ocean exploration is done via remotely-piloted vehicles instead of the massive yet cramped submersibles they started with. The explorers still get to do the science they love but they do it from a comfortable surface
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by billbrown 2y ago
If you're on a Mac, OK JSON is a tremendous aid in working with documents and includes a decent JSONPath query dialog. (Very happy user) https://okjson.app/
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by billbrown 2y ago
There's also Michael Levy who is composing new music for ancient instruments[1] as well as playing the oldest song "Epitaph of Seikilos" on a kithara[2] [1] https://ancientlyre.com/ [2] https://mic
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by billbrown 2y ago
I like this view of the integral (and generally regard this site as helpful to build intuitions). https://betterexplained.com/articles/a-calculus-analogy-inte...
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by billbrown 3y ago
There's also the Ocean Exploration Trust, founded by Robert Ballard of Titanic discovery fame (among _many_ other things). https://nautiluslive.org/
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by billbrown 3y ago
This guy's whole corpus reminds me of Nevil Shute's _Trustee from the Toolroom_: quiet, fastidious, and expert work appreciated worldwide.
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by billbrown 3y ago
Looks like there's a new edition coming in March. https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Python-Specific-Software-De...
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by billbrown 3y ago
I had never heard of it—unsurprisingly—but wow: "The SecDb ecosystem is composed of over 10,000 databases supporting over 2.5 billion connections, receiving 164 TB of messages, and serving around 8 PB of data."[1] [1] https:&#x2F
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by billbrown 3y ago
And yet it's proven invaluable in each of those areas for the 30 years after. It's clear your knowledge of Objectivism is akin to thinking you understand Stoicism from reading the dictionary definition.
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by billbrown 3y ago
I've read Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca and found them refreshing. They're just not as coherent as her philosophy.
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by billbrown 3y ago
Stoicism is an excellent philosophy for the ancient world but tt's entirely insufficient for the modern era. Ayn Rand's Objectivism is Stoicism plus Aristotelianism refined and refactored. Aaron Smith elaborates well: https:&#x2F
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by billbrown 3y ago
Or Brown's Corollary of Apathy: Never ascribe to stupidity what can be explained by DGAF.
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by billbrown 3y ago
More on the subject from the cited environmental historian Daniel Macfarlane - https://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/niagara-teleco...
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by billbrown 3y ago
I suggest you check out the work of Gary Klein and the Naturalistic Decision Making community, as the Vicennes work was one of the founding projects. He features it in his 1997 book _Sources of Power_.
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by billbrown 3y ago
Downvoted, hah!
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by billbrown 3y ago
I didn't read the OP because I looked into Uruguay's previously-touted "98% renewable" last month and I doubt anything's changed.[1] I read a great study from 2022[2] and figured out the accounting trickery behind t
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by billbrown 3y ago
You don't want to be the one not clapping, to stop clapping, or to start last. Dictators notice these things. https://mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/some-chilling-public...
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by billbrown 3y ago
The best interviewer I've found is Peter Robinson for his Hoover Institution podcast "Uncommon Knowledge." He's got great guests and really elicits great answers. (He was a speechwriter for Reagan and the one that wrote
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by billbrown 3y ago
Doesn't a thumb then obscure the label of the month you're identifying?
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by billbrown 3y ago
Here's an example search for "casues of the civil war" so you can see the behavior for yourself. https://kagi.com/search?q=%22casues+of+the+civil+war%22&r=us...
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by billbrown 3y ago
I found Matthew Pollard's "The Introvert's Edge to Networking" to be an outstanding resource. (Don't be fooled by the awful branding around it: I listened on Audible and never saw all the Over-the-Top marketing unti
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by billbrown 3y ago
I think it would benefit from a rating system and a sort or filter based on that rating.
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by billbrown 3y ago
They published the postmortem, and the penetration into colleges is hinted at as being causal. > Increased load on DUO1 due to significantly increased adoption and simultaneous peak usage across multiple larger customers led to authentic
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by billbrown 3y ago
Alfred, Karabiner-Elements (for the hyper key functionality), Shortcat, TextSniper, Moom, Sublime Text, iTerm 2, my .bash_profile. These are all apps for which I have long-standing muscle memory. If I use a new computer, I'm still pres
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by billbrown 3y ago
Thanks, I always forget about SRP since I think about it at the AMA level and get my water from Phoenix.
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by billbrown 3y ago
Pricing would also make a huge difference.[1] In general, though, California is a _mess_.[2] I mean, it didn't even have state groundwater management legislation until 2014—they're seriously playing catch-up now. [1] https:/
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by billbrown 3y ago
I think "underground lake" is metaphorical. We have some good geology for our aquifer—it's called the Salt River Valley alluvial basin.[1] The Phoenix Active Management Area has a bunch of water storage[2]. I'd also dire

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