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by bkandel 4y ago
Spintronics! It's a puzzle game where you build mechanical equivalents of electrical circuits. It has capacitors, transistors, inductors, etc. Just got it this past weekend (bought it after the Kickstarter ended) and it's really c
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by bkandel 4y ago
If you're interested in historical fiction, I'd highly recommend Mary Renault's The Persian Boy. The book is all about the interaction between Hellenic and Persian cultures and the influence they each had on the other. She do
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by bkandel 4y ago
https://archive.ph/yYLgN#selection-503.0-503.112
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Without [phones], schools see more learning, fewer fights, and calmer hallways(inquirer.com)
54 points by bkandel 4y ago|27 comments
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by bkandel 4y ago
For me a lot of it is in the eyes and face. There's almost always some weird deformation or artifact that doesn't look quite right. It also happens in most other pictures if you look hard enough but with eyes and faces it's r
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by bkandel 4y ago
> chop your own veg Is there a way to avoid this? I can get some chopped vegetables at the grocery store, but the vast majority of vegetables are only available whole.
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by bkandel 5y ago
The FDA would beg to differ: https://medicalfuturist.com/fda-approved-ai-based-algorithms... Without the snark: There has been real progress made on devices that integrate machine learning and have passed the bar of FDA app
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Ecological consequences of human depopulation of rural areas (2020) [pdf](digital.csic.es)
4 points by bkandel 5y ago|0 comments
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by bkandel 5y ago
I don't think that's a comprehensive list, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus#Resurgent_intere... mentions that 42 skeletons have been found in western North America. I don't have the page
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by bkandel 5y ago
I read that as "frozen foods that are high in fat and salt".
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by bkandel 5y ago
I have a physical folder of important vital documents (passports, birth certificates, Social Security cards, etc.). Other stuff I usually just take a picture of on my phone and email to myself with a heading of some words that I know I&#x27
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by bkandel 5y ago
I'm not following here. If they bug high-stakes customers when given freedom to operate, why should any country trust anything they build to operate as described? "We'll behave as long as you're looking over our shoulder
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by bkandel 5y ago
I love the book, but honestly who sleeps with a bowl of oatmeal on their nightstand?! Never understood that.
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by bkandel 5y ago
Abagnale says himself that "Catch Me If You Can" is mostly fiction: > I was interviewed by the co-writer only about four times. I believe he did a great job of telling the story, but he also over dramatized and exaggerated some
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by bkandel 5y ago
> Bucking a major trend, company speaks out against the age-old practice. Next sentence: > Microsoft is finally catching on to a maxim that security experts have almost universally accepted for years So ... they're not bucking a
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by bkandel 5y ago
FWIW I get almost no spam on my email at all these days. I use disposable addresses (via Yahoo) for all stores and aggressively filter emails from listservs and stores, but after that I get next to no spam. What spam I do get is picked up n
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by bkandel 6y ago
Yes, and I would add to this the (nearly) complete lack of IDE support makes working with Spark SQL quite painful.
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by bkandel 6y ago
I usually think these "Google is the worst" posts are over the top, but I genuinely find Gmail's mobile interface bewildering. There are two three-dot/ellipsis icons when you read an email and after using mobile Gmail fo
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by bkandel 6y ago
The loan example comes up because of a long history of explicit discrimination in the US against Black borrowers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining ). Because of that history, people are justifiably skeptical when
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by bkandel 6y ago
Python is 30 years old, SQL is ~45 years old, Java is 30 years old, C is 50 years old. There are newer developments obviously but 60 years is not really all that much of an outlier for a programming language.
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by bkandel 6y ago
Yeah same in Philadelphia, the rivers (Delaware and Schuylkill) used to be so polluted they didn't support life, but now there are people catching 45-inch muskies in urban rivers ( https://patch.com/pennsylvania/nor
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by bkandel 6y ago
I don't think we're disagreeing, and I agree that profits rather than human benefit drive pharma's research agenda. I'm just saying that if a paper from Big Pharma says a factual statement like "Reference X says Y&q
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by bkandel 6y ago
> It’s not Big Pharma that’s responsible for most retractions This is not at all surprising to me. Big Pharma has teams of professional statisticians, writers, copy-editors, fact-checkers, etc. and have much more rigorously enforced stan
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by bkandel 6y ago
I'm struggling to understand your comment about books. There are many thousands of very high-quality books written about lots of different subjects. Is it possible your book recommendations are all too similar, like only reading novels
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by bkandel 6y ago
So in America in the 21st century, white Jews are treated pretty much like any other white person. I would say that there are some subtle cultural things that make me feel a bit "other", though. For example, sports teams called th
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by bkandel 6y ago
So I agree with all the comments about needing a lawyer as to the specifics of your situation. As far as being unreasonable: The sense I get from reading your narrative is that from your perspective, because you wrote the code for the softw
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by bkandel 6y ago
So this has happened at more than one company that I've been at, only difference is that these were AWS keys and used to mine bitcoin. AWS was actually pretty good about it, we rotated the keys as quickly as we could and they dropped a
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by bkandel 6y ago
Two that did it for me: - The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt. Really deepened my understanding of how Western and other cultures think about moral and ethical issues. - The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan. It's a feminist book that is
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by bkandel 6y ago
I think it's a bit more nuanced than this -- even within the "name-brand" national parks, like Yosemite or Yellowstone, the sacrificed part has the hotels and other facilities that cater to humans, but there's still a to
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by bkandel 7y ago
It depends on the field. In the sciences (especially biosciences), professors typically have to get money from grants to pay for their labs, and sometimes part of their salary. Being able to get grants depends on their publishing record, an

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