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by bleair 10y ago
Does building a magnetosphere for the purposes of protection require an atmosphere, or is it all about capturing and shaping solar wind? If it doesn't require an atmosphere, could this approach be used to build a magnetospher around th
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by bleair 10y ago
I've never read any of the case data, but among the articles like this I've read it often seems like people's sensitivity and reactions to these neurological drugs varies by a range of 1-8x and the resulting impairment also v
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by bleair 10y ago
This part fascinated me : "" I waited 5 anxious minutes, and then was bought into a room with two doctors, one of whom turned out to be Dr. Sonny Palmer. Sonny said Georg thought I needed some help, and I’d be checked within a da
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by bleair 10y ago
Does Apple really need or care about the "Pro" market? It seems like all of their priorities are related to everyday consumers (beats headphones, air buds, several new phone models every N months, etc.). Why would apple waste thei
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by bleair 10y ago
Rather amazing how inept management was. The amiga was way ahead of its time (the software architecture and design choices) and thus it might never have succeeded, but the management actively did things to increase cost of production (the
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by bleair 10y ago
Paper has donwisdes (can get wet, takes longer to photocopy to give to others) but it wins because of how it works with my noise/lossy mind. There are elements of a physical thing (location on page, rough location within notebook, did
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by bleair 10y ago
He was at center, and admitted to it. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-19/apple-goo... "“Like somehow we’re hurting some employees? We’re not,” Catmull said. “While I have responsibility f
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by bleair 10y ago
I'm biased by empirical data - e.g. look at youtube comments (anonymous) vs. amazon reviews (real identity owned by amazon). Human nature demonstrates that a fraction of people really like to put down / bully / see others suf
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by bleair 10y ago
Ha Ha conservatives thought their vote for Nixon was a great decision. I wonder if they will ever digest that that, or their choice in the 2016 election
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by bleair 10y ago
And like many other crafts, while anyone can bang out a shell script to print "hello world!", it's a fair bit different from something large, complex and finely crafted.
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by bleair 10y ago
I'm not sure what you're referring to as "first version". Did you work on Katana at Sony, and are you referring to the choice to use HDF5? The idea (a hierarchical organization of geom prims and transforms) was very simi
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by bleair 10y ago
It's really simple - how hard is the UX of my phone vs. the car's system. I've _never_ seen a builtin car version have a UX that wasn't ridiculously complex and frustrating to use. There are two concrete, real exampl
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by bleair 10y ago
I may have missed how but.. Cmake solves the problem of "locate the library FOO of version X.Y, add the compilation flags, link flags, include folder, link folder, static link options, dynamic link options" and all the other detai
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by bleair 10y ago
Is this petition being championed by the ACLU? Would donating to the ACLU be more effective in affecting real pressure? Just like subscribing to Linux Journal, or running a tor node, if you sign this petition your information will end up on
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by bleair 10y ago
Looking at http://www.typespec.co.uk/doves-type/ I see that if you use this typeface on a webpage, then you have to pay-per-viewing of said page. Is there a discussion for the arguments for and against pay-per-view whe
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by bleair 10y ago
On the context of these ancient libraries: - everything was hand written / copied - there was no punctuation, no real word spacing - information was primarily transferred via oration and this written form was a new fangled technology :
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by bleair 10y ago
I think you're right, but it's my hope that if you both communicate with true intentions you can come to understand a part of the perspective of the other person and why they believe what they believe. You won't charge their
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by bleair 10y ago
This review was really helpful to me when I was looking for more insight into Julia. http://danluu.com/julialang/
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by bleair 12y ago
The summary -> no charges against the head of this insider trader, but an agreement with the government to only invest Cohen's personal assets of nine billion dollars.
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by bleair 12y ago
These EHR systems - programs for managing patient information - are some of the absolute worst in terms of frustrating usability and difficulty. Think of how bad the very worst HR applications you've had to use and then go 10x worse th
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by bleair 12y ago
This is horribly pragmatic, but a reason that can contribute to a langugauge's success and popularity comes from how easy it is for new users to "pick it up", "find libraries that they find useful" and build working
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by bleair 12y ago
There is the theory that a "cobalt bomb" would be pretty effective in wiping out humanity. http://www.rense.com/general40/dooms.htm Cobalt's half-life, ability to be transported around the planet's
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by bleair 14y ago
There are only 2 hard problems in computer science, caching, and naming things, and off by one errors
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by bleair 14y ago
Shake was acquired and then killed. FCP is no longer a pro application. They've added lots of nice first time user experience things, but largely ignored what "professional" users need. Which is fine. Apple wants to sell software (and ipho
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by bleair 14y ago
This blog post comments that "Consider Larrabee, Intel’s project to create a massively multi-core x86-based GPU. Rumor has it that Apple was working on integrating the technology into a Mac Pro. Intel eventually scuttled the project, but co
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by bleair 14y ago
There is no guild for the companies that produce VFX work. VFX studios do the work as work-for-hire, so if a film does poorly they don't loose money, but they never ever get any of the profits if a movies does do well. At the most simplifie
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by bleair 15y ago
Good thinking, and thank you for the invite.. I personally hope that the privacy behaviors of google work out better than what you get with Facebook (fingers crossed, expecting about the same, but hoping for the best)
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by bleair 17y ago
I liked this example. Like Blue's Clues it progressed and built nicely. Unlike so many other lisp blog posts and some of the comments right here, this post was missing the pompous, elitest attitude about how LISP is superior to all other p