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by blendo 9y ago
"... educated women’s career trajectories often have a different shape—based on their wider interests and a common desire to have flexible or part-time work when their families are young—and an accelerated pace later on." She&#x27
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"A key development is the Multi-Voltage Power Supply (MVPS), which interfaces with multiple electric outlet connection types on ISS and provides a multitude of power output capabilities for our current and future ARISS operations and a
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From ehealthinsurance.com: Kaiser Permanente is composed of Kaiser Foundation Health Plans (nonprofit, public-benefit corporations), Kaiser Foundation Hospitals (a nonprofit, public-benefit corporation), and the Permanente Medical Groups (
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Amateur Number One by Irving Vermilya(earlyradiohistory.us)
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This is incredibly important. When I worked at BigFinCorp, we always used vanilla Excel (VBA and ODBC to RDBMSs). So our sheets would always "just work". Python would be great in this role, but to avoid separate configuration, y
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by blendo 9y ago
Assume your personal device has a "Pedestrian" mode. When turned on, it will broadcast your position and velocity 10 times per second (a "Basic Safety Message", https://www.its.dot.gov/itspac/octobe
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> It is arguable that when you watch a quarterback or a cornerback play well in 2017 you are watching someone do something better than anyone has ever done anything. "Better than anyone has ever done anything" is debatable, but
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130 mph top speed for the base model. Weight: 3549 lb. 220 mile range. The design mission of this car is very conservative: freeway travel at 70-80 mph, for several hours, with 4 people and their luggage. The payload (I'll guess 900l
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Cybersexism in Three Acts(lareviewofbooks.org)
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In Canada, instead of waiting an average 9.5 months(!) to replace a painful knee, you can go to Duval Orthopedic Clinic in Montreal to get a knee replacement for under $14,000 USD (compared to $49,000 in the US). In the US, your charge
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by blendo 10y ago
The biggest problem for city drivers (I'm in San Francisco) is we only need a car that goes about 45 mph, but we can only buy vehicles (electric or ICE) that are designed for 70-80 mph. They tend to weigh over 3,000 lbs, and a Tesla we
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From the link: "On their way to the moon, the Apollo 17 crew took one of the most iconic photographs in space-program history, the full view of the Earth dubbed "The Blue Marble." Despite it's fame, the photograph hasn&#
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by blendo 10y ago
So far so good! (age 59 and still cursing bad code)
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For just these reasons, we convinced our child's small private high school to start a little later this year, moving from 8am to 8:30am. The only negative feedback I'm aware of is the kids report less time to hang with friends af
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From the fact sheet https://www.safercar.gov/v2v/pdf/V2V_NPRM_Fact_Sheet_121316_... : What data is exchanged? The data, known as the “basic safety message” (BSM), is exchanged between vehicles and contains vehicle
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by blendo 10y ago
When I was age 7-12 and taking piano lessons, it was torture. At 16, with classical/folk guitar lessons, it was still a real slog, as I'd get very bored. At age 50, when I took up piano lessons again, it was _so_ much easier. Af
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Biggest problem: personal cars are built for safe freeway travel at 60-80mph. So they're heavy as hell (often 4000+ lbs), and physically large. But incredibly wasteful in the city, on 0-35mph urban roads clogged with bikes and peds. L
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And now a derivative of Scratch can take you through the new AP "Computer Science Principles" course. See http://bjc.berkeley.edu/ , which says: "Snap! (formerly BYOB) is a visual, drag-and-drop programming l
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by blendo 10y ago
Things were pretty cool until 1994. Then Canter and Siegel unleashed one of the first commercial dark patterns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie... It's been a race to the bottom ever s
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From http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2016/07/a-dedicated-team-for-a... : "If you're a TypeScript or JavaScript developer, you'll also benefit from cleaner JavaScript APIs and performance gains as we si
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by blendo 10y ago
I remember the emergency squawk codes as a rhyme: 75, Taken alive (7500 for a Hijack) 76, Radio nix (7600 for Lost comm/radio failure) 77, Going to heaven (7700 for Emergency)
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Next month Windows 10 will ship Ubuntu as part of what they're calling "Windows Subsystem for Linux" -- bash, apt-get, etc. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/faq It's actual
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There was _way_ too much couture tie-dye at the Haight-Ashbury street fair a few weeks ago. But then I stopped by the California Historical Radio Society booth (Radio Day is July 23 in Alameda!), and spoke with them abuot their "KSAN L
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Hopefully a course like UC Berkeley's "CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing" can point the way: http://cs10.org/su16/ "But this course is far more than just learning to program. We'll focus on
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by blendo 10y ago
Any thoughts on UC Berkeley's "Beauty and Joy of Computing"? ( http://bjc.berkeley.edu/ ) Should AP's new "CS Principles" course count towards the math requirement for college admission?
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The need for speed also leads to urban pedestrians having to see and avoid vehicles that are optimized for Atlanta-sized interchanges. And the trendiest "green" cars are the worst: the Tesla Model S P85D weighs about 5,000 lbs an
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by blendo 10y ago
My ability to avoid these Google/Oracle/Microsoft mind-fucks diminishes each year. Is it good for society to have our cynicism cranked up so high? That's a question for our best second tier psychologists and UX researchers (
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I start by asking, Did it used to work? If so, when did it last work? What changed? When? Does it work anywhere else? And most importantly, can you reliably recreate the bug? Only after I've grappled with these questions will I move on
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by blendo 11y ago
I'm sure the FBI would like to minimize the "work asked of Apple". Ideally, they'd have a system to: 1) Identify target phone and obtain warrant to search. 2) Invoke Apple<-->FBI-specific api to initiate OS image
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by blendo 11y ago
What, and give up Excel/VBA? More seriously, an F# IDE baked into Excel would lead to spontaneous Snoopy-dancing in the finance IT trenches.

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