brent_noorda

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by brent_noorda 3y ago
I was assigned Libra at birth but identify as Gemini. It’s infuriating how many of these young people refuse to accept my sign.
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by brent_noorda 3y ago
Yes. And apologies are written by the winners’ grandchildren
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by brent_noorda 3y ago
Does the state need to encourage charitable giving, though? Would a person stop donating $1000 of their expendable wealth to their favorite cause (e.g., hunger, cancer, cloning hitler, whatever) if that $1000 donation no longer reduced thei
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by brent_noorda 3y ago
No organization should be tax-exempt (not religions, not charities, not foundations), and no donations to such organizations should be tax exempt. Tax exemption takes money from the one democratic charity (our government) that supports vast
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Portugal. The Man with a brilliant, next-gen band website(portugaltheman.com)
2 points by brent_noorda 4y ago|0 comments
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by brent_noorda 4y ago
the amniotic sac, just like the placenta and umbilical cord, are organs we all developed as fetuses. it should not be too surprising that we have methods to repair our own organs.
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by brent_noorda 4y ago
pick a side
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by brent_noorda 4y ago
Is that why Alexa, Siri, and OK Google, which are all wonderful, default to female voices?
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by brent_noorda 4y ago
Love it. This is one of the primary features that RDIO had that I miss in Spotify, because it allows for discovering songs, as in “if someone likes this song enough to add it to a song list, I wonder what else they like”. I look forward to
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by brent_noorda 4y ago
You should make a law about Microsoft research pages and name it after yourself.
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by brent_noorda 4y ago
NASA licensed one $3 copy, but we didn't know why until ~a year later (just a guess how long it was) then found they'd had a team analyzing lots of software options, so by 2003 or so we knew it was for a next-gen telescope. SE was
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by brent_noorda 4y ago
Because JavaScript happened to be the language we at Nombas implemented in our "robust and predictable" engine. If a, e.g., python or TcL engine were as solid at the time for a can't-fail embedded engine, they could have happ
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by brent_noorda 4y ago
Thank. Yes, it feels very satisfying having it finally be deployed and operational, like a big sigh of relieve after holding in a small bit of breath (one alveoli's worth) for 20 years. ScriptEase started when I began working alone on
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by brent_noorda 4y ago
I just updated our "Nombas doesn't exist anymore" page, for readers of this nice and mostly-accurate article, with a little more background on why I think NASA chose it (tl;dr "robust and predictable"). < http:&#
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by brent_noorda 4y ago
A turnkey Alzheimer’s town. The next Hogeweyk. Sign me up (I’m just about ready).
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by brent_noorda 4y ago
Some of the tiles become darker and then cannot be turned. What's that about?
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by brent_noorda 4y ago
About 7 years ago I switched to nursing from nearly 35 years as a software engineer. Each 13-hour shift my 6 or 7 patients, if there was a moment to talk, would ask why I did so. I'd make pretty much the same joke every time: "I w
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by brent_noorda 5y ago
Recently tried the new Fiesta Veggie Burrito at Taco Bell. Two dollars. Exquisite.
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by brent_noorda 5y ago
When the “similar” setting is even a little bigger than the minority setting, it is hard to achieve satisfiaction. For example, if the minority color is at 10% but satisfaction requires 15%, then you can’t find satisfaction. This tool shows
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by brent_noorda 5y ago
You can’t research something if no one will fund it, and no one dares fund anything that might show neurological disorders in women.
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by brent_noorda 6y ago
If you’re asking yourself “why does an insulator speed conduction?” Then it’s worth reading the “function” section of the Wikipedia article on myelin, for an introduction on the role of these short, interrupted sections of insulator and why
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by brent_noorda 6y ago
I made a beautiful app called ShoutFireInACrowdedTheater. With one tap it would shout “fire” in a crowded theater. Great interface. Amazing graphics. Voice activated. ADA compliant. But Google and Apple both banned it. Cancel Culture is re
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A short (AI-is-Racist)-adjacent tale
7 points by brent_noorda 6y ago|0 comments
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by brent_noorda 6y ago
Micropayments are used somewhere? Anywhere? And they work? Examples, please.
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by brent_noorda 6y ago
They said 80 unarmed, meaning the rest of the 1043 were armed.
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by brent_noorda 6y ago
The Counted is not necessarily police brutality as much as listing everyone killed by police in the US, along with a brief description. The Counted totally fascinates me. I like to close my eyes and pick some square at random and read the s
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by brent_noorda 6y ago
Even as I bet against electric flight being commercially feasible except in extremely limited conditions, I'm excited by any news that I might possibly be worng.
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by brent_noorda 6y ago
Prioritizing where the need is greatest and the cost-per-life-enhanced is lowest makes sense to me.
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by brent_noorda 7y ago
RSS feed?
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by brent_noorda 7y ago
Being alive to criticize the treatment is usually better than the alternative.

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