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by bsder 9mo ago
> And what's so special about books in particular, anyway? Concentration is a skill that needs to be practiced. A book is the easiest way to practice that skill. Concentration is a skill that is useful broadly in human endeavors.
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by bsder 9mo ago
> Fantasy can be profound and thought provoking. It can be, but there has always been a lot of garbage like any art form. "The Well-Tempered Plot Device" is more than 40 years old now. https://news.ansible.uk/
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by bsder 9mo ago
> Vimeo was not particularly worthless, but it was also not particularly profitable either. In truth, Vimeo had always been a red-headed step child inside of IAC. Another profitable, sustainable company sacrificed on the Altar of Unicorn
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by bsder 9mo ago
The Three Mile Island disaster had similar problems with notifications. The problem at TMI was that the teletypewriter delivering the alerts wasn't fast enough to finish typing before new alerts came in. As time went on, the informati
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by bsder 9mo ago
You happened to have an opposing train at exactly the point where the train derailed. That's simply really, really rare bad luck. Practically anything you can think of is going to be a more effective use of safety resources than trying
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by bsder 9mo ago
The problem I have with streaming radio is that it seems to be caught rehashing rather than discovering. For example, I like SOMA's Underground 80s, but I also want to hear new artists in the same vein. I haven't found any stream
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by bsder 9mo ago
FDR and the US were actively at war against Hitler and Nazi Germany. The Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. These were two of the worst, period, regimes to ever exist and they carried out absolutely abominable war crimes that are still stu
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by bsder 9mo ago
So, a set of standard software RPCs (remote procedure calls) and APIs (application programming interfaces) and not another electrical signalling standard. Got it. Thanks for the correction. So, I guess the next question is what are you fol
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by bsder 9mo ago
> The only reason healthcare professionals in the US can demand salaries this high and even higher is because supply is artificially constrained. This article is a naked attempt to deflect from the understaffing problem. People don&#x27
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by bsder 9mo ago
Look at Erlang bit syntax: https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/bit_syntax.html It can even be used for pattern matching. I don't know whether Gleam or Elixir inherited it.
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by bsder 9mo ago
Why yet another proprietary space electronics communication bus? Do we still not have a standard, useful, open space electronics communication bus? Can someone explain to me why not?
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by bsder 9mo ago
The types on the variables. Python recently adopted "gradual typing", but it isn't enforced by default. Consequently, you may have to actually execute a Python program to determine what an unlabeled variable type is. A lot
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by bsder 9mo ago
> The Romans (their blacksmith god was disabled) also didn't value technology The Romans were engineers par excellence. They worked both steel and glass in this time frame. Look at how they built Pompeii for the local conditions.
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by bsder 9mo ago
> Many question why Rome never entered the industrial revolution, especially considering that they invented a steam engine[0]. They simply didn't have the metallurgy. A more interesting question is why China didn't kick off i
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by bsder 9mo ago
> from sports i know (hockey), generally the next generational player is identified when they're like 12-13 years old (earlier for Gretzky). Yeah, I'm really unconvinced by the paper. 1) Adult chess GMs all come from super ad
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by bsder 9mo ago
> spinning wheel (which should have been invented 1000 years before it did if inventors thought about it at all) Nope. You can invent it, but if there is no economics to drive its adoption it won't spread. Medieval thread productio
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by bsder 9mo ago
> Why would you think removing a driver will lead to more ride share trips? The last couple of drivers I had were so actively dangerous on the road that I quit using ridesharing completely. After experiencing Waymo, I'll actually us
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by bsder 9mo ago
> And did we all really dig up and read Metropolis, Rosenbluth, Rosenbluth, Teller, and Teller (1953)? If you didn't, you are lying. Full stop. If you cite something, yes, I expect that you, at least, went back and read the origina
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by bsder 9mo ago
(F + 40) * 5/9 - 40 = C (C + 40) * 9/5 - 40 = F Takes advantage of the fact that -40 F and -40 C are the same. Remember it as (move origin -- convert -- move origin back). I find it easier as a I don't have to remember preced
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by bsder 9mo ago
Since it's a CPU, you start with the idea that there is an ALU and spiral outward from that. That gives you something concrete to wrap your head around while you climb up the abstraction levels. However, when I hit "scratch_write
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by bsder 9mo ago
> We were imposed GitHub for so many exercises! I'm sympathetic to both sides here. As a professor who had to run Subversion for students (a bit before Git, et al), it's a nightmare to put the infrastructure together, keep it
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by bsder 9mo ago
> Scamming of gambling addicts is tragic but not detrimental to society. I used to believe that. With the legalization of all the sports betting and how fast it can drain a gambler which can then affect the gambler's family, I&#x27
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by bsder 9mo ago
And parents of the time also got that Foghorn Leghorn was a parody of Senator Claghorn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator_Claghorn Edit: Apparently, Foghorn goes even further back and is a parody of the sheriff fro
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by bsder 9mo ago
And the conditions for their vaunted military (both army and navy) was as bad or worse. A trip to the Fusilier Museum in the Tower of London really drove that home. Being a soldier absolutely sucked until pretty much the 20th century.
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by bsder 9mo ago
> I pay Slack $50k/year. They have no reason to shut me off. Until they get bought by Broadcom and deem you too small to waste time on.
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by bsder 9mo ago
> not necessarily more pleasant or efficient in the cooking process. For amateurs, I find that the gain of control from using induction far outweighs everything else--especially at low heats. If I put a newbie on an induction with a tem
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by bsder 9mo ago
We've seen this before. In 2001, there were something like 50+ OC-768 hardware startups. At the time, something like 5 OC-768 links could carry all the traffic in the world . Even exponential doubling every 12 months wasn't goin
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by bsder 9mo ago
> I wear them when I'm feeling sick, to reduce the range of transmission (although I just try and stay home) I really, really wish more people would do this. If you are feeling sick and need to go out into public, put on a mask. T
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by bsder 9mo ago
> Only in hindsight did people ever express fondness in public for Windows XP (and maybe a bit for Windows 7). I don't agree. Those of us using it for embedded development skipped from XP to 7 to 10. Windows XP started off a bit ro
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by bsder 9mo ago
> The details don't matter. The details very much DO matter. You can look at all manner of posts here on HN that explain exactly how you should do age verification without uploading IDs or giving central authority to some untrus

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