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by cpr 9y ago
Would there be any way to turn this into a Zendesk-like solution, using threads for each support inquiry, and assignments of some sort? We're happy Fastmail email users, and can almost live with email for support, and barely use any
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by cpr 9y ago
John Taylor Gatto (NY State Teacher of the year 1990) would beg to differ, and has amassed a fairly extensive set of arguments: https://www.amazon.com/John-Taylor-Gatto/e/B001K7S0AE/
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by cpr 9y ago
Seems like one of the main problems here is people who are treating dogs (like TFA author) like people or like children replacements.
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by cpr 9y ago
I know there are JS haters here on HN, but (as an old OS/compiler guy from the '70's and '80's), it's truly marvelous to see what you can do with dynamic languages by pouring hundreds man-years into optimized l
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by cpr 9y ago
Except that the US has had 10 years free of serious storms. Doesn't quite fit the narrative.
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by cpr 9y ago
Wow, this brings back vivid memories of late 80's, when I was assigned to write atan2 by hand on Multiflow's 28/14/7-wide VLIW machines. (Everyone in the company who could hand-code (even us OS guys and gals ;-) was assi
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by cpr 9y ago
PrinceXML does a solid job of it, and has for years.
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by cpr 9y ago
(To clarify, Docraptor is just a user-friendly way to use PrinceXML without licensing the latter and setting up all the infrastructure.)
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by cpr 9y ago
Microswitch, no doubt, from the looks of it. The best key mechanisms ever made. (Think MIT AI/LISPM keyboards.)
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by cpr 9y ago
Trump did disavow the white supremacists. Not fast enough for them?
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by cpr 9y ago
Great to know about them. But their web site says $7.50/minute for subtitling, $1 for transcriptions. Still may be quite reasonable to extend video reach that much.
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When Families Lead Themselves Out of Poverty(nytimes.com)
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by cpr 9y ago
Ah, yes, included the Millers Falls two-handed drill we have for timber frame mortising. (Haven't done much lately.) Great tool, though admittedly much slower than electric chain morticers. But certainly more meditative...
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by cpr 9y ago
Why was this flagged? It's a quite reasonable argument.
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by cpr 9y ago
Curious why this resonates with the HN crowd? Reqiescat in pace.
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by cpr 9y ago
We had this discussion years ago on my Harvard class list, back during the Larry Summers flap. Obviously, no one would be/could be against women choosing whatever field of study and work that fulfills them the most. (I say that with 6
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by cpr 9y ago
No, it's true that shipwrights were often involved in early timber framed building--there's a reason the "nave" of a church is called that.
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by cpr 9y ago
All true, but my memory is that timber framing is only 20% more expensive when looking at whole-house costs. So it's not prohibitive by any means.
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by cpr 9y ago
Some beautiful timber-framed tithe barns from the 800's survive in England. https://www.google.com/search?q=english+tithe+barns+timber-f... Build with massive timbers (no nails), keep the wood dry (and watch for beetle
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by cpr 9y ago
Lake Street Deli is amazing, as is the Boyne City Bakery, run by a world class French baker.
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by cpr 9y ago
Serendipity! Just looking at a large one last night, here at my wife's parents house in Boyne City, found decades ago. (My mother in law grew up here.)
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by cpr 9y ago
American schools are doing what they're designed to do--crank out standard units of compliant citizens. Cf "Underground History of American Education" by Gatto. Or see some of PG's rants on the subject.
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by cpr 9y ago
Hi Mike! Was talking with your folks about your project at various recent Langley weddings. Kudos for a great idea, well-executed!
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by cpr 9y ago
Yes, but did you watch the section on fundamental constants? Even if he's a crank, his questions are valid, and metrologists who define away problems with fundamental constant measurements are to be questioned.
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by cpr 9y ago
An interesting (banned) TEDx talk by Rupert Sheldrake, one part on the changing "fundamental constants", starting here: https://youtu.be/JKHUaNAxsTg?t=591 The other parts are a bit "woo" and I'm sur
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by cpr 9y ago
Apologies. It was supposed to be a substantive meta-comment about New Yorker reportage, which I think is on the same level of partisanship as the Huff Post (which I thought was banned here).
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by cpr 9y ago
The usual wide-eyed New Yorker "ain't no one here but us liberals" tone, where simply listing the actions of the other side is assumed to elicit shock and horror. A bit tiring.
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by cpr 9y ago
(The coax came from Tech Square buildings (MIT-LCS/AI), and was used to connect up the DECsystem-20 and (MIT) Lisp machines we had in building 38.)
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by cpr 9y ago
Triggered scary flashbacks to chasing down network problems with a big TDR (time domain reflectometer--basically a way of checking connectivity by virtually walking down the wire) on MIT's CHAOSnet thick yellow coax, climbing around ce
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by cpr 9y ago
Sounds a bit ungracious (tone is "nyah, nyah you lost"), but seems generally accurate from 20,000 feet up.

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