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by dave333 2y ago
Played conkers as a kid around age 7-9. We had several horse chestnut trees along our road and I would search in amongst the leaves everyday on the way to and from school. Drill a hole in each and thread about 18 inches of string through th
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Lots of musicians and composers are going to need help with applying AI to their music so plenty of scope for hobby tech projects if you insist on going with your heart. This will also give you the tech skills should you decide to pivot bac
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Go where the goldrush is. Right now this is in tech - AI - not music so much. A life in tech with music as a hobby is much easier to do than the reverse. PS combine the two like Brian Eno.
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Permaculture is about maximizing sustainable benefits from a piece of land at minimal cost and effort over the long term: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwdjtwsRtRE Also Greening The Desert: https://www.youtube.
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The linear scaling is valid to show how strictly L-shaped the curve is but a log scaling would show more detail in the middle and an income histogram would show how much each percentile of the population has in aggregate. Would also be inte
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by dave333 2y ago
I remember my Dad raving about the good quality and cheap price of a Japanese dial micrometer he had bought in the 1970s when Japanese products had a poor reputation in general in the west rather like everything Temu sells has now.
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In the 1980s AT&T was designing cabinet-sized minicomputers that would have less than 2 hours downtime in 40 years and went to great lengths to enable software update without reboot (functions accessed via transfer vectors) and ability
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Desktop PC hardware is sufficiently modular and easy to upgrade. It would be nice if upgrades were add-on rather than throwing away the replaced module(s) but HW changes so fast it's almost never worth it. Software could be improved to
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by dave333 2y ago
Best novel: Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Best Scifi: The World of Null-A A. E. van Vogt Best Childrens: Swallowdale Arthur Ransome
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Probably a case of young vs old eyes. If I wanted a toned down screen I would probably go with a light text on dark background that is still high enough contrast. I even have a large script backlit keyboard so I can see what I'm typing
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I wasn't familiar with redshift and it seems like a really bad idea for usability. The example menu shown on the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift_(software) with a red orange background is alm
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For example - Britain's most notorious roundabout https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5622263,-1.7713205,3a,48.7y,...
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That is a good way to have an accident - I know since I've done it. While "looking one way" on a USA counterclockwise roundabout you are looking left to see traffic already on the roundabout and if clear you go and run smack
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Changing the background color of the div id=content from chocolate(?) to white makes this 1000% more readable. PS now that I've read it - great summary.
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No mention of coupling or cohesion: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/software-engineering-coupling-...
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Definitely more useful than the teaser sections Amazon makes available for free.
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Minivans are a rock bottom alternative to homelessness which is actually pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=living+in+a+min...
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by dave333 2y ago
Old minivans never die, they just fade away. We bought a new Grand Caravan in 2014 (our fifth Grand Caravan) as our "forever vehicle" to last a long time as we were approaching retirement. Now 10 years later it has done only 100k
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Doing things merely to stimulate pleasurable brain chemistry is fine unless all you do is play games or watch formulaic media that have no lasting effect or achievement.
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A corollary rule is what makes a problem go away. I was pulled into a war room situation on a remote call (pre Zoom days) to debug a problem where after some digging it seemed some variable was being corrupted deep in the code. I suspected
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Reproducing the problem not only allows in depth debugging but the conditions needed to reproduce can give clues as to the cause. The most significant/interesting bug of my career was a problem in 1978 with a Linotron 606 phototypesett
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For me, a morning coffee seems to trigger a BM about an hour later - wondering if that could explain any benefits seen in the study.
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Maybe Elon is infiltrating the Republican party to further his long term goal of saving the world from climate change. Fortunately he's not eligible to run for President.
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Pithy summary: The paper "Learning 101: The Untaught Basics" by Junaid Qadir and Muhammad Ali Imran highlights that many students fail to learn effectively due to flawed intuitive learning methods and a lack of knowledge about opt
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You will rent a phone at the destination just like you rent a car. It will download your esim from the cloud based on your face.
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Once you plateau in your career, after a bit you realize this is it for the duration and you may want to do something radical/crazy - the famous mid-life crisis. After some wild and crazy times you may come back to earth and return to
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Interesting that so called great photographs are often the result of simple emotional tricks - pulling his cigar from his mouth in Churchill's case and for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor being told a story about a dog that had died to
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This is great and overcomes my previous view that "Accounting is arithmetic made difficult."
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From wikipedia: Attitude control is achieved by a relative shift between the craft's center of pressure and its center of mass. This can be achieved with control vanes, movement of individual sails, movement of a control mass, or alte
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How can the sail control its orientation? Without that it would just get pushed around "at random."

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