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by daveslash 3y ago
I agree. I think in modern American vocabulary, "Friend" is thrown around quite loosely to mean "somebody who I know and I'm not adversarial with". Personally, I have very few friends - people with whom I have an em
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They're all perfectly cromulent words. Now... let's ask Chat GPT to make a pop song that would make Adriano Celentano blush. https://www.npr.org/2012/11/04/164206468/its-gibberish-but-i...
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by daveslash 3y ago
Low quality comment here, but I've been feeling older as I keep seeing things from the 90s show up as "30 years ago" (which feels like yesterday!). My heart dropped for a moment when I saw "50 years" and "1984&
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by daveslash 3y ago
Ask George Costanza, who's currently managing the Penske file.
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by daveslash 3y ago
There's a small remote island community in New England that I visited once. I was told that the person with the most political sway on the island is the plumber. It was explained to me succinctly: You don't need a plumber often, b
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by daveslash 3y ago
As I understand it, the claim that there was to be a coming ice age was based on our increased rate of particulate matter into the atmosphere, not greenhouse gases. The claim was that in addition to greenhouse gases, we were also exponent
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by daveslash 3y ago
Early Mormon (Latter Day Saint) History is absolutely fascinating, regardless of one's own 'take' on the religion. Given this post is about the Deseret Alphabet, I thought I'd drop this link in regarding the State of De
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by daveslash 3y ago
It's not really about the frequency of light. We pretty much have "discovered" all frequencies -- it's the electromagnetic spectrum. We know all of the frequencies that exist. The trick is devising new methods with incre
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by daveslash 3y ago
Some people do, but I definitely see your point.
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I live in an apartment complex in SoCal, and frequently work from home. It seems that there is a leaf-blower outside my window for nearly an hour almost every. single. day. . When they're not cleaning actual leaves, they're using
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by daveslash 3y ago
I agree with you. I'm aware that they have very serious, legitimate, award winning news coverage, and I applaud them for that - but if Hustler Magazine released a Hustler Weekly News magazine, I would not fault people for shrugging
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by daveslash 3y ago
(Low Quality Comment Here) I, for one, have never had a tumble in KSP. Nope, every single launch, exactly as planned, all the way to orbit, and even the Mun. I have never once strapped a bazzilion first-stage engines in a row just to see
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by daveslash 3y ago
Came here to say the same thing. Threw me for a loop! Glad I'm not the only person who noticed.
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by daveslash 4y ago
I'm sorry eetus, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
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by daveslash 4y ago
The Complexity of XML reminds me of something from Adam Bosworth's ISCOC04 Talk [0]. To me, the big takeaway is that HTML succeeded because of it's limitations, not despite of them. JSON seems very simple compared to XML. XML
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by daveslash 4y ago
Something I find fascinating is how much "traditional" food in the old-world is influenced by post-Columbian discoveries. Potatoes, Tomatoes, and Chili Peppers were unknown to Europe and Asia before exploration of the Americas.
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by daveslash 4y ago
Most fluids are pretty resistant to compression. That's what makes them so good for hydraulics, for example brake lines, etc.... by putting fluid in a tube, you can apply pressure at one end and bend it around all kinds of crazy corner
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by daveslash 4y ago
Trickle Charging it caused something do go really wrong with the display circuitry and over half of the screen was randomized color-static looking garbage. The phone itself seemed to operate fine, but the display issues rendered it useless.
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by daveslash 4y ago
" Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. "
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by daveslash 4y ago
I had one of the last Windows Phones before they were discontinued (Nokia Lumina 950). Loved it. It died in 2018 on a camping trip when I let it trickle-charge on a Solar Panel. (Don't do that people!). I took the opportunity to get ba
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by daveslash 4y ago
Pass, as in "pass on the candidate (fail)". Apologies for the confusion. I've edited my comment for clarity. Thank you.
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by daveslash 4y ago
I was listening to an archaeology professor not long ago. He was challenging the long-standing hypothesis that human migration came across the Bering straight and then moved inland early on, populating the inner North American continent. He
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by daveslash 4y ago
They didn't. I was one of two technical interviewers. We both recommended on passing [not hiring]. It was only a seasonal internship, so we weren't super grilling, but we still recommended a pass. We were overruled by the hiring m
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by daveslash 4y ago
For those who might not be familiar with Beej, this is not his first or only guide. They're all excellent. There's a link near the top of the page: "Click here for other Guides" Also, see previous posts here on HN htt
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by daveslash 4y ago
An old mentor of mine used to say: " If they ever invent a miracle drug, it will be aspirin "
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RE>> Anyone can write a loop or an if statement. <-- Respectfully disagree. I had an intern a few years ago -- recent college grad in CompSci. I tried my best to lightly mentor him. One day I was talking about the diff between a
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by daveslash 4y ago
Re >> Our small Maine city [ This is good natured ribbing ] Small? Small Maine City? I clicked this expecting to see Machias or Limestone , but I get your biggest city? Sure, it's small by comparison to other cities, but it
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by daveslash 4y ago
You're right. I think I chose the wrong terms with colorful/vibrant. Perhaps better words would have been busy/detailed/intricate/textured. These older advertisements might have as much color, but they're pleas
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by daveslash 4y ago
When I look at older magazines, photos, billboards, and advertisements -- today's world of media is so much more colorful and vibrant than it was in the 60s & 70s. E.g. This [0] vs. this [1]. With the race to the bottom for genera
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by daveslash 4y ago
People have been talking about things like ChatGPT Doing code, but I just realized... something like ChatGPT could be incorporated right into your IDE. Think Clippy, for Code... " I see you're trying to write a recursive functio

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