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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Sequoia Sempervirons, the coastal redwood, is good wood and naturally weather resistant. It is still logged. Sequoia Gigantis, on the western slope of the mid Sierra, is brittle and not very practical to log. (please pardon my Latin spellin
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Dispassionate? Let me tell you, if you have ever had an ex-commando officer from the Israeli Defense Force as a boss, you will know with every fiber of your being that those words can be delivered with passion. A passion that leaves no dou
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Even that is not helpful to the recipient of the feedback. How about: "Here is a list of standards every code check-in is required to meet. Here are the standards that your current P/R fails. Try again. Do you need help with any
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Here is the thing, at least in the case of database software, the people that are competent to set up a benchmark correctly are fairly rare. The people that have the budget for the hardware are even more rare. The last thing the world nee
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
True, but how many people are below 37%? They are not if they eat a typical American diet.
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
In fact in the UK, the barrister literally evolved from the role of champion. Solicters, in contrast, do not appear before the bar at trial. In the US, both roles were combined.
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
His name was Andy Grove.
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
PG&E has is not trimming vegetation back sufficiently. It is an infrastructure expense that is easy to defer -- for a while. In the Sonoma County fires, trees contacting power lines and either catching on fire directly, or causing a sho
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Hmmm... so I can see you haven't tried to build a practical robot lately. $2500 is approximately nothing for a robot that has the specs of this one. Sure, I've built $10 robots and $80 robots. But they don't do what this o
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
In my experience, employers are much more flexible than the state employment department and the health insurance companies. Ask to work 4 ten hour days, for instance instead of 5x8. The state will force the employer to pay overtime for the
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Well, not everywhere. I move to Cal from Minnesota. Ethnically, Minnesota is heavily German and Scandanavian. Germanic puctuality is more the norm (or at least was when I was a kid).
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Yes, indeed, and Balkan's favorite feature is my personal most hated feature. To each his own, I guess... Menu's belong on the app window.
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Isn't the Coast Guard also involved, it being a water craft used for hire?
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Because it isn't taught any more? Not by parents, not by schools. My upbringing would be considered strangely quaint by most here on HN, I believe. When I was in high school, there was still a home economics teacher. The class was e
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Mindnode, which is infortunately Mac-only. But it is really a mind-map tool. I just like to take notes in mind mapping tools. I wish I could find a polished open source mind map tool.
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
> And if the mechanism of action is anything like other types of radiation, And if the mechanism is mocrowave heating, then power density driven heating rate is the first order effect. Which 'if' is it? Perhaps neither of the a
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
I followed the 1986 Will Steger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Steger expedition to the North Pole quite closely at the time. I recall they spent a lot of time developing and preparing foods for the journey, in pa
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Wild boar, or wild sow? In domestic pigs intended for slaughter, the males are castrated when a few days old in order to keep their meat from developing a gamey flavor. (Ask Iowa senator Joni Ernst if you want to learn how to develop that
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
So, the company notorious for "Your account has been banned by AI. No revenue for you. No appeal. No explanation." is going to tell the rest of the world how to improve customer service? This is too rich. The hubris is astounding
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
> engineering douchebaggery is actually the biggest thing to hurt engineering since the dawn of time Quote from Fetch Robotics CEO Melonee Wise on SXSW panel. https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/13/fetch-roboti
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
My wife went through a lot of work to find ergonomics to mitigate RSI. In the end: 1. Adjustable desk height. 2. tried several keboards before settling on the best split. 3. tried several mice. all helped, but... symptoms were also confusi
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Actually I fuzzily recall seeing homebrewed IMSI-catcher and IMSI-catcher-catcher projects.
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Yes, unfortunately in this under-caffeinated moment I can't recall the right google search terms. As I recall, there are a small number of root-able Androids that are suitable for pairing with a RasPi, which together with suitable soft
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
> I imagine one could do something with the indexed zero-page modes, but I'm not sure how well that works in practice. That's it exactly. Page zero essentially becomes 128 16-bit registers. But of course a lot of things are hu
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Well, it was mainly code bloat issues caused by the nature of the indexed addressing reach and the need for zero-page indirection. The 6502 instuction set is very simple, and the register complement limited. I don't mean that as criti
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
MOS Technology made it popular by pricing it cheaply and giving engineering samples to young, bearded hippies like the Woz. It was cheap and accessible when the other microcontrollers were not yet so much. It is OK to program, not exactly
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Given how peering is implemented among backbone providers, I don't think that is technically possible today.
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Yes, indeed. As one of my friends puts it: "I have four children. Three grown, and one that got older."
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
In some states, California being one, you can "read law" while working for a member of the bar and then sit for the bar exam. The CA bar exam has 45% pass rate though, with most takers having gone to a good law school. YMMV indee
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
There are soy protiens that structurally mimic thyroid hormones and can bind at receptor sites, if I recall correctly.

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