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by derekp7 4y ago
> Your model would have to differentiate between birds and chicken Sounds like a job for XKCD 1425.
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by derekp7 4y ago
I wonder would the regular use of reading glasses for children help prevent myopia?
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What if you received your pants, but they were defective so you sent them back to be repaired? Do you then lose them during bankruptcy, and they get auctioned off?
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But why wouldn't they want to have copyright be re-registered (for a fee) every X years? That would allow people who still make money on copyrighted works to keep their business model, yet also allow abandoned works to enter the publi
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by derekp7 4y ago
That's actually JPY not USD. Just noticed that when you visit the link on mobile, it shows a dollar sign instead of a yen sign. And if you don't want to order directly from Japan, you can search for search on Amazon, here is one
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by derekp7 4y ago
I prefer duplex slide rules (they have scales on both sides), as these give a wider range of calculations you can perform. Two of the models I personally like are the Post 1460 VersaLog, and the K&E 4081-3 Log-Log-Duplex-Decitrig (that
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by derekp7 4y ago
>by streaming data from a physical DVD in their collection Someone tried that a few years ago, using the position that they were renting out a DVD player and a very long cable. Courts didn't accept that argument and they got shut d
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by derekp7 4y ago
My solution was to have sleep trigger a script to set a timer that wakes the laptop up after 1 hour. The wakeup function then triggered a script that if it woke up right at 1 hour after sleep, it would then hibernate (to disk), which could
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by derekp7 4y ago
How do you keep books from completely consuming your free time? For me, whenever I get into a good book I don't want to put it down. I'll read a few hours after my normal bedtime. I'll skip everything I wanted to do over a
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by derekp7 4y ago
My best cure for burnout was actually being unemployed for 4 months a decade ago. Spent some time with recruiters, but since it was in the middle of a hiring slump there was very little activity on that front. I spend many days at a campe
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by derekp7 4y ago
Well technically riding a bicycle around in the grass in your own yard is also good exercise. Doesn't make it pleasant though.
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The culpability is two parts. First part is serving a beverage that was much hotter than what an average consumer would expect, without a warning such as "this product will cause third degree burns within 3 seconds of touching your sk
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by derekp7 4y ago
Reminds me of the Aware of Tongue Peanuts cartoon strip from way back when.
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by derekp7 5y ago
For me the best thing about Chromebooks are the tablet experience (either 2-in-one or detachable keyboards). Specifically, the fact that touch screen isn't implemented the same way a mouse is, but gestures work the way you expect (i.e
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by derekp7 5y ago
You can buy refurbished and also new-in-box (a bit expensive depending on the model) slide rules from various sites, such as https://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/sruniverse.html . I thought about getting into hand making them,
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by derekp7 5y ago
There are some things that a slide rule is superior for -- one item I can think of is visualizing an arbitrary range of fractional values. For example, lets say you need a capacitor and a resistor with values in a particular ratio. Any pa
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by derekp7 5y ago
I've always thought this would be a good project for Cliff Stoll to take on.
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by derekp7 5y ago
Yes, it is extremely extremist to call for canceling all works of fiction.
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The big transition in thinking comes when you realize that there is a difference between arithmetic and math. And that kids can absolute hate arithmetic, but fall in love with math.
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by derekp7 5y ago
Just to add an anecdote about rote memorization -- not one teacher or textbook explained the "why" behind the area of a triangle being base times height divided by two. Just had to memorize that along with everything else. It was
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by derekp7 5y ago
It's the same with MacOS. It runs best on carefully selected hardware (i.e., you will have difficulty running MacOS on a Dell)
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by derekp7 5y ago
Also the slide rule section on John Savard's home page http://quadibloc.com/math/slrint.htm . There is a mention of the K&E KE-LON slide rule which they prototyped, but never manufactured due to the availabilit
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by derekp7 5y ago
My theory is it was a combination of things. From my experience, Minix was the first Unix-like system I was able to run on my PC. And Linux was sort of a spiritual successor of Minix. Then there was the fact that Linux was just a kernel,
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by derekp7 5y ago
This is really the way to do it. No one ever complains about Mac OS being unstable because an update breaks their install on a no-name generic laptop. Instead, they run it on hardware that Mac OS supports. Same should be the case for Lin
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by derekp7 5y ago
What workflow do you use to target Windows builds from Linux? For myself I've used mingw64 to compile, then NSIS as an installer. Only problem is that quite a few Windows anti-malware systems automatically flag NSIS compiled based pa
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by derekp7 5y ago
What I do to beet the $500/year pricing is to buy 1 month, then immediately cancel (so it doesn't auto-renew). I then have 30 days to read through whatever I find interesting. Then I get another $50 1/month subscription whe
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by derekp7 5y ago
So the best way to combat piracy is to remove the option to purchase the product? Wouldn't that drive people more towards piracy?
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by derekp7 5y ago
Could they be made the same way coins are, by stamping them?
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That brings up another thought I've had over the years. From an end user perspective, which is more valuable -- a Free Software program that is very difficult to understand and modify, or a non-Free program that has a well documented
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by derekp7 5y ago
The following is strictly related to my thoughts on getting software developed and distributed (i.e., funding / incentive models for building an maintaining the software). My personal views -- it really depends on what the software is

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