dmckeon

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by dmckeon 13y ago
There are a wide variety of active martial arts groups, and each one has to find its own balance in various ranges: fun, safety, historical accuracy, thresholds to participation (cost of equipment, time to become competent) and ongoing cos
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by dmckeon 13y ago
The blog should include a link to the main site http://vastrm.com rather than only to the maze of twisty little blog links. I felt sure there would be one somewhere, but even googling: "vastrm.com" site:"vastrm.com/blog/" -"vastrm.
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by dmckeon 13y ago
As it happens, a Tesla/Mercedes partnership for a small electric MB is in the works for limited availability in 2014: http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/27/autos/mercedes-tesla-b-class... Mercedes-Benz has unveiled a new electric car developed
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Business model: least work routing for truckers, big RVs, people towing trailers, etc. Pitch as a fuel-saver, promote with ad-supported local and special-interest ads. Support click-n-drag re-routing as Google Maps does now. Note that whi
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by dmckeon 13y ago
It appears that the copyright on the film was not renewed, leaving it in public domain, but the copyright on the story that the film was based on was renewed, which became a pivotal point after 1993, when that copyright holder was able to
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Fascinating topic, but the presentation ... well, let me just offer Edward Tufte as a resource: https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Location? (At least country & state.) Contract(s)? NDAs? Non-compete clause? (Not enforceable in California). Employment-at-will locale? (California is). More optimistically, what does the acquiring entity want? Could they use you and
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Less would be wrong. Plenty could still go wrong. Consider whistle-blowing by grad students & post-docs - should that be rewarded as increasing accuracy, or punished as embarrassing to an institution? Also, I mean science to include
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by dmckeon 14y ago
No doubt many scientists are ethical and do good work. Others may produce reports that are either not honest or not accurate. I wonder how we could encourage honesty and accuracy - perhaps by getting funding agencies to increase the reward
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Noting the last graf: The Park Place building attracted controversy several years ago when critics protested the plan to build an Islamic cultural center on the site. and in hopes of shedding light rather than generating heat on that topi
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Did you measure both when the (remote, physical) phone of the called party began to ring, and when the caller began to hear a ring, or just the latter?
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by dmckeon 14y ago
You might consider reversing the approach - plan in terms of objectives and their dependencies, rather than in terms of sequential procedures and steps. Unix environments have tools like tsort(1) and make(1) which process objective/depende
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Trolling? Here's a fairly extreme example of looting: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/hurri... Try googling <event name> and "looting" and look for verified or police reports rather than Nth hand rumor and
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by dmckeon 14y ago
More like: business model of utilities disrupted by distributed energy resources. Also, peak demand in CA is at 9 pm, not noon: https://www.caiso.com/outlook/outlook.html The underlying problem is the mismatch between the old business m
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by dmckeon 14y ago
For a more tech-related, but less amusing column, try: https://www.boston.com/community/blogs/askthepilot/2013/04/h... but I prefer the _Creature from the Blue Volcano_
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by dmckeon 14y ago
From a UK context, it may be less funny: In the United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies, any household watching or recording live television transmissions as they are being broadcast (terrestrial, satellite, cable, or internet) is requir
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Overall, impressive data, but UI/UX could be improved. 'Refine By' menu shows an arrow on mouseover, but user can only click on words, not arrow or high-lighted area. 'Refine By' pop-out menus show a square, value as hyperlink, count. Squar
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by dmckeon 14y ago
To edit several files of one type in one call: #!/bin/bash case $1 in *_EDITMSG | *MERGE_MSG | *_TAGMSG) /usr/local/bin/vim "$@" ;; *.md | *.txt) /usr/local/bin/mmdc "$@" ;;
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, certainly not your lawyer. Are there any contracts between any of the parties: you, your employer, the software company - that might require you to provide or disclose any information? Does HIPAA apply? Did yo
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by dmckeon 14y ago
For many CA DMV services, if one is a member of AAA, a AAA (CSAA) office can handle the process easily. This convenience or a single roadside service call can make the annual fee worthwhile (but check first if they can/will tow/service a mo
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by dmckeon 14y ago
The biggest problem would be the homeless breaking into the machines for cans and such. Followed quickly by better-equipped thieves taking the solar panel, the batteries, or the whole apparatus. If this seems unlikely, google: "metering
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by dmckeon 14y ago
This appears to be a white-hat effort using von Neumann replication and poorly secured telnet ports to build "a distributed port scanner to port scan the entire IPv4 Internet within one hour." "We hope other researchers will find the data w
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Mnemonic: his, hers, its. Works for me when memory and other methods do not.
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Yes, if the output is not so verbose as to obscure the next command(s). If the article is hypertext, then output could be hidden (in an alternate article version with output, behind a link for each command line to text output or a screensh
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Overhead is what would it cost for the business to exist, but to create nothing and ship nothing. One approach is to make a table or Venn diagrams using various rules about overhead, and to stack them up and see which components most freque
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by dmckeon 14y ago
This prohibition shall not apply where the image does not reveal forms identifiable as human beings or man-made objects. Seems like a poor distinction to me - "identifiable" by what? A human eyeball, infra-red, multi-spectral analysis? Th
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by dmckeon 14y ago
We found that the prompt after a failed Square swipe is poorly worded. It says something like: try again, only faster - but it should say: try again, at a different speed since swiping the card more slowly often worked when trying fast
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Note that eliding the middle of some long words also avoids making a choice of Websterian or British spelling, giving us, for instance, p13n for personali{s,z}ation without having to locali{s,z}e the terminology, or to have a {flame war,fra
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by dmckeon 14y ago
It is interesting to view this as a situation in which some development has had such wide-spread and continued success in some environment that that very success delays the adoption of some later better(?) development in that environment.
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by dmckeon 14y ago
More about available energy than lifespan, but here's a "tale of woe" from a test driver in colder weather. I am surprised that the writer equates the effects of 10F (-12C) weather on battery chemistry with someone siphoning fuel from the

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