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by dmlorenzetti 9y ago
Adventure, bravery, friendship, loyalty, love, life, and death. All these, plus another component I personally enjoy in adventure books -- flawed characters who complement each other, and so become collectively stronger than they stand as
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For cultural references, in my opinion you can't beat Hallstrom/Jonsson's "My Life as a Dog", whose main character ponders the fate of Laika while his own life undergoes traumatic changes. https://www.rot
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by dmlorenzetti 9y ago
For those in the SF Bay area, the Chabot space center has a lot of old Soviet space hardware -- including a training capsule like the one in the picture at the top of the article.
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Except the part where I spelled "breathe" incorrectly :-)
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Most rooms do have dead spaces where the "age of air" is higher than the well-mixed parts of the room. So you can expect some of the room air to go through the filter more, and some less. There are a few reasons this effect proba
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by dmlorenzetti 9y ago
You might try "Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks" for a high-level overview of different approaches. https://pragprog.com/book/pb7con/seven-concurrency-models-in...
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The comparison with Mr. Rogers is instructive. Both shows seem rooted in a minister's desire to encapsulate ideals derived from the Bible. But while Mr. Rogers is New Testament, the Thomas books are Old Testament. Henry, for example,
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by dmlorenzetti 9y ago
The book concludes the same way, with the train, rusty and dirty, finally being allowed out of the tunnel. The tenor is very much that punishment has rendered him meek and docile -- nothing to do with confronting your problems. Similarly,
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by dmlorenzetti 9y ago
The New Yorker could be that much better if they would occasionally include technical graphics. In this case, how about a rendering of the plate mechanics that are the subject of the article? They are quite happy to print line drawings, co
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think tanks are a euphemism for propaganda machine I call them "thought tanks" exactly because all the thinking has been done well before any particular question gets asked.
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A potter friend once told me that archaeologists have used the marks potters put on their pieces (i.e., stamps that individuals used to "sign" their work) to figure out trade routes between ancient civilizations. Kind of puts &quo
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by dmlorenzetti 9y ago
A few years ago, I rewrote an `R` script into Fortran, for better than order-of-magnitude speed increase. The script optimized the placement of samplers in a building, in order to maximize the probability of detecting airborne pollutants, o
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by dmlorenzetti 9y ago
Due to the desire to support Windows as a first-class citizen on a project, I've lately moved some support scripts from Bash to Python. These include dependency-scrapers (that assemble makefile rules), and archiving scripts (that back
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[I]f a rule is, "make sure something actually builds before you check it in" then the inversion is "don't worry about making sure it builds before you check it in"? ...does it make the specific technical suggestion
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What do you find impossible about the results? While the blog post you linked to claims that the work finds "implausibly large effects", it doesn't clarify what the author finds implausible about them (and the author admits t
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by dmlorenzetti 9y ago
For those interested in "Nim in Action", its publisher, Manning has a 50% off all e-books sale going through midnight today (27-May). Use code `wm052717lt`. Usually when they have this sort of sale on a holiday weekend, they spin
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by dmlorenzetti 10y ago
There's no force keeping people from contributing At work, we had a speaker who talked about his company's diversity hiring approach. I don't recall specifics, but I believe it was a bank that was pretty well-known for hav
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The flip side of that argument is that the fastest way to explain the concept of privacy to a manufacturer that spies on you, is to stop buying their devices. Consumers don't need to assume a conspiracy in order to communicate their p
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Regarding gender imbalance, it's also true that the women on the Simpsons usually represent the voice of reason, leaving it to the men to bring the idiocy. Presumably giving women more air time on the show would require them to create
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by dmlorenzetti 10y ago
I have no opinion about who's right or wrong on this, but the article does give multiple reasons to dislike the code -- calling it an "unportable hack" that "few people... will be able to fix when faced with problems&quo
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by dmlorenzetti 10y ago
Part of the idea behind "more accurate contamination maps" is to mobilize the appropriate response -- personnel, drugs, and so on. So it isn't just about knowing where to clean up (although it involves that, too). These sort
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by dmlorenzetti 10y ago
NYC, DC, and Oklahoma City, among other places, have hosted a number of trials like this. Having just attended a conference on atmospheric transport and dispersion [0], I know multiple organizations use the resulting data to validate their
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Maybe I'm just a grumpy old man, but I really dislike this style of website that requires you to poke around for ages trying to figure out what it's about, or what value it would bring me to use it. Examples: + The title of this H
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It needs to filter the air from outside and get it into the car to quickly displace the air already inside the vehicle that is contaminated. In exactly the same way that recirculating air from inside the vehicle is easier on your air-cond
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Bioweapon Defense Mode is not a marketing statement, it is real. Their filter does a good job cleaning particles out of the cabin air. Good on them. Nevertheless, calling it "Bioweapon Defense Mode" is clearly a prize bit of ma
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This type of gerrymandering or repartition is a rich part of US voting history... In the 21st century, these might be solved with computational geometry. Or by getting rid of the notion of apportionment altogether. There's no reason,
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You might consider leveraging the data science component to help target the testing. For example, based on location, house age, construction type (basement/slab/etc.), run the numbers and balance the risk of exposure against the
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It always astounds me how many reviews of "phones" fail to mention phone-like qualities such as reception and ability of the mic to filter out background noise. These are all I care about when choosing a phone. Yet you can find
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by dmlorenzetti 11y ago
Yes, it supports nested tags, and the tags create structure that suggests directory nesting. However, as far as I can tell the search can't be made to honor the nesting. To make my example explicit above, suppose I have a "direct
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by dmlorenzetti 11y ago
Not OP, but here's something I miss in Gmail search all the time-- ability to target a search at a particular directory and its sub-directories. Suppose, for example, I have set up a subdir for conferences. That subdir contains a bunc

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