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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
Yet another thing they didn't teach us in Texas history class.
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
I think regime change is likely to happen within two years. Just not in Iran.
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
And Anthony Rapp (the actor who plays him) went through some awful stuff that made him famous for another reason and he seems to have come out stronger. Good for him. As for the whole mycelium plot in Discovery , I found it so ridiculous t
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
I grew up in Texas and took Texas history. I learned things like Texas being the only US state that was once an independent country and where the Six Flags came from (later the name of an amusement park empire that originated in Texas). But
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
TIL Bonnie Tyler was the female Meat Loaf.
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
There are a number of lesser-known chunks of American history like this. One of my favorites is that Santa Fe has been the capital city of Nuevo Mexico since 1610. Acoma, another city in modern-day New Mexico, is about 500 years older still
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
How long ago was this? In the last 5 years rent has increased dramatically in many of the historically LCOL cities.
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
Even better question: Compute the moving median. Computing a moving average with samples being pumped through an n-element buffer is easy. Doing so for the median requires more thought. It's also very useful e.g. for removing single-
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
I thought it was funny that almost every alien planet on Stargate SG-1 looked like British Columbia.
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
I was trying to keep it simple. Yes you can buy n-acetylcysteine but OTC versions can vary in purity and dosage and it's not the only treatment you might need. With an acetaminophen OD you really want to be in a hospital.
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
There is an antidote available for acetaminophen overdose, but it's only available in the hospital. So if you think you took too much, get to a hospital quickly before your liver suffers permanent damage. Untreated acetaminophen overdo
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
Until the late 1960s, codeine was considered the definitive over-the-counter cough medicine. It worked well. Maybe a little too well, because it was easy to get addicted to it. So the FDA banned it from OTC sales and dextromethorphan was su
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
Absolutely true. Phenylephrine liquid applied directly to nasal mucosa is a quick and effective decongestant. It doesn't last as long as oxymetazoline (the other big nasal spray ingredient), but it also doesn't cause you to become
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
Don't mistake tenure for competence. Meta's stock structure is such that Zuck cannot be forced out by the board or the shareholders regardless of how many mistakes he makes.
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
As well as laws that make forced arbitration contracts unenforceable.
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
Fair point. The mathematical process of differentiation is always straightforward even if in some cases one ends up with e.g. /0 singularities. With integration, there's often no closed-form process at all, as the author points
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
> And it turns out that it’s quite straightforward to calculate a derivative, no matter what type of function it is. I get the author's point but this is not completely true; there exist functions that are not differentiable at cert
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
The Tesla UI is pretty good. It's the only built-in car software I consider good enough to use for navigation. In any other car I use my phone. But Tesla also understands that good software engineers need to be paid Silicon Valley wage
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
I do do some things just to say I did them. Or to compete with myself so I can push farther. But for the most part those things have much lower risk of death than climbing Everest. And it's easy for my family to retrieve my body in the
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
As a firefighter/EMT I occasionally have to deal with death, and I will even put myself in somewhat dangerous situations (that I've been trained for, and for which I have appropriate PPE) if there's a chance I can save a life
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
Elon hires great engineers. Or at least he did before he blew out his brain with ketamine and went full-on fascist because he had a trans daughter. He still hasn't built a fully self-driving car. His last electric vehicle (the only one
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
Thermodynamics.
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
The villain in every James Bond film thinks they're the hero.
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
This brings up the question: Where does one go to get a white label vac? Say I want to start a robot vacuum company and write my own custom software for it. How do I get a few white label samples from a manufacturer to do that?
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
"Constantly improving" This means "constant forced software updates with the potential to brick the product." Just like Nest. Also likely: Inadequate security so your robot becomes a node in a residential VPN or a botnet
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
I only recently got rid of my entire collection of Omni. No room to keep stuff like that any more. But I kept v1i1.
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
I just made the same recommendation before I saw yours. Great book.
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
I highly recommend the book Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story by John Bloom. The story of how Iridium came to be and how difficult it was to keep Motorola from literally destroying the whole constellation (which they had originally buil
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
> The instant the Soviet Union collapsed, we reduced NASA’s projects and budgets. The instant we beat the Soviet Union to the moon we reduced NASA's projects and budgets. That's why the Space Shuttle was such a ridiculous kludg
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by dreamcompiler 3mo ago
When you don't have the overhead of an operating system with decades of backward compatibility cruft, a scheduler, a virtual memory controller, and a file system you can accomplish amazing things with simple processors. Bare metal is s

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