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by durandal1 7y ago
Now I need the study that tells me whether following that advice leads to the expected outcomes.
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by durandal1 7y ago
Note that while this indeed qualifies as medium format, it's pretty far from the classic 6x7 film format. As a fan of medium format (something about the compression and distorsion of a portrait lens, but with the viewport taking in mor
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by durandal1 7y ago
I wonder how much of that is due to using the current fad tech... my longest running major piece of code (untouched 15 years+), I implemented in PL/pgSQL. Rock solid, well understood technology, isolated from the current hip web framew
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by durandal1 7y ago
Possibly the most influential person in my programming career. Always curious, always full with ideas, but never lacking a pragmatic approach to the real world.
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by durandal1 8y ago
For most businesses, people cost way more than hardware.
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by durandal1 8y ago
Autopilot descent triggered by hypoxia alarm has been available for quite a while. It uses responsiveness heuristics rather than oximeter input. https://www.aviationpros.com/press_release/10393999/cirrus-a...
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by durandal1 8y ago
I agree that knowing the accuracy of the diagnosis is hard - it was established by the Behavior Service at the Veterinary Hospital of UC Davis by small animal behavior specialists. Our dog is on medication now (SSRI), and I would say the pr
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by durandal1 8y ago
As someone who has dedicated years of behavior modification training a rescue dog with genetic fear aggression (actual clinical diagnosis), I wish we'd get away from the "there's no bad dog, only bad dog owners" dogma. I
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by durandal1 8y ago
How did spanking lead to respect for others? Are you afraid other people might physically hurt you if you don't "respect" them? Or does adverse interactions bring up the childhood memories of being spanked? In genuinely curio
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by durandal1 8y ago
But instead of only the code being handled by the VCS, why not make the wiki and tracker distributed too? Fossil: https://fossil-scm.org/ Notable user: https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html
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by durandal1 9y ago
Yes, cull aggressively. Even talented amateur photogs that I know does not not have more than 10% keeper rate, at max, and that probably include a bunch of meh stuff too. No reason to keep the other 90% with half-nailed focus or unflatteri
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by durandal1 9y ago
As a self taught, working class rural European white kid with a fairly successful career at one of the big four, I can tell you that this is simply not generally true. Sure, a lot of my peers come from financially well off families who sen
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by durandal1 9y ago
"The third thing that goes wrong when you take your toy too seriously is that you immediately start optimizing on the things that you believe serious businesses should – profit and margins." This is of course only true if you&#x27
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by durandal1 9y ago
Also consider that if you want airline-like regularity, you need an IR (Instrument Rating), which is sometimes (usually?) harder and more expensive than the PPL itself. Then you want to consider if you want to fly your family in IMC (Instr
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by durandal1 9y ago
I have the same experience, I couldn't even run 2 miles without inflammation flaring up in the knees (I tried to build up distance many times) - but after running with Evo barefoot shoes for about 2 years (which allowed me to run 10k:s
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by durandal1 9y ago
Maybe the HN crowd is growing up - babies and age discrimination has been on the agenda lately.
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by durandal1 9y ago
>Disciplining a kid like they are a dog just feels like a marginal step up from corporal punishment. Instead I believe in a more empathetic approach. This is an incredibly old fashioned view of dog training. Both science and actual pract
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by durandal1 9y ago
I wouldn't say no to an investment that is 5x over 11 years.
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by durandal1 9y ago
My Stockholm apartment had multiple ISPs competing for service over fiber laid down by a state-owned company. In 2007 this meant symmetric 100mbit for about $30/month.
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by durandal1 10y ago
It is a dual intent visa - so "immigrant intent" is allowed.
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by durandal1 10y ago
In how many "safe" languages can you write a complete shipping application without calling into libraries and/or kernels written in C?
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by durandal1 10y ago
Not sure entrepreneurship is held back, Stockholm for example is doing alright by most metrics.[1] It's almost as if free education, universal healthcare and time to sit down and think would be pretty good for innovation. [1] http:&#x
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by durandal1 10y ago
In the documentary Objectified (recommended!), a BMW designer brings up the point that a car design should express what the car is . If there's a mismatch between the look, and how it feels to drive, it will be rejected by customers.
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by durandal1 10y ago
> Switzerland spends half as much as Sweden on its annual military spending as percentage of GDP (also less in absolute terms), and they can credibly stay out of NATO, so why couldn't Sweden? Geographics? I don't buy it. I thin
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by durandal1 10y ago
As a kid, me and my friends would climb any roof we could. Of course adults would chase us down if they saw us, but we would just do it again when they were gone. This was rural Sweden in the 80s. You don't want to raise conformist chi
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by durandal1 10y ago
Swift is both open and runs on multiple platforms.
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by durandal1 10y ago
For someone raised with American exceptionalism, finding out that the US is a pretty sad place to live can be very hard. There are many great things about the USA, but the lack of societal empathy and general egoism is apparent to most outs
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by durandal1 10y ago
If you're in California, try the olive oil (I prefer the italian style) from Ranch Olivos, literally grown in Los Olivos :) Amazing, product, and if you go there yourself you can buy it from the owner, standing under a canopy on his r
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by durandal1 10y ago
Quite the opposite, and for the record, I'm a native Swede so I do have quite the first hand experience. Socialism means that production and distribution are controlled by the workers, something which isn't true for any state in
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by durandal1 10y ago
No country in Scandinavia has socialism, it's a mostly liberal states with extensive welfare programs.

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