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by ericsoderstrom 7y ago
I keep seeing this response, and it doesn't make a lot of sense. If Stallman's past behavior was unacceptable, then he should have been fired for that . The fact is, the reporting around the event that actually did get him fire
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by ericsoderstrom 7y ago
My comment wasn't meant as a criticism of the article. The authors are careful in the claims they make. My point is that they are for the most part uninteresting claims. And articles like this are shared predominately because "cha
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by ericsoderstrom 7y ago
Any memory you form, skill you learn or experience you have will change the structure of the brain. Changing structure isn’t in itself a good thing.
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by ericsoderstrom 7y ago
1.024^4 = 1.10 Inflation is usually targeted between 2% and 2.5%. So an estimated 10% over four years seems reasonable.
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by ericsoderstrom 7y ago
No, this article is not a criticism of PowerPoint specifically.
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
I enter my email in the "getting started" field, click "getting started" and then never received a sign-up email. Anyone else having trouble with this?
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
Interesting! From the title I assumed they were put in situations where they had to operate near very loud equipment. Didn't realize deafness can sometimes be the result of meningitis and accompanies motion sickness immunity.
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
I can't quite tell what this adds on top of vanilla Google Drive. > Documents in Library are searchable, taggable, and can be grouped by desks or categories. Drive documents are already searchable, taggable, and can be grouped by fo
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
> Kubernetes is an Ancient Greek word meaning "More containers than customers." [1] [1] https://twitter.com/srbaker/status/1002286820078571532?lang=...
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
I've never found a light color scheme I really liked either. Was using base16-ia-light for a little while though.
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
For anyone who is very particular about their color schemes: I'd recommend checking out the base16 project [1]. It's a collection of well-maintained color schemes (including solarized) for basically every text editor and terminal
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
> Some of the comments in this thread is a master class of how discrimination and gatekeeping work All the top comments I see are supportive and encouraging. Maybe there were some negative removed comments, but overall this thread doesn&
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
Most of the world gets by fairly well with much lower car ownership rates than the US (apart from San Merino which has more cars than people, the US has the highest car ownership per capita in the world). If you live in a country with very
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
"A technical leader should also make time for growing and mentoring others." I like this. From reading The Idea Factory, I learned that at Bell Labs it was compulsory for even the most established scientists (e.g. Shockley and Sha
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
Yeah that's probably it. Was wondering whether half a screen of 1080p would be enough to properly show the difference
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
I don't see a huge difference between the two. Mostly the Ferengi forehead creases are sharper I guess, but unclear that the overall effect is much of an improvement. Cool proof of concept though!
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
To be fair, airpods ended up being a lot more convenient than I imagined before trying them. I still carry around my tin audio t2s for when I'll be listening to music for an extended period of time. But in most cases, the convenience o
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Ask HN: What upcoming conferences are you most excited about?
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
In what sense did your cognition improve, and how do you know?
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
Agreed. I think HN in general is too quick to dismiss the potential dangers of psychedelics. I know at least a couple people who have essentially lost their minds as a result of frequent psychedelic use. It's pretty terrifying to see s
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
This advice reminds me of an anecdote from Art and Fear [1]. A ceramics teacher divided his classes into two groups. One group he told would be judged only based on the quality of the best pot they made, the other group would be graded base
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
Isn't basically every moderately expressive system Turing complete? Even the Magic the Gathering card game is turing complete https://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/HowItWorks.html
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
Is there any finite initial condition for Conway's game of life that will expand to fill an arbitrarily large area of the plane with density that does not approach zero?
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
For me, this was the most interesting line > [Bergstrom] let Binion know that if he’d lost the bank’s money, he’d planned to kill himself by swallowing seventy pills. I wonder how many people out there have done something similar, but ha
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
This is great! Looks much sleeker than Across Lite. Is there any way to change the keyboard shortcuts? Or even list what the current shortcuts are? Both `space` and `return` toggle between across and down. It would be nice if I could make `
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
Video or audio books sound a lot more distracting than music
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
I recently read The Idea Factory [1] which covers Bell Labs in its heyday. Many of the most brilliant human beings of that era worked for very modest salaries, and seemed content to do so. I wonder why it is that nowadays the "smartest
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
(Clearly you're joking) but this isn't an extrapolation. Lines that make up characters in a font don't have any semantic meaning related to the words. Lines in a graph do have semantic meaning related to the data they represe
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
I enjoy Farnam Street Blog, in part because the author does such a good job of stepping out of the way for his subject. Here's the FSblog post on the same Feynman letter: https://fs.blog/2013/08/richard-feynma
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by ericsoderstrom 8y ago
Your overview page appears to have two copies of the same image.

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