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by ern 7y ago
An engineering mechanics textbook that I used had megagram as a unit.
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A Fading Twitter Changes Its User Metrics Once Again(forbes.com)
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by ern 8y ago
That's a tough call, but I'd prefer pushing harder on renewable research or finding a permanent solution to the nuclear waste problem, because, as bad as humans are at dealing with medium term consequences of our activities (see c
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by ern 8y ago
I would be pro-nuclear except for the waste problem. I don’t trust humanity to be able to confine the waste for centuries. For all we know it could be seen as some sort of “treasure” by future, ignorant, civilizations, dug up, and spread ar
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by ern 8y ago
Something else that's worrying is this comment from a technician: His internal assembly designs for the Max, he said, still include omissions today, like not specifying which tools to use to install a certain wire, a situation that co
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by ern 8y ago
Genetics also show that India’s caste system, previously thought to have developed under colonial rule, was in place thousands of years earlier. “Colonial rule” means British rule presumably. I always assumed the caste system long pre-dat
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Why Most Software Engineers Lose Nothing by Unionizing(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
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Why so many people are becoming allergic to meat(cnn.com)
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by ern 8y ago
In my experience using saline nasal flushes, having the water at room temperature hasn't really bothered me, as long as I've added the salt.
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by ern 8y ago
>Who do these fools think they were representing Voters? I don’t mean to be snarky, but while Tweets, submissions and letters may inform the content of bills in democracies, but the counts of these are not numerically representative of
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by ern 8y ago
CD-ROM and "multimedia" was useful in the era before internet speeds caught up with the capability of computers to show video and sound. My "Time Almanac 1990s" CD-ROM was useful, and would probably be on par with what&#
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by ern 8y ago
They're one of the few big names NOT on haveibeenpwned.com Have Amazon, Google, Twitter, Microsoft or Apple been on haveibeenpwned? That’s what I think of when I hear “big names”.
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by ern 8y ago
This seems to be a common misconception outside of the United States. The First Amendment applies to the government, not to private entities.
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by ern 8y ago
More of a general observation than something directed at you in particular: back in the 2004-2005 timeframe, I saw a cohort of developers thinned out by the jump from ASP/VB6 to ASP.NET/C#. They made similar arguments (mature fram
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by ern 9y ago
I don't believe they had any real impact. It's amazing that massive amounts of money are spent on election campaigns, precisely because candidates believe voters can be swayed. Similarly, massive amounts are spent on on online
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by ern 9y ago
I went to a dentist after many years (no good, I know) and ended up getting some fillings. I was surprised by how much more pleasant the experience was than the last time I had them put in, in the 1990's. The ceramic fillings seem to b
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by ern 9y ago
Perhaps the original article, which this is a follow-up to, could be enlightening: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/so... two young siblings... earn a combined $100,000 a y
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by ern 9y ago
In what way has agile development contributed to complexity? In my experience it's been quite the opposite: Agile has led to better focused features that solve real problems faced by the customers, while minimizing waste, finally makin
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20 Year Archive on Google Groups (2001)(web.archive.org)
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20 Year Usenet Timeline (2002)(web.archive.org)
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by ern 9y ago
Either way, though, the advance of technology may mean that it is the last such mystery. As the oceans are watched with ever closer scrutiny, from space and the depths, it is increasingly difficult for anything to get lost in the first pla
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by ern 9y ago
The chemical weapon remnants uncovered were from before the first Gulf War (1991). FTA: The discoveries of these chemical weapons did not support the government’s invasion rationale. After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Bush
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by ern 9y ago
Iraqi WMDs are an interesting case against broad government conspiracies. Before the invasion, the evidence was weak and fragmentary. After the invasion, it would have been a lot easier (and less embarrassing) to fake the WMDs if they had
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by ern 9y ago
This is a follow up to: https://unwttng.com/what-is-a-blockchain previously discussed at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15497729
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Blockchains (Part 2/2)(unwttng.com)
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Is there evidence that dependency injection improves outcomes?(softwareengineering.stackexchange.com)
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by ern 9y ago
I’m certainly not advocating spaghetti code, balls of mud, or a thoughtless lack of architecture. What I’m specifically referring to is wilful anti-pragmatism that betrays a sort of insecurity...it’s hard to define but easier to recognize.
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by ern 9y ago
I don't mind a loose JSON REST-ish API, where everything is a GET, POST or (maybe) a PUT, with explicit endpoints to resolve ambiguities. Once people start exhibiting excruciating pedantry in designing their APIs, I'll switch off
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by ern 9y ago
didn't read all that stuff, busy getting stuff done. I agree with this. When I end up on a new project and I'm not the lead, and there is a lead who is pedantic regarding how they want their URLs crafted (or wants to implement a
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by ern 9y ago
don't understand. So you have no problem with those donations to foundations run by your political candidates? The donations to the foundation are disclosed, and the foundation is run for a well-defined charitable purpose, subject to

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