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by fernly 12y ago
This is an interesting sort of forerunner to another topic in yesterday's HN [1], Cello [2], which appears to be essentially a more thorough, and better-grounded version of Bournegol. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by fernly 12y ago
This is a very enjoyable account of patient and humble design work. Thank you for posting it.
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by fernly 12y ago
The SUN is visible everywhere within a Dyson sphere; it's the STARS that you can't see any more. The idea isn't that a civilization wants to do this; the idea is that it needs that much energy to continue with whatever indust
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by fernly 12y ago
... or, how about the hypothesis that we were intended to be a seed package (a.k.a. "biological rootkit") but due to a bug in the programming, we failed to develop properly. Just a mistake playing itself out...
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by fernly 12y ago
Awwwww.
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by fernly 12y ago
The creation of the ice trade is covered in entertaining detail in chapter 4 of Bill Bryson's At Home [1], including a story of how the first speculative shipload to London was held so long by Customs trying to figure out how to tax it
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by fernly 12y ago
Butbutbut... a driver who CAN accept a ride request is by definition a driver who is at liberty, not carrying a fare. So said driver should not be actively driving. Driving without a fare is a waste of gas and vehicle wear. Unless your last
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by fernly 12y ago
This issue has been addressed multiple times with considerable success by pyinstaller, py2app, cxfreeze. You can get your single-zip-file distribution package without nuitka, although it may have other advantages.
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by fernly 12y ago
Hey, I see this almost every week! It is sitting in the lobby of the storage building of the Computer History Museum[0] which is in Milpitas, CA. Unfortunately it is not presently on display to the public; only staff and volunteer workers g
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by fernly 12y ago
Not clear what distinction you are trying to make. They practiced mindfulness meditation according to a specific, published plan, and brain anatomy changes were noted. It doesn't seem they are making any claim other than, this series o
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by fernly 12y ago
Headspace link: https://www.headspace.com/headspace-meditation-app
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by fernly 12y ago
The Mindfulness in Plain English book mentioned above, or the Insight Meditation Center talks linked below, are both without fake spirituality or mysticism.
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by fernly 12y ago
I know Gil Fronsdal and the community he serves. His talks are always practical and empathic. There won't be any woo or supernaturalism in these, but a generous humanity.
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by fernly 12y ago
Could you please go through your whitepaper document and change all the possessive "it's" to the proper "its"? (Mnemonic: possessive its uses the same number of apostrophes as his and hers and theirs do.)
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by fernly 12y ago
Would it not be the case that if ATT ran fiber to my home, they would charge me a fee to connect to it? (And possibly an installation fee to plug it in, and a rental fee for a modem to connect to it, but set those aside.) The point is that
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by fernly 12y ago
Where is the part that "criminalizes" anything? This is a resolution, it "condemns", "applauds", and then "urges" the Secty. of State to do certain things. I do not see that is a law, or makes anythin
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by fernly 12y ago
The overview/explanation that ought to be visible is in a file[0]. It is still not clear the extent of this or its derivation, how much is borrowed and how much original, and generally why it exists. [0] https://github.com&#
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by fernly 12y ago
The holographic principle states that all the information contained within a region of space can be determined by the information on the surface containing it. Mathematically, this means the volume of space can be represented as a hologram
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by fernly 12y ago
Bizarre design. Pretty tourist pics and an Apple sign-in. Which Lastpass fills in anyway, so heck, I sign in. And then I am looking at "frosted glass" rectangle (Yosemite desktop effect I assume) that covers the pretty pics and as
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by fernly 12y ago
This is just confused. He appears, perhaps, to be using "OS" as a metaphor for "basic conceptual approaches" or maybe for "common assumptions and attitudes" -- but if that is the case it is just impossible to i
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by fernly 12y ago
From what I saw as a humble member of technical staff, the place was packed with really smart technical people, some of the sharpest people I ever worked with. One thing the management did well was to recruit and retain a very high proporti
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by fernly 12y ago
Thanks for posting this! It appears to have all(?) the features of the blist[0] package but to be all-Python. All-Python is a definite advantage for use in an app that strives to be platform-independent. [0] http://stutzbachenter
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by fernly 12y ago
For Ford that would be a very smart move, as the current Ford dash UI's are usually trashed for bad design in every review. I don't see Ford mentioned but its logo is among those shown at the bottom of the carplay page ( https:&#x
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by fernly 12y ago
Very unclear; it says "The device" -- speaking of the catalyst/electrode system that does the electrolysis -- "uses novel, relatively high-voltage solar cells to generate the needed electricity." Why? If you need a
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by fernly 12y ago
'pears I have two, equidistant north and south of me, Menlo Park CA and Mountain View. Miles away! but not one in the UPS store 10 minutes' walk from me. First world problems...
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by fernly 12y ago
Just this past july we rode the Hurtigruten from Bergen to Trondheim. Although the upper decks of the MV Polarlys are like a modest and tasteful cruise ship, and the majority of passengers were there for the scenery and the day-trip excursi
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by fernly 12y ago
Disappointed. You ain't got the Talking Moose.
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by fernly 12y ago
It would be nice for completeness, if either start or end is an airport (e.g. "SFO", "LAX") to include an estimate of a shared-ride van such as supershuttle.
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by fernly 12y ago
There's a point in the posted video where they demo the V12 and you see drops of condensation forming at the ends of the exhaust pipes. Some kind of combustion is going on. Maybe it's running on propane instead of gasoline, but it
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by fernly 12y ago
To an interested outsider the appearance of MacFarlane's name in the list gave this instant gravitas. As the builder of pandoc he has to have the widest, most detailed knowledge of markup syntaxes of about anyone. Given that, the lack

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