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by gall 2mo ago
A warning about the linked copy: this isn't the standard text of Bradbury's story. I compared it with three other circulating copies and this version is only about 1,016 words versus ~2100. Notable omissions: - the opening descrip
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by gall 6mo ago
The date filters seem to be ignored for certain search terms and not others. Searching for, say, "dune before:2019-04-05" filters as expected, but searching for current events proximate terms like "iran" or "donald&
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by gall 8y ago
Yes, have a look at the work of Erb, Schwander, and others at the Max Planck institute on the CETCH cycle, for example. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6314/900.full https://www.popularme
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by gall 8y ago
Are the touchbar Macbook Pros still experiencing widespread screen delamination? I thought that was specific to the previous generation.
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by gall 9y ago
Or if you'd rather not fork, check out this write up of an approach to getting Orgzly to sync via termux and Tasker: https://2li.ch/home/syncing-org-files
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by gall 10y ago
Hairspray won't do it alone, but hairspray mixed with lipstick and perfume will be toxic, and untraceable.
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by gall 10y ago
I wonder if this proposal will be remembered by our successors and their counterparties when the time comes.
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by gall 11y ago
Blue Origin has actually been around longer than SpaceX. Both companies were also rans of the first XPrize.
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by gall 11y ago
Would the increase in time critical public awareness had that thread not been deleted have made a difference? Perhaps the chance that it could should outweigh the urge for propriety in future admin decisions.
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by gall 11y ago
Check out Greg Egan's Permutation City in which sort of the opposite happens.
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by gall 12y ago
What astounds me is that this project is called LiMux and not Munix.
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by gall 13y ago
The distinction between comments and link titles feels a little false because there's no obligation to link to the root of the primary source document chain, if there even is a canonical primary source for a given story. A submitter co
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The Twin Prime Hero: Rags, riches, and fame in mathematics(nautil.us)
5 points by gall 13y ago|0 comments
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by gall 13y ago
I wonder if the disdain is for the idea of machine made Turkish coffee, or because there's some factor creating variance in the bubbling times for which the machines aren't compensating.
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by gall 13y ago
Here's a little something in Python that I spent the last few hours writing: def unfalse_poem(): (None is True) and False for subject in [complex(True,False)]: subject is not object for certainty in
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by gall 13y ago
Does anyone have experience with corporate policies regarding the movement of data through airports? I'm curious about the prevalence of the wipe everything and repopulate the hard drive via sftp at destination approach.
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by gall 14y ago
I feel the same way about my bash history.
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by gall 14y ago
The difference between this and the Southwest Airlines example is that the latter comes off as touching loyalty to one's employees, which is nice pr if the anecdote becomes public. If the team member handling the abuse takes it upon him or
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by gall 14y ago
A design that has to rely on the objectivity and dispassion of the collective Media, that has to be taken in the appropriate context as one part of a complicated "identity system" and on whose behalf laypeople are chastised for their immatu
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by gall 14y ago
I'm disturbed by how emotionally indignant both the Aurora and Garret articles are in contrast with the original Ted Tso remarks. My personal expectation of a community of technically sophisticated individuals is that all convictions be sub
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by gall 14y ago
My best bursts of rapid learning are almost always project/puzzle driven. I didn't, for instance, set out to master FFT directly, but it seemed like something that could improve my abysmal performance on a Project Euler that I was working o
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MIT creates carbon nanotube pencil, demos drawable electronic sensors(extremetech.com)
6 points by gall 14y ago|0 comments
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by gall 14y ago
This was two months ago.
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by gall 14y ago
Consider the spin of any electron in the room. Do not measure it.
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by gall 14y ago
The automatically appended "You should follow me on twitter _here_" is a great punchline.
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by gall 14y ago
I'd love to find an analogue for the feel of a mechanical keyboard in a laptop keyboard. Something with at least 3mm travel and the actuation point at 2mm.
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by gall 14y ago
With all due civility, this is stupid. The fact that we as a species are short staffed and short on time doesn't mean that engineering strategies are inappropriate. On the contrary, they're the only game in town. Triage and problem selectio
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by gall 14y ago
Why didn't you guys resume after your account was reinstated? It sounds like an automatic suspension kicked in until someone on staff had a chance to manually check things out and make the determination that it was okay.
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by gall 15y ago
In the United States, an authentication scheme that doesn't rely on mental contents wouldn't be subject to self-incrimination protections against compulsory decryption.