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by garyrob 6y ago
The water was found in the Clavius crater. Hmmm... Clavius... why does that sound familiar? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavius_Base
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by garyrob 6y ago
Somebody posted in response to your original post that it took them 30 seconds to find this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2 Does it influence your position on whether or not masks are useful?
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Elizabeth Holmes may attempt to claim 'mental disease' in Theranos criminal case(cnn.com)
7 points by garyrob 6y ago|0 comments
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by garyrob 6y ago
At first I react the headline as asking whether I was an antichrist. Hopefully not.
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by garyrob 6y ago
I did too. But I've gotten much better at studying/learning over the years, and I attribute my high school problems with grades as a combination of ADD and my head being focused on trying to deal with what, in retrospect, were psy
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by garyrob 6y ago
But is there evidence that enough consumers care about privacy, so that we can have confidence that this approach will pay off for Apple? Because, if not enough consumers care that their privacy orientation is rewarded from a purely financi
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by garyrob 6y ago
But Google sells services too. If Apple is not making most of its money on hardware, then what differentiates Apple's incentives from Google's? Do you think they'll simply decide, "We will not track people for targeting
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by garyrob 6y ago
My understanding has been that Apple's orientation toward protecting privacy has been rooted in the fact that it makes most of its money from hardware sales, and therefore doesn't need to track people for ads, or to sell data (at
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by garyrob 6y ago
Honestly, I regularly go to Reddit's r/science and look at the top-rated stuff. If the linked article isn't detailed enough, I go to the original papers it refers to!
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by garyrob 6y ago
I used to love Scientific American and subscribed for decades. I had to finally give up maybe 10 years ago; they had become dumbed down and human-story focused to the point that there was no reason to subscribe.
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2-week Covid-19 forecast(garyrobinson.net)
2 points by garyrob 7y ago|0 comments
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by garyrob 7y ago
I use OmniOutliner. Before that, existed, waaaaaay back in the early history of the Macintosh, I used Dave Winer's MORE outliner. So I've been using outliners for the described purpose for more than 30 years. Using an outliner has
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Is It April Fools Day?(isitaprilfoolsday.com)
3 points by garyrob 7y ago|0 comments
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by garyrob 7y ago
Yeah. Wow.
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Why is Apple not capitalizing on its user data?
2 points by garyrob 7y ago|0 comments
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by garyrob 7y ago
I just want to share that I'm finding the practice of Zen meditation in the context of its overall philosophy to be profoundly helpful. I've read a substantial number of books on the subject. Books are only useful as pointers for
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by garyrob 7y ago
The article is not trying to make a new intellectual contribution to the existent thinking on the subject. It's to serve as an introduction for the benefit of people who may lean far too much in the direction of taking our democracy fo
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by garyrob 7y ago
I did my Senior Project for my B.A. in math in APL back in 1978 because it was the only language I had available to me on a functioning machine. I loved it, because it was infinitely more concise than writing in System 360 assembly, which w
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by garyrob 7y ago
I get steroid shots through my eardrum for Meniere's disease. It seems to work. I don't think anyone knows why.
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by garyrob 8y ago
Lately I've been playing with Coconut [1], a functional language that is a strict superset of Python 3. It transpires to Python and can use all of Python's libraries. I've been playing with it lately and quite like it. [1] h
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by garyrob 8y ago
Thirding the recommendation for JOE. And as someone who started programming in the '80's, I especially enjoy its WordStar mode which feels like coming home again!
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by garyrob 8y ago
Check out Annie Hall! Very different from match point, and VERY funny
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by garyrob 8y ago
I participated in a trek in Nepal, the high point of which was ascending to the peak of Kala Patthar (chosen because of the great views of Everest it offers; we got great photos of an avalanche in progress there). It's 5,644.5 m (18,51
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by garyrob 8y ago
Chronic Lyme disease sufferers get the same response all the time. All the symptoms are dismissed as purely psychological. The lack of respect causes a lot of suffering in itself, but since it also means that patients who believe their doct
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by garyrob 8y ago
My AT&T WiFi didn't work immediately after the update, but I didn't reboot and within a few hours it was working again. I did turn WiFi Calling off and on again, once, in Settings---not sure if that was necessary as it didn&#x
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by garyrob 8y ago
I'm having the same experience as an iPhone 6 user. I'm having trouble finding much reason to upgrade.
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by garyrob 8y ago
My nose runs, but I also get the hiccups. I met Mario Batali a couple times (we happened to vacation next door to each other a couple years in a row), and he told me that happens to him too. Never noticed it happening to anyone else, though
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by garyrob 8y ago
> So I'm neither expecting syncopation here nor am I noticing anything unusual there. I'm not either, but that doesn't have anything to do with the point. The point is that their classification model has Lennon staying on
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by garyrob 8y ago
Interesting that they peg "The Word" on McCartney. I'm pretty sure I remember a quote from Lennon where he used it as an example of how he (Lennon) liked to drive one note home. Lennon's sticking on one note is a point m
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by garyrob 8y ago
Isn't it the case that access to 32GB currently requires more power use (hence the larger battery), and that more power use necessarily means more thermal stress? In which case there may be nothing wrong with the thermal paste or the e

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