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by gcanyon 1y ago
Arc stock cratering in 3... 2... 1...
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by gcanyon 1y ago
…or a back door way of acknowledging he’s planning on a third term. :-/
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by gcanyon 1y ago
My time with WP ended with version 3? maaaybe 4
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I worked with DOS in… WordPerfect? I don’t remember for sure which word processing application it was. But I honestly don’t remember ever seeing anything remotely “graphic“ in my DOS days.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
You might appreciate this The Way of the Gun quote: Joe Sarno: So, you the brains of this outfit, or is he? Longbaugh: Tell ya the truth, I don't think this is a brains kind of operation.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Fair —- but are you claiming either: 1. The DOS screenshots in the article are in any way reflective of a designer’s input 2. That Windows was a visually pleasing design?
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Looking at Windows UIs from the '80s -- did Microsoft just not know the phone numbers of any graphic designers? Or did they make it ugly on purpose?
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Vague recollection, could be wrong -- in J, you can apply a "rank" to verbs, which determines how the verb applies to its arguments. So for example, if we define that average verb: avg =: +/%# then we can say avg 2 4 and get
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by gcanyon 1y ago
There's an initial learning curve as there is with any new programming paradigm (which everyone who works exclusively in C-like languages forgets that they paid a long time ago) but there are only something like 100 primitives, and the
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Kurzgesagt proposes moving the entire solar system, so the generations and kilometers question becomes moot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3y8AIEX_dU
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by gcanyon 1y ago
You might enjoy Kurzgesagt's video on moving the Sun (and with it the whole solar system) they propose a method that would theoretically let us colonize the galaxy in a reasonable (but not trivial) time frame. To your exact point thoug
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by gcanyon 1y ago
My stepfather (passed) earned a Silver Snoopy, one of his proudest moments. My stepbrother has the certificate, but not the lapel pin. The possibility of getting a replacement is awesome, so thanks for posting this!
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Still $3500!? If they had one for $1000 I’d jump on it. $2000 and I’d seriously consider it. $3500 is just a deal-breaker.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
They are planning to militarize the election. - they have the voter rolls - they are normalizing using the military domestically - they will "secure" the polling places against "voter fraud" and take the ballots to be &q
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Array languages are such a mind twist and so fun. I dabbled in J at one point, and I love explaining +/%# to people. But the real expressive power comes when you start to get into tacit expressions yourself, understand function exponen
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I wonder if there are studies on the lives saved by asbestos's fireproofing feature vs. cost by its lung-disease-causing feature. Answering my own question: the WHO estimates it costs 200K lives per year. No estimates on the other side
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by gcanyon 1y ago
For sure! Turnabout for the goose etc.: My instinct is that things have largely gotten better over time. At a super-macro level, in 1900 we had directly adulterated food that e.g. the soldiers receiving Chicago meat called "embalmed&qu
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by gcanyon 1y ago
And yet we report gun deaths per year, smoking rates, sea warming, etc. etc. The error isn't in producing or considering an aggregate result, but in ignoring where it came from. Since this is an internet forum and not a policy think ta
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Serious question: around 1900 meat was often preserved using formaldehyde, and milk was adulterated with water and chalk, and sometimes with pureed calf brains to simulate cream. I hope we can agree that we are better off than that now. Wha
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> You get flooded by info that you never need in your daily life or in near future. My brain holds on to the weirdest shit. Back in May my wife texted me: "Hot Lips died" and I immediately replied, "Loretta Swit or Sally K
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I should have checked the comments first: I currently have the URL for this video on my clipboard, ready to paste into a comment, but you beat me :-)
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I 100% understand his rationale, and in the same position I'd probably do the same -- "probably" because this is one of those things you can't possibly predict in advance.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I wonder if she would rather not have won it? Being the focus of frustration of someone with enormous capacity to thwart your efforts or even destroy your country can't be a pleasant position to be in. For her sake I hope he quickly
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> The researchers tested their approach in mice genetically programmed to overproduce Aβ and develop cognitive decline similar to Alzheimer’s pathology. Thoughts on that FTFA?
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by gcanyon 1y ago
One time in Missouri I swear to god a roc pooped on my car as I was driving down the street. Seriously, it was at least a cup of poop, a thick trail starting at the front of the car, up and over the hood, looping on the windshield, and half
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by gcanyon 1y ago
You might appreciate this video where Matt Parker lays out the various classes of numbers and concludes by describing the normal numbers as being the overwhelmingly vast proportion of numbers and laments "we mathematicians think we kno
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by gcanyon 1y ago
But this implies that a simple 1-knot might completely undo itself if you join it to its mirror. Which I assume people have tried, and doesn't work. Likewise with 2's, 3's etc. It seems intuitively obvious that there is somet
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by gcanyon 1y ago
The example isn't an example -- it's a proposed simplicity of a counterexample. Which is exactly what the article is about and the post you responded to is therefore objecting to.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Related context: Sabine Hossenfelder's explanation of how the greenhouse effect works -- it's interesting and weird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqu5DjzOBF8
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by gcanyon 1y ago
One thing I definitely pack every time is lightweight nylon shopping bags. They are super-light and useful in many ways. Off the top of my head: keeping dirty clothes separate from clean clothes; overflow if you get carried away on the trip

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