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by gcanyon 2y ago
I recently upgraded to exactly this machine for exactly this reason, but I haven't taken the leap and installed anything yet. What's your favorite model to run on it?
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Geordi La Forge: Yeah, well, I told the Captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour. Scotty: How long will it really take? Geordi La Forge: An hour! Scotty: Oh, you didn't tell him how long it would 'really' take, did
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by gcanyon 2y ago
My last name is Canyon -- do I get free access? :-)
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by gcanyon 2y ago
How do you monetize?
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Same here: I need like 3XW shoes
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I'd like to learn more -- please email me (link in profile).
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> tiny husband and wife company based in Seattle, WA. Are you in any way associated with that map shop near Pike Place? I had to look it up, I guess it's Metsker?
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Lemme guess: Night and morning low clouds, burning off in the afternoon. Source: lived in Los Angeles for a dozen years, saw the weather forecast a few times
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by gcanyon 2y ago
You're not considering: - the risk of transmission by children to others. You can say that shouldn't be a factor, that (parents of) children should only have to consider the cost-benefit for their children directly. I'd re
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by gcanyon 2y ago
You said "relied on a standard of research that is lesser than what would be considered a C+ lab report in any university chemistry lab in America" Now you're refusing to back that up.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Okay so you’re going with even given the circumstances . That means you need to provide cites for how, at the time and given the information they had, their decision making was flawed. Further, it means you can't just jump back to fre
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Okay so you’re going with even given the circumstances . That means you need to provide cites for how, at the time and given the information they had, their decision making was flawed. Meaning, to your exact point, cite how they should hav
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I think the egg crate was harder because there were no sharp edges to latch onto.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Toning down the title when the title accurately reflects the tone and thrust of the article does a disservice to the HN audience.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Aren't you skipping over the part where thousands of people were dying every day? When you say "relied on a standard of research that is lesser than what would be considered a C+ lab report in any university chemistry lab" do
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by gcanyon 2y ago
That second video with the snorkelers sidling up to the orcas while they're attacking/feeding -- I know orcas have no record of attacking humans, but that's just a no^100 for me. Who's to say they won't get a little
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I'll say what I always say when seeing things like this: for humans, "dying of natural causes" generally means dying peacefully in your sleep, or quickly of a heart attack or stroke, while for most animals, "dying of nat
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Have stereograms advanced in some way over the past 30 years? I know how silly that sounds, but: I remember back in the day when the fad first broke, spending minutes, many minutes, trying "get" it. And having to focus (heh) on fo
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by gcanyon 2y ago
WordStar!!! :-) I wrote two novels in that thing.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
My wife and I happened to be in Iceland when Alexander Skarsgård was filming something. We saw him standing idly by while something was being set up, so my wife walked up and asked if she could get a photo with him. So I have a picture of m
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by gcanyon 2y ago
This is certainly true. Typing that I heard his voice in my head, and laughed. I'm sure someone who's never heard Steven Wright has a much more limited response.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Any idea how close that is to valid J code?
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Steven Wright: "I have this switch in my house that doesn't seem to do anything. It's in a hallway, so every time I pass it, I flip it: up, down, up, down...up...down. A few months after I got the house, a guy from Indonesia
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by gcanyon 2y ago
That's fair -- to something as small as a butterfly the air is much more soup-y, so swimming is maybe a better description than flying. That would imply they do need to extend forward beyond their head to pull forward through the air.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
The moment I saw the live vs. dead comparison it hit me: center of lift vs. center of mass. Why would the butterfly's wings ever project that far forward when there is zero mass out there to lift? I suppose it's not impossible --
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by gcanyon 2y ago
For a really brilliant visualization of the time scale, I can't recommend this Kurzgesagt video highly enough. It's an animation of the condition of the entire history of the Earth, at 1.5 million years per second of video. https
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by gcanyon 2y ago
That's even more different (better) than I remembered/imagined, thanks!
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by gcanyon 2y ago
This is awesome! Is there a reason for the dramatic speed-up around delays of 1.8-2ms? On my machine Quick Sort takes 12 seconds at 2ms, about 6 seconds at 1.9ms, and just over 1 second at 1.8ms (with the default 300 items).
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I hadn't been to howstuffworks.com in years. It's...very different now. Much more ad heavy, sensational, "the fourth one will amaze you", "doctors hate #7", and just icky in a way I don't remember it being
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Or Rudy Rucker’s Postsingular, where the “orphidnet” utility fog enables universal perception/visualization.

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