georgeoliver

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by georgeoliver 4y ago
What's the feasibility of signed ads/speech verified on the device (tv, phone, etc.)?
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
What's the more desirable outcome for society at large, one thousand books each read by a million people or a million books each read by one thousand people?
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
> Programming, as a profession, has simply become more commoditized. It used to be kind of like being a brain surgeon, and it's becoming more like being a plumber. Did it start that way though? I feel like from the 50s-70s, outside
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
Has anyone or any PL theory in CS made a useful distinction between data and state?
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UFO-style dome home in Connecticut on market for first time(nypost.com)
1 points by georgeoliver 4y ago|2 comments
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
The link to the paper wasn't loading for me. But I would love to see the reasons for extrapolating present-day biology back 250k years?
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
It's happening with DADUs (detached living units), with one critical issue -- they're way too expensive for the average person. I'm curious what the distribution of DADUs are nationwide with respect to cost of living.
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
IMO, yes. I'm probably biased because this is basically our business. Key is finding a good build team (this could be independent architect and builder, a design-build firm, etc.), and critical that they have good trade partners (plumb
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
It was fun to listen to Dan Kolbert a while back where he talked a little about this, https://www.keepcraftalive.org/keep-craft-alive-podcast-ep-1... , the (at least partly tongue-in-cheek) quote that still sticks in my mind
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
Holes for the wires/cables, not the screws.
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
I was a little surprised to read the original comment too. I've never seen a sheathed ground wire used in WA state (on residential).
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The engineering of the concert grand piano (2002)(ingenia.org.uk)
1 points by georgeoliver 4y ago|0 comments
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
I've been thinking about building a planar wave speaker, but now the idea of an integrated planar wave speaker music desk sounds fun!
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The Bay 12 Games Report, January first 2023(bay12forums.com)
2 points by georgeoliver 4y ago|0 comments
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
I think the assumption is that Earth power is much cheaper than lunar, so the inefficiency doesn't matter.
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
> It feels like each mountain was hand-drawn They might be! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/arts/alps-map-glacier-roc...
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
Feedly with the Feedly Android app, which syncs unread items with the desktop web app (so unread == not visited). I don't read anything in Feedly itself -- makes me wonder if there are RSS apps focused just on aggregation.
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
Wow, I had not been keeping up with the situation in northern Syria, but this article has changed that. Here's an article from a few days ago: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/syria-turkey-kurds-roj... It&#x2
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
For better or worse we live in a leaky old house. If I lived in a modern, tight house I absolutely would install a HRV/ERV.
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
I'm surprised Unison's approach hasn't caught on more widely. ISTR Joe Armstrong of Erlang was experimenting with something similar in a related domain, https://joearms.github.io/published/2015-03-12-The_
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
Very cool! The tech did have some device that could measure the distance to the fault when tied into wire upstream, but I'm not sure if it was a TDR, I think he was making more rule of thumb calculations based on the characteristics of
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
Good question, I don't know. The technician on site didn't have one. I guessing the camera would be faster, but the result image about the same. The nice thing about the paper is you easily can check multiple spots at once, so it&
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
I had a funny experience a week ago. One night working on a hobby web project it took me three or four hours to debug something, I finally got to bed around midnight thinking "boy, programming is hard". The next day at work we had
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
What do people think about paredit vs. just using the regular sexp editing commands ( https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Pa... )? Especially when you rebind those to easier key
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
There is a big disconnect between Doctorow going on about his middle class Phd parents and the plight of 'the workers'. Phds are around 1% of the population and their earnings typically put them in the top 20%. IMO it seems more l
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Making Things Hard/Easy(blog.lostartpress.com)
1 points by georgeoliver 4y ago|0 comments
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
I feel like this is a better introduction, https://arcan-fe.com/2022/10/15/whipping-up-a-new-shell-lash...
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
Yes I would! I think it was the first complete book I read while learning CL.
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
One of the best programming books (for any language) ever written IMO. Seibel has a knack for clear, readable but still technical prose that's all too rare unfortunately.
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
> Perhaps there’s a way to host my website at home, but have the static bits served by Cloudflare if the Raspberry Pi isn’t available (using a global CDN as a UPS), and the dynamic bits always visit my home – but there’s a graceful “come

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