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by golem14 5y ago
Ha. There's a short story in which the narrator is invited to a dinner to eat monkey brain, but is tricked and consumed himself. Can't remember the author or name of the story (would think ea Poe or Roald Dahl). Was making a big i
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by golem14 6y ago
Archipelgo Gulag seems more like Stanislaw Lem’s procrustics in “Eden”.
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by golem14 6y ago
IMO Tesla tries to get around China currency controls and lets people in China buy Teslas with bitcoin. I guess that is part of the reason why Tesla was hauled in front of the Chinese government recently. It is a good idea if it works out
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by golem14 6y ago
I think it would take a while to go through the motions with a new contender, during which time the media orgs will continue to not collect and possibly lose money. Not so great for them. Also, these other providers are less wealthy and hen
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by golem14 6y ago
I think it's not as simple as that. What's classified as "News" ? A lab in japan, or Tesla having a press release on new battery tech ? A website update from USGS on the Kilauea eruption ? A new project on hackaday ? Goo
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by golem14 6y ago
Neat! It would be good to know how this is different from Satnogs, e.g., max weight/momentum of antenna, what APIs etc. Satnogs looks great and is probably more sturdy, but I can't just buy one (no kits afaik), and it is probably
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by golem14 6y ago
Looks super nice. Out of curiosity: Is there a way to do commutative diagrams well with graphviz ? I'd instinctively prefer do do such diagrams in a declarative way and let a layout engine worry about making it look nice. However, I ne
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by golem14 6y ago
How reliable is the data? E.g., I found a number of planes with tail numbers N333AX - N335AX flying along the ocean near King City, CA in weird patterns. But the data also says "took off in King city". ex: https://fligh
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by golem14 6y ago
I have read this too, but no further elaboration in the press, and I wonder why. Was it just hyperbole, or is the story being actively suppressed?
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by golem14 6y ago
Tja: “Rules for thee but not for me”
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by golem14 6y ago
"People's capacity for bullshit is rapidly diminishing." I warmly contest that. It's amazing what amount of BS people adapt to and tolerate. All over the place. In politics. In UIs. In advertisements, news reporting, you
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by golem14 6y ago
Reminds me of "Life of Brian" REG: Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?! XERXES: The aqueduct? REG: What? XERXES: The aqueduct. REG: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that.
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by golem14 6y ago
I think Stan Freberg should be mentioned here as well. "take an Indian to lunch today" still feels very relevant today, to give one example.
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by golem14 6y ago
Apologies, I was thinking of the spamhaus list, which I'm also not sure now is crowdsourced in the sense most people would use. But most email providers build spamfilters using 'crowdsourced' techniques between their users (i
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by golem14 6y ago
I think that's fair, and I had the same initial reaction. However, people are generally fine with DMARC or other crowdsourced spam signals, so it's not clearly bad. I haven't looked at the source, but it should be easy to tur
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by golem14 6y ago
I wonder how this relates to "right to repair" topics.
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by golem14 6y ago
I have had the same feeling about early cfl lamps. Turning those on seemed to make the rooms darker and more dingy instantly
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by golem14 6y ago
I don't think about grammar when talking, so to explain when to say "kein" vs "nicht" took a few moments . Translating "oder" or "eben" is surprisingly difficult, just to name a few examples.
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by golem14 6y ago
I have a similar experience trying to help someone speak German.
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by golem14 6y ago
You can doubt it all you want. I was also not claiming that fangs pay 95th percentile wages. I said that in my experience they pay h1bs pretty well (not that different from domestic entry level engineers).
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by golem14 6y ago
I can't access the link, but if the headline is accurate, that's probably a good move. For FAANG companies - they usually pay all their employees including H1Bs pretty well. But it's hard for Google/FB/... to even g
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by golem14 6y ago
Unfortunately, you can't take an 50-something english only American and tell him to "go learn Italian", for health. It's hard enough to make people eat less, exercise, or quit smoking - picking up new language without an
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by golem14 6y ago
This is all great, but not steampunk enough ;) Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-fcfGwepog Now, electrifying that would be neat!
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by golem14 6y ago
The Airon chairs were pretty OK, but I prefer the Swopper and the HAG Capisco chair. The both make me more likely to move a little bit.
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by golem14 6y ago
Haha. Type "Nazis like sauerkraut". This kind of thing should IMO not built into fonts. Would make a fine addition to a spell and grammar checker however.
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by golem14 6y ago
Fun. I see at least 3 scenarios: 1) Trump wins outright. I don't have a good feel for the probability, but I don't think it's zero. 2) Trump contests the election, e.g. in the manner outlined in the linked article. At the ver
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by golem14 6y ago
Could this co-incide with the latest comcast outage in the bay area ?
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by golem14 6y ago
The book is very nice. Coffee table books for true nerds, next to Tufte. But I wish there were more recent updates or a 2nd volume where they look at newer material, like "person of interest", "Black matter", "The
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by golem14 6y ago
It's not fuzzy at all. A donation would be to a charity.
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by golem14 6y ago
The esp32-based m5stack Stick-C finger computer seems like a very inexpensive alternative, comes with a built-in bunch of sensors, a small battery and a small display for $11. https://www.google.com/search?q=m5stack+stick+c

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