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by gumby 3y ago
You have to be dead for a while to be part of the canon. Until then you’re a “popular writer” at best. It’s the opposite of the Nobels in this regard.
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by gumby 3y ago
> Ancient people used twigs and kinds of different fibers to clean the teeth. My mother said that she used to clean her teeth by cutting a twig from a neem tree. This is the 1930s and 40s. She's old, but I wouldn't refer to h
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by gumby 3y ago
> To me that screams for - develop interest in a US public sector I disagree 100%. (note I'm a big fan of the RISC V effort) First, the US government can/should seed pieces of fundamental technology that the private sector may
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by gumby 3y ago
> No document that I could find has ever tried to specify an instruction set independent of an actual implementation. The most famous example is MIX.
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by gumby 3y ago
> In the novels of Ian McEwan, a pattern recurs. The main character makes a mistake — just one — which then hangs over them forever. ... This plot trick is said to be unbecoming of a serious artist . Hmm, yet Thomas Hardy is (
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by gumby 3y ago
Useful I don't know (for some people, I suppose) but a great answer.
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by gumby 3y ago
If you strip the context from this interesting article, you are also left with an interesting point. That is: there is value in different perspectives and approaches to a problem, yet the more different the perspective the harder it is to
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by gumby 3y ago
> why does open source need to "win" (why can't there be multiple options) and re: things being produced as their exclusive property, what is the issue with this? Part of core infrastructure should be in the commons (consi
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by gumby 3y ago
You might enjoy Dennett’s “The Intentional Stance” for some enlightening exploration of this metaphor, e.g. “The thermostat tries to keep the temperature between 67 and 69” not only makes sense but is a useful way to think of it even when w
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by gumby 3y ago
That isn't the question (in a prior job I studied the physiology of the nail unit). Most cells don't normally have an orientation, so you'd think that thefollicle would push out a hair in some random direction, sometimes tow
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by gumby 3y ago
insects are so different from vertebrates (e.g. multi compartment bodies thanks to how they express the HOX gene) that the flying strategies are also quite different. At the current level of O2 in the air I don't believe that flying in
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by gumby 3y ago
Despite the terminology, "ingrown" doesn't mean the nail grows in the wrong direction. The lunula continuously emits keratinocytes in a single direction; these form both the nail bed and the nail itself. The "ingrown&qu
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by gumby 3y ago
Wow, what an interesting article, not all about feathers. There’s so many genetic mysteries about skin appendages still to be uncovered e.g. in humans, how do nails and hairs manage to grow only in one direction (and perhaps even more rema
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by gumby 3y ago
> Mainframes were meant, yes? No not at all. We’re talking early-mid 1980s so people in the research community (at least at the leading institutions) were by then pretty used to what’s called cloud computing these days. In fact the ter
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by gumby 3y ago
This is a pretty good article. I was one of the first hires on the Cyc project when it started at MCC and was at first responsible for the decision to abandon the Interlisp-D implementation and replace it with one I wrote on Symbolics machi
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by gumby 3y ago
Err…OpenCyc?
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by gumby 3y ago
One time I was in a blizzard while making camp in the back country. I had worked later than planned, checked the weather by looking out the window, and set out late. I couldn’t find a safe place to make a shelter and made a quick makeshif
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by gumby 3y ago
Indeed in one case where I was lost in the snow my dog saved my life.
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by gumby 3y ago
> A thought came into my head, momentarily paralyzing me: these might be your last few minutes. I have had this feeling twice. Both times my overwhelming thought was “Wow, I’ve been an idiot.” The article describes how that can happen
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Wrong couple get divorced after solicitor 'clicks wrong button'(theguardian.com)
9 points by gumby 3y ago|2 comments
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by gumby 3y ago
3-4 Ky before this find is about the age of the oldest boats found so far.
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by gumby 3y ago
Is there software to help with conformance? I’m never going to write in this dialect, but some software could help me “translate” my text into it.
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by gumby 3y ago
I agree with that part. But like Apple, ZTE and Xiaomi have other revenue streams beyond handsets (don't know about Transson, but that seems like a pretty narrow margin). I took a whip through the Xiaomi financials and they talk about
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by gumby 3y ago
You simply asserted that they "shouldn't be further taxed" and my question was why you think so. Repeating your comment verbatim would not answer my question.
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by gumby 3y ago
Revenue, yes, but minimal or no profit hence the churn. You can look up the data if you have a statista subscription.
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by gumby 3y ago
Hmm, I'm not sure I agree with that. Even during the last glacial maximum there was a lot of inhabitable terrain.
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by gumby 3y ago
I know people say that, but I also know quite a few people who learned English after that age who sound "native". All of them now live in English-speaking countries.
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by gumby 3y ago
Looks like boats date back about 12 Ky: https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~vaucher/History/Ships/Prehisto... Seems odd that a technical revolution of some profound technologies (e.g. ships, agriculture, stable set
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by gumby 3y ago
Given market dynamics it was rather surprising that Apple ever reached #1 at all. Perhaps it will happen again in 9 months if there is some spike after the 2024 phones are released. Regardless of volume, Apple takes the lion's share o
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by gumby 3y ago
Whey shouldn’t they be further taxed? And if they lose money, as most do, they won’t owe any tax anyway. The special category doesn’t add anything to a legit charity but does help out fraudsters.

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