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Marine Cloud Brighting geoengineering test in California(nytimes.com)
1 points by gumby 3y ago|0 comments
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by gumby 3y ago
I first parsed "competitive bass fishing cheaters" as cheaters who competed with each other for the best technique. Then I realised that was silly -- they are cheating to beat everyone . A classic "garden path" sentenc
903.
by gumby 3y ago
It was delivered back when the 750 was new, but we had lispms and PDP-10s and didn't care about stuff like vaxes. I think it was already obsolete when RMS started using it, and had probably never been used over the years by anyone. No
904.
by gumby 3y ago
I assume the GG, being a viceroy, can sign these things on the king's behalf? But what do I know? I did find it ironic that I moved from aus to a republic, only to attend a school with supposedly a royal charter. > Another guess: .
905.
by gumby 3y ago
I don't know. While looking around to see if I could find my school's charter online I discovered that Harvard never had a royal charter, though at various times they sought one. On the other hand College of William and Mary got
906.
by gumby 3y ago
That's a pretty interesting list! A lot of interesting entries there, including a couple (e.g. Needlemakers) signed by Cromwell. Given that it was issued by the privy counsel it is interesting that it has some notable omissions (thoug
907.
by gumby 3y ago
No, but it had been lying around unused in a machine room, powered up, for a few years. RMS published the GNU manifesto in 83 or 84.
908.
by gumby 3y ago
Well it really sucks if you build a system but the autogenerated file is for a different CPU.
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by gumby 3y ago
My high school was a “free school” in the same sense of the term. Founded 1640 by royal charter.
910.
by gumby 3y ago
That’s because Eric Ostrom had somehow gotten us a vax 750 for some inexplicable reason (years later he told me he was astonished that nobody appreciated it) as if anybody wanted a vax. So RMS started using it for his gnu project since nob
911.
by gumby 3y ago
I used to use an RSS reader that had "smart folders" (filters) so I could group cross feeds and across servers but the author seems to be too busy to keep it going.
912.
by gumby 3y ago
I agree it's super great. Every word has a little cloud of associations to go with it.
913.
by gumby 3y ago
You might enjoy this blog post which (after a few paragraphs) is about a programming language structured around roots similarly to how Arabic is structured: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2024/03/31/e
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by gumby 3y ago
Often the autogenerated things are dependent on the machine they are running on.
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by gumby 3y ago
> 1a. As a consequence of (1) autogenerated artifacts should always be committed. I philosophically and fundamentally hate this suggestion, but have to agree with it. It's going to make porting harder, but is sadly a cost worth pay
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by gumby 3y ago
> Anyway I have no idea if cpp2 would get support from microsoft or other devs… Doesn’t he work for Microsoft?
917.
by gumby 3y ago
Anecdotally: I had surgery under general a couple of years ago no side effects. I’m 60. Anesthesia is poorly understood. How can a noble gas be anesthetic? We understand it so poorly that both your experience and mine could be common
918.
by gumby 3y ago
In Europe, anesthesia is uncommon for colonoscopies. Probably a good idea. https://www.sandiegocan.org/2019/02/07/you-arent-crazy-to-wa...
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by gumby 3y ago
Sure, I do that all the time too. But you can't call a method (or look inside Thing, or pass it as an argument, only a pointer to it) without including the definition. Hmm, there might be some interesting linker hacks to patch things
920.
by gumby 3y ago
Instead of DHA supplimentation, have the patient go on a low fat diet for three days before anesthesia. Or, possibly, not worry about it -- how many patients expect to make difficult post-operative decisions? They expect to be woozy due to
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by gumby 3y ago
Pretty common in the US back then. Direct deposit is (still) only required to be provided at the company's bank, though I doubt anyone implements that minimum any more. Back in the 90s when I worked for Atari (Back in the terrible War
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by gumby 3y ago
I don't think of pimpl as a tool for speeding up compilation, but for black box encapsulation. If the compile time (when adding a method) is really an issue you can chop up and reconfigure your include files. A pain, but perhaps saves
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by gumby 3y ago
> You won't find the answers you need by doing a post-mortem. It's really the only opportunity since if you had the answers beforehand perhaps the person would not have been "let go". If your point is that post mortem
924.
by gumby 3y ago
> I am well aware that if my employee is failing me , then in some way I am failing them . I have had to fire people over the years, of course, but whenever it gets that far I feel terrible that it got to that point, that how this pers
925.
by gumby 3y ago
Much as I believe consistent collection of longitudinal data is important, I think this is great news.
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by gumby 3y ago
> The focus, he said, would be on how he’d missed it… I’m glad they included this. It casts the former lab director in a good light. Of course I have no idea how he previously treated her. I find the opposite is more typical: not ackno
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by gumby 3y ago
“Burn” is a commonplace synonym for oxidization, that is, adding an electron. Likely the GP is “ eating the books, and thus is warmed as a consequence of the Krebs cycle. We can be glad for GP that these days it is uncommon to encounter a
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by gumby 3y ago
That’s how I got started — 7400 TTL chips are very forgiving to a young person’s hand. I was amazed you could just write away to National and the day’s send back a databook! I would pour over them and think of ways to use various chips.
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by gumby 3y ago
Where’s the work on converging the two so (ideally) it doesn’t matter if you’re in the office or not? I spend half my work time in a chem lab and half not in the lab. I would benefit if the two environments were not so disjoint. > No re
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by gumby 3y ago
One important element for me is that the framing should be as specific as possible. The article's example, regrettably isn't the best example of this, but: by saying "one of the main problems..." the author (quite reason

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