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by heikkilevanto 2y ago
Uncertain observations, I'm sure
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by heikkilevanto 2y ago
Some additional rules: - "It is your own fault". Always suspect your code changes before anything else. It can be a compiler bug or even a hardware error, but those are very rare. - "When you find a bug, go back hunt down
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by heikkilevanto 2y ago
I hope surviving shipwrecks and such counts as getting hard things done. "Safety and Survival at the Sea" has a lot of those. Chapters like Fire, Man in Water, Man on life raft, Man in a boat, and so on. Each chapter has many shor
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by heikkilevanto 2y ago
I just finished my fifth(?) reading through the whole series. Still good stuff! I have sailed a little on an old gaff ketch, so I know a little about sailing ships. Nothing in the whole series sounded wrong to me. Same with their music, it
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by heikkilevanto 2y ago
Spoil a good hobby by turning it into a small business. No thanks!
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by heikkilevanto 2y ago
One of the problems with stop words is that they vary between languages. "The" is a good candidate in English, but in Danish it just means "tea", which should be a valid search term. And even in English, what looks like
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by heikkilevanto 2y ago
Couple of years ago I went to Helsinki for my birthday, and got a gift card for Stockmann department store. I was so disappointed. I found the "department" for cooking things. But I did not find a section for frying pans or scisso
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by heikkilevanto 2y ago
Just a side note: "The Well-Tempered Clavier" is not at all the same as the "Equally Tuned Piano". Bach was certainly aware of the equal tuning, where all intervals were the same. It had been used on lutes for some centu
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by heikkilevanto 2y ago
Great composers were never "statistically represented in the workforce". Just like rock stars today are not. Yet they still exist, and have a positive impact on the life of many people.
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by heikkilevanto 2y ago
I have two anecdotes. One is a shipyard in Denmark, possibly in the 1700's, where the master builder would hammer a stake in the ground, walk as many steps as needed for that ship, and hammer another stake. The rest would follow geomet
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by heikkilevanto 2y ago
> Animals didn't land on the moon or discover quantum mechanics For most of the history, neither did humans.
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
The Anticythera Mechanism was able to predict eclipses some 2000 years ago. Anyone know if its predictions would still be useful?
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
So, we just need a meta-review to review the reviews. At a cost, of course. And in order to keep that honest, we need a meta-meta-review...
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
Union meeting 2124: "Mr. President, do we really have to work every Wednesday?"
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
Because a mallet is a nice woodworking project, can be done at any level of sophistication, from whittling a handle to a piece of firewood to "impossible" dovetail joinery and embedded lead weights. Making your own tools gives gre
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
Reminds me of a traditional harpsichord builder I heard of. When starting a new instrument, he defines the "inch" for that instrument which is the width of the key. He sets his calibers for that, measures 8 inches for the width of
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
If you ever get to that point, by all means buy the chisels. But make the mallet(s) yourself.
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
GEB is in my top three as well. But looking back at it and the other important books in my life, it seems that it matters very much when I read them, and where I was at the time. For example, the Lord of the Rings was hugely influential for
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
I remember as a school boy I heard about Markov Chains, and played a bit with them. Instead of building big n-gram tables, I found a simpler way. Start with one n-gram, then scan the source text until you find the next occurrence of it, and
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
As far as I remember and understand it, Nick Lane postulated that eucaryotes only occurred once. But it could have multiple times that several of them would start on the path of multicellular life.
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
I know opinions differ. My best experiences have been when sharing a office with one developer, both working on the same project. That way, if we had to discuss something, we would not disturb anyone else, and if not, we both could work in
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
Just some little perl scripts. One to randomize my playlists, while keeping all movements of a classical piece together. A web page to record and graph my asthma medications and peak flow numbers. Impressed my doctor, if nobody else. Anothe
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
If I buy a book, I own that book. I can burn it, I can lend or give it to a friend, I can read it as many times as I like, and nobody can legally come and take it away from me.
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
418 I'm a teapot
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
Misread the title as some kind of Tik-Tok chat that can clone itself and is spreading.
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
Snow? Snap?
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
I lived with a Siamese cat once. I didn't teach her to fetch. She taught me to throw again. She used to love those little foam balls, but only the yellow ones. Other colors were just not as fun too play with.
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
Interesting. But what are the (un)likely failure modes?
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
It is also directly illegal in the EU
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by heikkilevanto 3y ago
Well, it could be tied to your credit card, or something else you had when you made the reservation.

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