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What do caged animals tell us about our mental lives?(aeon.co)
1 points by hwayne 4y ago|0 comments
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by hwayne 4y ago
The company is still around and still makes hundreds of millions in revenue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Energy_of_Canada_Limite...
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by hwayne 4y ago
Pretty much any mathematician, on seeing `xy`, would think it's `x*y`, and not a new symbol called "xy".
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by hwayne 4y ago
McMaster-Carr offers 1,533 different kinds of thumb screws with 27 different thread sizes. https://www.mcmaster.com/screws/thumb-screws/
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by hwayne 4y ago
I have met bridge engineers who had to move bridges after they were built. (I talk a bit about the similarities between civil and software engineering here: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/we-are-not-special/ )
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What did Earth look like X million years ago?(dinosaurpictures.org)
509 points by hwayne 4y ago|111 comments
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by hwayne 4y ago
Pick a tool in your regular workflow and spend some time learning it better. What are the new ways you can use `git log`?
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by hwayne 4y ago
Write it as three self-contained blog posts, then you can get part of it out and even if you lose interest later people are still enriched by the first one or two!
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Wearable Compass(carlosterminel.com)
2 points by hwayne 4y ago|0 comments
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by hwayne 5y ago
> As a counter example, I don’t think you could as easily apply it to something like incident response. Here you’re trying to do the most high impact and high pressure thing first: stem the bleeding/errors/outage. Yeah, that&#x
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I Heart Microscopes(hillelwayne.com)
90 points by hwayne 5y ago|43 comments
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See Wikipedia articles of places nearby you(en.wikipedia.org)
12 points by hwayne 5y ago|0 comments
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Why Does Windows Use Backslash as Path Separator?(os2museum.com)
4 points by hwayne 5y ago|0 comments
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The Great Curly Brace Trace Chase (2003)(web.archive.org)
37 points by hwayne 5y ago|27 comments
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Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment [pdf](letexier.org)
3 points by hwayne 5y ago|0 comments
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by hwayne 5y ago
I strongly recommend not reading the 2012 edition. Steve took out about half the Bill's original writing and replaced it with advertisements for his own book. I wrote some stuff near the end of how you can find the 2nd edition.
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by hwayne 5y ago
> But what if instead of looking at the number of users, we looked at the efficacy of users on a social network? We can then see how the productive power of a social network can indeed increase combinatorially, and to our great benefit.
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by hwayne 5y ago
How often do you floss?
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by hwayne 5y ago
I think there's also a lot we can do to make formal methods easier to learn and use. One of the big things I'm pushing for Alloy is to get a proper CLI so people don't have to do everything through the IDE— this is a surprisi
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by hwayne 5y ago
Like the OEIS[1], but for real numbers! [1] https://oeis.org/
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Ordner: Index of Real Numbers(fungrim.org)
1 points by hwayne 5y ago|1 comments
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by hwayne 5y ago
It always ALWAYS trips me up that TLA+ uses \A and \E while LaTeX uses \forall and \exists
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Will Any Crap We Put into Graphene Increase Its Electrocatalytic Effect?(pubs.acs.org)
1 points by hwayne 5y ago|0 comments
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by hwayne 5y ago
Split the difference, 0/0 = 0.5
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When do people learn languages? (2002)(zompist.com)
72 points by hwayne 5y ago|91 comments
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Fire Code for Software(ganssle.com)
1 points by hwayne 5y ago|0 comments
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When do people learn languages? (2002)(zompist.com)
4 points by hwayne 5y ago|2 comments
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by hwayne 5y ago
Why not ? There's a lot of unexplored space in lightweight specification languages and it's always cool to see a new take on it.
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When Monks Went Undercover to Steal Relics(daily.jstor.org)
20 points by hwayne 5y ago|2 comments
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by hwayne 5y ago
> And it's very easy to make specs that will take forever to validate - and often tough to tell what change made it so. For example, if you simulate four independent processes that count to three, it'll evaluate all the ways th

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