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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
Also allow the baby to read minds and see through walls - that triggered a burst of nostalgia for the comic Strontium Dog: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium_Dog
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
It seems like two different arguments if you s/US/multi-national-corporations/g in that sentence. I don't have that much faith that multi-national-corporations interests align with US (or China for that matter).
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
I used to manage a team that supported an online banking platform and gave a copy of this book to each new team member. If nothing else, it helped create a shared vocabulary. It's useful to get the poster and make sure everyone knows t
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
There's a story in the book - on nuclear submarines there's a brass bar in front of all the dials and knobs, and the engineers are trained to "grab the bar" when something goes wrong rather than jumping right to twiddlin
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
There's a long list of historical quotes about planning, but I think this reference might be to a different Patton: "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." - George S. Patton * &
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
A tangent, but is there a clear best choice amongst those models for AOC type questions?
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
s/Romans/Duolingo/g
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
I mean, look at Linux and Firefox!
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
"Fuck you, pay me" - Ray Liotta in Goodfellas (1990) :-)
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
I have two rules in gmail - one deletes any email containing the word "unsubscribe" and the other any email with the word "democrat". I probably have missed some emails, but life has somehow gone on without them. My frie
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
Just re-watch Office Space..
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
Illusions by Richard Bach is also mind-blowing, or at least was for me during puberty..
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
Yes, people talked and joked about it. I had a couple of friends with PET's and they would not let you near them if you joked about it. I doubt it impacted sales, but it was definitely part of the culture. Most 8-bit machines had some
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
Converting to Lithp any day now...
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
I lived in one of those food study centers after college. Most people there were pretty diligent about sticking to the program, but there was a big scandal when one guy was kicked out after discovering extensive cheating and several papers
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
This reminds me of a hacker news comment that blew my mind - basically "I" am really my genetic code, and this particular body "I" am in is just another computer that the code has been moved to, because the old one is sc
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
Gonna try this tomorrow with marmite, will report back!
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
"What's your humor setting, TARS?"
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
That is a partial quote: "Ólafur appears to have developed a personal kinship with the whale, choosing not to try to kill her again. But he had no problem shooting the whale’s calf. One summer, when he raised his spear and took aim at
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by ianmcgowan 2y ago
Sounds a little like Julian Barnes "A History of the World in 10 and 1/2 chapters", there are several recurring themes (woodworm, boats) but the Ark recurs in several of the stories. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
Hard agree with this - sometimes find myself typing out a well-intentioned response, but then cancelling because of the potential downside years in the future for some anodyne opinion held today. Not to mention Roko's Basilisk (all ha
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
I use (and highly recommend) WorkOutdoors for tracking outside runs. It supports an alert for power thresholds but requires an external sensor (like a stryd) to enable them. https://www.outsideonline.com/health/trainin
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
A connection to truth, or objective reality if you still believe in that.
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
I have a filter to delete all emails containing the word unsubscribe or donate. May have deleted a few important emails, but I wouldnt say I've missed it, Bob..
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
2nd button from the top on the right hand side. For now...
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
Sounds like "Knuth vs McIlroy", which has been discussed on hn and elsewhere before, and the general take is that it was somewhat unfair to Knuth. [1] https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
'The Diamond Age' is my favorite, but perhaps because it's one of the rare Stephenson's that sticks the landing. Anathem is amazing, and worth reading just for the parable of the fly-worm-bat...
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
You shut your mouth! :-) Actually, if you said the first 2/3 of Seveneves was a better read than Cryptonomicon, then maybe..
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
talk, or later ntalk in Unix. Or wall to send to everyone. I used a system in the 80's (Pick DB) that had a send-message command. Also tandem which allowed you to take over someone's terminal like screen-sharing now. If you we
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
And of course the opposite - a manager wanting to sit in on technical discussions and architecture reviews is considered weird :-)

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