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by inetsee 6y ago
I love your paintings ;).
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by inetsee 6y ago
At one point in my career, I was working on maintenance software for the US Air Force's C-130 Cargo plane. Floppies weren't used to update the flight software (the Mission Computers didn't have floppy drives). A ruggedized po
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by inetsee 6y ago
The title seems to imply that it needs a touch screen device. It seems to work just fine on my desktop with a mouse.
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by inetsee 6y ago
I had to click four times to close popups before I could read this article. What is the internet coming to?
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by inetsee 6y ago
I am aware that there are other countries that have English as their primary language. According to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi... the US GDP is approximately 3.45 times the c
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by inetsee 6y ago
I am a native English speaker. The problem I have with English as the Universal International Language is that it gives enormous economic and political power to the United States. I am not convinced that the United States can be relied upon
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by inetsee 6y ago
"In a world where rebellion isn't possible, not giving governments the economic production they want is the only way to exercise power." Made me think of "Atlas Shrugged" https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by inetsee 6y ago
I have often thought that USPS has missed a great opportunity to provide a valuable service and make money while doing it. I'm thinking about a webmail service with verified email addresses. You go the a local post office with a govern
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by inetsee 6y ago
Warning: This is a very long read. The first paragraph should tell you enought to decide whether you want to read the entire article.
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The Quest for Documents That Could Resolve a Cold War Mystery(lithub.com)
1 points by inetsee 6y ago|1 comments
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by inetsee 6y ago
As blueeyes has already pointed out "Legislation in one nation will simply handicap that nation." I don't have a lot of faith in our legislators ability to legislate safety without relegating us to an AI backwater.
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by inetsee 6y ago
I think any Linux software synthesizer that supports VST or LV2 plugins should work with these plugins. The Wikipedia entry on Software Synthesizers lists several. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_synthesizer#Linu
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A Federal Blue Checkmark, and Not Learning Lessons(anildash.com)
2 points by inetsee 6y ago|0 comments
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by inetsee 6y ago
This is a cute little art project. https://thisiscolossal.com is one of those websites I like enough to have a bookmark on my bookmarks toolbar. Every week or two when I have some free time to spend, I will go to the website and
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Israeli Data Show School Openings Were a Disaster That Wiped Out Lockdown Gains(thedailybeast.com)
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by inetsee 6y ago
I worked on a secure project a very long time ago. A very smart guy (he was working on the operating system for a military avionics computer) printed out some child porn photos on a company color printer. (This was long enough ago that good
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by inetsee 6y ago
One of the things I remember quite vividly from my Psychology classes in college was the idea of a "satisficing" problem solver. Given a (reasonably solvable) problem to solve most people can come up with a satisfactory solution.
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by inetsee 6y ago
"Social Anxiety: People worry about other team members’ views of their ideas." One way of dealing with this problem is to do Anonymous Brainstorming https://extension.unr.edu/publication.aspx?PubID=2579 The idea,
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Has the Shift Toward Neuro-Productivity Already Begun?(calnewport.com)
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by inetsee 6y ago
My search engine quick test is "lojban" and Runnaroo's results were among the best I've seen. I've been using DuckDuckGo as my search engine of choice 95%+ of the time, only falling back to Google if DDG's resu
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by inetsee 6y ago
Wouldn't the recent "Right to Repair" push in the US counter any efforts to prohibit repairs by independent repair businesses?
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by inetsee 6y ago
The ftp link on the front page for the sources is unresponsive (at least on Firefox). The sources can be found at http://siag.nu/pub/siag/
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by inetsee 6y ago
I'm very pleased to see this. I hadn't thought about Slate Star Codex still being available on the Internet Archive. After seeing this post I was thinking about going through my bookmarks and finding copies of my favorite SSC post
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by inetsee 6y ago
There is an alternative named "Foam" https://github.com/foambubble/foam which is described as a Roam Research alternative which combines VSCode, a Markdown editor and Github. Foam appears to be easier to use
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Meet Features help engage students and moderate classes(blog.google)
3 points by inetsee 6y ago|0 comments
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Anders Ericsson – A Deliberate Tribute – Cal Newport(calnewport.com)
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by inetsee 6y ago
The article states that the initial "independent third party investigation" was not all that independent. The investigation was done by an investor who had put a substantial amount of money into DataCamp.
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by inetsee 6y ago
Does anybody know where I might find a copy of these resources that are readable without zooming to 300%? It's like trying to read a pdf on a phone.
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by inetsee 6y ago
From the title I was expecting a more general purpose algorithm visualizer. I think this is more accurately described as "Graph Traversal Algorithm Visualizer".
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I find it interesting that this article implies that the US will not need more than the number of ventilators it already has, while at the same time another article linked here on HN (Experts warn parts of U.S. on verge of being overwhelmed

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