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by jaysonelliot 7y ago
Huge touchscreens are a cheap way to avoid the expense of designing an ergonomic dashboard. Manufacturers don't care that they're a UX nightmare, ruin night vision, or take the driver's attention away from the road. They just
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by jaysonelliot 7y ago
Yes, drivers routinely clip the curbs as they go for the ideal racing line through each corner.
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by jaysonelliot 7y ago
"Too cheap to meter" was a common assumption about the future of nuclear power when it first began. If you only look at the amount of power available based on the raw materials, it's a reasonable prediction. They simply didn&
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by jaysonelliot 7y ago
An online community is notoriously difficult to get off the ground unless you've already got a built-in audience that's waiting for it. I'd focus your efforts initially on outreach and engagement, and keeping the features of
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by jaysonelliot 7y ago
It really is clickbait. Nowhere in the article does it talk about "destroying the world." You'd suppose they were referring to some kind of near-miss from a massive body causing, I don't know, gravitational forces or som
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by jaysonelliot 7y ago
What I'd also like to know is why a cluster of gas stations ends up with different prices. If you have a competitor next door advertising gas at, say, $3.95 per gallon, why would you put up a giant sign saying yours cost $4.05? Even mo
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by jaysonelliot 7y ago
This is the best approach to bookmarking I've seen yet. I manage a multi-author blog, and I've tried lots of different ways to share story ideas with the authors. This provides an easy way to send out the day's reading. Whate
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by jaysonelliot 7y ago
I've actually been searching for tapes of 120 minutes, since all you can usually find online are snippets. Did you ever digitize them?
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
This was a problem as soon as ICQ and other instant messengers appeared in the '90s. Now, the issue seems to have resolved itself thanks to the emoji. Whether it's a Slack or a text, the appearance of a thumbs up emoji is a friend
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
I love the way your dad's mind worked. Sounds like a great guy to be raised by.
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
Based on personal experience, the older the hardware, the more resilient it is. A lot of that is probably down to simplicity, but the fact that it's from a time when electronics were expected to be repairable and maintained is probably
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
I'm lucky enough to look young for my age, so I leave my early jobs off my resume, and don't put my graduation year on there. While I don't exactly hide the fact that I'm in my late 40s, I do find myself avoiding some di
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
You'd think by now that people would have learned the only TLD with real value is .com, and to avoid "gold rush" mentality on country codes or newly minted TLDs. And if they didn't learn that, at least learn not to trust
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
Finally, someone will actually mean to type "ducking," and it won't just be autocorrect.
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
The article claims that the NCAP's problems with automated systems was that "apparently they work too well." It then goes on to enumerate a host of problems with Tesla's Autopilot, including a lack of geofencing, poor mo
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
Kurt Vonnegut once said that no one should start writing before the age of 40. Given the dire economic prospects of writing as a career, it seems to make a lot of sense to wait until later in life to begin writing professionally. It gives
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
This is very solid, actionable advice that I can follow. Great point about "work doesn't always look like work." Thank you!
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
This story sits side-by-side with the recent reporting by the NY Times that we're facing potential biosphere-level effects from an unprecedented die-off of insect life. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
Two important points in that essay: You will need friends You will need mentors This is 100% true, so I have a question. How do you find those when you're already spending all of your time on your startup and new to town without a
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
The second photo shows the ramp that they discovered.
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
I'm glad people are interested in my notebook! Here's a thread I just put up with a link to the PDF and photos of the notebook in action: https://twitter.com/JaysonElliot/status/1057490478625705985 The f
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
I've printed my own custom notebooks to track my planned vs. actual daily activity in 30 minute blocks, inspired by Deep Work. This would make an excellent companion to that. The lessons I've learned from that book have been incre
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
During their best years, when Sears was a genre-defining behemoth, workers owned 25% of the company, and a warehouse worker could get the same kind of retirement package a salesman could if they had the seniority. They build an empire that
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
I have a CFFA3000 and an SDFloppy II. Both are great, but I prefer the CFFA3000 and use it regularly. CFFA3000: http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforA... SDFloppy II: http://ww
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
Personally, I'd just get them an Apple II. They're still plentiful and cheap to find on eBay, and it's exactly what you're looking for. There are modern hardware upgrades you can find to use CF or SD cards in place of fl
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The Secret to Aging Well? Contentment(nytimes.com)
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
Slightly off-topic, but it's cool to see David Mikkelson posting in that Usenet group as "Snopes," as that's where he first used the name, even before launching the urban myth-busting site in the '90s.
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
I'm not sure I would call that "browsable," but it seems like there is a lot of great work that's gone into cataloging the philosophers, ideas, and connections. A less experimental and more usable UI would make this a gr
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
Monochromatic interfaces can be so beautiful. I'd love to use a modern GUI that adopted this aesthetic. Even though the content of documents would be in color, having the UI itself restrained to a simple monochrome palette would be ver
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
One of the reasons I was excited for an EV future was the prospect of quieter cities and towns, as the noise pollution from legions of internal combustion engines gave way to the quieter sound of electric cars. The pedestrian safety argumen

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