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by jaystraw 3y ago
i now have a word to describe why i found this hilarious, thank you
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by jaystraw 3y ago
i'm curious as to the transducers used for the playback experiments. also wondering if there aren't things like sibilance in human speech that make communication if perhaps not understood, at least audible to them. interesting!
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by jaystraw 3y ago
2 things: first, absolutely fascinating topic, and solid write up. i skimmed through certain bits but am wondering: "Turns out, the survey was off a lot more than any of us expected" did you mean off from the title, or the surveyo
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by jaystraw 3y ago
Anyone in the threads I collapsed should buy a speed square and read the booklet. Possibly over beer or tea.
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by jaystraw 3y ago
That was incredibly readable, I suppose the test is my summation: Attosecond pulses are useful to observe changes in atoms as they happen. Of course, that's like when people ask what brought me to Alaska and I tell them a car. Ha ha ha
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by jaystraw 3y ago
but it's rabbit season.
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by jaystraw 3y ago
It's such a good idea, it needs to be implemented by force! If it is such a good idea, instead of commandeering the infrastructure of others, why couldn't the gov't just set up its own email service to compete?
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by jaystraw 3y ago
Off the road system and in villages sure, but in Anchorage where I've lived for over a decade...not really. Maybe 1.5, and some things like avocados are kind of a joke, but I've lived quite a few places in the lower 48 and it&#x27
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by jaystraw 3y ago
When my mom came up here to visit, her first time to Alaska, I don't think her phone left camera mode. I didn't have a smartphone when I moved up so never had that problem, but boy I still try sometimes.
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by jaystraw 3y ago
Growing up, I had a best friend (still a good friend though we live very far apart now) his dad used AOL on top of his broadband through the 2000's...I moved away maybe 2006 but couldn't figure out why said dad was waiting for t
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by jaystraw 3y ago
i've backspaced over trying to be nice but i don't think you a) could've made the dtmf tones, b) matched the impedance, c) modulated the serial signal even if you made a connection please prove me wrong
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by jaystraw 3y ago
Where I grew up north of Philadelphia in the 90's, the cable companies bid for municipalities and were given a monopoly -- I grew up with Lower Bucks Cablevision, for example. Since the local government got a cut, I would imagine that&
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by jaystraw 3y ago
20 years ago, I worked as the plate person at a newspaper: we had two million dollar kodak plate "printers" -- printer is the wrong word, but the emulsion on the plates could be hit by UV light and dissolved in a chemical bath iir
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by jaystraw 3y ago
if i'm clothed 98% of the day, it was a bad day. i wear as little as possible at all times. takes all kinds, however, but i'm sitting in mccarthy, alaska rn, in a robe i brought from my home in anchorage, so i'd only have to
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by jaystraw 3y ago
I came here to comment on G-clamp. I wonder where the author is from. I started building things as a kid, I've worked for quite a few contractors over the decades, I've sold some of my wooden creations and met many skilled people
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by jaystraw 3y ago
you win. you win with this post. i can see the cop dropping his hot dog and getting mustard on his uniform. "there's been this creepy car outside my house for days, could someone come check it out?"
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by jaystraw 3y ago
No, the Dalton Highway terminates at Deadhorse, you need permission to go past it.
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by jaystraw 3y ago
Alaskan and touring musician here. Coverage on the road system up here is great, believe it or not. In 2015, my band was on tour Outside, and as we headed through spokane, across Idaho heading to Missoula, I ached with anticipation: I was g
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by jaystraw 3y ago
I can't access the group, but MK Productions' Killer Bob Saget 2000 changed my life, as a 10 year old learning QBASIC in the 90's. Then seeing his name again as I learned Vim as a young adult. Wow. I'm 37 but never thoug
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by jaystraw 3y ago
Being an asthmatic American old enough to remember going to buy an albuterol inhaler sans prescription, thank you for bringing this up. But I think you mischaracterize it, based on my (possibly wrong) understanding: switching propellants ma
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by jaystraw 3y ago
I'm sure this isn't in the spirit or meaning of what you said, but to respond jokingly, I haven't found many censored anythings :-P turns out...
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by jaystraw 3y ago
...after decades of what i considered friendship, here you are on hn talking about my horse battery staple
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by jaystraw 3y ago
The few OPs here are surprising -- if you read TFA, it's about how political perturbations (putting it lightly) affect not just what is eaten, but what ingredients are promoted. The interviewee -- I don't know her, but she has a w
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by jaystraw 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand. When the "old paradigm" was new, computing power was much more limited. They couldn't afford to "burn" any computing power. But it's only stuck around, because now we have more c
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Hierarchical vs. Tags vs. – Common Ground?
4 points by jaystraw 3y ago|0 comments
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by jaystraw 3y ago
I agree. But are there any better solutions than manually ln -s? I'm in a band, and also manage booking for a venue. I have $venue/poster/$date\ $bands/$posterfile. I also have $band/poster/$date\ $venue I don&
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by jaystraw 3y ago
This story is written creatively, yet succinctly. Fantastic.
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by jaystraw 3y ago
imo, he knew what he was doing was illegal, but didn't think it was wrong.
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by jaystraw 3y ago
I wake up with songs in my head. And as a professional musician in bands of different genres, and fills in for other genres, the "languages" are far removed. My banjo player recently told me our mandolin player describes things in
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by jaystraw 3y ago
fast is a noun, got it

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