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by jboggan 8y ago
Spearfishing fits into this narrative of escape as well, but to a greater extreme. It's really changed my life since I started two years ago and being thirty feet under the waves stalking in a kelp forest on the weekends affords me an
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by jboggan 8y ago
No one really did back then. It wasn't until the mid 90's that the monster swells there became any sort of common knowledge. I'm hoping to head out there next summer, apparently the undersea island and the wreck are incredibl
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by jboggan 8y ago
I tried to replace my Explorer with the Trackman Marble. Not even close.
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by jboggan 8y ago
I used to install/upgrade ATMs and was horrified that we were replacing the extremely solid OS/2 machines with Windows XP based computing cages (circa 2011). There was no method to update the machines other than sending a technici
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by jboggan 8y ago
This isn't surprising to anyone who dives or spearfishes. You start to notice the body language of the larger fishes as being completely different than their younger counterparts. Only the wary get to be that old. I would also say that
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by jboggan 8y ago
Yes but the fact that they are an optimization fence is a major drawback.
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by jboggan 8y ago
anonymoose - cleanses my techno fugues with laughter.
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by jboggan 8y ago
This is one of my all time favorite blog posts.
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by jboggan 9y ago
Lysenkoism happens in the American and European scientific establishments as well. As an example I would suggest Ancel Keys and the cholesterol hypothesis of heart disease.
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by jboggan 9y ago
Terrible quality control and terrible product development is responsible for this. Principles of mass manufacturing reliable firearms were figured out in the early 20th century and Remington as a company seems to have forgotten how to do th
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by jboggan 9y ago
Using the Google Sheets API to store session history and metadata for a nightly backfill job instead of, you know, a database. The program broke after the creator left and no one could figure out how to bring it back up. The engineer assign
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by jboggan 9y ago
Please elaborate.
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by jboggan 9y ago
MacBook Air 2012 11" for text editing. The dual-GTX 1080 Ti rig in the corner does the heavy lifting.
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by jboggan 9y ago
Looking at that original wetland map makes me better understand the liquefaction zones south of Santa Monica. I'm very happy that my apartment is on the original surface bedrock, but it's amazing how much has been built on relativ
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by jboggan 9y ago
The Martingale pricing strategy
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by jboggan 9y ago
I don't think it was calculated at all. It's highly likely this was just a few lines adding "gun/rifle/revolver/etc." to the blacklist of forbidden search terms for that service. It's the same list co
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by jboggan 9y ago
If you can't find results for "paint guns" then it was clearly a ham-handed political change and not something driven or even vetted by engineering. Also, last I checked, Google returns results for "body disposal",
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by jboggan 9y ago
I agree, weekly I can handle, daily I'll end up unsubscribing or ignoring eventually.
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by jboggan 9y ago
I am surprised, but maybe I should just be impressed that MongoDB has progressed so far that this isn't a big deal all that often.
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by jboggan 9y ago
In grad school scale-free networks were the soup du jour and my advisor was hammering on me to show that the human metabolic networks I studied had that property. "Guaranteed paper in Nature, get on it!", he exhorted. I sensed fol
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by jboggan 9y ago
They aren't still using MongoDB to handle USD deposits / withdrawals are they? I know that was the root cause a few years back when this cropped up. Edit: past context - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428382
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by jboggan 9y ago
This won't be a huge flashy milestone when it happens, but future historians will point to that achievement as an inflection point in space travel. Remember a few short years ago when humans always threw away the rocket after every tri
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by jboggan 9y ago
'But Mr. Krug, at Pantera Capital, said that if Tether were really being used by investors, they would probably also want to buy new Tether when the markets were going up, which has not been the case. Also, they would not always want i
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by jboggan 9y ago
Last year we were working on a rubber ducky debugging chatbot and relying a bit too heavily on StackOverflow data for conversational training data. It frequently gave sarcastic answers, especially if you asked for help concerning regular ex
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by jboggan 9y ago
You are correct about the dates but the regulatory planning and preparation for the CFTC regarding the futures contracts has been a long process. CFTC had jurisdiction and interest in assessing asset pricing conditions leading up to the con
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by jboggan 9y ago
That would be the SEC's domain. If CFTC is getting involved it's probably because they are potentially manipulating the price on a regulated futures contract.
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by jboggan 9y ago
The south side of Santa Monica (Main Street, away from the Promenade and tourist area) is essentially a small town. I know a lot of people not from work or leisure but just from walking up and down Main Street. I don't know a lot of th
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by jboggan 9y ago
Spearfishing is even better!
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by jboggan 9y ago
This gets towards an answer to the question I've always posed to computer scientists seeking to emulate brain function in a program: what is the basic unit of memory? When you drill down to the fundamentals of computer science you get
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by jboggan 9y ago
This is what I thought the article would be about. There are people in my circle who would be angel investors but all they want to talk about instead are which altcoins are likely to moon in the next month. It's a difficult early stage

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