jeffwass

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   by jeffwass 5y ago

   brilliant method of embedding his name in the code without wasting lines for comments
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   by jeffwass 5y ago

   Thanks for that link, pretty illuminating. For anyone curious, breakdown of US power generation in 2021 was (4200 TWh total): Coal : 22% Natural Gas : 38% Nuclear : 19% Hydroelectric : 6% Other Renewables : 14% Curiously, h
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   by jeffwass 5y ago

   Also, the referendum was legally non-binding.
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   Trump's social media app goes live in Apple's App Store(cnn.com)

   26 points by jeffwass 5y ago|19 comments
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   by jeffwass 5y ago

   Whoa! So weird to see pg and sama usernames as green!
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   by jeffwass 5y ago

   Removing a handful of words from a list of potential word choices is not even remotely censorship.
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   Instagram failed to act on identity theft, says novelist(bbc.co.uk)

   9 points by jeffwass 5y ago|1 comments
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   On a similar note, my friend made a 24 hour time-lapse video of the Prayer Plant (Red Maranta), collapsed into 90 seconds. The leaves close up at daytime, but open up at night, through a process called Nyctinasty. It's amazing how moti
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   by jeffwass 5y ago

   Wow, thanks for the link! What a great guy, he really engaged with almost everybody who asked a question.
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    by jeffwass 5y ago

    Great quote. For me, as a physics major, calculus didn’t “click” until I had to use it for solving physics problems.
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    by jeffwass 5y ago

    Thanks for this!
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    What was really cool about the TRS-80 is that the graphics were really represented as a custom character encoding. The screen was 64 cols and 16 rows. Exactly 1 kB. And as you said, each character could show either the lower 127 aasci chara
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    by jeffwass 5y ago

    The second sentence in the article : “I downloaded it and tried to figure out how to run the Scott Adams text adventures.” Weird coincidence. Literally just last night I was looking to download and play some of the old Scott Adams text adve
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    How London almost got its own Eiffel Tower(cnn.com)

    1 points by jeffwass 5y ago|0 comments
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    by jeffwass 5y ago

    Which apps do you use on the ipad?
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    Ignoring your sarcasm and focusing on your second point : One big example is SpaceX. I don’t think they’d be as successful as they are right now if they didn’t have some of that initial funding from NASA to help them bootstrap to where they
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    NASA plans to retire the ISS by 2031 by crashing it into the Pacific Ocean(cnn.com)

    36 points by jeffwass 5y ago|62 comments
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    This is interesting. Can I ask approx how many yearly goals you rewrite each day? For me personally what I found is having too much to write or set up at the start of the day leads to my abandoning of that attempted plan (ie, why I gave up
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    Thanks for the link, but your comment is also a bit misleading. He’s not just casually inquiring the Texas Education Agency, he’s burdening school districts on this wild goose chase which is most likely a political stunt in his campaign for
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    Once in 5th or 6th grade we had a math homework of a few dozen problems multiplying 3 or 4 digit numbers together. Totally tedious. Instead of mindlessly doing it, I spent a few hours making a BASIC program that did the multiplication, but
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    Do you wear a headband or something else to secure them? I haven’t tried running with my AirPods yet, as I feared they would eventually fall out.
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    > I won't touch leverage with a 10 foot pole. But with a long enough pole and a firm-enough place to stand, you could move the world! <ducks>
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    While I agree with you about the observation that many non-fiction books seem unnecessarily padded with filler, I think it’s because otherwise the book looks physically inferior and/or would be expected to cost less. And they’ve decide
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    What I learned from my time in grad school (physics) is that at least for the hard sciences, reading is not enough, you must DO. Unfortunately this isn’t easy. It takes physical effort and will power to resist just reading over the words an
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    > Q: What is the sound of one hand clapping and how can it be monetized? >A: One hand clapping is the sound of a startup that can't get funding. LOL, that’s some serious zen insight right there, brilliant!
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    There is an embedded OS called Xinu which does stand for “Xinu is not Unix”, and also happens to be Unix spelled backwards. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinu
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    by jeffwass 5y ago

    Sure. We’ve been doing quantum theory with pencil and paper for over a century!
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    Congrats on earning out your advance! What’s the work that goes into one of your books years after publication? Or, since you mentioned your advance, I assume you have traditionally published. In that case I thought your publisher would han
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    by jeffwass 5y ago

    Not really, the coating on fluorescent tubes uses a quite different mechanism. The phosphor coating of fluorescent tubes downconverts UV light into visible wavelengths (is, lower energy/frequency) through the process of fluorescence.
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    This wss literally a plot point in HBO's Silicon Valley : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrEjaZw95kI (Russ Hanneman searching the landfill site for a lost thumb drive with his crypto).