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by jefurii 11y ago
This. You're paying more in the physical store, but you derived benefit from the experience of going in there. If you want to live in a future where you can go to attractive stores and look at physical items, you have to be willing to
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by jefurii 11y ago
> Other than a few big cities, the cost of going to a store in the US is far higher than in Europe, just because e have to actively go to a store, instead of passing them on the way to work. This is what made American stores into big box
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by jefurii 11y ago
When I was in high school my mom (a marriage and family therapist) cajoled me into using something like E-Prime. I had to be really careful when making generalizations around her, and the big no-no was to say that something or someone &quo
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by jefurii 11y ago
My son is 4 years old and very into trains, and we've lots of trips to local train switchyards together. It's interesting how similar it is to the Internet: packets (shipping containers) are received from input devices (ships) at
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by jefurii 11y ago
Documents don't usually preserve themselves. Paper lasts a long time if left in an attic or a closet but can be lost if the wrong person "cleans up". Electronic documents are much more fragile. Media decays or otherwise be
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by jefurii 11y ago
The diagram at least looks a lot like Max/MSP and PureData, which are data-flow tools for processing MIDI and audio data. Could this be used to implement something along those lines?
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by jefurii 11y ago
James Fallows of The Atlantic wrote a lot about Japan in the 1990s, and he had this great observation. In Japan you drive to the station and sit in the car while several people fill your tank, wash your windows, and do other busywork. It s
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by jefurii 11y ago
Sounds like they're warming up the anti-Bernie talking points machine.
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by jefurii 11y ago
> it's a transportation service to connect professional drivers to people getting driven. It looks more like a "service" that destroys a job in which people can support their family and replaces it with another hand-to-mou
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by jefurii 11y ago
How specific is it to routing network traffic? Can it be used for more general data processing?
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by jefurii 11y ago
> I hate the racist and nationalistic undertones whenever this is brought up. I do too. There are two Indian families in my apartment complex who have a breadwinner here on a work visa. I like them and their kids are my son's best
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by jefurii 11y ago
Great way to incentivize your workforce guys. Reminds me of when Circuit City laid off all their most senior salespeople. IIRC this was about six months before the company imploded.
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by jefurii 11y ago
> Comparing a complex software system to an elevator is absurd. No it's not, it's a metaphor, a simplification for the purpose of illustrating a point. It's true that many software systems are complex, but it's still
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by jefurii 11y ago
> did you notice the supposed benefits of systemd yet? Namely faster startup times? Given that I rarely reboot my systems, no. I spend most of my time using my systems, not booting them. [update: clarification, additional snarkiness]
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by jefurii 11y ago
aurelian15 answered my question in another thread. Thanks aurelian15!
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by jefurii 11y ago
After a bit of digging, I foudn that the wall behind the cluster of Thinkpads in the Columbus module is made up of European Drawer Rack modules[0] which are basically 19in racks. NASA has its own International Standard Payload Rack (ISPR)
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by jefurii 11y ago
I wish there was a way to link to things in this by "room", angle, and zoom level. I'm really curious what some of this stuff is, like that green box in the middle of that cluster of Thinkpads on the Columbus module, the blue
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by jefurii 11y ago
There's also SpotTheStation[1]. You can sign up to receive emails whenever the station is scheduled to pass over your location. [1] http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/
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by jefurii 11y ago
There's also this for your text conversion needs. http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonardr/beautifulsoup/bs4/view...
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by jefurii 11y ago
The showrunners don't want to get in trouble when armies of fans type in stuff from screencaps. It's like how cars in movies have fake license plate numbers and telephone numbers all start with 555.
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by jefurii 11y ago
Looks like a more user-friendly version of the everything-is-a-module S-100 bus, letting the user plug things together without "forcing" them to open a case and look at circuit boards. This form factor has been fascinating to me r
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by jefurii 11y ago
> Why do American companies sell this kind of stuff to China and non-democracies in the middle east? They must rationalize it in someway, but I think it's wrong. Pursuit of the almighty Free Market without regard for scruples or mor
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by jefurii 11y ago
"fog computing" is an awesome term!
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by jefurii 11y ago
As a bassist, I'm curious when neuroscientists will think about analyzing the brains of the rest of the rhythm section.
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by jefurii 11y ago
Ha! Yeah I guess you would. When I wrote my comment I was reacting to what I thought your point was: that the console itself might be obsolete and that we should just use binary protocols or some such. Now that I've read some more co
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by jefurii 11y ago
Do you worry that all kinds of devices around you are using old technology like wires, resistors, diodes, and other such?
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by jefurii 11y ago
Tilde.club seemed to be on the verge of starting something like this. SDF has been doing it since the 1980s. https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-...
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by jefurii 11y ago
Rolling Stone runs a lot of articles on difficult topics like the economy and climate change that those other rags should be publishing but don't because they won't risk offending their owners/advertisers. Matt Taibbi and
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by jefurii 11y ago
joeyh++ And with a much better attitude too. Living off the grid certainly helped him come up with some innovative ways to use Git (e.g. git-annex).
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by jefurii 11y ago
All the extreme reactions against Soylent used to amuse and mystify me. Now I understand they must have really been reacting to his blog. Weird.

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