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by jhbadger 2y ago
Yeah, 18 is like a cat's age, very rare for a dog. Shibu inus tend to live a bit longer than the typical decade or so most dogs do, but even for them, 18 is a long life.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
This sort of thing happens a lot, and is of course legal even if it isn't polite. I remember a decade or so ago when having "celebrity" voices for your GPS was a thing and there was an interview by the actor Michael Caine abo
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by jhbadger 2y ago
It was unfortunate (at least for East Coasters) that the Computer Museum moved to the West Coast in 1999 -- I used to enjoy visiting it in Boston in the 1980s and 1990s. But I suppose with the decline of DEC and the rise of Microsoft and Ap
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by jhbadger 2y ago
There are times and places (including the 18th century) that seem like they could be interesting to live in, but then I consider the lack of indoor plumbing. It's not just the convenience -- the lack of hygienic facilities was a major
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by jhbadger 2y ago
The Argentinians claim they have a right to (part of) Antarctica and have made some attempts to create settlements there, not very successfully. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Antarctica
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I think if they took your advice, people would complain that they were selling misleadingly empty jars (even if they correctly specified the amount you were getting on the label).
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by jhbadger 2y ago
There is a misconception that the US is just buying Chinese goods with dollars and not selling them anything, but this isn't true. The US exports hundreds of billions of dollars of goods to China every year, from agricultural products,
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Another thing that may have played a role is that traditionally Penguins were published in orange covers with black and white being the only available colors besides orange. A penguin becomes an obvious mascot under these limitations (I sup
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by jhbadger 2y ago
One of the reasons I like computers is that they let me do things I couldn't do before even if others could without computers. I mean, think about the revolution in desktop publishing in the 1980s -- a person could use software to ma
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by jhbadger 2y ago
To refer to the city in Arizona?
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Tommaso Campanella certainly was and was jailed by the Inquisition. Although like Giordano Bruno, it is hard to know exactly which of his many nonstandard beliefs the Church disliked more. Campanella wrote a book attacking Aristotle ("
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Go find some authentic Chinese/Vietnamese/Indian/etc restaurants that are run by and largely attract those immigrant communities. They tend to be tiny hole-in-the-wall places in strip malls next to nail salons and the like. Y
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Not really. He certainly got some things wrong like heavier things falling faster than lighter ones, but he wrote on an enormous variety of topics, from physics, to biology, to literature, to ethics. His knowledge was broader than it was
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by jhbadger 2y ago
And although the Z80 was popular, that $200 cost was non-trivial. Probably the whole reason the 8-bit world was split between the Z80 and the 6502 was that the 6502 was much cheaper.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I've been to small indie stores and restaurants that don't take credit cards at all. Some only accept physical cash, others accept debit cards but not credit cards (because credit cards cost more for them to handle). If you just s
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I happen to actually be a a computational biologist whose work could be considered "esoteric and technical" and whose papers are only fully understood by others in my field. But the fact is every paper of mine (and everybody els
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Nothing is really original. That's why you can make finite lists of the possible plots of books and movies. It's why TVtropes is a thing. Everything is just a mashup of things before.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
It's the assumption that they probably aren't "American" because they don't look like their ancestors came here on the Mayflower that many find offensive.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
>I can’t imagine telling a class in even the safest parts of the United States “Go wander the streets and interview a stranger you suspect to be foreign” In the US of course it isn't even just the overblown "stranger danger&quo
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by jhbadger 2y ago
And are generally included with every MicroSD card in fact.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
It depends on what type (and also whether you distinguish computational biology from bioinformatics). The people who create new algorithms for sequence assembly, protein folding, etc. tend to be computer scientists who got into biology. On
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by jhbadger 2y ago
There seems to be a trend of people naming new things (perhaps unintentionally) after classic computer games. We just had a post here on a system called Loom which apparently isn't the classic adventure game. I'm half expecting so
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Also in English, "Potemkin X" is the standard phrase, even when referring to post-Tsarist times (and sometimes even to refer to non-Russian cases like Potemkin villages in North Korea to fool visiting Japanese of Korean descent as
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by jhbadger 2y ago
This is actually how I discovered CHIP-8. Yes, I know it dates back to the 1970s, but it was the version on the HP48 in the 1990s that introduced me to it.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
>Just realized that the Cybertruck is an ode to millennial modernism, and might just be kind of a shark jumping moment for it. This ad would count as another shark jumping moment. Maybe it's on its way out. The problem with the Cybe
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by jhbadger 2y ago
That's because the HHMI as planned by Hughes was kind of a scam. It took legal decisions against his family to establish HHMI as a serious biomedical funding agency.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Except what are pianos, guitars, cameras etc.? Also products made by companies that are equally "soulless" (they make these things to make money just like Apple). And in terms of aesthetics you can think technological products are
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I was expecting a programming language that was based on Tolkien's Elvish languages of Quenya or Sindarin (the way that some programming languages have been based on non-English languages) and although this isn't the case, I see i
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by jhbadger 2y ago
A lot of languages like pseudo-English words. German calls mobile phones "Handy". Apparently it dates back to a defunct brand name of Motorola walkie-talkies (two-way handheld radios common from the 1940s-1990s).
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Probably because in humans sight is the primary sense and hearing secondary. Deaf people face a lot of challenges, but not nearly as many as blind people (amd I say this as someone with -10 prescriptions, which is close to legal blindness w

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