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by jjslocum3 4y ago
Aardwolf mud: https://www.aardwolf.com/
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Is the Cloud Running Out of Space?(aston.ac.uk)
4 points by jjslocum3 4y ago|0 comments
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
I've witnessed the reverse happen very successfully: Fortune-500 company signs a multi-million-$$, multi-year contract with a vendor while at the same time investing in them.
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
Actually, the way I learned it in probably the '80s was that during the colonial era in the Northeast US, the indigenous peoples (Indians) would resume attacks against frontier colonists during late-autumn thaws (cold weather typically
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
Looks like the inmates are running the asylum at Stanford. <ducks and runs for cover>
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
Which begs the question, why not just use Dollars?
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
This entire comment seems to reprise the FTX/Larry David Super Bowl commercial. I'm sure there's a term-of-art for the tactic in debating circles (like "straw-man argument," or "appeal to authority"). I th
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
This was a common practice in the early 20th century, as many of the wealthiest in the US owned and traveled by private rail car.
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
By way of thanking you for this informative little summary of issues involved in creating YouTube content, I went ahead and subscribed. I'd be interested to hear from you in a few days what impact this HN post had on your subscriber nu
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
Also what I think is being asked: ...if the photon comes to rest on earth, and we compare clocks... IIRC, the deceleration of the photon relative to me (as it comes to rest on earth as would a returning space traveler) would "reverse&q
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
I suppose jet engines don't need to be restricted to airplanes, although I'm reminded of a long-ago Darwin Death Award involving such an attempt: https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.html
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New jet fuel concept scrubs CO2 from the atmosphere(sciencedirect.com)
6 points by jjslocum3 4y ago|5 comments
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
From one of the authors: "It should also remove SO₂ and chlorides from the atmosphere, and may reduce residence time of CFCs HFCs and PFCs. As far as I know, this is the only proposed alternative net-zero GHG fuel with aircraft range
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
I spent the entire decade of the 2010's WFH, 1500 miles away from my company's HQ. I rose through the ranks (albeit more slowly than some of my peers), and left the company on good terms. Thusly anecdotally armed, I can tell you t
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
When Java came out, before it stabilized, it was often jokingly called C--.
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
It definitely discriminates against the Salvation Army, Buskers, and Panhandlers.
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
> there are numerous other search engines available to any user with web access — Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex being the most popular, outside of more country-specific platforms like China’s Baidu. Yandex is a country-specific platform. For t
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
> ...studied the disconnect between the excitement with which kindergartners and first graders greet learning and the boredom and disaffection that seems to overtake many by high school It seems myopic to search for the answer to this di
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Behind the Scenes of a Twitter Censorship(alexberenson.substack.com)
8 points by jjslocum3 4y ago|2 comments
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
This does verge on political - nevertheless it's an interesting look at how a powerful Pfizer board member was able to get a Pfizer critic banned from the platform.
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
This is a timely question, given the front-page headline on this morning's WSJ: "U.S. Core Inflation Hit New Four-Decade High Last Month." Here's an excerpt: "Prices excluding energy and food rose 6.6% The increase
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How to Settle the Great Chess Cheating Scandal(project-syndicate.org)
1 points by jjslocum3 4y ago|0 comments
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
>asserting that the key to achieving true expertise in any skill is simply a matter of practicing. It's been a while since I read it, but my takeaway was that the depth of familiarity brought about by 10k hours of practice in an are
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Multiple pro-Assange demonstrations planned for tomorrow(itwire.com)
3 points by jjslocum3 4y ago|0 comments
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
Well put... Animal Farm is really about Agile. All engineers are equal, but some are more equal than others!
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
In the same way that few ReST implementations are truly ReSTful, few agile implementations are truly agile. The Agile Manifesto came into style, then predictably a cottage industry of small companies grew up around it, with the business mod
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
This engineer thinks good engineers are much more fungible than good salespeople. The engineer's output is worthless unless someone else can be convinced to pay for it. It will be more difficult to automate the sales function than the
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
I wasn't in the room, but my manager was. Is that you, Preserved Killick?
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
In 1996, my employer got a contract to work with AT&T to build a website that provided regular event updates from the Atlanta Olympics. In 1996, this was a very big deal, such a newish concept that the project was written up in AdAge or
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
The US TV series "Impractical Jokers" ran a few sketches in the last few years where they did exactly this...you'd probably enjoy.

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