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by jvandonsel 6y ago
If you like this sort of thing then you may also like Samuel Pepys' diaries read in "real time" on twitter. https://twitter.com/samuelpepys
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by jvandonsel 6y ago
"Dartmouth relaxed the rule barring women from its computer center..." Just wow.
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by jvandonsel 6y ago
I love this series of posts. I've always wondered why guitars have irregular tuning and this explanation makes sense.
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by jvandonsel 6y ago
tl;dr
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by jvandonsel 7y ago
Every time I see one I'm reminded of how uncomfortable they are.
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by jvandonsel 7y ago
I'm envious of your USD$0.077/Kwh rate! I pay USD$0.22/Kwh in Massachusetts, with a renewable energy provider.
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Electricity Shock: Toyota Camry Cheaper to Fuel Than a Tesla Model 3(seekingalpha.com)
3 points by jvandonsel 7y ago|3 comments
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by jvandonsel 7y ago
That’s an excellent, terse description of what I’ve found my role as a senior engineer to be. It’s not in the official job description but it’s what I end up doing day to day.
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by jvandonsel 8y ago
Is the 2.0 version labeled as such? Or as "new and improved" ?
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by jvandonsel 8y ago
Agreed. And what's worse is that GM recently announced that Cadillac would be their new flagship EV brand. As a Bolt owner I'm fine owning a Chevy, but I just can't see myself driving something with a Cadillac badge.
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by jvandonsel 8y ago
I could be mis-remembering, but I'm pretty sure my that the cases of beer my dad drank in the 1970's in Ohio came in recycled bottles. They were already scratched up when he bought them.
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by jvandonsel 8y ago
"By creating a whirlpool inside the bottle, you’ve set up a corridor of air connecting the inside of the bottle with the outside air." It didn't appear to me that the small vortex in the video actually reached all the way dow
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by jvandonsel 8y ago
As far as the crane goes, the article indicates that "Wind could cause the block to move like a pendulum, but the crane’s trolley is programmed to counter the movement." That actually seems like the most interesting part of this s
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by jvandonsel 8y ago
There are plans for this: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/science/ticks-lyme-diseas...
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by jvandonsel 9y ago
The nice thing about recur in Clojure is that it won't even compile if the call isn't in the tail position. I've inadvertently made a code change that moved the recur call out of the tail position and the error became immedia
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by jvandonsel 9y ago
“No one recommends these diets for anyone, let alone everyone.” But surely there must be some hacker out there who has decided to try it.
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by jvandonsel 9y ago
Ack! My eyes!. Thank god for the Text Mode Chrome plugin to eliminate that awful background.
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by jvandonsel 9y ago
Sure, but the point of those satellites is not to make a flash in the sky. The whole point of the disco ball is to dazzle.
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by jvandonsel 9y ago
I'd like to see the equivalent map for 'coffee'.
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by jvandonsel 9y ago
I can't be the only one who noticed the similarity to the planet in The Last Jedi. https://fsmedia.imgix.net/b8/50/91/5c/de5d/4948/8e51/fdf72b2...
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by jvandonsel 9y ago
I just burned 10 minutes of my day staring at that animated GIF.
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by jvandonsel 9y ago
Pedantic engineering correction. The units are "watt-hours" or "watt hours", not watt/hours.
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by jvandonsel 9y ago
Yeah, I also trained my kids from an early age to hit the mute button when a commercial comes on. Without that magic button we can't possibly watch live TV.
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by jvandonsel 9y ago
Very nice, and will be much nicer when the bugs are worked out. It looks like the catalog Concertmaster is using is rather limited, though. For example, for Thomas Adès only 5 pieces are listed, though Spotify has many more.
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by jvandonsel 9y ago
If you're stuck at "Loading..." on your Mac, click on the Concertmaster icon in the nav bar, and select "Open Concertmaster"
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by jvandonsel 9y ago
What could go wrong?
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by jvandonsel 9y ago
Violin. (It's really, really hard)
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by jvandonsel 9y ago
No FAQ, no nuthin. Just a button allowing an unknown site to connect to my Spotify account. Maybe it's legit and useful, but I'm not going to bite.
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by jvandonsel 9y ago
Is there a practical use case for this other than "ain't it cool"?
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by jvandonsel 9y ago
Yeah, a lot of otherwise intelligent people are tripped up by the term "exponential, as in "Hey, the 2 is an exponent, so it must be exponential, right?"

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