killjoywashere

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   by killjoywashere 6y ago

   Here’a a thought: most companies don’t actually want to serve a ton of extra pages. For example, airlines just want to fly passengers. They don’t care who puts those butts in seats and they would fully acknowledge that they aren’t able to d
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   by killjoywashere 6y ago

   > the very earliest iterations of Windows Calculator, starting in 1989, didn't use the rational arithmetic library, instead using floating point arithmetic and the much greater loss of precision this implies. As I recall, there was
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   by killjoywashere 6y ago

   Real life impact of Dunning Krueger indeed.
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   by killjoywashere 6y ago

   This needs one of those galactic brain memes.
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   by killjoywashere 6y ago

   If you are an introvert traveling, I strongly recommend lots of reading. Bring a nice camp chair (I have tried several, my current favorite is the Helinox Sunset with rockers and a small camp-stool-turned-ottoman) and sit in the shady spots
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   by killjoywashere 6y ago

   Good catch, corrected. He was a member of the board of directors for 37 years. I apologize, I'm recalling from his autobiography, which I read about 23 years ago, on loan from a friend.
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   by killjoywashere 6y ago

   I think it's worth keeping in mind that specialization is in the eye of the beholder. Among physicians, I'm a specialist (a pathologist). In the pathology community I'm a generalist (I don't have subspecialty training),
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   by killjoywashere 6y ago

   Again, I will observe that even though more people will most certainly die from solar and wind installations due to falls and machinery accidents, there is no catastrophic downside. So as much as I think Ansel Adams (37-year board member Of
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   by killjoywashere 6y ago

   It may be worth noting that the companies that control the military nuclear stuff also control the civilian nuclear stuff.
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    "This relationship can be checked experimentally..." Einstein, 1905
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    In addition to law enforcement, keep in mind intel, counter-intel, and private-yet-national (e.g. Mandiant, Kaspersky, Sophos, et al)
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    And another 5 years of students will have a new layer of Microsoft obfuscation to muddle through until they sort out that the *nix world is the better alternative.
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    Looking for old story “Do you have storage for all those packets?”

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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    Yes, meridians (on which latitude is measured) being a special case of great circle routes that happen to pass through the poles. That said, as a practical matter, you are more frequently contemplating a chart of smaller scale than "gl
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    Haven't bought a new MacBook since the original rMBP (or any other new laptop), which I ordered before the keynote was finished.
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    Can’t talk to the statute mile, but the nautical mile is sublime: one minute of latitude. The amount of math you can do in your head with a system with so many factors of 2, 3, and 5 is truly amazing.
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    Seriously, there are already disinformation agents hard at work across the internet, at least one in this thread. By November this cold snap will be tied to Benghazi and a pedo ring run out of a pizza joint.
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    My brother's house is currently 38°. Inside. Also, gas is not useful for a central, forced air system because it depends on the electric motor driving the blower.
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    I think the question was more about what do you optimize autoplay on if you are worried about ethics. Convexity trumps understanding. Method: Randomize exposure to autoplay, associate with other user data. Now you just have to decide what l
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    The largest and most sophisticated attack is still out there, we just haven't detected it yet.
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    Apropos this result demonstrating better predictions of orbital mechanics from observation than with Kepler's laws. https://phys.org/news/2021-02-machine-theory-nature-science....
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    My experience with turtles is confined to reef diving. Turtles are unusual in that they are extremely tolerant of hypoxia. It may be that they have adapted to a relatively shallow network that doesn't parse much, but is pretty good at
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    I have an original retina MacBook Pro, ordered the day they were announced, before the presentation was over, in fact. Works fine. I have ThinkPads that are even older. Tesla was cutting corners, no doubt about it. As the regulatory burden
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    Their subscribers and advertisers can exert profit influence. And the law, via laws against libel and slander can be used to impose civil penalties (perhaps criminal as well). I believe you will find 28USC4101 and 47USC588 of particular int
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    Actually, yes, they did. This is why, for decades, photographers collected pieces of red, green, yellow, and blue glass, gel filters, and polarizers to put in front of or between their lenses, seeking ways to increase or mute contrast as de
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    probably a reasonable starting point: http://arclanguage.org/
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    Well now, this seems like an article that should be on the front page now and again. Awareness of the persistent imminent threat of nuclear armegeddon should beat most posts on <framework>.
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    Musk has degrees in economics and physics. My undergrad is in physics and my dad is an engineer. They are definitely different skillsets. When I decided to build a treehouse for my kids, I came up with a clean sheet design. My dad saw my dr
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    IBM builds their own line of processors and operates some of the biggest supercomputers (e.g. Summit at Oak Ridge). I know at least one guy who works on a pretty ambitious project at Google, and last I talked to him, he lusted after the ins
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    by killjoywashere 6y ago

    Imagine a USB-C compliant version of MagSafe. That would be awesome. not sure if the physics work out (can you efficiently push that many bits through a magnet like that?)