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by kweinber 10y ago
Great advice given years ago, "When you don't know what you want, what you want is sleep."
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by kweinber 10y ago
George W Bush proudly didn't use email and called the Internet the "Internets". Pretty big difference.
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by kweinber 10y ago
It is a common case in helpdesks I've collaborated with to fix corrupted Excel files by opening them in LibreOffice and resaving them to Excel. Also, Excel's practice of munging CSVs requires an initial read in LibreOffice someti
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by kweinber 10y ago
Kind of like MLK, or Malcolm X, or Marcus Garvey, etc. etc.? What about those minorities wrongfully imprisoned for long periods of time for nothing short of suspicion before being released with no charges (or worse)? I'm pretty sure t
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Ant Invasion(arstechnica.com)
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by kweinber 10y ago
F =ma. The force you need depends on your acceleration requirements. Going uphill, taking turns, slowing down etc all make mass/weight very material. Edit: I know weight and mass aren't the same but we are all considering the s
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by kweinber 10y ago
As someone with multiple family members with severe peanut allergies, this sounded nightmarish.
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by kweinber 10y ago
RMS is absolutist, does that make the FSF evil? If one is absolutist about being against rape or child crimes, what evil does that cause? The courage and consistency of ones conviction shouldn't be the basis of judging its merit.
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by kweinber 11y ago
It is the "Chariots of Fire" theme song by Vangelis. It was part of a soundtrack for a movie of the same name that was popular around that time.
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by kweinber 11y ago
The best podcast I've found in years is Scott Carrier's Home of the brave (homebrave.com) Some of his episodes are the best audio pieces Ive ever heard. I listen to my podcasts using Overcast for iPhone. I used to use Beyondpod fo
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by kweinber 11y ago
Agreed, I usually warm up the engineering crowd with a few quotes from Shopenhauer or Malthus, but Sartre is always good for a few yucks.
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by kweinber 11y ago
"Where do you think fish biodegrade to?" Soylent 1.5, that was just before they switched to algal oil. I wonder what Soylent 3.0 will be made of?
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by kweinber 11y ago
I saw a presentation on it done by one of the officials who did the cleanup (he was actually the same guy in charge of body recovery in Kosovo death camps, brought in because Tristate was so grisly) . He explained that the guy who ran th
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by kweinber 11y ago
What amazed me is that thr police have restricted his freedom before even convicting him of anything... Seems like a lot of power- anyone here know how thry justify these orders? "[These orders of protection] are used when someone has
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by kweinber 11y ago
This is an ad for Toptal.
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by kweinber 11y ago
... and beano.
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by kweinber 11y ago
I use Aqua Data Studio - http://www.aquafold.com It has gotten pricier over the years but I spend so much time in databases that it is worth sticking with a familiar tool that does a lot across all the different databases my cl
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by kweinber 11y ago
Maybe he was more interested in spending time with their mothers than with the kids... Very few parents prioritize their kids before themselves even if many feel that is what they one is supposed to do.
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by kweinber 11y ago
It is interesting how pervasive this still is: from the Botullism toxin injections to the notions of femme fatales and songs about girls being "toxic", "poison", or having that sickly "heroin chic" look. What d
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by kweinber 11y ago
I had developed a truly marvelous explanation of that paragraph but I couldn't fit it into the margin of this page.
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by kweinber 11y ago
Isn't using the word "bubble" against official HN rules?
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by kweinber 11y ago
http://jutgetflux.com has blue-light reducing software for almost any platform for free.
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by kweinber 11y ago
I support the right of folks to do either drug if they want, but I don't think it is fair for nicotine to be portrayed as safer than it is... it fairly well understood to be an addictive cardiac nightmare. I miss the neurostimulant eff
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by kweinber 11y ago
"nicotine itself is not the problem" Be careful with this... It is the vapor salesman's false pitch. Nicotine is a known neurotoxin, it increases inflammation, lowers your hdl, raises your ldl, and stresses your endocrin
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by kweinber 11y ago
I thought the article was going to be about the new Ubuntu release.... what a dissapointment!
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by kweinber 11y ago
"Taylor seems quite out of touch with the shape of the industry here." She is VERY in touch with its shape... And she is trying to change it. She also famously ditched Spotify and has been consistent in using her fame and leverage
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by kweinber 11y ago
+1... We could have learned something from a response.
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by kweinber 11y ago
Separation from close friends and family is correlated with hotel room stays (especially for work) . Lack of meaningful social interaction and melancholy go hand in hand. You can have meaningful relationships in cyber-space but bandwidth is
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by kweinber 11y ago
The Denial of Death by Becker. (The discussions of homosexuality are outdated but the rest is amazing). The Wisdom of Insecurity by Watts helped center my adolescence.
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by kweinber 11y ago
>It's no different than the Monty Python and the Holy Grail credits running gag about those responsible being sacked. Sure it's different. One is a comedy program and the other is real life.

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