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by lcuff 5y ago
It turns out, they use a variation on the transparent aluminum referenced in "Star Trek, the Voyage Home", which can be magnetized or not, based on control from the tricorder.
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by lcuff 5y ago
I agree with questioning the sanity ... There are likely all sorts of advantages and disadvantages that might exist at this level of granularity. For example who is on the inside at the start of the first curve of the race? Are the start
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Prince Philip, Husband of Queen Elizabeth, Dead at 99(cbsnews.com)
2 points by lcuff 5y ago|0 comments
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by lcuff 6y ago
Frank Abagnale (of Catch Me if You Can fame) gave a talk at Google (available on YouTube) in which he said he doesn't possess a debit card: Too much risk. With a credit card, there's no risk. You can contest any charge, and it&#
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by lcuff 6y ago
There is a delicious film called "Thirty two short films about Glenn Gould" which is a must for the curious. A brilliant piece of film-making about a quirky genius. It is 32 short films, each 2 to 6 minutes long as I recall. Ava
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by lcuff 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying the context of your question. Very helpful, and changes the tone completely. 1/2 of the people in the U.S. "don't pay taxes", that is, don't make enough money to owe taxes. So that's one
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by lcuff 6y ago
In addition to being very complex, tax codes change yearly. Whoever might take this on would have to take on that a tax code change made in December needs to be interpreted: What questions need to be asked to fill in the new line on one o
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by lcuff 6y ago
Yes, that 1-4 was my ordering. Interesting, alternative (external stimulation). As I think about external stimulation though, I wonder if being stimulated by people is fundamentally different from other stimulating things (art, ideas, the
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by lcuff 6y ago
The scale titles are terrible. Based on Kersey's work, I think of the four scales as answers to four questions: (1) How do you get your batteries recharged: Extraverts do so by being with people, introverts by the world of ideas. (
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by lcuff 6y ago
Not a fan of the death penalty in general, for multiple reasons, but anesthesia administered by gas, as before surgery, seems way more certain than searching for a vein. After that, no method of execution is going to be cruel, assuming the
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by lcuff 6y ago
I mostly agree with you, but as somebody who is not on the autism spectrum 99% of the time, I still have had moments where I'm incredibly socially awkward, as most folks have had. Add this kind of temporal factor, and the spectrum spr
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by lcuff 6y ago
> And for the majority of local networks there's a fundamental asymmetry between the local and external network. The majority of nodes on local networks only ever need to connect _out_ to the external network, they don't need i
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by lcuff 6y ago
From the article: "Boeing did not perform an end-to-end test of the entire software suite" I once worked with a guy who did a solo piece of work and after 3 months of effort declared it done. My boss asked me to test it. In 10 m
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by lcuff 6y ago
The fact that such a great proportion of human knowledge is now available to such a great proportion of human beings is enormous, and holds enormous ongoing potential. The fact that every nut-job on earth ("The earth is flat!") n
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by lcuff 6y ago
I've been a huge Alan Kay admirer for years. The statement of his that stands out for me is "We weren't trying to make a new language, we were trying to build a new Operating System". Zing! Makes some of the paradigm
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by lcuff 6y ago
My experience playing one opening (d4/Queens gambit) as a beginner is that I failed to develop my tactical skills, which are used much more in gambits (but not the Queens gambit) and e4 openings generally. And I'd further argue
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by lcuff 6y ago
I had to play B + N over the board early in my career, so it's definitely YMMV. It takes very little study: For B + N knowing that you mate in the corner that matches the color of the bishop, and that the knight needs to 'lead&#x2
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by lcuff 6y ago
As I mention in my own comment, Winning Chess by Fred Reinfeld and Irving Chernev. BEST book I've encountered by far of the dozens I've owned.
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by lcuff 6y ago
My advice to beginners is to not stick with one opening, but to play them all. Include wild openings like the Kings Gambit and Danish Gambit, as well as strategic openings like the Queen's Gambit. You will be out of 'the book&#x
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by lcuff 6y ago
Perhaps next we will connect our toilets to the IoTs, so that the waste can be disposed of by smart routing of what's in the toilet. But then, oh shit, what if the network goes down? Have to hold it 'till Amazon servers come bac
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by lcuff 6y ago
I agree that people can and do change, at many levels and in many ways. When we unknowingly treat people badly, and get the wake up call, we can (perhaps) shift to treating them better. My personal journey has included discovering how amazi
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by lcuff 6y ago
I'm not so impressed with this article, and partly it's because of the rather bad news: There's not much to be done about bad management. Peter Drucker, well worth reading if you haven't, said that the thing that makes
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by lcuff 6y ago
I suffered with Perl until I stopped assuming I could learn it by reading code, and read the Camel book. At about page 85 it says something approximating: "Everything in Perl happens in a context (scalar or Array) and until you realize
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by lcuff 6y ago
Frankly, the whole article just seems like a shill for his book pitch at the bottom. The arguments rely on anecdotal examples, ignoring depth and complexity. Using bold type on each paragraph's first lines just adds to my sense of this
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by lcuff 6y ago
While the author is right about his particular case, it doesn't generalize to every case. A few years back I was involved in a startup that was writing software to optimize climate control systems in very large buildings. Unfortunately
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by lcuff 6y ago
One of the realities we face here is that different people have different brains which work differently. Thus different phraseology is going to help. Adding variant phrases such as "He will never show you a car", will probably he
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by lcuff 6y ago
I like this phraseology. How to make the answer intuitive is the objective, and underlining that you're choosing two doors, one of which is going to be wrong, really helps.
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by lcuff 6y ago
The essential skill needed to be an <anything> is to be interested in it and enjoy it. Paul Graham writes (somewhere in his essays, couldn't find it with a quick scan) that the notion of 'aptitude' is highly suspicious
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Argbash: Code generator for bash argument processing(argbash.io)
4 points by lcuff 6y ago|0 comments
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by lcuff 6y ago
If someone is already using the terminal to start the script, they've already overcome the major usability hurdle: Finding the terminal and typing a command. For me, as a user, it would be annoying to have to move back and forth betwee

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