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by lcuff 6y ago
I was disappointed that the article didn't describe some of the motivating forces behind the basics. I think such concreteness would make more sense for a high school student. As an example, the development of geometry was (at least p
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by lcuff 6y ago
I believe it was Shrinyu Suzuki, author of "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" who said something like "In truth there is not enlightenment, only enlightened acts." Stewart Brand also tells a story that Suzuki was asked on
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by lcuff 6y ago
I argue that 'very commonly used' is subjective, and someone new won't know all the ones you or I consider common. One of my goals in writing software is to make my code understandable to complete newcomers. I can't alwa
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by lcuff 6y ago
I believe Data actually needed an 'emotion chip'. I recall some episode where he received one. Sometimes I think that's a pretty good description of most men (we need an emotion chip). I say that as a man, FYI.
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by lcuff 6y ago
It does echo a bad Nicholas Sparks novel (they're all bad). But when the cliché is writ large in real life, it's touching, no? Secretly hoping for _something_ to magically rescue us from the emotional difficulties of our lives .
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by lcuff 6y ago
Exercise. Enough sleep. Good food choices. Take care of the body first, then, (for me) things that make me laugh in a wholesome way. Hugs from loved ones. It's all counter-intuitive, because it's "taking the foot off the
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by lcuff 6y ago
Perhaps. Back in the 80's, folks on Usenet would add words like "nuclear", "bomb", "spy", "communist" to their email footers and posting signatures, in hopes of overloading the (suspected/e
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by lcuff 6y ago
As background, sleep paralysis occurs to prevent body motions in the context of a dream: Having our legs churn while we're dreaming of running would be not so good. In general, sleep paralysis can be 'cured' by wiggling an e
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by lcuff 6y ago
A user interface that combines eye tracking, voice, keyboard, and mouse input. I'm not sure what might work, but as something to explore/test: I look at a button and say "choose", and the button gets clicked. Or maybe I
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by lcuff 6y ago
I agree that there are some over-simplifications here: I'd propose that there's a distinction he didn't make between "the real thing" and "the whole real thing". Taking a job speaking French when you spea
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by lcuff 6y ago
Context matters, and context changes over time, making the whole process more difficult. When Apple was exploring how to build the Lisa (their first GUI system) they did user testing on both a single button mouse and a multi-button mouse. N
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by lcuff 6y ago
I stopped subscribing to the Farnham street blog because it was too overwhelming, frankly. There are a ton of good ideas out there. Using the 80/20 rule (Pareto principle), I grabbed one: Charlie Munger says "I never allow mysel
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by lcuff 6y ago
It's interesting to see what the AI does and doesn't recognize. It recognized my lame attempt to draw the Eiffel Tower - impressive, the Mona Lisa, and a (barbed wire) fence. It didn't recognize drawings of the Ace of Spade
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by lcuff 6y ago
As someone who has worked in private offices, cube farms and open offices, I have to say the private office space allowed me to think deeply about things in a deliciously uninterrupted way. But then again ... I once spent the whole day thi
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by lcuff 6y ago
I'd stay with what you enjoy. At 30 I could learn something once and have it stick. No need to review, didn't forget. At 65, it sucks when I learn something one day, and have to refresh myself the next day if it was complicated
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by lcuff 6y ago
I confess 'mind games' and 'plot twists' don't correlate to my personal notions of wisdom. Googling 'books wisdom' turns up a lot. My one sentence bit of wisdom is currently from Charlie Munger: "I
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by lcuff 6y ago
As someone who understands nothing of linear algebra, I have to say this "introduction" was gibberish. He may be a fantastic teacher, and perhaps it's a bit much to expect a 4 minute video to teach me anything, but it reminds
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by lcuff 7y ago
As I said elsewhere, if you've got $15,000 you can buy one, with support for home use: https://helpmedicalsupplies.com/products/philips-respironics... If you were building one yourself, it would take some educatio
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by lcuff 7y ago
There are a lot of dimensions to this: The Pandemic Ventilator Project https://panvent.blogspot.com/ is taking this on. If you happen to have $15,000.00 lying around, buying one appears to be an option, although I bet the
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by lcuff 7y ago
I was moved to think about the possibility by this article http://blog.modernmechanix.com/diy-iron-lung/ describing a 1952 article in Popular Mechanics building a wooden iron lung. This approach is clearly feasible in
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Ask HN: Where to find specifications for pressure for an Iron Lung
3 points by lcuff 7y ago|3 comments
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by lcuff 7y ago
The wikipedia article is lame, but there are images and a discussion here: https://blog.plover.com/aliens/dd/intro.html
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Cosmic Call(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by lcuff 7y ago|1 comments
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by lcuff 7y ago
I remember setjmp() and longjmp() being the only way to do a STREAMS device driver I wrote 30 years ago. Don't know if things have changed since then. Ah, what memories.
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The Amazon Fires Are More Dangerous Than WMDs(theatlantic.com)
3 points by lcuff 7y ago|0 comments
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by lcuff 7y ago
I'm not sure Warren Buffett would agree with you. In a 1975 letter to Katherine Graham, he wrote "If above-average performance is to be their yard stick, the vast majority of investment managers must fail. Will a few succeed — du
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by lcuff 7y ago
The graph showing calories per gram per kilometer is very interesting. I wonder though, for bicycling, how the energy cost of paving the surface we bicycle on is factored in, if at all? On 'natural' ground, depending on the terra
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by lcuff 7y ago
The fact that this idea is deemed worthy of an article in the Economist, and then hits the front page of HN is, IMHO, a sad statement on the current quality of thinking about how to run companies. It's hard for me to summon anything b
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by lcuff 7y ago
Does it get more light-weight than this? Grrr. It's time for fluff.
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by lcuff 7y ago
> aren't we making people a lot more selfish? It depends. When I dug deep, I realized that I get a lot of pleasure out of being a good guy: I currently mentor a kid (and have been doing so for 10 years). Very satisfying. A really

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