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by lcuff 7y ago
Unless of course they were to withdraw from the treaty ...
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by lcuff 7y ago
It would help to make this more concrete, in the abstract it's a bit difficult. Firstly, What kind of problems are you running away from? How do you describe your problems to yourself? For mood dysregulation stuff: If you're angr
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by lcuff 7y ago
I really agree, especially with "There is no universal semantics that will deal with every case." When I enter a time for an appointment, then travel to a different TZ, but know I'll be home when the meeting occurs, I have t
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by lcuff 7y ago
These are nasty little corner-cases. I do wonder if the first two are worth worrying about: For (1) I can't see a use-case where it would be important. For (2) Timing of this granularity is likely going to be done through nanosleep()
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How many answers are there to a yes-or-no question?(trust-in-god-and-keep-your-powder-dry.com)
5 points by lcuff 7y ago|0 comments
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by lcuff 8y ago
It's a bizarre situation. In grad school, at least where I went (no place elite), a 'C' was a failing grade, because we were supposed to be doing outstanding work by virtue of being in grad school. I suppose elite schools c
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by lcuff 8y ago
Clickbait. No robot involved, just video conferencing
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Mukbang(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by lcuff 8y ago|0 comments
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by lcuff 8y ago
I've heard talks by Alan Kay where he also decries that lack of research in Universities: They aren't exploring new hardware or new OSes. He talks about how at PARC they built computers that were 5 to 10 years ahead of their time
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by lcuff 8y ago
My opinion about Perl went from "It's hideous" to "It's okay". I tried to learn Perl by just reading code, like I'd learned several other languages (Fortran to Pascal to C). I finally read the Camel book
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by lcuff 8y ago
From years ago, I remember reading about a study involving punch-card batch processing, where two teams were given a stack of input data and an algorithm to implement. One team listened to music, the other not. Both teams completed the ta
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by lcuff 8y ago
Great question: If it were just columnized data you could keep it in csv format, but Excel supports way more than that.
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by lcuff 8y ago
I started keeping favorite quotes in Hypercard back in 1987. I didn't pay attention when Hypercard went extinct 15 years later, and failed to do the work to extract the data. Now I keep info in text files and grep is my friend. No s
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Time for Happiness(hbr.org)
1 points by lcuff 8y ago|0 comments
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by lcuff 8y ago
Modern Physics and Anti-physics by Adolph Baker. Understanding what science is as process and theory helped me distinguish science and pseudo-science in a major way. Also: A Pattern Language, The Design of Everyday Things, and An Introduct
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Salami slicing(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by lcuff 8y ago|0 comments
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by lcuff 8y ago
This article makes it seem more dramatic and spur-of-the-moment than other writings on the same topic I've read. The Wikipedia article on Jack Garman asserts (unsourced) that they'd generated a 1202 alarm in simulations and Bales
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Mary Oliver, 83, Prize-Winning Poet of the Natural World, Is Dead(nytimes.com)
2 points by lcuff 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How do you change your mind?
1 points by lcuff 8y ago|0 comments
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by lcuff 8y ago
I'm gonna say "for the fun of it" and "use for practical jokes" (choose your victim and context carefully!
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by lcuff 8y ago
Back in the day when I actually had an office a guy from across the hall would come and lean on the door jamb and talk at me, endlessly if I let him. Mostly cynically about the company. I came up with my solution: After a couple of sentenc
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by lcuff 8y ago
I have a keyboardio, which has a very radical split design with a function key that you hit with the part of the palm close to the base of the thumb (either hand). I think it's amazing, but there's definitely a learning curve. N
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by lcuff 8y ago
Saying this has "far-reaching implications" sits with me as click bait.
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Bodypaint Illusion – Sea Turtle by Johannes Stötter(safeyoutube.net)
1 points by lcuff 8y ago|0 comments
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Irregular Webcomic: Maxwell's Equations(irregularwebcomic.net)
1 points by lcuff 8y ago|0 comments
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Five Discoveries in Fundamental Physics That Came as Total Surprises(forbes.com)
3 points by lcuff 8y ago|0 comments
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by lcuff 8y ago
> What do you mean by his ideas on how to educate children ? Not dumbing down , and in the process use computers ? Well, I took away a lot more than 'not dumbing down'. One of the key things he described is the fact that very
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by lcuff 8y ago
I think this talk addresses the question "What do we need to do so that children born today have a healthy world to live in when they're 82, in the year 2100? Bret Victor is amazing and interesting, but he's not addressing
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What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?(blog.codinghorror.com)
1 points by lcuff 8y ago|0 comments
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by lcuff 8y ago
Yes, I've read quite a bit about AF 447. As someone who has taken some flying lessons, I know that in early aircraft, the controls were mechanically linked together. There is no way one pilot could push the pitch control forward and

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