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by leoc 2y ago
Re-reposting this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28502232 by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=heymijo from the 2021 HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28500
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by leoc 2y ago
You might as well give Donald Trump coauthorship, then. Actually this could be an excellent idea: if enough scientists kiss his behind in this way Trump might change his mind about supporting large cuts to science funding.
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by leoc 2y ago
I can't find it now, but I've seen at least one claim that the ancestral-human-DNA world inside biology is fairly dominated by a clique, and if you're not seen as fully on the team you can't expect to be funded, publishe
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by leoc 2y ago
Jimmy Carter installed a Xerox Alto in the White House in 1978! https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Check-out-the-first-... Never mind the Xerox Star, or Apple shipping the Lisa in 1983 ...
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by leoc 2y ago
The war on terror was a big thing in the UK long before 2001—largely because there was in fact quite a lot of terrorism going on there, to be clear.
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by leoc 2y ago
Crewe is a station of despair for the British rail network despite not being a last stop, instead in fact because it's something like the heart of the network. If you try to travel far enough across the island (especially from the nort
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by leoc 2y ago
Armstrong is, among other things, basically the original shit-hot electric-blues/rock guitarist. Wait for his solo after the sung section and Dodds’ clarinet part: https://youtu.be/iZLlJ9crI4s
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by leoc 2y ago
I’m not complaining about the headline, but it is necessary to remind people that really, “Google” never does anything and never makes any high-level decision. Those decisions are all made or at least approved by the two individuals who tog
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by leoc 2y ago
Hilbert's memory palace.
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The issue isn't whether someone else had a contrary opinion: the issue is that (just going by the linked reports) Bernardo De Bernardinis came out from the meeting with the scientists and informed the public that there was "no dan
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by leoc 2y ago
I am going to point out how much the vibes have shifted here. When earthquake scientists gave false reassurances in the run-up to the 2009 earthquake at L'Acquila, likely contributing to the many deaths there, Italian criminal proceedi
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by leoc 2y ago
The "Advanced User Guide" referred to several times in the comments is The Advanced User Guide for the BBC Micro by Bray, Dickens and Holmes, 1983, ISBN 0 946827 00 1 . https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopi
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by leoc 2y ago
And the article suggests that's it's not even the population of everyone with a bespoke suit so much as the minority of whales who own a lot of them. There is going to be a fair number of very demanding and impatient rich guys i
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by leoc 2y ago
The street has been famous under that name for centuries; the notoriety of Jimmy Savile is a blip in comparison.
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by leoc 2y ago
There was and is a whole literature about unstructured and less-structured and alternatively-structured organisations; it even used to get a fair amount of coverage in mainstream news publications. But some time shortly after the year 2000
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by leoc 2y ago
ifyouthinkthatsbadbearinmindthatbothcapitallettersinlowercasetextandspacesbetweenwordsarefairlyrecentinventions
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Recording drum kits with them must be a delicate business…
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by leoc 2y ago
Relevant Wired articles from 2011: * "Relics Reborn: Ribbon Microphones Rally for Vintage-Audio Geeks" https://www.wired.com/2011/01/gallery-ribbon-mics-part-1/ https://web.archive.org&
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by leoc 2y ago
I suspect (I'm not an expert) that for subjects like nutrition, experimental psychology and so on the next big step forward isn't scientific but political: figuring out how to somehow get funders, researchers and others lined up b
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by leoc 2y ago
A 2021 PopMech article about the US military's revival of interest in celestial navigation: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a36078957... It mentions a handheld system designed for special f
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by leoc 2y ago
This is great work, but really it seems that anyone who is a truly dedicated Brood War amateur should knuckle under and learn Korean. It really isn’t that unapproachable: with a decent approach (try https://refold.la ) you shoul
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by leoc 2y ago
This is something photographers and filmmakers had to (and sometimes still have to) deal with when shooting on black-and-white film, surely? (Though maybe B&W film sometimes has noticeably different responses to light at different visib
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by leoc 2y ago
Strategic for that same German auto industry, though. I assume that the Covid disruption to the supply of boring but essential microcontrollers for cars was a wake-up call. Speaking of the leading edge, though: while industrial policy, like
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by leoc 2y ago
Also an Edward Fredkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fredkin interest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredkin_gate .
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I suspect (and this is rank speculation from a great distance) that a lot of SV tech leadership (of different kinds) has perceptions that were formed by the era of the Napster saga and haven't been revised since. PG seems committed to
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Being well-educated and well-connected doesn't necessarily mean you aren't great. The Sutherland boys were famously hanging out with Edmund Berkeley at his computer lab while they were still children, thanks to their mum knowing B
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by leoc 2y ago
He was certainly precocious! A gifted kid, absolutely. But 'genius' is a lofty title. You'd usually need to be doing things differently and better, certainly by the time you're in your 20s. Maybe Infogami can make that c
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by leoc 2y ago
What’s the best evidence for Swartz’ technical genius?
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by leoc 2y ago
Alan Kay really liked him in 2016. https://youtu.be/fKcCwa_j8e0 I think Altman is very good at cultivating people. Mind you, it seems that Swartz got around by making dazzling impressions on people, too.
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by leoc 2y ago
(I missed your comment earlier, sorry!) His real name may be "Matthew Earl", it seems https://mastodon.cloud/@mattsramblings . I stuck his three Quake-rendering videos together in a playlist: https://ww

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