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by mherdeg 5y ago
It's funny I've really slowed down on taking still photos ever since my kids were born and I've gotten really stingy with my time for any recreation or hobbies. For the purposes of "remembering what the kids were like wh
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I've skimmed some of the literature here when I've spent time trying to help people with their bucket boundaries for Prometheus-style instrumentation of things denominated in "seconds", such as processing time and freshn
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by mherdeg 5y ago
My gut feeling is that if you look at these data they'll tell you "most people should focus on eating well and getting good amounts of exercise." They might also tell you "kids should learn water safety skills and comply
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Yeah I guess this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_large_numbers_hypothesis and it has a Wikipedia page and stuff; the encyclopedia cites a 1973 Dirac journal article on the topic, https://www.jstor.or
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by mherdeg 5y ago
I think my favorite one of these is … Robert Heinlein wrote in an essay ("Paul Dirac, Antimatter, And You") that he believes that Paul Dirac believed until his death that the gravitational constant G is decreasing slightly over ti
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Yeah I don't trust Mikkelson's writing very much because of this Snopes article: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/swallow-spiders/ (mentioned in the article). It's not in the special section of the
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by mherdeg 5y ago
I've worked with engineers who have used a premortem -- once they have the bare sketch of a project to solve a problem, they imagine that it failed and think about the most likely causes, then adjust their project to mitigate those ris
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by mherdeg 5y ago
Robinhood closed my brokerage account after I did transferred out assets (via ACATS transfer, to get a signup bonus with another brokerage without realizing capital gains). A few months later I asked how to reopen the account, using the &qu
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by mherdeg 5y ago
Every couple of years I get nostalgic and wish I could find the short text adventure CastleQuest, which existed on the CompuServe BBS but is otherwise afaik just gone ( http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~ajo/in-search-of-LONG0
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Ocean State Job Lot is fun. Also in New England I love the Marden's business model. As far as I can tell from the advertising it really is a family business that's hit its scaling limits at about 15 stores -- when you walk in yo
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by mherdeg 5y ago
Always liked tuning in to the Prevue channel and seeing a guru meditation error.
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My town's school system is all in on healthy buildings -- they got parent MD/PhDs to read the literature and invite outside experts to advise, then they set minimum air change per hour and minimum filtration criteria (something li
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Dick is one of my go-to SF authors when I'm using the public library's book lending app (Hoopla) and want to type in a novelist name and read some completely random piece of their work. He was so incredibly prolific that there is
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by mherdeg 5y ago
That subreddit reminds me I've been meaning to follow up on https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=288192 (outperforming the market by holding UPRO/TMF). Wish that person were still disclosing their
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by mherdeg 5y ago
Ok so the thing that Thermoworks markets as a "Thermapen Mk4" -- how much does that cost shipped to the US from a European vendor selling ETI products? I think I paid $60 for one on Thermoworks's web site during what they sai
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by mherdeg 5y ago
I haven't played in a few years but always felt like crawl's hunger system drove faster games -- where in NetHack I could usually find a way to survive indefinitely and camp out and explore slowly, crawl always felt like the Star
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by mherdeg 6y ago
Ponzi schemes can operate in the open for a pretty long time. As of late 2007 it was pretty clear that Agape World Inc. was a classic Ponzi scheme (see FatWallet forum thread full of promoters and onlookers patiently explaining the scam at
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by mherdeg 6y ago
If you value the work you should definitely donate some money (PayPal link in the sidebar on every page on avherald.com). I'm pretty sure it's still just one person (Simon Hradecky) doing outstanding editorial work.
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by mherdeg 6y ago
Do you agree with Crichton that it was wrong for newspapers to report on expert predictions the 2002 steel tariffs would affect US GDP or employment? Do you think in retrospect this was a reasonable things for experts to predict? That was t
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Yup. It's wonderful game and thought provoking and I just gave up and didn't ever come back in that long long long gap before the last episode.
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Used Simple for a signup bonus, was fine, was weird that I could only see certain details (the exact amount of ACH trial deposits) in the mobile app instead of the web app. They declined to open an account for my wife (who was also angling
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It's a strange genre, I like it a lot but I can see why there isn't much new content. One existential problem for the genre is that you really need a physical keyboard -- while the awesome "80 Days" can get by with limit
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by mherdeg 6y ago
It's kinda cool that because this webapp is evidently so little used in public, if you just do a Web search for "facebook tapprd" you're pretty much just gonna find bug bounty writeups ( e.g. https://medium.co
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by mherdeg 6y ago
Roughly in this genre, the 9/11/2001 pager text data ( https://911.wikileaks.org/files/index.html ) are an interesting peek inside people's putatively private conversations.
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Seems smart -- if people are going to be WFH or going to Zoom school full time, might as well get an extra $100/month from them. They can't say no. It'll be interesting to see whether broadband competitors match the offer or
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Yup. Now that I'm measuring how much CO2 I have indoors and can watch what happens when I open a window and it equilibrates, it's really hard to resist 2021+ plans to retool the HVAC to put in a fresh air ventilator. There were al
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This is grim and might portend reciprocal issues. I had missed that the ETIAS start date has been pushed back to end of 2022. As an American citizen I've taken it for granted that I can book a flight to Germany when a $200 mistake fare
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August 4, 2020 text was also "After your license expires, the presentations you’ve created will remain in your account and keep their privacy status." That seems at odds with the checkbox in the UI in the Tweet in this post ( h
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I'm still a little bummed that I had (given away freely) access to a bunch of albums on Microsoft Groove Music and didn't notice they were vanishing / forgot to download them before the service vanished. Props to Takeout&#x2F
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The label on the packaging reminds me of Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Calorie Man", dystopian near-future sf about what could happen if all the viable seeds were patented ( http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/Sci-Tech-Socie

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