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by mherdeg 4y ago
Huh. When did Red Rock Canyon add permits? I seem to remember just driving there. edit: Ah, here it is, October 2020, $15/car plus $2 reservation fee: https://www.mountainproject.com/forum/topic/119660918&#x2F
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Is there a db of these somewhere? What does IBM call its staff? Oracle?
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by mherdeg 4y ago
The UK stories that genuinely baffle me are the ones about police having children with activists they were sent to spy on: * https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/22/fourth-offic... * https:&#x2F
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by mherdeg 4y ago
I wonder what color the sky will be (a television tuned to a dead channel). Will it just be pitch black or bright blue with NO SIGNAL, HDMI, TV1, TV2 in bright white letters?
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by mherdeg 4y ago
What is the opportunity here -- writing new algorithms, implementing them accurately, optimizing them for special execution architectures, or just building more usable tools? I remember Manolis Kellis sprinkled some pretty interesting genom
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by mherdeg 4y ago
I don't know if this bothers anyone else, but it always makes me a little grumpy when the press reports on a legal case and doesn't include a docket number so I can look up the records myself in PACER. In this case it looks like t
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by mherdeg 4y ago
A neat question is whether it would be illegal for Apple to refuse to write software to unlock the iPhone of someone who illegally refuses to disclose their passcode.
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by mherdeg 4y ago
A better link might be to https://www.semafor.com/article/11/09/2022/ftx-legal-and-com... which has some news: > Most of FTX’s legal and compliance staff quit Tuesday evening, people familiar with the
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by mherdeg 4y ago
My least favorite disneyplus.com experience is using the desktop site to try to find an episode of Bluey which the kids are asking for. "We want to watch 'The Beach', please." OK let's go to disneyplus.com and type
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Carver's Gate nailed the metaverse imho. In the mid-21st century, climate change has rendered the Earth desolate and uninhabitable. People spend all their free time staring at a screen, trying to earn meaningless Internet points. Our p
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by mherdeg 4y ago
We signed one of our kids up for a longitudinal study of the same general type mentioned here (ECHO, the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes). I have no idea how we got sampled -- a staffer visited our hospital room with a cli
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Maybe the science on this has changed? The display I saw when I visited in 2016 says they attribute significantly accelerated deterioration to the choice to spray the vessel with PEG. Some discussion on this at https://www.acs.or
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by mherdeg 4y ago
I hope they treat it right! My biggest takeaway from visiting Vasa was that it only has decades left, after being essentially immortal underwater, due to some preservation-related choices that seemed right at the time. A final irony for the
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by mherdeg 4y ago
How many companies are there where a Dev team writes code and "throws it over the wall" for Ops to deploy and maintain? I hear people talking about this as an anti-pattern all the time, but I haven't been in enough workplaces
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by mherdeg 4y ago
A lot of the parenting blogs advise you to leave some room for being less than perfect and have a plan for how to deal with it (watching how you deal with it is often an important lesson to the kid, too). Being able to say "I'm so
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Do you think your own parents felt this way?
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by mherdeg 4y ago
The flip side to this is https://seeyourfolks.com/ , a calculator which will tell you based on how often you visit, how many more visits you'll be getting. Every time I look it's a fresh reminder to cherish all ou
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Charming optimization here: > This function is designed to help telephony apps cooperate in implementing "toll-saver" features. When no messages are waiting, COMDIAL picks up after five rings. When messages are waiting, it pick
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Wow, it's been years now since I typed "sl" at a terminal and got an ascii steam locomotive.
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by mherdeg 4y ago
I'm actually really glad that schools are sending the message "don't use Wikipedia as a trusted source". Students and parents naturally being contrarians will ... use Wikipedia, or learn to read primary sources and re-ci
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by mherdeg 4y ago
The animation in Paw Patrol is kind of awful. Compare with Wonder Pets and it's night and day.
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by mherdeg 4y ago
There's a $10k annual limit per individual, LLC, or trust. (Plus a bit more as paper I bonds in your income tax refund.) Can you partner with Stripe Atlas to help me spin up a trust or business entity and buy another $10k? I'll pa
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Is Niemann's win in the 4 September 2022 in-person game really so improbable? Is it unlikely enough that it offers convincing evidence that we live in a simulation? (i.e. he acted based on information he received from outside our reali
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Is any actual work happening here? Does someone ever sign an offer letter and start checking in source code?
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Huh I always thought of the Library of Congress as having pretty strong political power -- under the DMCA Section 1201, every 3 years the Librarian of Congress enacts new rules proposed by the Copyright Office (part of the LOC) and can broa
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Grainger was my N95 respirator buddy for a while. Fast shipping / great logistics too.
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Young says: > I suspect it’s because it often publishes sceptical pieces about the five sacred nostrums you’re not allowed to dissent from: the view that sex, like gender, is a social construct and therefore not binary and immutable; tha
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Hmm -- how is Gumroad doing? Is their business affected by the same economic slowdown issues, or did they find another way forward?
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by mherdeg 4y ago
As a non-artist whose compensation is, so far, unaffected by ML-generated images, I'm more interested in the effects the technology has on people. Over the past 150 years it became possible to compute cube roots in milliseconds, inste
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Sure: #1 https://thetech.com/2010/04/02/dubai-v130-n16 #2 https://thetech.com/2010/04/06/dubai-v130-n17 #4 https://thetech.com/2010/04/13/dubai-v

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