mtreis86

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by mtreis86 9y ago
Why limit yourself to only one editor? Learn some emacs basics, learn some vim basics, use both or either as you see fit. Gedit, atom, notepad++, sublime, whatever you are comfortable in will work best for you. Whatever your development cyc
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"The Gulag Archipelago" is another good book on the Soviet era prison system.
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Do you mean coercive persuasion?
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Here is the paper referenced by the article https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fninf.2018.0000...
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I thought signal was open source? "Signal is developed by a software group called Open Whisper Systems.[123] The group is funded by a combination of donations and grants,[124] and all of its products are published as free and open-sou
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It is the fear of missing out, not gaslighting. "Gaslighting is a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, hoping to make them question their own memory, percepti
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I have been reading "Strategy: A History" by Lawrence Freedman, and reading the papers and books mentioned in the bibliography as I go.
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"The state is the institution or complex of institutions which bases itself on the availability of forcible coercion by special agencies of society in order to maintain the dominance of a ruling class, preserve the existing property re
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Wouldn't unary be considered the least complex?
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The 5.56 round is designed to tumble upon impact to maximize internal damage. It really is a poor choice for anything but warfare.
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Newspapers existed long before advertising. The goal was to inform, and to have a public place of record accessible to all.
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I am the luckiest. I make my luck. Every bad event brought me here and formed me. Every good thing is mine to enjoy. Whatever happens I will own it. Luck is a lie you tell yourself. But it is a useful lie.
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I didn't mean to insinuate that the process I describe is one to be taken out of boredom. Let me try to explain what I am thinking: I have been studying lisp and wanted to understand more about the origins. So I went back to the beginn
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Madoko combines LaTeX and Markdown, has git on the backend for diff tracking, and is built into a web frontend. http://madoko.org/reference.html
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"lisp is one of the least functional languages ever created" -Doug Hoyte https://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/guest/chap5.html#sec_1 Here is the source for how Unix interrupts are handled in SBCL https:&
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What is MICMAM? Whitepapers, lectures, and speech transcriptions are also good motivation, and useful resources. Sometimes overwhelming, especially if reading mathematical text is as a foreign language. And sometimes it takes you down a rab
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Greenspun's tenth rule: Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
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There is a work around. A number of GeForce cards gave the exact same chipset as a Quadro card but with a resistor pulling down an external pin. That resistor can be changed to make the card identify as a Quadro. http://www.eevbl
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Man hole covers aren't flat discs nor thin cylinders, but are truncated cones. The diameter of the bottom of the cover is smaller than the top. There is no way for a cone to fall through an opening smaller than the widest diameter end.
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I scanned through the PDF and it looks like the main mechanisms are torsion pendulums. I am assuming that's what the two towers with weights are.
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Are you accounting for manufacturing or just usage?
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If only you could just pull the old battery out and put a new one in.
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It is a health hazard. But it is also one of the best insulators. Much better than the cement board usually used these days around a torch.
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What's your setup? I had a nice GTT lynx torch but I sold it when I moved, to my mentor in lampworking. He still has it among a dozen other torches. I would rather use his Carlisle though when I am feeling like burning some propane mys
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When you want a color that isn't available. Or when you want a bulk of a color and don't want to pay the retail cost.
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My mentor in lampworking for the past decade is Greasy Glass, I will reach out and see if he would be interested. All his recipes are on paper. Shameless plug if you need funky color http://greasyglasscolor.bigcartel.com/
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"With very simple and inexpensive tools" Lampworking is the most expensive hobby I have taken up. Also my favorite.
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That paper isn't the right one. I can't find it now. Here is another interesting one though... http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a240839.pdf I will update this if I find it again.
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5-6000 Calories is normal for an 8 work hour shift at -10c. https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/99/12/E2772/2833739
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These things happen regularly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident... http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1445_web.pd... http://www.ncwar

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