nathanmcrae

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by nathanmcrae 5y ago
The preceding sentences explain the model that generates that estimate, including the 200 Myr - 2 Gyr number; that's not a case of hand-waving. Is your issue with some aspects of the model or with the idea of trying to model this at al
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by nathanmcrae 5y ago
You may have already seen it but jc ( https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/ ) helps with the first two: $ jc ls -l | jq [ { "filename": "bin", "flags": "drwxr-xr-x&
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by nathanmcrae 5y ago
For more examples of this kind of thinking pushed to its limit, see this 17th century German calligraphy book: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/17th-century-calli...
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by nathanmcrae 6y ago
I much prefer incorporeal punishment. When the ghost tries to whack you, you just act like it hurts and you're good
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by nathanmcrae 6y ago
My favorite math professor was great because any time he would forget the statement of a theorem or the outline of a proof he wouldn't just go to his notes to remember it, he would out-loud reason his way to the correct version. This w
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by nathanmcrae 6y ago
If you already don't like the idea of assigning Final Goods Assembler liability to operators of major open-source repositories, I suggest skipping to 'How To Fix The Problem' (of security vulnerabilities in end-user software,
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Liability in the Software Supply Chain(blog.dshr.org)
1 points by nathanmcrae 6y ago|1 comments
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by nathanmcrae 6y ago
Interestingly, this article [0] states that the opposite is true: "The research included vintage cars up to 70 years old to see if their less aerodynamic shape meant they killed more bugs, but it found that modern cars actually hit sli
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by nathanmcrae 6y ago
Something that I think goes somewhat in the opposite direction is the Piecepack[0], which tries to maximize the number of games you can play with the minimum components. "Piecepack is to board games what a Standard Deck of Playing Card
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by nathanmcrae 6y ago
I'm using Polar for this and am pretty happy with it, especially with the page marks for reading progress and with the highlighting/annotations. I'm not too familiar with Zotero. Does it have similar features, or do you just