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by nullhole 3y ago
Saw the title and immediately though of the Army Man joke (from the first page of the first issue!): "What this country needs is a good 5¢ sports car."
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by nullhole 3y ago
@dang - could you change the title of this? It is factually wrong. The spacecraft is still communicating with Earth. This gives information (and may be a better link anyway): "Engineers Working to Resolve Issue With Voyager 1 Computer&
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by nullhole 3y ago
It's worth noting a tautology: tacit knowledge is undocmented because it is undocumentable. The key insight (which I agree with!) is that some kinds of knowledge are undocumentable. The challenge - at least for those charged with ensur
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by nullhole 3y ago
That is a very good link. The top comment has direct implications for any software / report generation dealing with tidal (-> lunar) cycles. Perhaps using something non-ISO to store time on the inside could have its benefits.
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by nullhole 3y ago
Thanks for the link! Better than the articles I came across before. It has a kind of GEB vibe to it which is nice.
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by nullhole 3y ago
I'm working with some data that has a large number of date formats within a single document - day seconds, week seconds, ISO8601, ticks, some with hardcoded offsets and others with different datums ... it would be quite funny I think t
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by nullhole 3y ago
> I’ve seen so many studios go under, that I loved. I've never experienced that in the last 20 years of purchasing digital media. You can't claim it's common.
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by nullhole 3y ago
Wow, they got their own steam-themed domain name and everything!
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by nullhole 3y ago
It seems to have been hackernews'd: https://web.archive.org/web/20231204144437/https://www.paral... It's an entertaining link
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by nullhole 3y ago
> Having the engineer pair with someone who has never used the product before who also works in your org could help. I wholeheartedly agree with this. If you do this, especially with a user who is known for asking good questions, you wil
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by nullhole 3y ago
... and, a couple of days later, Scott Manley has a video on submarine-launched missiles, including some footage of Operation Frigate Bird! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLIdVigNtIo
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by nullhole 3y ago
The fact that it can land if it doesn't explode seems like a big deal. Launch a bunch at a target, first one gets blown up, rest return to base for later use.
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by nullhole 3y ago
I'll take this opportunity to plug the movie "Untitled" (2009) by Jonathan Parker, a light comedy poking loving fun at contemporary art. The lead character is an avant-garde composer, with a strong belief in the importance of
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by nullhole 3y ago
I came across this the other day: Operation Frigate Bird[1], a test of an SLBM, from a sub to a Pacific atoll, with a live nuclear warhead. In some ways it's understandable, in others the risks involved are staggering. [1] Mediocre lin
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by nullhole 3y ago
One of my clearest memories from childhood is being in the back seat and seeing a store called "Drug Store", and wanting (but feeling too afraid to) tell my parents that they should tell the police about it.
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by nullhole 3y ago
To be fair, this doesn't qualify as generic browsing. It's more like a CGI sequence from a remake of WarGames.
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by nullhole 3y ago
Funny that reading the manual was the source of, not the solution to, the problem. The British-sounding phrase "uppity know-it-all whose seniority level was substantially above their competency level"* is a nice one to put in the
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by nullhole 3y ago
FRAI, Famous Ray's Artificial Intelligence
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by nullhole 3y ago
What's the difference between feeling tired and being tired? (I'm not going to pay 30 bucks to read the article, so it may answer that question)
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EuclideanSpace(euclideanspace.com)
87 points by nullhole 3y ago|22 comments
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The Trust Principles(thomsonreuters.com)
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by nullhole 3y ago
In good fun: Every joke is funniest when it's explained, so: It can be, I think, pronounced equally correctly either way. So, no matter what the first user of the word says, you can always say that they are incorrect; not only that, bu
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by nullhole 3y ago
Related, one of my favourite jokes is to correct another person's pronunciation of pronunciation when they say to a third party "the correct pronunciation of <other word> is <foo>" (Is pronunciation pronounced &qu
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by nullhole 3y ago
> all-nighter we pulled at Netscape on New Year's Eve 2000 ? Is the story of this recorded somewhere? It sounds like it'd be a very good read!
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by nullhole 3y ago
FTA: > This might delay the process by a few weeks.
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by nullhole 3y ago
Thanks for the reference, I've never seen it but it's quite good. I haven't seen anything quite like it, at least for the time-and-place. It makes me see the downside of wfh..
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by nullhole 3y ago
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