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by nunb 5y ago
Not so good with out of control house prices, fueled by safe-haven demand … at least we won’t run out of freshwater as fast as Oz will … still, Mosman is heaps above Kits / Point Grey in my opinion! NYC is really a dump though. West Co
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by nunb 5y ago
When you mentioned Grand Designs, I was expecting a link to the FACIT [0] house! I suppose that's CNC or cutting/routing based though... [0] https://vimeo.com/53932758
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by nunb 6y ago
Oh the joys of tweenage discovery! For me it was writing programs in dbase+ and lotus123 ... much later I did MFC and a precursor whose name escapes me now... what a programming dead end that was!
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by nunb 6y ago
Interesting ramble and thank you for sharing. I would be curious to hear more about the interesting interactions based on the caste they grew up in! I will say that of the people from other cultures that I've worked with in my life
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by nunb 6y ago
Could the article have been by Robert Sapolsky? He discusses something like that in one of his later books, the one with a chimp on the cover where he talks about how male chimps leave their childhood tribes and head out to seek mates... an
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by nunb 6y ago
your desiderata are now available in the T60 form factor! Xue Yao makes the T70 franken-pad, a 4:3 IPS screen laptop with modern internals [1] ideal for someone who loved the x220 and t60 ... battery life is great too. you should take a loo
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by nunb 6y ago
Mac trackpads are unmatched (yay/boo Fingerworks!) but you could always use an external mac touchpad. In any case, shortcut keys are abundant in Linux desktops, and a tiling wm (I like the default one in Pop OS) really changes the game
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by nunb 6y ago
if thinkpad is an option do take a look at X2100: a thinkpad chassis & accessories, but with modern internals. it's basically "Peak Intel", a swan song for x86...
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by nunb 6y ago
I switched from a MBP to a Thinkpad for flexibility & performance: hexa-core processor, 64GB RAM, 3 disks (NVME+SSD+HDD) running Linux (pop-os) with the intent of running OSX in VMs. I didn't like the iOS-ification of OSX, and this
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by nunb 6y ago
This is simply a result of how vitamin D is manufactured, and the lack of sunlight in northern latitudes.
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by nunb 6y ago
Thank you for a fantastic anecdote!
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by nunb 6y ago
Back when the sterling actually meant something this could never happen. The world’s reserve currency must never be questionable. But WW2 broke England’s back, although they were only called on it by Soros much later.
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by nunb 6y ago
There’s also the possibility that although other regimes were counterfeiting the greenback through the Cold War, Americans weren’t affected (due to the high demand for the greenback) and couldn’t do much about state actors like DPRK anyway.
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by nunb 6y ago
Come now, that’s a bit harsh... he didn’t nitpick at all, just asked for some pointers!
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by nunb 7y ago
Varies by countries, cultures and sub-cultures I expect...
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by nunb 7y ago
Gilad Bracha is one of the Smalltalk luminaries (his dialect is called Newspeak) and so he's really alluding to the ST way of doing things, where textual code is instantly compiled to machine-code or JIT-ed ... he's basically agai
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by nunb 7y ago
thank you for a fantastic and interesting narrative!
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by nunb 7y ago
YF-23 actually looked futuristic, the F-22 looks like a mild modernization of the F-15/18
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by nunb 7y ago
Still a threat in some parts of Europe... Including urban centers like Moscow.
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by nunb 7y ago
The solution lies beyond ... Prefab by Fogarty & Dixon. References: 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lju6IIteg9Q 2 https://www.washington.edu/news/2010/04/01/what-if-all-softw...
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by nunb 7y ago
It's actually that you aren't qualified to say who's competent. The CEO can't hire a tech competent CTO and that multiplies down the line. In the absence of a tech savvy judiciousness they fall back on fluff like "d
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by nunb 7y ago
Even worse, engineering management is desperately in short supply. However the beauty competition nature of the project and vendor selection process is the root cause of failure imho. And that's not fixable in tech, in fact, the proble
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by nunb 7y ago
OtS is wonderful. Such a succinct and effective pedagogical style.
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by nunb 7y ago
This is simply incorrect. Dietary cholesterol intake isn't even correlated with blood cholesterol.
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by nunb 7y ago
All these results (re 'shown to be carcinogenic') are based on surveys as opposed to experiments. In other words, unlike randomized, double-blind studies, they cannot be said to demonstrate causation, but at best may point to inte
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by nunb 7y ago
This [1] may be of interest, and has scientific references (well, Nature) too. I believe there's an associated TED talk. [1] https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2017/07/02/low-carbohydrate-...
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by nunb 7y ago
Yes it's a multiplier scheme and if you squint just right, it's pretty much a ponzi too. But it isn't a pedantic way of restating "lend out". Discussion of the issue is often fraught with accusations of conspiracy t
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by nunb 7y ago
Perhaps the HN headline should mention that it's a static site generator? I didn't know what SSG stood for until I clicked through, perhaps others are similar.
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by nunb 8y ago
Interesting article. At least three super-cars, or rather, hyper-cars, are built by hand : McLaren, Koenigsegg and Pagani all use plenty of high tech but have workers who are lifers.
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by nunb 8y ago
It would be interesting to see the MacOS version of this story, say hacking an office full of Macs, like a Digital Agency or something...

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