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by nwatson 7y ago
That's the premise of the movie "Galaxy Quest" [1]. It's a great film. [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/
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Ecuador legalized gangs and murder rates plummeted(vox.com)
160 points by nwatson 7y ago|69 comments
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by nwatson 7y ago
About 12 years ago when I had access to Microsoft MSDN I got a big SuperMicro box, set it up with CentOS 4 (RHEL) Linux, and used QEMU/KVM to set up a Windows domain controller and several other Windows VMs, and several Linux VMs, on a
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by nwatson 7y ago
I'd like to hear this poem recited ... found it at YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vExjnn_3ep4
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by nwatson 7y ago
The hiring company just counters they "can give X" for an imminently qualified candidate but after the interview process they feel the candidate has too little experience or aptitude and is being offered a job in spite of their sh
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by nwatson 8y ago
They have an Iraqi immigrant [1] to thank for their far-sighted policies. Farouk al-Kasim moved to Oslo in 1968 for family health reasons and was in the right time and place to help steer Norway's national policy toward unexpected oil
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by nwatson 8y ago
If this refers to Bhopal, Dow Chemical didn't buy Union Carbide Chemical, the perpetrator, till 2001, 17 years after the Bhopal disaster.
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by nwatson 8y ago
Reminiscent of fuzzy logic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic The Wikipedia article discusses various extensions of logic and symbolic computation to include probabilistic elements. This was a popular topic
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by nwatson 8y ago
The pseudo-official documentarians of the English language are the compilers of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). They don't prescribe or authorize English language use but generally accept new words and uses into the lexicon ... [
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by nwatson 8y ago
I've started a new job twice in the last 6 years working remotely from North Carolina (after already having been established here in NC), and not in one of the tech-heavy areas (RTP / Charlotte). In the first remote job I worked n
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Ecuador legalized gangs and murder rates plummeted(vox.com)
9 points by nwatson 8y ago|0 comments
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by nwatson 8y ago
The video doesn't portray the left-vs-right correctly. As the person and screens are set up in the video, the left and right eye both experience the left and right images presented on either side of the point-of-fixation. However, th
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by nwatson 8y ago
https://www.youngpioneertours.com/cycling-around-pyongyang/ ... discusses biking culture in North Korea and domestic-bike only policy, with NK-made bikes being good enough.
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by nwatson 8y ago
Moved from Bay Area to North Carolina, not even one of the "major" metro areas. Everyone has great internet
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Vive Focus Plus Ships April 15 for $799 with Business License(uploadvr.com)
1 points by nwatson 8y ago|0 comments
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by nwatson 8y ago
Data science is squishy to begin with -- those wanting high performance are heading to fixed-point hardware-accelerated solutions where loss-of-precision is a given, so not having a fully accurate answer with high-precision floating-point a
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by nwatson 8y ago
I was astounded to hear in the Radiolab podcast episode [1] that I do not own my own body or its parts. (If you listen to the podcast, the section on body/body-part ownership is just one of the several sections so you'll need to
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Property Rights in the Human Body (2013)(thestudentlawyer.com)
41 points by nwatson 8y ago|30 comments
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by nwatson 8y ago
[0] explains that fuel efficiency considerations prompted Boeing to push the altered 737's larger new engines well forward compared to prior iterations, causing the airplane to pitch nose up in some maneuvers in unstable fashion. The
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by nwatson 8y ago
You don't mention interactive debugging in vim ... and I'm not sure there's a good story there that's better than your CLion (Jetbrain's C/C++ IDE) -- I'd like to hear about vim interactive debugging. Per
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by nwatson 8y ago
I guess it depends on the chimp's religious beliefs. These unstaged chimps from BBC PlanetEarth clearly has no compunction about eating a rival gang's carcass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al-f_WWoHI4 .
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by nwatson 8y ago
Just for comparison, there's a data center in Lenoir, NC (nearest thing to a "tech hub" would be considered Charlotte, NC about 1-to-1.5 hours away). The report [1] claims: "In its analysis for Google, Oxford Economics
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by nwatson 8y ago
83(b) with pre-vesting exercise if you can, probably only works at early early stage. I did that twice with different outcomes, overall positive.
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by nwatson 8y ago
I'll trust some beautiful fem-robot that says she likes me for who I am and that I make her laugh and tells me how lucky my late wife was and that no she needs the bank account details just so she can wire the car down payment I'v
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by nwatson 8y ago
Yep, here's Liberace (famous pianist, here an actor) being the funeral analog of the car-salesman in the '60's movie "The Love One": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoZ5dTQa_2E
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by nwatson 8y ago
I recommend Greg's Bash Wiki ... https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide . See general notes, then at the bottom of the page are many links to additional considerations. Like others say, "bash" is a hard tool t
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AT&T, Dish, Comcast all raising cable TV rates to counter cord-cutting(dallasnews.com)
3 points by nwatson 8y ago|0 comments
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Uber’s self-driving cars return to public roads for first time since fatal crash(theverge.com)
1 points by nwatson 8y ago|0 comments
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by nwatson 8y ago
Capex vs Opex? The cost of new/refurbished equipment is an up-front cost and takes longer to depreciate (but refurbished is lower-cost and so has fewer immediate penalties), whereas diesel fuel and other similar costs can be charged i
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by nwatson 8y ago
For a great BBC mini-series based on Cromwell's story watch Wolf Hall ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Hall_(miniseries)

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