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by osteele 9y ago
I remember the NCSA Web Site of the Day, circa 1993. It was a page that listed new web sites that had appeared on the web, with a brief summary and link to each one. Many days there wasn't a new web site. Some days there were two .
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In the early days at Nest, one of my co-workers had trouble with his loan application because Nest, his employer, didn’t have a phone number. He showed the bank the company’s web site, and they were satisfied. Only a real company would have
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by osteele 9y ago
Continuing to move the deadline back by three months every quarter would constitute failure. This is a classic death march pattern. Tesla’s observables currently match this pattern. This doesn’t mean it’s in the pattern or will continue to
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by osteele 9y ago
What is the analogy between being too young or immunocompromised to receive the vaccine, and having poor diet and exercise habits?
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Most of Arizona doesn’t participate in DST [1]. [1] “Daylight Savings Time explained”, CGP Gray. https://youtu.be/84aWtseb2-4 . Skip to the 5 minute mark for Arizona.
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For a framework for thinking about election technology infrastructure and its risks, I recommend reading: [1] OSET Institute web site, http://www.osetfoundation.org/ [2] “Critical Technology Infrastructure: Protecting Ameri
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by osteele 9y ago
Before Firebug, those of us doing web development were writing things like this for use in our coder's carry kits http://blog.osteele.com/2006/03/inline-console/ Firebug made me happy to leave that behin
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In iOS 10, reinstalling the News or Calculator apps was instant. In iOS 11, the App Store list sizes for these apps, and reinstalling them takes a few seconds (on my phone and connection). I haven’t measured data usage, but I suspect this m
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by osteele 9y ago
Assume a linear scale, and assume the 1,000,000:1 range is between the highest luminance (1,000,000) to the lowest luminance (1) that isn't pure black. (Pure black might be zero, but that's useless for computing a ratio, so it doe
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AlphaGo Team Receives Inaugural IJCAI Marvin Minsky Medal for Achievements in AI(ijcai.org)
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The bus scene in Speed used a 50-foot practical jump from a ramp. CGI was used to remove the road that beneath the jump, not to lengthen the jump itself. I guess you could call that a “tiny hop” if you're measuring vertical distance fr
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by osteele 9y ago
Siri (the company) was a spin-off from SRI – Stanford Research Institute. The initial product, before the Apple acquisition, was an iPhone app with a chat interface. I don't recall that it supported voice input. It is still possible th
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"Within a month of his arrival, Randy solved some trivial computer problems for one of the other grad students. A week later, the chairman of the astronomy department called him over and said, “So, you’re the UNIX guru.” "At the t
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by osteele 9y ago
Perhaps a similar simplification can be applied to NEMA connectors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector , to reduce the number of extension cords and add thrills to our daily lives.
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For a consumer mail service, you to need to know enough to let them recover their account, possibly with decades of un-backed-up correspondence with and photos of since-deceased friends and relatives, when they’ve forgotten their password,
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by osteele 9y ago
> But even some people (idiots) break that rule for the weirdly specific case of 'historic'. Perhaps P is confused about the distinctions between "dialect", "idiolect", and "idiot". Or perhaps &quo
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> Actually pretty good but it still falls into the trap of thinking that there are rules, and that some people follow them and some people break them. I recommend _The Linguistics of Punctuation_, by Geoffrey Nunberg. It's a linguis
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by osteele 9y ago
Fun! I'd like to see this for other natural languages, and for programming languages.
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Like the dissemination of knowledge about bump keys fifteen years ago, which put a large number of homes suddenly at risk.
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This article reports uncritically the plaintiff’s claim that Toyota runaway acceleration issues were a software issue. The Wikipedia article presents a more balanced report; the black box data is particularly interesting. https:/&#x2F
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READER: I didn't like your story at all. JAMES THURBER: Did you read the French translation? READER: No, I read it in English. THURBER: That explains it. It suffers greatly in the original. [This was told me by my father. I can't
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by osteele 9y ago
I dined once with a billionaire and a couple of multimillionaires. The billionaire owned a jet. The multimillionaires were envious of him because they only owned jet timeshares . (If you own your own jet, it's always where you want it
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I clicked on this expecting a review of Nancy Etcoff's _Survival of the Prettiest_ (2000), another work in this area. The New York Times review of Etcoff's book is called "The Beautiful People" < http://ww
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The book Minskys & Trinskys referenced in the article can be previewed here http://www.blurb.com/bookshare/app/index.html?bookId=2172660 The third co-author “R.W. Gosper” is Bill Gosper https://en
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by osteele 9y ago
Cost per mile varies a lot per state, and varies differently for gas versus EV: * $/kWh varies by a factor of 2.2 within the continental U.S., from Washington at <$0.1/kWH to Connecticut and Alaska at >$0.2/kWH. (Hawaii
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Conda users: Here's a script that runs this check against each environment: https://gist.github.com/osteele/198b50a2a208e5bc7e5fb8d010cf...
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D'oh! (I also have fond memories of Think C and then Metrowerks, back in the day. A lot of us used them at Apple, instead of the official MPW.) This brings up some other advantages of text editors versus IDEs, within my limited experie
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Dedicated IDEs seem targeted at “I'm going to spend all day living in this one big project.” Text editors such as Atom and Visual Studio Code seem better at editing a single file, or bopping between a few projects (either within the sa
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by osteele 9y ago
The reading task involves a number of subtasks. If any of these don't work well, it's “dyslexia”. Different dyslexics have different symptoms and experiences depending on what part of the pipeline is affected how. I'm not sur
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by osteele 9y ago
This reminds me of the arguments about whether popular bands should raise ticket prices on the one hand, or create the conditions for ticket scalpers on the other. Let's say Apple wants to be as innovative in hardware as a company like

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