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by pacaro 7y ago
Seymour Cray referred to himself as an "overpaid plumber" for good reason. Heat management has been a critical element of high performance computing for a long time
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by pacaro 7y ago
¿Apple-led "minimalism"? IIRC apple were the last to get off the skeumorphism train. Microsoft's metro look was the first significant player in this round of the minimalist trend
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by pacaro 7y ago
It feels like a work in progress for sure. They seem to be aiming for an encyclopedic style of writing (although without the depth that also implies) there is no mention made of concerns about ABA in the article about Ivar Lovaas, or in the
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by pacaro 7y ago
IANAL You find yourself in BFOQ (bona fide occupational qualification) territory here — sometimes stated as "blind people can't be bus drivers". For an NFL player, running speed is clearly a BFOQ. For Hooters the case is more
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by pacaro 7y ago
The most trivial example I can think of is Sichuan pepper (花椒)
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by pacaro 7y ago
The way we learn about the five senses in elementary school bugs me. It is presented as this absolute fact and has become completely culturally embedded. Some may argue proprioception is provided by touch, but by the same light smell and ta
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by pacaro 7y ago
This. Just implementing a persistent key value store with b-trees is a great jumping off point This is a rabbit hole that goes as deep as you want it, which has both positives and negatives of course
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by pacaro 7y ago
I mostly agree with you. I think however that it was "the only choice" because it was good enough. It's worth remembering that there was a non trivial time period in which there was a single dominant browser platform which su
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by pacaro 7y ago
This is a reasonable observation, JavaScript uses a syntax derived from Algol, via C, with some language features derived from Scheme. I understand some of the upthread scepticism of the role that this may play in racket moving forward, bu
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by pacaro 7y ago
The observation about station costs resonated for me. I've always been startled by the scale and ostentation of Westlake Station [1] in Seattle, which is relatively modern (1990), but feels like it was built in the 20s, it's huge
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by pacaro 7y ago
It's not just math, it's a pretty basic concept in philosophy, or any area where critical thinking is required
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by pacaro 7y ago
Can you add "why not sshd?" to the FAQ please
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The Paradox of Unanimity (2016)(phys.org)
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by pacaro 7y ago
My first job was working for a software company that had killed people in the past. This was part of the London Ambulance scandal in the early 90s. The official inquiry had mostly exonerated the company. It has a crazy impact on corporate c
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by pacaro 7y ago
i.e. some potential employers will be leery about employing someone at a lower salary that they had previously earned, for a variety of reasons. I can imagine this being part of a double whammy with age discrimination.
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by pacaro 7y ago
For sure, I encountered a related issue about 18 years ago, I had been working for a company that was paying well, but that had closed down the project I was working on, as part of due diligence I was talking to other companies in addition
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by pacaro 7y ago
Is there any implication in TFA that this would work? It appears to work on a pathway which converts collagen to bone, if that is already happening, would adding this drug make it happen more? is there any "more" to happen?
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by pacaro 7y ago
I wonder about this, I don't dispute that there is an issue here, but I think that this, and similar analyses, fails to take into account the change in the size of the IT workforce over time. I'm currently 47, I started my first p
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by pacaro 7y ago
Optimality may be a function of effort, but your approach definitely seems like a more engaging approach. It's a cool project, thank you.
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by pacaro 7y ago
Can't you just replicate the entire 2d context api and pass through to an appropriately scaled (1px per block) offscreen canvas? Then pull the image from that and legoify it up to the display scale. That seems like a lot of unfun boile
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by pacaro 7y ago
Fair. I've always been lucky enough to live in places with great water, if occasionally astonishingly hard, but if I was in say Las Vegas I'd probably stick to bottled water
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by pacaro 7y ago
Or indeed a non-counterfeit water filter. They're not regulated.
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by pacaro 7y ago
It's really not clear that water filters are doing anything positive (you'd have to get your water tested to know) and they do have a tendency to increase the bacterial load in the water because of the inevitable biofilm that accu
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by pacaro 7y ago
I like the comparison with the Bhurj Khalifa. If we take 10x as the metric, that would be 15 Billion (based on an estimated 1.5 Billion for the Bhurj Khalifa) which seems in the right ballpark. Another way of looking at it, is that the Bhur
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by pacaro 7y ago
And then of course there is the deliberately edit hostile way that PDFs can be (ab)used, by printing a document and then scanning it to PDF. In my experience some lawyers like this because it means that to suggest edits you have to retype o
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by pacaro 7y ago
Somewhere in that realm for sure, maybe closer to Malinchism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinchism
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by pacaro 7y ago
Depends on the probability distribution of single Legos in your nocturnal environment. On a more serious note, when a fire alarm has gone off in the middle of the night and I have to grab a sleeping child and get out of the building, then i
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by pacaro 7y ago
My prescription is moderately strong -6.5 and -7 Yes. I wear extended wear contacts that are supposed to be replaced once a month. I take them out and replace them when I notice a significant deterioration in vision, or when my eyes feel sc
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by pacaro 7y ago
TFA also notes that the roles of the wires in the two types of memory is reversed
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by pacaro 7y ago
Indeed, the second paragraph spells out that this is a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and places it in context with GPS, GLONASS, and BeiDou

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