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by pbourke 5y ago
> furrogate babies Perhaps your friends stopped getting in contact with you after they realized that you’re an asshole.
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by pbourke 5y ago
Also, churches and governments were working hand-in-glove and the public approved of, or at the very least ignored, what they were doing. Blame cannot be laid at the feet of any one group as all shared equally in sustaining this terrible sy
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by pbourke 5y ago
I saw a tweet the other day from someone in her 40’s who said her children were the first generation in the family not to have been sent to a residential school. Pretty sobering.
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by pbourke 5y ago
Speak for yourself
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by pbourke 5y ago
If only ancient people knew about the paleo diet.
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by pbourke 5y ago
We do not seem to live in an era that could produce a work of science fiction like Star Trek: The Next Generation in which humanity has mostly solved its major internal problems - racism, scarce resources, political discord, etc. Who would
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by pbourke 5y ago
Just chiming in that I absolutely detest this way of thinking. This isn’t a dig at you personally, but against the idea of living or presenting your life as some series of neatly explainable resume bullet points. I have been susceptible to
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by pbourke 5y ago
> The whole country was much more dangerous in the 70s-80s than it was in the 2000s. Was that an overall trend in that rural and suburban areas were equally more dangerous, or was it concentrated in cities?
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by pbourke 5y ago
> most codebases lacked a layer describing what the actual use cases of the system were > I've been wondering lately if there is some space in programming language design to address these issues. I think we often over-index on pr
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by pbourke 5y ago
There’s no one as dangerous as a new hire from “X,” where “X” is a well-known/esteemed company (FAANG, etc), in their first 3 months at a new firm.
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by pbourke 5y ago
> Seriously though, what public facing retail store doesn't cut corners on staffing or any other aspect? Food co-ops and independent/small chain grocers. We are fortunate to have a good density of these in the Seattle area and
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by pbourke 5y ago
I think they mean when the machine is set to a strict weight measurement tolerance (or similar) so that for nearly every item it complains about putting things into or taking them out of the bag. You often have to call the checkout area min
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by pbourke 5y ago
How much land does Google use vs the most successful farmer in a given county? What’s the value of the land that Google uses?
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by pbourke 5y ago
> Corporations value the ability to remove all human agency & decision-making from software development where possible. Corporations value the ability to continue as an operating entity and make changes to the code after the proponen
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by pbourke 5y ago
They need to bring the ground-penetrating radar to every residential school site now.
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by pbourke 5y ago
> Or, you would make the enemy's bomb ineffective. Everything in the nuclear arena is existential, including countermeasures. Hence the treaty limitations on missile defense and mania for “Star Wars” (orbital anti missile systems) i
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by pbourke 5y ago
Also improvements to public health information systems. It seems like there are a lot of people employed in public health in the US across the local, state and federal levels and those people are not served by good systems. The fact that fo
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by pbourke 5y ago
What do you mean by level of detail? That concepts are spelled out more explicitly? I think most languages and cultures have conceptual shortcuts. Every culture/language has their “Shaka, when the walls fell” from Star Trek (here I go
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by pbourke 5y ago
> The non-native speakers, it turns out, speak more purposefully and carefully, typical of someone speaking a second or third language. Anglophones, on the other hand, often talk too fast for others to follow, and use jokes, slang and re
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by pbourke 5y ago
> I have no idea how important aircraft carrier fleet is. It’s the most important part of a modern blue water navy and has been since WW2. The US also has a world-dominating submarine fleet.
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by pbourke 5y ago
I don’t know anything about these, but found it interesting that people have ported Linux to these chips as they’ve come off patent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperH#J_Core
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New Study Estimates More Than 900k People Have Died of Covid-19 in U.S.(npr.org)
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by pbourke 5y ago
I wonder if you could run the firmware in emulation on a more recent CPU.
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by pbourke 5y ago
> but the kit supplier itself can't migrate from Hitachi MCU because they don't have firmware sources as they themselves only copypasted the firmware as a binary for decades.. That’s seems like a rather existential problem. If
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by pbourke 5y ago
I interpret this to mean: if you are going to answer the question, just answer the one asked rather than assuming that the question was asked in error and answering some other one. I don’t interpret this to mean: I’m entitled to your answer
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by pbourke 5y ago
Wow - thanks for posting this. It’s 30 years later and we really don’t have anything comparable to HyperCard in terms of making programming accessible to non programmers.
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by pbourke 5y ago
These graph renders should be hanging in a museum.
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by pbourke 5y ago
> What difference does it make that we got unlucky in this way as opposed to that way? Is this a serious question? How about, if this is true the US government should not be funding any research like this in China. How about, the researc
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by pbourke 5y ago
The article refers to two letters from leading researchers arguing against the lab escape hypothesis, one published in a Nature journal. It’s not like the media were spinning this story out of whole cloth. The whole thing was unfortunately
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by pbourke 5y ago
Earlier in my career: Some dude got up, smashed his keyboard on the side of his desktop causing a spray of key caps across the open plan office. Picked up his stuff and left. He was back the next day like nothing had happened.

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