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by pndmnm 12y ago
While the historical meaning of "ambivalence" (literally -- strength in two directions) does mean a contradictory complex of feelings, I now almost exclusively hear it used to mean a low level of feeling or lack of caring. When y
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by pndmnm 13y ago
I really wish that the Fitbit Flex was more hackable -- if I could get a low-power bluetooth fob that could vibrate and display a few lights embedded in my watchband, that would really be all the smartwatch I need.
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by pndmnm 13y ago
As a guy who is moving to SF for geographically-relevant reasons (wife is a medical resident) and who works tech remotely, I'd be all in favor of this.
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by pndmnm 13y ago
> Suppose the two partners have different ideas of what constitutes "cleaning the house". This is essentially how my partner and I have divided up housework -- the person whose requirements for "done" are a superset o
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by pndmnm 13y ago
In fact, it does -- to demonstrate, assume otherwise and use the definition of continuity.
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by pndmnm 13y ago
As one possible example, see Ken Shirriff's teardowns of a cheap USB power adapter: http://www.righto.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and... And an Apple adapter: http://www.righto.com/
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by pndmnm 13y ago
If you'd like to read a community actually interacting with him rather than hellbanning him under the rug, check out this Metafilter thread: http://www.metafilter.com/119424/An-Operating-System-for-Son... Long, bu
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by pndmnm 13y ago
Very much so (ammonia content, for one). See any IPA brewed with a large proportion of Simcoe hops as well.
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by pndmnm 13y ago
Oh man, I can't believe the school (I grew up in Port Townsend) both offered a Joint Stool From A Tree course earlier this year and didn't get enough signups for it: http://www.ptwoodschool.com/joint_stool_from_a_t
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by pndmnm 13y ago
If you find this article interesting, it's also worth finding and flipping through D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's classic "On Growth and Form". A copy is available at the Internet Archive: http://archive.or
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by pndmnm 13y ago
If you enjoy these, you should check out some of the installation pieces by Olafur Eliasson. His oeuvre is more about playing with/exploiting perception -- one of my favorite pieces was a part of his exhibit at the Chicago MCA in summ
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by pndmnm 13y ago
Exactly correct. A great quote I heard once is "asking a scientist when they'll find a cure for cancer is like asking a mathematician when they'll find a solution for equations."
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by pndmnm 13y ago
Years ago, a classmate of mine built a rig out of a receipt printer and one of those old handheld scanners to provide an "air gap", though it never really worked (sort of an art project at the time). Might be time to revive the i
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by pndmnm 13y ago
May have been EckBox: http://eckbox.sourceforge.net/ We built the hardware back in college and played around with it a bit... back when people had CRTs.
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by pndmnm 13y ago
Side note -- in case you're curious about the origin of the RSS logo: http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/2004/09/26/2004-09-26-... (5th item down).
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by pndmnm 13y ago
Interesting, I didn't know that! I've always liked the pins-down configuration on my Macbook since in order to release the connector, the clip is on top (that is, I don't have to lift the laptop/etc in order to remove t
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by pndmnm 14y ago
And they're even better for hard-boiling, as the shell is more easily removed.
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by pndmnm 14y ago
Those are the Catalan-Mersenne numbers, and it is unknown whether c_5 is prime: http://oeis.org/A007013
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by pndmnm 14y ago
This is certainly not a "minimum viable kitchen" by any stretch, but it is a reasonable list of equipment necessary to make a certain type of recipe (from-scratch French-inspired New American cooking that involves baked components). Persona
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by pndmnm 14y ago
There was a post about his operating system on Metafilter and he showed up and answered questions (in addition to some rambling). Really fascinating read: http://www.metafilter.com/119424/An-Operating-System-for-Son...
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by pndmnm 14y ago
> Backscatter doesn't pose any health risk to travelers. But we really don't know that, because no studies have been done using this equipment. In addition to concerns that the radiation, while lower in total than that absorbed during
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by pndmnm 14y ago
> This set now includes all possible bit strings of infinite length since the way these are iteratively generated includes all possibilities. That's not correct -- in fact, it contains no infinite bit strings at all (to prove this to yo
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by pndmnm 14y ago
MEMS barometers are commonly used for relative altimetry (e.g. stair climb calculations on activity trackers, etc).
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Jason Hoffman says 5 years or full refund for lifetime Joyent customers(discuss.joyent.com)
3 points by pndmnm 14y ago|3 comments
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by pndmnm 14y ago
I'd also be curious to see what changes the restaurant sees as a result of this policy. I know that if a good eatery successfully incentivized people away from phone usage, I'd be more inclined to go there, even at a slightly increased cos
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by pndmnm 14y ago
Not really -- they're objecting to having invested in the early stages of a company in good faith that the company would keep its promises. If they wanted dirt-cheap shared hosting, there were plenty of other ways to get it, even at the ti
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by pndmnm 14y ago
> Apple has never produced a new product category. They take the innovations that came before and throw money and Steve Jobs/Jonny Ives taste at it. Right -- or like we always say here on HN, it's not ideas that count, it's execution.
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by pndmnm 14y ago
Yup, I did a few projects on equivalents of AC back in the day. That's just my favorite "appeal to intuition" one (my favorite "appeal to intuition" against AC is: the identity function is the sum of two periodic functions (though this is
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by pndmnm 14y ago
That's absolutely correct -- trichotomy for arbitrary cardinals (any two cardinals are cardinal-size-comparable) requires AC, but SB doesn't require AC. Trichotomy for the cardinal numbers of well-ordered sets (e.g. ordinals) doesn't requi
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by pndmnm 14y ago
True, though this "proof" assumes a large amount of additional mathematical machinery in addition to SB (I learned it as Cantor-Schröder–Bernstein originally... I wonder where the inconsistency in the naming comes from). It's not so much a

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