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by pomian 3y ago
Hey! What a cool collection of links. It's a perfect HN rabbit hole!
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by pomian 3y ago
What a great story. This is the kind of writing I encourage many of my retired friends to try. Start by a few short anecdotes and stories of things or people you remember. Even though we are not Cicero, our history has changed dramatically
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by pomian 3y ago
Thanks for that link! That's very interesting. I am editing two books for two authors at the present, both of whom already published, in paper, and with Amazon I believe. But this looks like a very interesting publishing model. Especia
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by pomian 3y ago
Another chance to recommend a book that I learnt about from HN: I highly recommend the book, Sunburst and Luminary; http://www.sunburstandluminary.com/SLhome.html A technical pleasure and also very good glimpse into the Apo
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by pomian 3y ago
This was actually a fun little game. It opens a tiny window into what a whole pile of HN types seem to deal with. Especially interesting for those of us not directly in computer development.
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by pomian 3y ago
Agree with poweroffuet, to try to convert to VoIP. I was lucky on one house move, where my personal office phone number was not acceptable to new area, but I was able to transfer to a VoIP account. At the time internet was slow so after aw
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by pomian 3y ago
One of the ideas that seems to be missed from the study of history and economy, was the effect on the total destruction of the Japanese and German industrial base - during WWII. Britain and USA, were left with their archaic industrial syste
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by pomian 3y ago
That sounds perfect. We had to recently move out from godaddy, for the same reason - no more free emails, in spite of a while pile of domains. (And, there is zero useful tech support - used to be good.) I ended up at Hostinger, which is typ
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by pomian 3y ago
That looks great! I have a pixel 4xl that will not allow enabling VoWifi. (Maybe old sim card, maybe Graphene.) As you mentioned, great for other builds. PinePhone, etc. Going to try...
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by pomian 3y ago
What a great write up. The tension preceding launch must have been tremendous, and lack of sleep adding to the possibility of such a small yet critical error. Good lesson for all of us.
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by pomian 3y ago
Then you will have to post an update on HN. We are all waiting to hear the results. Especially from experience not marketing.
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by pomian 3y ago
Some life lessons from a fellow night owl. Don't worry about it! Don't schedule important meetings at 8 am! If you need to become a regular at some place at 8 am, then they only solution for a night owl, is to get up before 6; 5:3
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by pomian 3y ago
That is an amazing collection. Many of them have been refurbished and fixed. I don't think the prices are that high. There are many unique pieces, and compared to the price of other things out there, prices ok. There is some solid stuf
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by pomian 3y ago
Thanks for that! Always hard to find the right tools, with a recommendation it is much easier. (Sometimes, you don't know if it's just you? Or there really are quality differences.)
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by pomian 3y ago
Exactly what I was thinking yesterday. Why not continue with different colors on the USB plugs, as they sort of did with blue for usb c or was it USB 3? Or. Ah. Can't keep up.3.1? (Some motherboards tried, but there weren't cables
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by pomian 3y ago
And yet, CPU-Z, is still a fantastic tool to see what ram your system has, what motherboard, what processor, especially in am old system you may want to upgrade. Just to know what family of processor you have, is extremely useful. It's
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by pomian 3y ago
My solution for good interaction, since I'm fluent, is to state to the person i'm talking to, is right up front and say; I'm not a native, so forgive me if I sound informal. Usually that's enough for the person to be fo
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by pomian 3y ago
Another chance to share a great book recommendation: Sunburst and Luminary, by Don Eyles. About programming the lunar lander computer - super well written so we can all understand, and entertaining. With a blog of historical recollection th
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by pomian 3y ago
Formality in discussion with others, seems to be very common in other languages, and is very hard for a native North American speaker to use correctly. The whole concept sounds like contrite begging for us. Please sir, sir I could I sir ask
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by pomian 3y ago
A fascinating character in Canadian history, and another one of the very early voices to draw attention to human ecological damages, was Grey Owl. His writings of you can find them, are very interesting and fun. (Canoe was his favorite and
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by pomian 3y ago
Two things to wonder about, that we didn't see mentioned in article, which I'm sure were considered somewhere. What about the differences in bonding strength between water molecules surrounded by water, as opposed to water in the
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by pomian 3y ago
We need a Jony Ive in every company.
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by pomian 3y ago
Great link thanks. Text is sometimes more fathomable. Explains a lot of the use potential for such a hack. Having a register monitor is very cool.
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by pomian 3y ago
And what is with the numerical replacement of a word? Just before pressing send, if you're lucky, you catch something like, an engine may be defined by it's 6 in cubic inches. (Instead of displacement.)
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by pomian 3y ago
Selenium is a fascinating element. Very necessary for healthy life, UpTo to a level, then it may be toxic. Different areas of the planet have more present in the soil. So on some places, it is added as a supplement to feed(especially animal
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by pomian 3y ago
This is the crux of environmental misalignment in our system. There is not actual tradeable value for environment. Most importantly, how to set a price for a view? In some cases we have comparison for a tourist economy where we value the be
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by pomian 3y ago
Great idea. Historic recreation. Then get various historians, and/or people with regional historic stories, that may have been passed on from generation to generation, and add them too. Possibly a sidebar to check various layers as in
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by pomian 3y ago
Do you still have that print out? It would be awesome to try it. (I have the original multi wars, written in basic(Dartmouth college), it was a print only game, but multi user for anyone on campus who could join in. One of these days!
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by pomian 3y ago
Hedy's Folly, by Richard Rhodes. It's a very good book about Hedy Lamar's life and her fame, and work on that patent. It's interesting that the book is not mentioned. The author is the same one that wrote the Making of t
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by pomian 3y ago
There is however a problem. More and more marinas are enforcing a no live aboard rule. (~>95%) so it is very hard to find a place to legally live on your boat. Extra fees for that, when possible. Those rulings also lead to the marinas th

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