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by quiescant_dodo 5y ago
> Aboriginals had no writing system so there would be no keyboards. The Maya and Aztec had writing in the form of hieroglypics. The Inca had persistent communication via Quipu's rope knots. (I learned this from _Guns, Germs, and Ste
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by quiescant_dodo 5y ago
Cool idea. I would expect the code to be very clean and simple for this, so I'm surprised there isn't a pseudocode algorithm presented (or a real implementation in some language).
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
The fundamental idea of using the donor's own stem cells is known as an Autologous Stem Cell Transplant and has existed for a while. It is used as therapy for a fair number of blood cancers (e.g. multiple myeloma or a few leukemias). U
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
In the past, I had pseudo-pair programmed in order to test. We'd agree on the external-facing API and pair-program a slow in-memory implementation. Once that was completed, we would split off and one of us would write test cases agains
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
It's not frivolous thinking. I agree with your statement that "you have a value of 1". That's our collective defense mechanism. But as a consequence, we all live with the knowledge that _if we step out of line_, then gre
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
Bitcoin and other digital assets _hide_ the problem. If the TSA knew you had a bitcoin wallet on the hard drive, they could seize that instead. If you have full-disk-encryption and a crypto-wallet passphrase, you may be held on contempt cha
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
Woah! The idea of carrying that much cash is giving me a lot of third-hand anxiety. Did the person seem overly anxious? I can't imagine sharing that information with someone I just met!
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
Article 404s for me. Here's an archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210330142435/https://www.quant...
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
This is a phenomenal bug report.
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
Opening up with "I'm sorry" sets a tone for the conversation. If my last interaction with someone was a little tense, I need to _reset_ the emotional balance before moving forward. In this hypothetical, I don't believe I
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
> This minor event bothered me so much I never talked to her about programming puzzles ever again. This makes me sad, but it is exactly what I would have done. My life is built on avoiding anything awkward or uncomfortable. And...that&#x
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
> people don't want to have to advertise themselves as "willing to take criticism". That should be norm. I don't think this is precisely correct. In the situations like in the article, the issue is that both parties a
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
I didn't downvote, as I think this adds to the conversation. But as a _systemic solution_, I don't think the "advice NDA" holds up. As a one-off (or a personal "hack"), the NDA is an offering of empathy. Sharin
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
Thanks for linking about Turkish occupation of Cyprus. I was completely unaware. There's a nice map in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Buffer_Zone_in_... if anyone is curious about what the separation
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
I think you missed the point. Measuring one-way speed of light requires perfectly synchronized clocks. You cannot do this over any distance, as it requires the speed of light to propagate between the clocks. So you must synchronize the cloc
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
There are long checklists for handling uncommon scenarios like this. I would expect that was one of many items on the list, but I'm not familiar with the checklists. It is possible that the explosion disabled the fuel controls.
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
Thanks for the link. There's a lot of content in there.
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
As the sibling commented, there's really no proof to feeling. You can remark that something reacts to the environment. And we can use sophisticated tools to approximate things (e.g. brain MRI can see which parts of the brain "ligh
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
Pointing out that plants react to external stimuli is interesting. But using "feel" is an emotionally-loaded word. Additionally, although oysters (and at least dozens of other species of animals) lack a CNS, they also react to ext
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
This is a fascinating read. Thanks for sharing.
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
There's at least the case of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen who was killed via drone strike authorized by President Obama. Here's a letter then-AG Eric Holder sent to Congress: https://archive.nytimes.com/www
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
If China encroaches on Taiwan, the US is economically obligated to intervene; losing access to TSMC would be a massive hit. (It seems that TSMC is getting increasingly-advanced over their competitors, but maybe that's just my media bli
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
If you like that story, I also enjoyed the rest of George the Poet's podcast, "Have you heard george's podcast?" https://www.georgethepoet.com/podcast-library
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
I'm not sure cats are content with the 4 walls around them, either. (Plenty of cats prefer the outdoors, even if they sleep inside.)
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
What is an ethical vegetarian and how is it different from veganism? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding.
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
If: 1. The company sent bonus emails in 2019 via email 2. The offending email was from 'happyholidays@godaddy.com' (instead of 'goCLaddy.com') would it change the legal perspective? I could totally see myself seeing such
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
Email-link obfuscation (for whatever purpose) makes it nearly impossible to determine a real email from a phishing attempt. Even if you notice AFTER clicking the link that it is no good (i.e. before entering credentials). My company used to
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
I've been using Comic Mono as my non-code IDE font for years. It clashes obviously with the font I use for the code, which makes it easier to parse context for me.
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
I'll add this to my reading list. I recently finished "1491" by Charles Mann and wanted more reading. Thanks for the plug. :)
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by quiescant_dodo 6y ago
Is this a known theoretical CS problem?

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