randcraw

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by randcraw 5y ago
Actually, thank Ron as well. I blame the end of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 for ending the open exchange of ideas and enabling the rise of polarized media oligopolies and local monopolies. Anything run only by giant corporations is soul
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by randcraw 5y ago
Maybe I'm an outlier, but my story contradicts yours. I started developing S/W professionally in 1986. It was cool for more than a decade. Then around 2000, software shifted to web dev and mobile, and I lost interest. Before 20
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by randcraw 5y ago
We're not just supersaturated; we're shaped by tech more than we shape it. Tech has become essential and inescapable. You can't fully participate in today's world without a smartphone. That phone and its underlying co
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by randcraw 5y ago
I think what Paul is describing is blasphemy more than heresy. Blasphemy is a single public statement contrary to official doctrine while heresy is the public endorsement of a school of thought that contradicts official doctrine in some no
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by randcraw 5y ago
I agree. I think a central reason that software, and the process for creating it, have not improved is that no standards for software quality have been demanded of the industry. The creation of no electrical or mechanical device on which
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by randcraw 5y ago
Also available here in publication format for Aging Cell: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35235716/
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by randcraw 5y ago
So he didn't reject you because you were a poor student, but for some other reason? Sounds like you might want to consider what you could have done differently to improve on that outcome. Regardless of whether you agree with what s&#
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by randcraw 5y ago
If we would support and better standardize the offerings of community colleges (as some proposed recently), we could drive down the cost of a bachelor's degree by close to 50%, even if the current rates of tuition for the last two year
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by randcraw 5y ago
IMHO, the problem with spying on citizens is that it's a double edged sword. We'd be nuts not to gather useful info on serious violations of law to improve national security (FBI) or local safety (local police). But abuse of suc
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by randcraw 5y ago
“Eastern Antarctica”. East of what? I have no idea where that is.
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No, from what I've observed, such laws most directly constrain those who fund research as well as those who solicit/promote it. Often they accompany other criminal charges rather than motivate prosecution as a primary charge. Sec
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by randcraw 5y ago
No, the US has long classified speech on weapons of mass destruction, like how to configure shaped charges to trigger atom bombs. You're not free to circumvent those restraints. It's likely that identifying molecules suited only
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by randcraw 5y ago
Exactly. For years now, I find stuff at Amazon by LEAVING the Amazon site and then searching Google for "OBJECTNAME Amazon". That circumvents most of Amazon's filters, revealing many more products like out-of-print versions
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by randcraw 5y ago
Of course, those 12 people could also expect to receive the same kind of 'sanction' that they just witnessed. And since their employer has access to all their personal communications while in the car, the company has access to a
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by randcraw 5y ago
“AI Addict”. Cool. That sounds like a vlog I should enjoy. But I'd never have heard of him or the latest problems with Autopilot if the company hadn't overreacted and made him famous. Thanks for the heads up, Tesla!
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by randcraw 5y ago
That Washingtonian story was a big nothing. In December 1973, supposedly 80% of Americans favored DST through the winter, but this fell by fully half to 40% only three months later — during the DARKEST three months of the year? How does th
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by randcraw 5y ago
...while total revenue of all media formats grew from 12.7B to 15.0B. CD revenue rose from 505.9M to 584.2M, but actually lost 0.1% of market share. The big winners of market share among formats were LPs -- up from 5.3% to 6.9%, and on-dema
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by randcraw 5y ago
Agreed. Now that the world is riveted by Russia's mad rush to pariahhood, this is an insanely bad time for anyone to jump on Russia's bandwagon. Apparently China has yet to learn that by showing wanton disrespect now for the most
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by randcraw 5y ago
What? $2000 for the Studio plus $1600 for their 5K display means Apple's new entry level workstation now costs $3600. That's a LOT more expensive than the old iMac 27 i7 at about $2400. To sum up, Apple just hiked their entry le
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by randcraw 5y ago
AFAIK, both Windows and MasOS allow you to rescale your windows and their contents to be bigger. This is a smart zoom that doesn't simply upsize every pixel on the display. So high density displays should no longer require squinting
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by randcraw 5y ago
According to my optometrist, the default practice in choosing a prescription for computer glasses is to divide your typical prescription for nearsightedness in half. Thus a 1 diopter prescription for everyday glasses becomes a ½ diopter pr
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by randcraw 5y ago
“Complete Turbo Pascal” by Jeff Duntemann and “The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC” blazed my trail into professional computing. Both are near-ideal models of nonfiction writing and teach a practical skill through the jo
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by randcraw 5y ago
Of course, you can save yourself a ton of trouble by implementing your language on top of the GCC toolchain — the purpose for which it was invented. Or you can write a translator which converts yourLang into existinglang, then interpret&#x2
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by randcraw 5y ago
"Plain speaking" is essentially writing for a audience with third grade reading skills. That is a losing proposition for most readers who will suffer the loss of basic information and nuance that plainspeaking entails. I believe
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by randcraw 5y ago
If Leonardo were alive today would he write his notebook by hand? Or would he adopt a modern a technology that would let him put down his thoughts and diagrams more expressively and precisely, that would allow better revision and better re
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by randcraw 5y ago
Maybe the better question was whether people make better decisions after 60. Speed is a poor measure for competence, as the OP stated outright.
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by randcraw 5y ago
At the same time, industrialization has created the very concept of leisure time. Vacation, travel, two days off per week, much less a 40 hour work week — these would have only been fantasies before industrialization. Maternal death duri
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by randcraw 5y ago
Mercenary. Machiavellian. Exploitative. Thief. There are LOTS of terms for turning customers into victims.
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by randcraw 5y ago
Yeah, I was struck by the article when I first read it too. I suspect the author warrants a closer look; great writing. I've always been intrigued by mathematicians, which is probably the best label for Pitts. That world can be as vi
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by randcraw 5y ago
And take back roads (rather than highways).

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