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by retzkek 5y ago
Retirement/social security is the carrot: "work hard until you reach age xx and then you can relax." Some people need a reason to keep going, and society needs those people to keep working for most of their life, or instituti
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by retzkek 5y ago
"Continuing to live" is a very different state than "being brought into existence," and I struggle to see how the desire for the former implies the latter. You can't ask anyone who was never born if they would prefe
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by retzkek 5y ago
Pollen [1] is pretty neat, it's amazing what Matthew Butterick has done with it to create his books. Beautiful Racket [2] truly is beautiful and inspiring. [1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/ [2]: https:&#
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by retzkek 5y ago
I like Everyday Astronaut's stream, he explains what's happening and why (and probably has a bigger production budget than SpaceX themselves): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htnG_mABtSQ
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by retzkek 5y ago
Coincidentally last night I re-watched one of my favorite episodes of "From the Earth to the Moon," "Galileo was Right," which focuses on the Apollo 15 crews getting field training in geology. Their instructor (along wit
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by retzkek 6y ago
> How do proponents of govt run services and production units address this core flaw They'd probably first challenge your premise that it is a flaw. A key tenet of socialism is that all are taken care of, including the lazy and in
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by retzkek 6y ago
I mean, good for them? If they're "just rebranding and selling access for infinite markup" then surely the only people who would pay them are either too lazy or too busy to host it themselves, or too rich to care? Would you p
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by retzkek 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_recursion
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by retzkek 6y ago
> they've underestimated the amount of work required to package and distribute a product as complex as Elasticsearch The bulk of the work thus far has been to strip out the non-OSS components ("X-pack") and the many refere
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Finding from Particle Research Could Break Known Laws of Physics(nytimes.com)
6 points by retzkek 6y ago|0 comments
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by retzkek 6y ago
GP is just one voice in this discussion, where others have already addressed the substance of the article. Some context and history is valuable.
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by retzkek 6y ago
Abbey (and climate change) has had a profound effect on my view of traveling. I once had a bucket list to visit every national park (and every continent, and every wonder, etc), but after reading Desert Solitaire I've tried to better
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by retzkek 6y ago
Is there any particular reason for the repetition draw instead of just offering a draw?
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by retzkek 6y ago
Bill Gates mentioned pressurized pumped-hydro storage in his book, (which was the first I had heard of it), and it sounds quite promising and something Texas is well-suited for: > GLIDES costs as low as $13/kWh and $346/kWh and
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by retzkek 6y ago
Both TFA and the Bloomberg article it references [1] mention the 100MW power throughput of the battery, which is pretty meaningless without also knowing the energy capacity. For reference, the similar 100MW battery installation in Australia
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by retzkek 6y ago
> Of course this is in a perfect world, but I remember seeing quizzes which would guess any object given a few yes/no question. Or perhaps it was people. https://en.akinator.com/
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by retzkek 6y ago
1040-EZ and 1040-A were eliminated in 2018, so pretty much everyone uses 1040 now (which was probably simplified, I haven't compared). There's also 1040-SR for seniors. > And still can still compare turbo tax for free to see if
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by retzkek 6y ago
A few months ago I explored using Dhall and Jsonnet to re-write an Ansible playbook [0,1]. I wanted to like Dhall, but found the type system got in the way more than it helped, while Jsonnet was very productive and a huge improvement over Y
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by retzkek 6y ago
> s far as I know no solid state boosters were ever re-used (how would that work?) Nitpicking of "reuse" vs "refurbish" aside the SRBs were significantly reused: > The RSRM was designed to make the most use
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by retzkek 6y ago
It's very Anglo-American focused, and draws primarily on American and European history.
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by retzkek 6y ago
Also: "The Fourth Turning" by Strauss and Howe (1997). From the synopsis: > Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four eras—or "turnings"—that last ab
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by retzkek 6y ago
Now that the decision is out we have more details on what caused the blunder, and it's a good (terrifying?) lesson in the importance of good system and UI design: > Citi’s software will only let you pay principal to some lenders if
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Citi Can’t Have Its $900M Back(bloomberg.com)
45 points by retzkek 6y ago|11 comments
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by retzkek 6y ago
> on keys that are easy to press (no more mechanical keyboard for me). You may like Kailh speed switches, especially Copper - light touch, short activation, satisfying tactile bump. https://www.keyboardco.com/blog/i
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by retzkek 6y ago
The Logitech M570 and new M575 are a cheaper way to try out a thumb trackball. I've been using an M570 for a couple years, quite happy with it, except that I've found it needs to be put on a 20-30 degree wedge to reduce wrist stra
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by retzkek 6y ago
> If we do not spend the the energy to hunt what we eat, it seems clear that we get obese. > Our natural instincts tell us to eat as much as we can whenever food is available. Compounding the problem, we've identified what activa
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by retzkek 6y ago
Fasting, both intermittent (< 24 hr) and extended, are increasingly being recognized as powerful tools to lose weight and cure/prevent diet-related conditions like diabetes and metabolic disorder, thanks to the work of people like D
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by retzkek 6y ago
> You buy a dishwasher from Best Buy. They send your name and address to Maytag... Cool? Since most appliance manufacturers require you registering your product with them for warranty service, yes, please take care of that for me (many a
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by retzkek 6y ago
Most "tiny" keyboard layouts put the numpad one keypress away, right under your hand. With an ortho keyboard you don't even have to retrain muscle memory. There's very little downside.
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by retzkek 6y ago
A number of watches are still sold with flight computer slide rules in the bezel, including my current favorite the Citizen Nighthawk, which is a chrono-less sibling to the Navihawk, which is something of a budget homage to the Breitling Na

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