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by rm445 6y ago
One can imagine a future where small, solid-state dongles are circulated with software licenses - such as, as discussed in the article, for games, and the software itself is downloaded separately. But for that matter, why not have those lic
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by rm445 6y ago
I have a brother-in-law who is a COBOL programmer. Very much as you describe. I'd like to know more about it, honestly, but he's very much the kind of guy for whom work is just work and not interesting to talk about after hours. I
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by rm445 6y ago
I've had a recruitment consultant suggest I use a gmail e-mail address on my CV, because it looks weird to have an address at a domain (my own, and not anything strange btw) that people haven't heard of. Sounds crazy. But try dict
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by rm445 6y ago
At the user's preference, if they don't mind the data use, pre-loading content could improve the user experience. That kinda supposes it's content the user wants. But what if it's data, like ads, that the user doesn&#x27
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by rm445 6y ago
Agreed. Meta-trends would be 'trends will change faster' or similar; most of these are fairly specific predictions.
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by rm445 6y ago
This isn't a personal accusation, but your post reads exactly like the attackers described in the article - brand other things as nanotech, and attack the original vision. What can anyone else take from it? True molecular assembly migh
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by rm445 6y ago
I'm sure I've heard the idea that nuclear arsenals can kill us all a hundred times over, or similar. Obviously my half-remembering isn't evidence, but if other people had heard this sort of thing, it would be evidence of a po
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by rm445 6y ago
A couple of ideas: (1) Centrism is situational. One might think that the status quo is objectively reasonably close to the ideal, in terms of the general way society is arranged even if there are many imperfections. (2) Centrism is technocr
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by rm445 6y ago
Exeter is a very livable small city (130k people) in a lovely part of the country. I'm not saying you should have uprooted your life to move there, but for many people it would be a great lifestyle move. There's a wider issue with
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by rm445 6y ago
People who didn't have a PS4 should factor in the 'PS Plus Collection' - it's twenty top-flight PS4 games included for download on the Playstation Plus subscription at time of PS5 release. It seems to be a one-time thing
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by rm445 6y ago
'Spot the ball' was a staple of local newspaper competitions - an action shot of a game with the ball removed by presumably pre-digital photographic trickery. Entrants were invited to mark a cross where they thought the ball might
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by rm445 6y ago
No, nuclear thermal rockets could be launched from the ground. That was the plan with NERVA, which was a pretty serious attempt to develop the technology in the early seventies. A nuclear thermal rocket engine 'looks' like a rocke
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by rm445 6y ago
I don't get the impression that it was - it came out later than the NES and was a bit more powerful, but much less so than the 16-bit systems. There are some (relatively) impressive games for the Master System, but I think that's
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by rm445 6y ago
The polar _atmosphere_ is colder than expected[1]. According to Wikipedia, the coldest point on the surface is 380 degrees C. https://sci.esa.int/web/venus-express/-/57735-venus-express-...
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by rm445 6y ago
That's fair enough. It's unfortunate that adding fillets is a big design change in OpenSCAD while it's something you can easily add last-thing in other packages. Because it's so programmable, most things can be made fair
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by rm445 6y ago
I've been using OpenSCAD for personal projects for a couple of months, generally preparing models for 3D FDM printing. I'm a mechanical engineer by profession and a certified Solidworks professional. I'd estimate that designi
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by rm445 6y ago
It maybe had some validity where there were big social changes post-WW2 and a baby boom. I think of it like a diffusing wave, becoming less relevant over time.
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by rm445 6y ago
The author tells the story of typical undergraduate instruction for the integrals of tan(x) and sec(x) . I would have thought that such a setting would have included that these were improper integrals, because of the infinities in the fu
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by rm445 6y ago
I've seen people mocked for it before. I think the people doing the mocking were small-minded idiots who couldn't understand that a forum with one top-level poster is isomorphic to a blog with comments. But I must admit, the initi
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by rm445 6y ago
With a supposedly 10x improvement in an important metric (fuel consumption, together with reasonable speed and carrying enough fuel for range), there must surely be a big idea driving the change. Something that stands out. I can't quit
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by rm445 6y ago
I love Tom Lehrer, but I was a little taken aback when I learnt that Lobachevsky was a real mathematician and not as far as anyone knows a plagiarist. Seems harsh to skewer a (long-dead) guy's reputation with such a catchy song.
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by rm445 6y ago
Those numbers are great though! My take-away from those numbers is that this candidate is superb at applications, and merely way-above-average at phone screens.
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by rm445 6y ago
The company already offloaded the cost of travelling to and from work. My choice to live with a (reasonable) commute, but savings in petrol since March have more than offset other costs.
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by rm445 6y ago
As an engineer, not a mathematician, I'm glad that good mathematicians care about good notation. The relatively-elementary maths that I learnt didn't always have good notation, the tradition seems suited to chalk and pen i.e. comp
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by rm445 6y ago
Not people. Dinosaurs, intelligent crocodiles, industrialised trilobites, whatever it might be. So many millions of years ago that there may be no such thing as permanent marks. You possibly could be thinking about an Atlantis type of scena
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by rm445 6y ago
This is a step in the right direction, though, isn't it? It's not about whether the AI mimicks a person's pauses and errors, but about whether the AI can keep track of two pencils or distinguish between the present and future
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by rm445 6y ago
I think a photo with the phone 'disappeared' would actually be a valuable addition to the article. Good work by the way, and I hope you change the trouserial (?) world.
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by rm445 6y ago
Cargo pants really look bad with anything in them though, except flattish items like paper money. These trousers look like an improvement. I think the next step is to reinvent the bum bag in a slightly more sartorially-elegant form.
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by rm445 6y ago
They're good pockets, aren't they? But the ones I've owned seem to be sized and proportioned for a stanley knife or similar, not a phone or wallet. I think the author is onto something, though I'm still not convinced the
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by rm445 6y ago
I'd like to describe, without advocating, an alternative model, not claiming it's better than the 'exec pay is at the market value' model but maybe worth thinking about. Even though it's clearly wrong in lots of way

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