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by russnewcomer 9y ago
One of the other important things about Kernza that the article doesn't talk about much is hardiness and drought-resistance. Kernza's yield at its best is lower than modern seed at an average year, but during a drought year, thei
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by russnewcomer 9y ago
Dijkstra seems to be overstating the Swift opposition to a very Modest Proposal. n.b. this is a very certain kind of satire. It's not a literal retelling of something that happened.
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
If you have not read it, you might be interested in John Walton's The Lost World of Genesis 1
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
Nope, CT wasn't involved in PA, but a bunch of other Cavedog vets, including Jon Mavor, one of the main developers on TA, were. I'm of the opinion that another CT RTS would be a project of 50/50 potential for TA fans. I love
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
Chris Taylor left Wargaming back in November, and while I'd expect Wargaming to be doing something with the TA franchise, based on their other games, I'm not sure that it is a game that TA fans are going to be too excited about.
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
TA really has had a lot of community mod work done to extend and improve it. Playing vanilla TA and then a modern mod like Escalation [0] really demonstrate that. It's even more impressive to consider that the TA engine was never open
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
This reminds me of the story Larry Osterman told about Bedlam DL3 [0] at Microsoft. I feel like this is a problem with few good, problem-free technical solutions. [0] https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2004&#
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
People say Ken Liu, who translated the 3 Body Problem into English, is very good because he is also an SF author, speaks Chinese natively, and works with the authors. I've been out of reading short SF or discovering new SF for about 5
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
Was homeschooled K-12, Graduated high school in 2001, still have family that are homeschooled. I'd guess, as the article doesn't mention, that a large driver of homeschooling growth is second generation homeschooling, that is, my
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
Exactly. I do not personally know of anyone that fluently speaks the original languages (I know people that have taken classes in the languages, but even they rarely read the originals, sticking to translations).
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
I'm hoping this is a 'Halo Car' kind of project for Pinterest. Instapaper has, I'd guess, a relatively large, legacy subscriber base, and their parsing and read-it-later tech is pretty mature. Hopefully, it's a pr
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
Not a typo, just a poorly expressed thought. I'll attempt to re-express it here. My thought is that reading translations is a skill that takes time to develop, and my Christian friends have spent a lot more time developing that skill,
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
The City Trilogy ( https://www.amazon.com/Trilogy-Modern-Chinese-Literature-Tai... ) is my personal favorite Chinese/Taiwanese SF story. Some people I've recommended it to pass on it because of some of the transl
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
I did a six-flight trip once (one overnight stay involved due to final flight being on an EAS leg), with 56 hours, I think, of traveling. Could have pushed it to 7 if I hadn't already been at the one international airport in the origi
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
I read your post and the article, but don't recognize either my argument or the argument the parent article is making. Nowhere does the article say to abolish punishment for crimes, and I'm certainly not calling for the abolishmen
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
This is about fixing the reasons leading people to commit those crimes in the first place. Let me tell you a story. A friend of mine helps convicts with societal reintegration. One of the guys he was working with, we'll call him Mark,
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
Right, I should have been more clear in how I made that last statement. Let me try again. "Foxconn, as it is currently constituted, is not in a position to be assisting Apple with the design process that goes into making a car."
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
Certainly (and Brazil, too, right?). But most of the design, both software and hardware, is done in the U.S. by primarily english speaking teams. If Apple is buying McLaren, they aren't buying McLaren to make the cars, not at the sca
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
Apple has lots of cash in accounts outside the U.S. that it can't/won't repatriate for tax reasons. They want to get into the car space. McLaren (from this not-a-car-guy-perspective) seems to have a similar corporate cultur
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
Whew. The article must have been updated after I read it, because that statement isn't in my cached copy of the article.
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
I really hope that either a) the PBS Kids app on the Apple TV still has a couple shows or b) Amazon and Apple work out their differences and get Amazon Video on the Apple TV, because my 16 month old gets to watch TV the only time a day for
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
Generally glad that the order was upheld. I do wish that zero rating was more clearly defined, but regulation is just as much a reactive task as a proactive one, and it will be interesting to see how the ISPs use that tool in their toolbox
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
I have a lot of fond memories of VB6, as I started using it for an internship in college, when then I got hired full-time after graduation to keep up the app, as the sole developer/IT professional at the company. VB6 had its flaws, ce
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by russnewcomer 10y ago
I'd disagree with that assessment. It seems that Kabul had pockets that were growing into secularism. The country as a whole was not. Qandahar never had the dip into secularism. Too many Westerners (my apologies if you are not, I am
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by russnewcomer 11y ago
Long tail. I feel like I remember hearing that in 2003, Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest was still selling around 200 copies a week, five year after release. That's around 100,000 a year, and if it's selling that five years after
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by russnewcomer 11y ago
He has to mean Jesse. Gretz didn't play any of the Solid State albums, if I remember correctly. I'm also fairly sure that Underoath's Define The Great Line has since outsold any of Zao's albums (I'm guessing either
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by russnewcomer 11y ago
I agree on the 'customer support backdoor,' with some caveats. I worked for a small IT Services provider, and we a policy of "don't do dangerous stuff that an unknown party asks for unless a known party verifies it.&quo
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by russnewcomer 11y ago
Would your reaction be different if he were a sysadmin snooping on emails, didn't ever do anything from the snooping, just snooped?
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by russnewcomer 11y ago
I did read the entire article. I was very disturbed. The first of your quotes is actually part of what clearly disturbed me and made me think even more that Foos is clearly a sexual offender. The second of your quotes I found to be just a
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by russnewcomer 11y ago
Sorry, it doesn't make me[0] wonder. It's still at the very least a moral failing. If it were encryption keys he was snooping on and not sex, would your response be different? [0]edit - I used the wrong pronoun (you) here in my i

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