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by samcheng 6y ago
I may not agree with Dr. Morrow, but I definitely salute his willingness to buck consensus. We need civil discourse and robust dissent in our lives, and not in the form of “alternative facts”. I think most of the facts he lists are true, ju
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I remember (at about the same time CDMA cell phones began getting popular) a standalone device with 32MB of storage, enough for like 20 songs or so. I think this was the one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300 Y
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The 'beta' test already happened. Tens of thousands of people have proven it safe and effective. Haven't you been following the news? Selfishly, I guess we should be happy that there is an anti-vaxxer sentiment; it means th
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by samcheng 6y ago
I love Magsafe as well. However, if the new laptop battery truly lasts all day, then it won't be nearly as important. I'll just charge the laptop overnight, and treat it like my phone. Maybe they will integrate wireless charging
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by samcheng 6y ago
I suspect there are a lot of us in that boat, with 5-to-8-year-old Macbook Pros. Apple really missed the mark with the intervening generation, by removing useful features and replacing them with features unattractive to developers. Maybe t
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by samcheng 6y ago
Interestingly, when it comes to hunting, a more skilled hunter causes less suffering than an incompetent one. A shot through both lungs and heart is not a particularly difficult feat to a patient and practiced hunter, and quickly kills an a
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by samcheng 6y ago
HughesNet is geostationary, though, with a painful latency. Starlink should beat e.g. HughesNet, even with the same bandwidth and data budget, because the satellites are in low-earth orbit.
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by samcheng 6y ago
Cable companies (notoriously) bundle-in an equipment rental fee, which makes many times the equipment cost over the lifetime of the customer. I'd assume they will move to that model in the long term. Probably the $500 fee is a way to
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by samcheng 6y ago
A manager's productivity IS the team's productivity, and should be measured in results. A "productive" manager that slows down the team isn't an effective manager at all, no matter how hard he or she is working. The
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by samcheng 6y ago
I've never had to deal with a murder hornet infestation, but I can approve of their 'vacuum' method for clearing yellowjacket nests in high-traffic areas. Partially fill a shop vac with soapy water, stick the nozzle as close
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by samcheng 6y ago
Milwaukee has been reviving the beer garden concept for about a decade now. It works well - even in county parks! But not in January. https://county.milwaukee.gov/EN/Parks/Explore/Beer-Gardens Of course, it
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by samcheng 6y ago
It's a lot of current, so maybe you want superconducting HVDC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_Amigas_SuperStation
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by samcheng 6y ago
Like many wildlife populations, Silicon Valley is cyclical, with a boom-and-bust cycle. 101 was quiet and San Francisco was a hipster haven rather than a tech-bro mecca during the dot-com bust, for example. The fundamentals that make this
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by samcheng 6y ago
Is this XSLT for JSON?
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by samcheng 6y ago
LA is known for their many donut shops, mostly owner-operated. https://time.com/longform/national-doughnut-day-photos/ Here in the Bay Area I have a 24-hour donut shop about a quarter mile away. I have been maki
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by samcheng 6y ago
Which was the end of the last ice age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period
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Once the kids get a little older, the Diono Radian RXT car seat DOES fit three-across in a large sedan. You can't put infants in them, though.
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It's just an insightful paper of an effect, well-proven and thought provoking. I don't think they are advocating for fewer car seats.
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by samcheng 6y ago
Wow, that's pretty racist! IMO internet connectivity for education of underserved rural children is a great use case for Starlink. This population (particularly in the Four Corners region of the US) is VERY remote and expensive for ex
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by samcheng 6y ago
I would suggest that the anomaly in death rate, because it is well-correlated in time with COVID infection rate, is primarily caused by COVID, directly or indirectly, yes. Think also about the people who have postponed going to the doctor o
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by samcheng 6y ago
There are also fewer e.g. auto traffic deaths due to the lockdown. These are all secondary effects given the number of deaths that mentioned COVID in the coroner's report. (See the headline article.) All of it is due to the pandemic,
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by samcheng 6y ago
Per the CDC, the 200k number is an underestimate of premature deaths due to COVID: > Total predicted number of excess deaths since 2/1/2020 across the United States: 201,917 - 262,877 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs&#x
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by samcheng 6y ago
Javascript really has come a long way. I can remember when hacks like this were in CPAN, and then in pip. Now npm?!
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by samcheng 6y ago
Unfortunately, FreeCAD has a steep learning curve, with an opaque workflow for beginners. It would be awesome if the FreeCAD developers worked on usability, documentation, and tutorials. I believe the popular route is Fusion. (Decidedly NO
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There are a few decent youtube videos, but I agree - it's a very steep learning curve.
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My favorite part of FreeCAD is that it is scriptable. It's very satisfying to define shapes via some math (or I/O) in python, then turn them into a solid in FreeCAD, then export for 3D printing. As an engineering tool, though, it
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by samcheng 6y ago
One thing not yet mentioned here is that the 'exclusion' ordinance was drafted after the neighboring towns of Portola Valley and Los Altos Hills refused to chip-in when Palo Alto purchased the land. This park is in the hills, lite
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by samcheng 6y ago
Sorry! I should know better than to assume gender these days. Fixed.
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That poor person is Uber's "moral crumple zone" https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2757236 Fitting, given Uber's reputation for questionable morality...
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by samcheng 6y ago
Pretty awesome. He had a binary keyboard, one button on each handlebar, and could type at 35 WPM using it. Impressive! I wonder if there is a market for that now, so people could text while biking. Or driving? https://microsh

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