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by schemathings 5y ago
I'm surprised there's no mention of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Necker in the story .. "remembered today for taking the unprecedented step in 1781 of making public the country’s budget .."
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by schemathings 5y ago
Funny, Eleven Madison Park's chef was the subject of NPR's How I Built This last week https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this .. May 3 episode.
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by schemathings 6y ago
My favorite synopsis of Napoleon is from the City of Men TV Series where the teacher explains European politics in terms of favela gangs to make it relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rByBefzeY98 the meat is at around
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by schemathings 6y ago
My understanding with recipe sites is the copy isn't really for SEO as much as it is to have something you can copyright, because recipes in isolation can't be.
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by schemathings 6y ago
I'm only aware of Cairo from 3b1b manim, where it's one of very few named dependencies (cairo, ffmpeg, sox, latex). https://github.com/3b1b/manim .. Maybe he'll rewrite it in Julia :)
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by schemathings 6y ago
Was interested to try this .. appears the Chrome extension is missing build.js when I run yarn.
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by schemathings 6y ago
Minor nit: "After his successful tour of Russia, in the late 1920s Lenin sent Theremin to Western Europe, where the legend of his mysterious instrument quickly grew." Lenin died in 1924.
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by schemathings 6y ago
The US saw it as a good alternative to the cocaine trade .. "To offer incentives for alternative crops, the US under the administration of President George HW Bush passed the Andean Trade Preference Act in 1991, which dropped duties on
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by schemathings 7y ago
Had this described as "Three or more, use a for"
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by schemathings 7y ago
I listened to the audiobook version of 3 books by Adam Tooze in the past year and found them to be excellent for understanding how finance works, through 3 separate case studies/examples if you will .. 1. The Deluge: The Great War, Ame
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by schemathings 7y ago
Reminds me of a book I had as a kid about Anatole the Mouse .. he would sneak into a cheese factory at night and taste the samples and leave tasting notes, which benefited the cheese factory .. [Anatole (mouse) - Wikipedia]( https:/&#x
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by schemathings 7y ago
I worked on a defense contract for an upgrade to a radar system for the USAF years ago, MITRE was the 'IV&V' contractor for the project. They had smart engineers, we had smart engineers. At each step along the way in the class
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by schemathings 7y ago
Why does it have 2 USB ports?
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by schemathings 7y ago
Someone mentioned this in the past few months .. looks useful but I wish there were keyboard shortcuts ..
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by schemathings 7y ago
I chuckled when I saw in the cookbook to microwave for 99 seconds because it's more efficient than punching in 1:39. I do the same thing :)
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by schemathings 7y ago
FWIW gg=G formats in vim (whole doc), with lots of variations available .. more examples: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/506075/how-do-i-fix-the-...
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by schemathings 7y ago
I didn't start using python til 3, but list comprehensions and f-strings are great. I've really been enjoying the coding style.
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by schemathings 7y ago
"David J. Benson is a 6th Century Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen." ? Piqued my curiosity!
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by schemathings 7y ago
Curious where you got 'poorer' out of that. I'm a city boy all my life, but I've driven the country quite a few times - I could picture the Grizzly dip guy with guns and snowmobiles being in Wyoming .. https:/&#x2F
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by schemathings 7y ago
I have sort of an opposite wish for the chapter detection feature. I'm a big fan of podcasts that tell a story per season or whatever you want to call it. Lot's of them have an intro ad for an indeterminate period of time and sign
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by schemathings 7y ago
Another poster cited "a cover per chapter, etc" as an advantage, but I don't see that capability in the linked tool (and I don't think it's part of the m4b format, which is a shame - the ability to change art per ch
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by schemathings 7y ago
Funny, I never even noticed that, but apparently so .. his last comment in the description is "Apologies to Danny Hoyle" and a (now broken) link to "You Suck at Photoshop" videos.
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by schemathings 7y ago
If your goal is to have your ego deflated in Excel, this is always a good place to start .. "You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky" .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c but I agree, Shkreli definitely had
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by schemathings 7y ago
When the whole Martin Shkreli saga was making the news I ran across his youtube channel and did end up watching his 'How to analyze a clinical trial' series of 4 videos to understand the process .. they're long but it was int
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What I want to teach, but can't, thanks to Universal Music Group(youtube.com)
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by schemathings 7y ago
Nice writeup and diagrams. Ironically I was just cleaning some notes I have for using iproute2 netem qdisc to simulate network conditions, that I use periodically. Here's a good overview (not written by me) http://wiki.linux
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by schemathings 8y ago
Happened to me with Chrome on OS/X - no way back!
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by schemathings 8y ago
This was what I was watching most recently .. Nucleosynthesis the origin of elements in our Solar System Jim Connelly University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6tFWA9FyGE
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by schemathings 8y ago
I haven't, thanks I'll check it out.
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by schemathings 8y ago
Maybe next "semester"! :) I love the misleading URL - those particle physicists have a sense of humor.

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