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by seanc 3y ago
Historically LabView had two other key things going for it besides the low-entry-barrier of visual programming. 1. A GUI comes for free; in LabView each program is two windows, each variable you declare shows up once on your code DAG and t
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by seanc 3y ago
Fun fact, on Princess Mononoke, Steve Alpert and the director of the English dub had to fight Miramax executives who kept trying to screw up Neil Gaiman's English script.
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by seanc 3y ago
I finished my physics degree in 1996. Sigh.
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by seanc 3y ago
That's not just the New Yorker, you see it all over.
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by seanc 3y ago
Fun fact, early abolitionists marketed maple sugar as a replacement for cane sugar, since cane sugar was made by slaves while maple sugar was made by northern farmers. So the old grading system rated the lighter colored plainer sugars and s
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by seanc 3y ago
Doesn't have to be that deep; rockfish live at about 100m and don't survive a trip to the surface unless very carefully returned back to depth.
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by seanc 3y ago
Grant's Patreon, for anyone who feels so inclined: https://www.patreon.com/3blue1brown
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by seanc 3y ago
My Baubi famously wrote all the recipes down wrong so no one else would make it quite like her.
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by seanc 3y ago
"This town wouldn't be so bad if a quart of milk were still a dollar. Or even if a quart of milk... was still a quart" - Cowboy Junkies, Horse in the Country
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by seanc 3y ago
The parable of the Mexican Fisherman: https://aliabdaal.com/newsletter/the-parable-of-the-mexican-...
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by seanc 3y ago
Honestly IMHO awk holds up better than TCL. But that's just me. (which is not to say that awk is _better_ than TCL, they're different things. Only to say that for me TCL has been eclipsed by things like Python or Clojure, while
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by seanc 3y ago
Honestly I think tech leadership is the exception, not the rule. I think in health care, education, manufacturing, retail... All those sectors, leadership has many MBA's who never got their hands dirty.
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by seanc 3y ago
TIL! Thanks. Fun fact, I just looked at my Aikido 2nd Dan certificate, and it uses a mix of formal and in-formal numerals. Informal for the certificate number and the date, and the formal character for '2' for my rank number.
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by seanc 3y ago
That's true-ish, but don't forget that a space elevator is also an enormous amount of orbiting mass all on it's own. So a small bomb can cause it all to come down and wrap around the planet twice.
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by seanc 4y ago
No mention of the legendary NASA cable lacing guide? https://workmanship.nasa.gov/lib/insp/2%20books/links/sectio...
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by seanc 4y ago
Remind me to change the combination on my luggage...
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by seanc 4y ago
Convergent design is certainly a thing, but it's also quite possible that communities are cross-pollinating ideas. Either way, when you see those recurring patterns that's certainly a strong indicator that one should pay attentio
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by seanc 4y ago
That's a tough question; I'm right in the middle of syrup country and the syrup snobs will all buy direct from the farm. When buying retail we have the same problem you do; the grocery stores typically only have one brand or two,
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by seanc 4y ago
Ah yes. True, good point. Early on I went to a support group for laid off employees, and many of them stood up to tell heartbreaking stories of emotional turmoil and bleak prospects. I walked out of there and never looked back. I had a y
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by seanc 4y ago
Sitting someone down and walking them through your own experience without judgement or expectation is always appreciated. I was laid off many times during the Optical Winter of 2001-2006 and developed a system for dealing with it. Handing
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by seanc 4y ago
It's worse than that; wealth aside it seems like every time people come together they can't seem to reliably reform or reject the bad actors. That said, systems for routinely rotating the top of the hierarchy (such as taxation or
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by seanc 4y ago
Humans have devised many, many institutions and philosophies for helping each other grow into powerful moral people. Uncountable religions, self help movements, mind-body wellness systems, the list goes on and on. Every single one, without
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by seanc 4y ago
What a find! That's a top notch GPS explanation; simple, detailed and great visualization of complex stuff. Thanks!
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by seanc 4y ago
From the GNU coretutils doc [1]: Our units of temporal measurement, from seconds on up to months, are so complicated, asymmetrical and disjunctive so as to make coherent mental reckoning in time all but impossible. Indeed, had some tyrannic
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by seanc 4y ago
Exactly the same experience for me. So now my survey responses about financial support are no longer correct.
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by seanc 4y ago
Found this on a deep man page, but I can't remember which one: Our units of temporal measurement, from seconds on up to months, are so complicated, asymmetrical and disjunctive so as to make coherent mental reckoning in time all but im
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by seanc 4y ago
As mentioned Spirited Away could be hit or miss at that age, but you can't go wrong with My Neighbor Totoro. It's got some emotionally intense sequences, but they pay off well in the end.
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by seanc 4y ago
My brother gave me some great meta-parenting advice; "You're going to get a lot of parenting advice, but keep one thing in mind. Those folks aren't telling you how to raise your kid. They're telling you how to raise _t
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by seanc 4y ago
Also, lots of kids really resist sleep and can take quite a while at it. That's where check-ins come in.
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by seanc 4y ago
Kids and families are different, but do keep in mind that there is a world of difference between an infant and a 1-year old like the grandparent (perhaps literally?) poster was talking about. There is nothing inconsistent about holding an i

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