sevensor

51 ms·

961.
by sevensor 7y ago
A long time ago when I was studying semiconductor lasers, I would periodically bump into maser literature in a lit review. It was all really old. We do use a whole lot of microwave cavity resonators today, although they're designed t
962.
by sevensor 7y ago
Like the sibling comment, I'm a frequent bicycle commuter. I have deep reservations about car culture. But I'm strongly in favor of continuing to allow manual operation for motor vehicles. My fear is that, in a fully self-drivin
963.
by sevensor 7y ago
Ever heard the song "Red Barchetta" by Rush?
964.
by sevensor 8y ago
Back in 2005 or so, I had a friend who was working at Amazon. When he told me he was ordering things like toothpaste, I could hardly believe it. His apartment was in easy walking distance of a drugstore, and I thought him ordering toothpa
965.
by sevensor 8y ago
I did not know that. Thank you!
966.
by sevensor 8y ago
This is the Levittown I'm talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown,_Pennsylvania This song distills the low regard in which it was held. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boxe
967.
by sevensor 8y ago
Interesting notion! It puts me in mind of Levittown. All houses followed an original standard design (or three), but if you go there today, no two are alike. Originally derided as the paragon of uniformity, each house in Levittown has gr
968.
by sevensor 8y ago
So the key points of the essay -- cathedrals are accretions of effort over time, no cathedral is ever finished -- do they apply to software? And do they apply more to cathedral-structured projects than to bazaar-structured projects? I&#x2
969.
by sevensor 8y ago
Why are you picking on accounting here? There's nothing more vital to the enterprise than understanding how its money moves. It's not easy, and if it doesn't happen nobody gets paid.
970.
by sevensor 8y ago
Fastmail's web client is absurdly excellent compared to Gmail. It's as if, instead of copying all of the bogus stuff Google piled into Gmail, they just made a really good version of webmail the way it was in 2003. Instead of scr
971.
by sevensor 8y ago
Indeed, the spur for me to finally sign up for Fastmail was that I was applying for a job and I can't trust Google with crucial email. You get what you pay for.
972.
by sevensor 8y ago
This is quite visible in academia. I don't know if it's more common, but it's more obvious. I was advised for a while (until he jettisoned me as a student) by one of the most stupendous bullshitters I've ever met. In
973.
by sevensor 8y ago
When I lived in Texas, lard was stocked by every HEB.
974.
by sevensor 8y ago
That looks fun! I'll run through it myself and see what it covers.
975.
by sevensor 8y ago
I think it tends to bolt more reliably once it's well established. My father and grandmother both had big plantings of rhubarb, and they would bolt by midsummer. I don't know why we never harvested it after that, maybe because i
976.
by sevensor 8y ago
It's definitely good when you can make the time and space to build up all the concepts from scratch. In retrospect, I should have done this with my last trainee. Smart person, fast learner, but so many pieces were missing. The worst
977.
by sevensor 8y ago
I thought that was funny too. Once it's established, it keeps coming back, and you just need to take the stalks before it bolts.
978.
by sevensor 8y ago
I'm most familiar with Pinterest through kids' birthday parties. Most people of my acquaintance don't spend a lot of money on stuff they saw on Pinterest, however I've encountered some "whales" who drop lots o
979.
by sevensor 8y ago
I will always have a soft spot for C. It was my first language. I wrote my first linked list in C. 30 seconds later I had my first segfault. C was the entrance to the rabbit hole for me. I went down through assembly language, down thro
980.
by sevensor 8y ago
Very compelling article, and a strong counter to the idea that the no-mind state is void of intelligence. If anything, the mind of the master is more active than ever, but so thoroughly focused on execution that the meta-level has disappea
981.
by sevensor 8y ago
This could be the start of a land rush in space, driven as you suggest by nationalism, but with a distinct economic aspect as well. Cislunar orbits are lucrative property. A moonbase is sort-of positioned to dominate them. (Maybe more in
982.
by sevensor 8y ago
Despite traces of interesting ideas -- spreadsheets are underappreciated, so is Multics -- this article is full of hot air. It implicitly equates Haskell with functional programming. It hypes HOTT but doesn't explain. It bashes West
983.
by sevensor 8y ago
> none of them work, only support random subsets of the hardware, and crash left and right Anecdote for anecdote, you just described my experience with NVidia's dreadful hardware / drivers.
984.
by sevensor 8y ago
As a parent myself, I think you'll get out of it what you bring to it. If you see computers and programming as just a job, or if your desire is to be regarded by others as famous and respected in the field, having children will make a
985.
by sevensor 8y ago
Private quarters with shared kitchen and bathroom? We used to call these "rooming houses." They've been around since the industrial revolution if not longer. Every time I see an article about the strange new living circums
986.
by sevensor 8y ago
I hesitate to speak for emacs users, because I'm not one really, but I suspect the info format feels really comfortable when viewed with emacs.
987.
by sevensor 8y ago
It makes me happy to see the GNU OS still being assembled, bit by bit. I've written previously about how much I appreciate the Guile info manual. For a document in a relatively obscure help system (other than Emacs users, who even kn
988.
by sevensor 8y ago
That's a very important life lesson. Many people live unconsciously by a code of mutual obligation -- they will do something for you, motivated by feelings they would identify as generosity, expecting nothing immediately in return. I
989.
by sevensor 8y ago
Yes please. Like the sibling comment says, it's definitely a syntax, but what a lovely syntax it is! Like a master key unlocking program structure. When I'm studying other functional languages, I find that the best way to make
990.
by sevensor 8y ago
In the case of dromomania's "patient zero", his wanderlust appears to have resulted from traumatic brain injury. I don't think this squares with your theory.

More ›