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by sonofhans 6y ago
I agree that this is an awfully conventional list. I don’t intend to argue the author’s taste here, just provide another counterpoint. If you look at their favorite books, the ones in red, they are almost all standard space opera written de
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by sonofhans 6y ago
For Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson borrowed liberally from Julian Jaynes’ idea of Bicameralism — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology) One of the most fascinating books I’ve ever read, really. It’s unlik
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by sonofhans 6y ago
Serious question -- not a flame war :) I honestly can't tell if this is sarcastic or not. I've been typing `curl -O http: ...` into command prompts for decades, and that Powershell incantation looks awfully unwieldy. In what way i
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by sonofhans 6y ago
Seconded. Literally 100% of the Lego I have from the early 1970s works perfectly with brand new sets.
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by sonofhans 6y ago
> I'm convinced I won't be taken seriously. As a fellow large male, I totally hear you. Getting empathy can be challenging. WRT psychologists -- audition them. Schedule initial visits with 3, make all those visits, then see if
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by sonofhans 6y ago
> well maybe with a touch of thrift thrown in there In my experience thrift is the overriding factor. The cost difference between an open office plan and individual offices is staggering. It can be an order-of-magnitude difference, espec
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by sonofhans 6y ago
Well, one of these artifacts looks to have been in that region of the world for over 5000 years. That's a pretty good track record. I'm sure the citizens of Philly wouldn't be susceptible to any arguments that Baghdad would b
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by sonofhans 7y ago
Yes, very worth it. I've read all Frank Herbert's books and short stories. The last two Dune books, IMO, are the best things he wrote. It seems like he figured out that the Bene Gesserit were the most interesting thing he created,
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by sonofhans 7y ago
As someone who’s done UX for 20 years, I agree with you entirely. Some of the value of a UX process is that decisions are reversible. When you user test it can be difficult to integrate the results, especially if many things are wrong. With
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by sonofhans 7y ago
I expect you're being downvoted because your statement is so obviously wrong. Democracies have consistently made horrifying decisions. Take a read through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
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by sonofhans 7y ago
> Could this become a "don't hire married people in their late 20s and early 30s" incentive? Not for a good company. I've had several employees go on maternity and paternity leave. I've given them respect, and ti
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by sonofhans 7y ago
> ... then why aren't people on public assistance already doing all these things you imagine? Because public assistance in the US sucks. It's designed to. It is political tool more than social policy. There's a word of dif
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by sonofhans 7y ago
I’m so sorry about your wife.
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by sonofhans 7y ago
I hear what you mean about the empty planes. The best flying in my memory was in the 1970s. Everything was much more casual, less populated, and slower-paced. I remember eating freshly-fried eggs for breakfast on a 747, with metal silverwar
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by sonofhans 7y ago
HTML was initially intended as, and still largely is, a markup language. An HTML file provides a container and presentation for other types of content. If you saved all those types of content into the same file you'd have many of the p
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by sonofhans 7y ago
I do not believe there's evidence or reason to say that suicidal tendencies convey evolutionary advantage to the species. Many things seem to be accidents. Does the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_refle
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by sonofhans 7y ago
That’s what this guy thought, too, just a few weeks ago. The URL tells the tale: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/23/man-died-... Teslas burn just fine, in fact much more unpredictably tha
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by sonofhans 7y ago
I agree with you that CSS is weak, especially from today's POV, and that HTML & CSS can be unwieldy together. Also that "It's rarely possible to use some random HTML and style it in an arbitrary way." However it&#x27
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by sonofhans 7y ago
"... the strategic planning aspect of alphastar has indeed become better than humans." This is not true. Top-level human players take into account who their opponent is, what builds they've used in recent games, their procliv
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by sonofhans 7y ago
It sounds like you're thinking of Bananas Gorilla[1]. That got pretty real in high school when some kids wore half a dozen Swatches[2]. [1] https://everythingbusytown.fandom.com/wiki/Bananas_Gorilla [2] https:&#x
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by sonofhans 7y ago
FWIW it's not technically MS until there's been more than one incident, thus "multiple" in the name. The resultant lesions are usually visible on an MRI. Most people who have one incident to not go on to have multiple. T
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by sonofhans 7y ago
I knew what this was as soon as I read "Brother Francis." This sentence is indeed a fitting counter-example to Lyttle Lyton. The whole book is beautifully crafted.
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by sonofhans 7y ago
The important difference is motivation. For-profit prisons, and services for them, have short-term capitalist goals: make as much money as possible in the near term, and preserve your advantage in the long term. Divorced of ethics, clearly
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by sonofhans 7y ago
That's the Evergreen Aviation museum in McMinnville, about an hour south of Portland. They have an SR-71, too. I make a pilgrimage once a year just to touch it :D https://www.evergreenmuseum.org
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by sonofhans 7y ago
PEX - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linked_polyethylene . It's well-established technology for indoor plumbing. It's not as flexible as a garden hose, but it is suitable for potable water. It's prim
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What's the best (or the worst) API documentation you've used?
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