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A fun activity to do at home: “Narrate A Piece of Quotidian Footage”(boingboing.net)
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by tacon 7y ago
>that is incentive enough to increase production Alas, the world is rather more complicated than that. Case in point, this Dallas surgical mask factory that is not running overtime, because the hospitals screwed him over last emergenc
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by tacon 7y ago
That isn't how bidets work. I happened to get a bidet in early January, before the wave. One of the first things I learned was to let it run for awhile, maybe 20-30 seconds, and shifting around if it seems necessary. This may be TMI
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by tacon 7y ago
The sound of a lot of paper money being processed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehFImqzVWos
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by tacon 7y ago
I remember the attacks on their electric power systems towards the end was also effective. Was the Serbian population ready to spend months or years without electricity?
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by tacon 7y ago
The JAMstack pitch is to sprinkle a bit of JavaScript on a mainly static site to achieve personalization, geo-based content, etc. A recent intro video shows exactly how to do that with news displayed based on browser language settings, etc
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Literate, Reproducible Computing(github.com)
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To do better science, admit that you’re not objective(nature.com)
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Engineered healthier sugar that tastes good(marker.medium.com)
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A few years ago I got an inside tour of the brand new LCS Jackson (littoral combat ship) while undergoing acceptance trials at Mayport Naval Base near Jacksonville, Florida. The Jackson was first of its new class. Why do they check every w
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The U.S. Military’s Force Structure: A Primer(cbo.gov)
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Setting Up a Brand New Mac for Development(taniarascia.com)
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Maybe this will be the moment when the US population actually starts to feel scared. Not outraged, but scared. Without a clear and present danger, military, terrorist, financial, whatever, the current majoring in minors of the two political
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How to Value a Company by Analyzing Its Customers(hbr.org)
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Probability Models for Customer-Base Analysis (2013) [pdf](brucehardie.com)
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For now, the NYTimes paywall is implemented in JavaScript. I use the Quick JavaScript Switcher extension in Chrome to turn it off for that domain. Some of the images don't load, but I can read all the text.
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by tacon 7y ago
Fred Brooks wrote a book about complexity, accidental and essential. Essential complexity is the lower bound to which you refer, and the hard limit that prevents major advances in programmer productivity. https://en.wikipedia.or
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Paramedical Tattoos(nytimes.com)
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Manning has an early access book in the works, "Data Science Bookcamp: 10 Python Projects" "...you'll test and build your knowledge of Python and learn to handle the kind of open-ended problems that professional data sci
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The State of Critical Thinking Survey 2019(mindedge.com)
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Color spots on packages: what are those things? (2013)(slate.com)
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The Family Vice(espn.com)
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Lehman's Laws of Software Evolution(en.wikipedia.org)
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The lessons are an ongoing expense, but the principals will rather quickly eliminate the middle man marketplace after meeting and being happy with the connection.
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by tacon 7y ago
If the Astros were using the standard public TV camera view, why can't there be some real time image analysis that blurs the signs? If we can instantly recognize millions of faces, it seems pretty simple to blur a catcher's hands
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The best overview of the back pain industry is the recent book, "Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery"[0]. The author's interview here[1] is a chilling survey of how the back pain in
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White Extremism Faces a Subversive Foe Online: Google Ads(nytimes.com)
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What Is the Point of Economics?(mattstoller.substack.com)
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Dive In(mindingourway.com)
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Key practices for achieving large professional goals(nodramadevops.com)
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