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by tacon 7y ago
In the 1990 or so time frame, the IBM Palo Alto Research Center forked a version of mainframe Unix and made it multiprocessing. They referred to it as PAIX, though I think it sank into irrelevance and was never released as a product. I was
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Reality Mining(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by tacon 7y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 7y ago
A few hundred years ago, we used to call poor people "unfortunates". Now we call them "losers". Shades of Meritocracy, by Alain de Botton https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3
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by tacon 7y ago
As demonstrated in this article[0], font weight is critical for accessibility, even if the contrast passes WCAG "at any size." [0] https://medium.com/@mandy.michael/creating-accessible-text-6... [1] https:&#x2
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by tacon 7y ago
This article reminded me of the book "A Factory of One", about applying Lean principles to personal productivity. https://www.amazon.com/Factory-One-Daniel-Markovitz-dp-14398... Or applying Lean to office producti
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by tacon 7y ago
Allision - my maritime word for the day https://gcaptain.com/maritime-word-of-the-day-allision/
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Questions for Increasing Closeness [pdf](ggia.berkeley.edu)
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by tacon 7y ago
After consulting your attorney before answering anything, you answer their questions through your attorney. If they want your testimony live, they can subpoena you. I was in a real estate investing meetup at Halloween where people were sha
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The challenges of charting regional inequality(medium.economist.com)
1 points by tacon 7y ago|0 comments
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Jane – a system for infinite size applications with minimum human involvement(collinssoftware.com)
1 points by tacon 7y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 7y ago
In 1994, I visited Rio and somehow met a computer scientist who was responsible for the sole internet POP in all of Brazil. He even took me into the university lab to see the equipment. It turns out his wife worked as a civil engineer for
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Proving Life Exists on Earth(johndcook.com)
2 points by tacon 7y ago|0 comments
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How to Make Your Kids Successful: 4 Secrets from Research(bakadesuyo.com)
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by tacon 7y ago
I was limping along on a fading Nexus 5X (goes to sleep for a night, then revives) and refusing to pay the outrageous prices for the Pixels. Huawei has a phone I was eyeing, and I would have dumped Google Fi. But the Pixel 3a came out at
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by tacon 7y ago
Alas, no. The entire recent incident is possibly an echo of what the Russians did to U.S. embassy personnel before[0]. My father worked for U.S. defense contractors in the 60s in a Washington office, and later his young secretary worked f
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I Made a Deal in a Bike Race(bicycling.com)
231 points by tacon 7y ago|127 comments
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by tacon 7y ago
I had to check on the definition of bureaucracy, but I don't think this applies. The algorithms of Zerocracy are implemented via an "AI chatbot", for double buzzword bingo. I think bureaucracy requires humans, no? The bett
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Why We'll Never All Be Happy Again(awealthofcommonsense.com)
1 points by tacon 7y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 7y ago
While I have no direct experience in their system, Zerocracy[0] appears to exactly match your requirements, modulo your salary or hourly rate. Yegor Bugayenko, aka yegor256[1] online, is very prolific in writing and talking about Zerocracy
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How to Invest in Tesla While Avoiding the Elon Musk Drama(barrons.com)
1 points by tacon 7y ago|1 comments
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Charismatic Facts(thedistanceplanlexicon.org)
1 points by tacon 7y ago|0 comments
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Air taxis starting trials in Singapore, to be safe as commercial aircraft(straitstimes.com)
4 points by tacon 8y ago|0 comments
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Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-Being [pdf](standards.ieee.org)
68 points by tacon 8y ago|10 comments
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by tacon 8y ago
Yes, I am disappointed that an article with "power of calculus" in the title left most of the power of calculus out of the article. >Velocity is the derivative of position Thanks, hadn't noticed that.
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by tacon 8y ago
I was rather disappointed in this article, since it was making the connection to calculus. Where is the curve of acceleration? Where is the curve for jerk? Where is the calculation for maximum force on his body from that acceleration? ht
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Serverless Is a State of Mind(read.acloud.guru)
1 points by tacon 8y ago|0 comments
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Grady Booch on the Future of AI(infoq.com)
2 points by tacon 8y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 8y ago
>The vast majority of musicians made nothing and a few got super wealthy The vast majority of {entrepreneurs, actors, drug dealers, athletes, ...} made nothing and a few got super wealthy. It's structurally a tournament in a lot of
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US Army applying new areas of math(johndcook.com)
206 points by tacon 8y ago|138 comments
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Age and the Entrepreneur, Part 1: Some Data(pmarchive.com)
1 points by tacon 8y ago|0 comments

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