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by tacon 1y ago
I hardly paid much attention to "dirty", as the blue light was called "the leper light".
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by tacon 1y ago
Back in the day, I was an outside contractor installing a new storage system for the Livermore lab's secure computing facility. (Designing nuclear weapons) I had no security clearance. When I was present there was a rotating blue lig
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Unwritten Rules of Management Didn't End Well for the CEO(conversationagent.com)
2 points by tacon 1y ago|0 comments
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"The Quant Shop": The Data Science Television Show(www3.cs.stonybrook.edu)
3 points by tacon 1y ago|0 comments
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America Chose Not to Beat Sputnik into Space(inventionandtech.com)
16 points by tacon 2y ago|6 comments
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by tacon 2y ago
Since Russia is loading planes with bricks of gold to pay for imports and evade banking sanctions, they must think bricks of gold are useful in a dire situation.
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The Fall of the USS Gettysburg(realcleardefense.com)
2 points by tacon 2y ago|0 comments
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Louisa AI: AI-powered deal prompts(louisa.ai)
1 points by tacon 2y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 2y ago
One report from early in the first Trump administration (possibly apocryphal) was when Trump was being briefed about NATO commitments to defend all member countries. Trump supposedly was surprised that the US was committed to going to war
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by tacon 2y ago
In the Reddit megathread on the recent drama, someone posted a summary of the IRS responses to inurement by the Board of Directors of a non-profit. It isn't pretty! [1] If there is insider inurement, the IRS fine is directed to the Bo
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How (Startup) Scenes Work(alexdanco.com)
1 points by tacon 2y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 2y ago
In the depths of the pandemic, James Shore ran a Tuesday TDD Lunch & Learn livestream. He based everything around TDD with an audio addition to the red/green display. Here is an example of the sound: https://youtu.be&#
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by tacon 2y ago
On some podcast a longevity doctor asked the host to estimate how much longer the average person would live if we eliminated/cured cancer. The answer was about three years. Eliminate heart disease? Another three years. Eliminate both
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Algorithmic Wage Discrimination (2023)(columbialawreview.org)
149 points by tacon 2y ago|101 comments
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by tacon 2y ago
John T. Reed, an actual real estate guru, has been targeting Kiyosaki for decades.[0] Reed graduated from West Point and Harvard Business School, and he was so early into the real estate investing wave that he debated Robert G. Allen (No M
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Test-Driven Development for People(itrevolution.com)
2 points by tacon 2y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 2y ago
I vaguely remember an Eclipse plugin that would refuse to execute a mouse operation that had a keyboard shortcut. Pretty much forced one to learn the keyboard commands. And there was something similar for Excel. VS Code really needs this
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by tacon 2y ago
143 in the week of May 18. 2571 in the week of Jan 13, 2024.
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by tacon 2y ago
I spent the summer of 1972 programming via the ArpaNET. I had no school computing budget to use, so I rented a $12/mo 300 baud dialup modem and dialed into the UCLA TIP, which allowed me to spend the day programming PDP-10 assembly on
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by tacon 2y ago
Yes, that agrees with the addiction theory of Johann Hari, who has a TED talk and a book[0]. Experiments with rats show a rat will quickly be addicted when the choice is only between water and an opiate. But give the rat something other t
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by tacon 3y ago
Sure, just as advising a woman to move from D.C. to San Jose because of the "behavior of men" would be misandry. Not.
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Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments as Magic and Ceremony(canlii.org)
1 points by tacon 3y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 3y ago
Unless you live in Germany: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/04/germany.lukeha...
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Seeing Through Sounds: Mapping Auditory Dimensions to Data and Charts [pdf](pages.cs.wisc.edu)
1 points by tacon 3y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 3y ago
The Houston SPCA had a very good presentation on Estate Planning and Your Pets. It covered the basics of estate planning, and then covered the specifics about pets. The speaker also addressed planning for incapacity. [0] https:/&#x2
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by tacon 3y ago
Proof by example: Alaska already does ranked choice voting https://www.elections.alaska.gov/RCV.php
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Riding the Roller Coaster: My Nine-Month Journey(journey.kunalmodi.com)
1 points by tacon 3y ago|0 comments
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John Mandrola's tips for assessing medical evidence(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2 points by tacon 3y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 3y ago
I just heard of this Excel competition, but Modeloff world championship has been going for somewhat longer. It tests Excel skills plus financial modeling skills. They have all the old questions available for study: https://corpo
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by tacon 3y ago
I have a bunch of large 10" LCD "atomic" wall clocks that use WWVB for time information. I want to retrofit something like an ESP32 running NTP. I can never find any specs on how to drive the (non-standard) LCD segments wit

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