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by tangentspace 8y ago
The specific Terry Thomas office build that's the topic of discussion is atypical, that's the point of the article. It sounds like they'd accommodate attire appropriate for the temperature... it's Seattle, wearing outdoo
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by tangentspace 8y ago
Thanks for taking the time to share your experience, it does help to understand and empathize with the breadth of human experiences. I don't think the point of the building in this article was to force warmer temperatures on everybody.
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by tangentspace 8y ago
Having my car not start in Fairbanks was much, much more challenging than the outhouse. It took a lot of vigilance to make sure the battery stayed warm enough to hold a charge. I had to install heaters on my battery, engine, and transmissio
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by tangentspace 8y ago
So do you just stay inside all day because of AC? I blast the AC all day long at the office, in the car, and at home, but on the weekend I feel like getting out! I like going for a hike, or on a bike ride, or going swimming. Yeah, I sweat,
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by tangentspace 8y ago
I lived in a cabin in Fairbanks, Alaska with no indoor plumbing and an outhouse. My wife is from Siberia and her house didn't have plumbing until the 90's. Going to the outhouse at 50 below in the middle of the night wasn't t
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by tangentspace 8y ago
Simple, I use the park and ride. I still drive to do all these things on the way to and from the P&R, and it's really quite convenient. I totally understand this won't work out for everyone, though. Just like that office, it m
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by tangentspace 8y ago
Do you think people were terribly uncomfortable at ambient temperatures due to their physiology before AC was invented? In natural conditions, I'd expect people who sweat more to actually be more comfortable with natural airflow causin
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by tangentspace 8y ago
I have kids, and have a car, but take the bus into downtown Seattle so I don't have to park or deal with traffic. It's an option that works fine for me, so I'd hardly say there's no option other than parking. And while I
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by tangentspace 8y ago
Would you call it discrimination to specifically target poor people to receive government aid? Typically people call a policy discriminatory when some person or group is being harmed, but most people here agree that vaccinating children is
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by tangentspace 8y ago
I've had the opposite experience. Stock Kubuntu 18.04 provides pretty much the experience I want with just a few tweaks to fine tune the touchpad and font DPI. Once the base system is installed it only takes a few more minutes to set u
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by tangentspace 8y ago
What is the difference?
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Ocean’s deepest spot a noisy place, Oregon scientists find(seattletimes.com)
4 points by tangentspace 11y ago|1 comments
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by tangentspace 11y ago
The original paper states the following: The drives in our study are custom designed high performance solid state drives, which are based on commodity flash chips, but use a custom PCIe interface, firmware and driver.
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by tangentspace 11y ago
Yes, support for light rail is increasing. Construction is now starting on a new rail line from Seattle to Bellevue/Redmond, although it won't open for many years. I attended many government planning meetings in the 1990's, a
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by tangentspace 11y ago
Yes, Amazon and Microsoft HQ are both in the Seattle area. Google has 2 locations here in Fremont and Kirkland. $200K+ for senior engineers sounds about right from people I've known who went to those companies. Housing is getting expen
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by tangentspace 11y ago
I don't think the mental process is necessarily all that different in pure mathematics. The process of creating new structures and proofs in mathematics definitely involves a lot of trial-and-error and vague intuition. When the evidenc
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by tangentspace 11y ago
I just stumbled onto this Lambda example project today, looks pretty interesting: https://github.com/awslabs/simplebeerservice
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AWS Health Dashboard looks green, but dynamodb almost unusable(forums.aws.amazon.com)
7 points by tangentspace 11y ago|0 comments
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U.S. Drops Charges That Professor Shared Technology with China(nytimes.com)
1 points by tangentspace 11y ago|0 comments
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The State of the Public Supermarket(chef.io)
1 points by tangentspace 11y ago|0 comments
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Chef is not Open Source(coderanger.net)
1 points by tangentspace 11y ago|0 comments
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Seattle vs. San Francisco: Who is tops in the cloud?(gigaom.com)
2 points by tangentspace 11y ago|0 comments
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Facebook partners with UW to get help to youth in distress(seattletimes.com)
1 points by tangentspace 12y ago|0 comments
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Subgroup Explorer(sheaves.github.io)
6 points by tangentspace 12y ago|0 comments
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Drawing Heptagons Using Integers(nbviewer.ipython.org)
23 points by tangentspace 12y ago|1 comments
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Homological scaffolds of brain functional networks(rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org)
2 points by tangentspace 12y ago|0 comments
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SpaceX will hire up to 1,000 people in new Seattle office(geekwire.com)
5 points by tangentspace 12y ago|0 comments
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by tangentspace 12y ago
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20141218-machine-intelligence...