teeja

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by teeja 14y ago
Maybe it will, maybe it won't ... once the radiation is gone ... if ever. Natural selection doesn't do ironing. And that which is weakened can become extinct.
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by teeja 14y ago
"One wonderful thing about do-it-yourself, as a movement, is that it is a powerful way of creating more skilled technicians..." The DIY "movement" actually existed since at least the beginning of the "radio movement" back in the late 1800s.
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by teeja 14y ago
That is a lucid, intelligent, well thought-out idea. Overruled.
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by teeja 14y ago
Whenever I read about these things, the words "milking machine" come to mind. Get enough cows in the barn and turn 'em on.
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by teeja 14y ago
Just tried that today (thanks to the Reddit list) and it has over 280,000 quizzes ... some of them are surprisingly robust ... including user-submitted ones.
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by teeja 14y ago
Godel's theorum is incomplete.
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by teeja 14y ago
And it even has hooters today.
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by teeja 14y ago
Wikipedia is like accordions that way.
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by teeja 14y ago
Really. Get off our lawn!!!
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by teeja 14y ago
Lots of reasons for pants. Anyone who's ever lived/worked in a rural area knows what happens 15 seconds after you leave "the path" and that branch, bush, weed, rock, bee, deerfly, barbed vine, rattlesnake, etc. grants you pain. Thus pants -
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by teeja 14y ago
Couldn't pay me to use IE. Chrome's extensions leave much to be desired. Firefox hits the sweet spot and is plenty fast. Since it's on a par with Chrome, I see the use of the word 'saved' as journalist-speak for "I've nothing to say today b
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by teeja 14y ago
Oh yes they will.
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by teeja 14y ago
Couple the nodes with AI that learns what the user is interested in, however, and the user can create meaning for themselves. No 'authoritative source' has ever created -that- kind of freedom.
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by teeja 14y ago
Funny story? Back in the mid-1960s the Feds said there'd be a shortage of scientists. Then in the early 1970s the Apollo program ended, and 40K+ people with years of hard experience were dumped on the market. Pay no attention to the man beh
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by teeja 14y ago
While you're at it, never commit your data to any proprietary application. There, that's what 40 years taught me.
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by teeja 14y ago
I love words and NL programming. I hate adding another to "my" 10,000 registrations. Sorry pal.
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by teeja 14y ago
Hear hear. It's a dismissive and flippant assertion of the kind made by a people who deservedly feel guilty. The "chemical castration" was an option created by people who were clearly willing to do worse. No doubt the behavior of the Cambri
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by teeja 14y ago
I save even more loads of scripting time by encoding in Base 1. Documentation is a snap, and no danger of creeping featuritis.
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by teeja 14y ago
Amen to that. "Specialization is for ants," as Heinlein said. And in a world full of specialists, the generalist is King.
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by teeja 14y ago
I enjoyed a similar experience sitting in the middle of a mile-on-a-side clearcut area on a windless, zero-degree Sunday in January in the far north. No planes, no traffic, no animal noises. I sat on a frozen log and listened to the blood i
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by teeja 14y ago
What, nobody mentioned line printers. Dot matrix, ha! <a href=" http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-cdc-512-line-printer.jpg&#... a pix</a> of the Control Data 512. <a href=" http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-cdc-512-line-pri
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by teeja 15y ago
Sometimes deep (non-organic) depression can be a clue to the revelation that you've been untrue to your own nature. The depression is an opportunity to review what you've been doing, what you've been missing, and make plans to recreate your
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by teeja 17y ago
When I was in my 20s, I ran across a man who'd been a 'successful' salesman for 15 years. He made a special point to tell me how he regretted all the time he'd spent away from home and not being around to see his kids grow up. We all have d
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by teeja 17y ago
Unless you know exactly why you need the expensive one, you don't need it. Unless a reasonable-length cable is damaged or malconstructed in such a way that it distorts transmitted waveforms so much that they're not recoverable, any reasonab
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by teeja 17y ago
I can imagine making something that cheesy-sounding for a lark; I can't imagine making it on Famitracker.
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by teeja 17y ago
"Chinese consumers aren’t really reaping the full fruits of their labor." If having savings is not a fruit of labor here in the US, we'd do well to emulate that behavior more. The Depression generation learned that lesson the hard way, an
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by teeja 17y ago
I'm waiting with bated breath for the day when 'doing the right thing' is a consensus arrived at by reason -- not superstition, not the dictates of dogmatic ideology, but people discussing the options and arriving at mutually optimal soluti
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by teeja 17y ago
A lot of what we learn and know as human beings is not the result of deliberate heuristic strategy, but simply what we call "intuition" ... which I usually interpret as unconscious pattern-seeking based in experience -- spread out over a co
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China's Great Firewall spreads overseas(networkworld.com)
3 points by teeja 17y ago|0 comments
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Weatherization: Energy efficiency hits home(mnn.com)
1 points by teeja 17y ago|0 comments

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