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by tejtm 5y ago
divide and conquer, label with a broad brush it whitewashes the details. The concept there there needs to be an defined age gradient with distinct differentiation steps categorizing swaths of humanity that otherwise would just be "us&q
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They apparently care allot (thus try to do it right) in part because they perform posthumous baptisms to boost the numbers in their internal scorecards to achieve a hi-score of some sort. some day you too could be a mormon.
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by tejtm 5y ago
I understand and agree from an all things being equal perspective. But thing are not all equal. I have worked with folks who could talk circles around a flock of Toastmaster clubs and weaponizing words in meetings relaying on social norms
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by tejtm 5y ago
Dearest Graphviz Project, In case you come back to revisit ... First I will note my comment appears nested one level deeper than I had been aiming for which may make it sound less positive than I intended. Second, Graphviz doesn't nee
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by tejtm 5y ago
yep exactly. paraphrasing something I read somewhere ... "Best to think of Graphviz as a competent but unruly teenager" and then just be glad you did not have to do the work yourself.
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lots till 2005, then not much since
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Number zero: Reading text.
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thanks for the short story
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by tejtm 5y ago
very nice direct approach, do have questions about the diameter of the holes they choose (1/8-inch) versus the thickness of the barrier layer. also the reservoir below will have to be significant enough that increasing the salinity bel
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by tejtm 5y ago
I see, if you are not already part of the "in crowd" below the photo-sphere can you get past the solar wind bouncers. I don't know, but think it would be tough for a lone atom.
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maybe think of it as "ash" the newly fused element is more massive than the ones it came from and sinks to the bottom (core) When enough "ash" is accumulated (and the star is still big enough) the previous ash begins fu
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by tejtm 5y ago
New Brunswick Southern Railway ... sounds like something I should have heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brunswick_Southern_Railway ahh... the Irvings, petrochemical and politics they showed up here on HN not
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by tejtm 5y ago
At least it did not send an alert that you were "offline" back on topic: Which side of the lab door were on?
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by tejtm 5y ago
Because to be a common resume worthy language you have to be designed for folks who can be taught to write programs which overlaps with but does not cover people who inherently are programmers. The monotony of the guard rails wears thin.
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no. just no. please take yourself far far away.
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previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30271677 1128 points | 792 comments
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by tejtm 5y ago
Yes a large gas giant but right in close to the star. There is a bias for finding them since they orbit rapidly (like our planet Mercury) but block much more light and we do good with noticing blinky lights
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Or left-click -> block-element <select> -> create (rule to block element)
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by tejtm 5y ago
having just emerged from the metal shop with fingers the electronic print scanners can never recognize ... how is this even a question. also "stress risers" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_concentration
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by tejtm 5y ago
previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30027502
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..." I can't imagine how gut bacteria affect moods"... But you can imagine looking at a picture and feeling hungry. In addition to our fast new electrical nervous system for rapid response there is the older slower endocrine
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by tejtm 5y ago
Eyes have to dark adapt, No light, seriously; NO WHITE LIGHT. Takes about 45 minutes to be fully adapted one little flash and you start over. This is why there are pages out there on astronomy/star party etiquette. https:/&#x2F
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by tejtm 5y ago
At the Oregon Star Party! After you eye are dark adapted (an hour) see your shadow on the ground from the light of the Milky Way. https://oregonstarparty.org/ https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/44.
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by tejtm 5y ago
The effects of artificial light are manifold. Assigning upsides and downsides is left as an exercise. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=light+pollution+human Also note humans seem to have an inherent "light budget
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Where "impervious" means you can't see through the the sun shield either.
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by tejtm 5y ago
Step 1) Download DuckDuckGo for iOS or Android err no. I love DDG and have run web search through them since they started, there are great But I already have mail clients I use and they are not for for hand held computers owned by by G or
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by tejtm 5y ago
A bit reluctant to share this as it is old (2005?) and would not support features I tend to use now. But if you are just starting, or stick to the most basic functionality it may be of use as a way to visualize the execution graph (DAG) h
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by tejtm 5y ago
Use Firefox and if a site does not work just move on with your life. It passively improves our future to squander our attention on the less egregious actors.
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unironically; them, us.
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The remainder of the quote Butler quoted matters; "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, except for the problem of too many layers of indirection." -- David Wheeler

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