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by todd8 6y ago
I was surprised to learn a few years ago that saunas might actually have significant health benefits. See the references below from The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), and
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by todd8 6y ago
The most interesting use of my fingers for numbers and computation were for playing perfect strategy in the game of Nim (back in high school). I just represented numbers between 0 and 15 in binary on one hand by slightly bending the fingers
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Predicting 2020 for Programming Languages(youtu.be)
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Ansible-NAS(davidstephens.uk)
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by todd8 6y ago
As in Python, whitespace in the form of indentation matters in Haskell.
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by todd8 7y ago
Yes, it was introduced in 1967 as a successor to Simula 1 and the language was called Simula 67. It influenced subsequent OO languages like CLU, C++, Java, and Smalltalk. Barbara Liskov lent me a book that described it in 1973 and recommend
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by todd8 7y ago
Yes, there is a thing called corollary discharge in the human visual system that keeps the world steady as one glances around (in the real world). Changing the direction one is looking causes the image to shift rapidly on the retina, yet pe
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by todd8 7y ago
My grandparents were dating at the time of the Spanish flu. They lived in a little town in the middle of Iowa and practiced social distancing by having their dates at my Grandmother's home, doing quilting, instead of socializing with o
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by todd8 7y ago
There a just a few simple rules, see https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc I would add that verbatim text is sometimes hard to read because it doesn't wrap long lines and small screens require the reader to scroll hor
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by todd8 7y ago
Yes, the first time I saw this described was in 1987 in a paper by A. Birrell, et. al. See [1]. It was also available as a DEC SRC report, number 24. [1] A simple and efficient implementation of a small database, https://dl.acm.
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by todd8 7y ago
The numbers I’ve seen indicate that wind+solar provide only 3.3 percent of energy consumption in the US. See [1]. Unfortunately, there is still a long way to go. [1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts&#
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by todd8 7y ago
The article is about how we navigate. I've noticed that some people are quite good at giving concise understandable directions and other are virtually unable to describe in any useful way how to drive a route they drive every day. I kn
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by todd8 7y ago
I had traveled to Paris a number of times and decided to take a drive across parts of France. Armed with a classic Michelin guide book, I rented a car at one of the train stations in central Paris. My plan was to simply drive and stop every
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by todd8 7y ago
Milton Friedman did have a proposal for elimination of poverty in the 60’s, but it wasn’t UBI. It was a negative income tax for those below the poverty line [1]. To some extent we have that now in the earned income tax credit . [1] https:
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by todd8 7y ago
> Unix became popular not because it was Good, but because it was Just Good Enough to entertain the cowboys who built and used it ... and so made cowboy coders the status quo for much of this profession and culture I disagree very strong
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by todd8 7y ago
What I remember about assembly language programming the CDC6600 was how beautifully simple the machine's principles of operation were at the register and instruction level. In 1974 I learned CDC6600 assembly language in grad school. In
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by todd8 7y ago
This looks great. I tinkered with circuits as a kid in the 60’s and subscribed to Popular Electronics back then—it was may favorite magazine when I was 16 years old. I always viewed electronics as only a hobby, kind of like being a Ham Radi
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by todd8 7y ago
In college, one of my lab courses required us to learn manufacturing techniques. We covered a wide range of methods for machining and shaping things, all out of metal. Making gears was interesting, we had to first turn a rough blank of meta
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by todd8 7y ago
A few weeks ago I was going through some stuff in our storage unit and found an originally very nice suitcase. It's of no value to me now because it has no wheels. Imagine how much more difficult air travel would be without the wheels!
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by todd8 7y ago
This reminds me of a great passage in Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine ; I remember reading it 50 years ago! It captured the feelings I had about getting a new pair of shoes, the main character is musing over how to explain to his dad w
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by todd8 7y ago
This is something that has puzzled me for a long time. Why is it so difficult for monitors to simply turn on when the devices they are plugged into turn on? Right now I own a high end LG TV from a couple of years ago and it won’t wake relia
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by todd8 7y ago
Looks very useful. I like your landing page, it nicely designed, works great on a phone, and communicates clearly. A tiny suggestion, it looks like a typographical error slipped though in the sentence: > Convert these applications APIs w
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by todd8 7y ago
Growing up in the 50s, I loved the 1951 movie The Thing . I learned from it to beware of what you find frozen in the ice! Seriously, viruses that we haven’t evolved to fight off can be very dangerous.
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by todd8 7y ago
Interesting. This runs on KISS Linux. https://getkiss.org/ Linux has become so versatile and powerful, but I miss the days of simple OS’s. I used to be a Unix OS architect and would study kernel code professionally while wo
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by todd8 7y ago
Hans-Lukas Teuber[1] was the head of the psychology department and my professor for the intro psychology class at MIT. He gave one two-hour evening lecture per week, which were delivered without notes. The lectures were riveting, they were
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by todd8 7y ago
I've programmed for a very long time, and I've rather incidentally taught and tutored programmers at many levels of ability over the years including some friends that were trying to learn LISP. I see very little benefit in teachin
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by todd8 7y ago
Yes they do.
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by todd8 7y ago
Texas is a really big and diverse state. There are very large remote areas, for example, with poor access to medical care and the schools in some areas may not be up to national averages. However, I presume that you will not be choosing t
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by todd8 7y ago
I'm not sure which years you grew up in Toronto, but historically there can be pretty large swings in the number of days of snow and inches of snowfall. A minute of googling revealed this for Toronto snowfall [1]: year days t
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by todd8 7y ago
I wish that popular press accounts of science could be a bit more precise. What exactly does "rate of heating accelerates" mean. The graphs seem to indicate a relatively steady rate of temperature increase (not an accelerating rat

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