tom-thistime

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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Well, yeah. Of course lots of companies are targeting us for ads based on data that we lightheartedly assumed was private. It's even possible that they could do this without violating their ever-changing privacy policies. For example,
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
P.J. O'Rourke claimed that we tend to hire people who look like our nephews. It may be true. On the other hand, maybe not.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Yeah I'm suddenly about giving in to my wife's dream of visiting France.
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Fly indoors by flapping your arms(youtube.com)
13 points by tom-thistime 4y ago|3 comments
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Are you sure you've known several folks who each have a one-in-a-billion talent level?
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
What nation is not in an on-again-off-again state of war throughout its existence? I think that may be the rule, not the exception.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Sooner or later, every online forum becomes focused primarily on driving users away. This doesn't make any sense (that I know of), but it seems to be a law of nature. SO might be immune. Then again, it might not.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Thanks for the info! I agree, my Korg Nano looks kind of cheap, and it gets twisted and it has trouble sitting flat. The nano works, but if I had to replace it I think I'd try the K-board.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
They look cool. Have you used one yourself?
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
The XKey is more like a piano-shaped Mac keyboard. The throw of the keys is ... a couple of millimeters?
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look. The extra keys down to F are tempting.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Really looking for something close to a keyboard format, but those do look slick. Thanks.
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Ask HN: What MIDI micro/nano keyboard(s) do you like? (Electronic music)
57 points by tom-thistime 4y ago|68 comments
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
This point of view is interesting. It's also inconsistent with the actual physics. (I'm calling the mainstream view of basic QM 'actual physics' because it has been checked obsessively against experiment for 100 years, n
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
For benefit of a friend new to HN (and anyone else who might be new here): Yes, the comments and the articles are almost separate, parallel discussions. The articles can be interesting in themselves, but for purposes of reading the comments
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Yeah the article seems to get some simple percentages wrong early on. (The downvotes on the comment above are incomprehensible, but that's downvotes for you.)
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Ok, one moving part.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
An ion drive isn't really physically similar to a normal electric motor using an electromagnet.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
I agree that's true once we know that the two envelopes have 100 and 200 dollars. For me the tricky part is, how do we know it's 100 and 200? Maybe we have two envelopes with 100 and 50 dollars instead.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
The iPad will work alone, and if you're just starting out it's fine. But it's best to add a tiny MIDI keyboard to the iPad. For extreme compactness, the Korg Nanokey 2 works well for me. It has nontraditional "button&quo
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
I just knew people who were fed up and retired then.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Yeah, anecdotally, experienced nurses were fed up in the mid-1980s.
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
It's a cool idea. I hope it's right. On the other hand, the Pleiades are tricky to count. There are a lot more than just 6 or 7 stars in the constellation. Wikipedia claims that 14 can be seen with the naked eye (whatever that mea
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
If you want to talk about Wolfram's physics, please do.
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
"Why shouldn't Dr. X claim that he has originated a completely new theory of physics?" Because nobody has seen any prediction of any physical phenomenon based on this work. "Why are you so filled with hatred toward Dr. X
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
"Of course, this writing often isn't for the layperson," How do you mean? I think of popular science writing as always being for the layperson.
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
I wish I had more than one upvote.
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
Take an atom that somehow only has two energy levels, 0 and 1. Connect the atom to a heat sink at temperature T. At very low T that atom almost always has energy 0. We know the energy of each atom very well, they're (almost) all 0. P
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
I thought 'Parliament of Whores,' 'Give War a Chance,' and 'Holidays in Hell' were hilarious. EDIT: I read these books around 1990.
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
I'd expect them not to call ordinary long-accepted facts "myths" without some kind of coherent explanation. That isn't simplification.

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