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by trop 11y ago
At last report Bret Victor's research is supported by these folks: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-29/sap-looks-... It's a hard question, what you ask -- should the techno-aristocracy
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by trop 11y ago
Or compare in literature, to Victor Pelevin's (somewhat dystopian) novel Omon Ra's "highly complex automated systems"...
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Study Shows Some 3D Printed Objects Are Toxic(ucrtoday.ucr.edu)
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Intel to End Sponsorship of Science Talent Search(nytimes.com)
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by trop 11y ago
> is this implementation very different from having a 16-bit ADC in normal sensors 16-bit ADCs increases tonal granularity in the readout, which can help in the darker tones. A sensor site may be capable of differentiating about 12 bits
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by trop 11y ago
The Times (as of 2008) was explicit that they had two stages for online publication (see http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/washington/11askthetimes.h... ). The "Continuous News Desk" corresponde
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by trop 11y ago
> By then, the military had constructed a mock-up of the compound in Abbottabad at a secret former nuclear test site in Utah, and an elite Seal team had begun rehearsing for the attack. Question: What former nuclear test site in Utah? Am
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The Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs(archive.rhizome.org)
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The Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs(archive.rhizome.org)
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by trop 12y ago
Absolutely! I'm a big fan of VectorPark interactive work http://www.vectorpark.com/ . It's algorithmically created, yes, but also cleverly drawn within the algorithms. And more so, there's a sense of wonder an
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by trop 12y ago
Indeed, Paglen's been great on this. See also his Cabinet article http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/24/paglen.php which goes beyond NRO to other beloved organizations (e.g. "a secret Air Force Base n
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by trop 12y ago
Thank you! That's great to see it laid out that way. Wonderful (at least from the point of view of someone not having to solve all these situations) to see email described as a problem which requires such continual and skilled care. I
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by trop 12y ago
Question for brongondwana: was there a discussion about how much to reveal about Fastmail's inner workings? That is, when do articles moves from discussing best practices (and already open source code) and into revealing trade secrets
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by trop 12y ago
Not to be totally grumpy here, but this is classic mathematicians-think-art-is-images-looking-like-famous-art. The expanded "starry night" isn't an interesting painting, of course. And it adds nothing to Mr. V. V. Gogh's
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by trop 12y ago
And there's the narrative as told in the (much recommended on HN) book "Command and Control": Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nixon administrations all arrive outraged at the military's nuclear war strategy. And then after much
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by trop 12y ago
Slightest nitpick...a missing hyperlink due to handcoded (?) html in lines 240-41: <xa href="relres.html">tough and ambitious</a>
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by trop 12y ago
The Fairbanks Scales in the 19th century were famously reliable and durable. Sadly, for the Fairbanks, to the point that once one was bought, there was little need to replace it. The Fairbanks brothers (who lived in Vermont, not Alaska!) be
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Texas Towers: Operational History(en.wikipedia.org)
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by trop 12y ago
This may be superficially true, but the long-term health of the institution and the educational system are not served. Hiring underpaid adjuncts as teaching labor may allow for some good classes--either through the adjuncts' idealism o
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by trop 12y ago
In Iceland (as of 2006) my recall was no security screening point for the airports besides Keflavik (the airfield for large international flights). Totally liberating and strange to walk right to the gate, then out the door and across the t
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by trop 12y ago
Also tapping within the text and typing quickly will also overwrite/insert...
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by trop 13y ago
This is key to say: this is more than a freedom of speech (or freedom of entrepreneurship) issue. It's a question of whether college classes should become commodities distinguished only by convenience of access (e.g. scheduling) and a
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by trop 13y ago
Some of the defensiveness may come from professional pride... Teaching (and medicine?) is not as easy to rate as, say, a product on Amazon or an Ebay seller. Speaking as a sometime adjunct instructor at a research university, the "cour
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by trop 14y ago
This is also very tricky interpersonal advice. I used to tell college students not to ask for permission, but only for forgiveness. Then realized that this could be construed as advocating date rape.
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by trop 14y ago
Question: What is the innate security risk of using airport wifi? From the article's conclusion: It takes just one mistake — forgetting to use Tor, leaving your encryption keys where someone can find them, connecting to an airport Wi-Fi ju
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by trop 14y ago
I have a hard time imaging a world is with a huge crash in education. Does this mean fewer colleges and more students going into trades? Radically lower tuition? Fewer tenured professors, and more adjuncts and visiting professors with three
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by trop 15y ago
The scriptability of Blender has been a big draw for me. It's pretty deeply integrated with Python. One can even use it as an interactive 3D front-end for a substantial Python script. That is, let the script create and manipulate the object
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by trop 15y ago
Similar situation, though I must say that the CTO felt guilty and gave me an ipod. Then felt even more guilty and arranged for the company to give me $5000 and let me keep the ipod. This was, I must add, when ipods were expensive novelties.
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by trop 15y ago
Here's a video of one of the incidents: http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/11/uc-davis-cops-pepp... . No idea whether those are UC or local police. Pepper spray (what is apparently used in that video) is supposed to be extremely painfu
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by trop 15y ago
Right on about food. Isn't that another fear, global food scarcities, green revolution not keeping up, fields poisoned by industrial fertilizers... Let's get used to having less, unless we get back on the farm.

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