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by troymc 8y ago
Calendar, Contacts, Photos, Mail...
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Probably both, and also in the interest of GDPR compliance (e.g. the "right to data portability").
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He has a website at http://www.alanbean.com/ where you can buy his paintings, look at photos from his life, and learn more about him.
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> How are the big three (AWS, GCP, MS) able to sell on such a scale? I don't know the whole answer, but part of it is that they give free credits to new users, to get them using their cloud. It's smart. Once the free credits ar
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by troymc 9y ago
Yes, money determines the direction of modern science. (This isn't 1900 any more!) And a huge chunk of the funding money (in America anyway) comes from the military. You're right on: if it (whatever it is) looks like it might ha
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Note: The above figures don't take classified funding into account. Because it's secret. Most of the classified funding is military, so the proportion of military funding is actually higher.
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by troymc 9y ago
In the USA, a lot of funding for R & D (e.g. engineering and science) comes from grants that are military grants (e.g. Army, Navy, Air Force, etc.). In the US, about half (54%) of federal funding (coming from the public Federal budget)
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by troymc 9y ago
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood first aired in 1968. Star Trek (the original series) first aired two years later and it's often cited as "the first" for many things. But... Mr. Rogers often did it first. He really was a pion
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I've heard good things about that one. I should get it. It came much later than the 1980s, of course.
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by troymc 9y ago
The others are suggesting Bill Bryson, Brian Greene, Lee Smolin and Leonard Susskind books but they came quite a bit later. Good suggestions though. What stands out that I could read in the 1980s? I mentioned George Gamow's little book
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Growing up in the middle of nowhere, Canada in the 1980s, the library didn't have many good science books. When Hawking's book got published, it was the only thing available like that anywhere around. Remember, this is before you
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by troymc 9y ago
Dammit, I'm increasing my monthly pledge. Vi Hart's work is too important for her to live like that.
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29% to taxes 5% to Patreon fees Cool to see where the money actually all goes. Not just to her savings account! "...$89 a month for everything else in my life, things like food and clothing and toothpaste and medical bills." 2018
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Where Vi Hart's Money from Patreon All Goes, a Breakdown(patreon.com)
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We let Greenkeeper update our JavaScript repos. We still have to accept and merge its pull requests. So there are ways to do this where GitHub won't shut you down (if you are Greenkeeper)... Maybe a solution would be for someone to cre
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by troymc 9y ago
Berlin also has a ring metro line [1], but I think it's safe to say that it's not as reliable or as aesthetically stunning as the ones in Moscow. Not that the Berlin metro system is crappy; I've lived here for years and love
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That's already happening. For example, see https://runtimeverification.com/blog/?p=496
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Wow, that's my new motto!
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For some reason, in some astrodynamics calculations, I multiplied by r^2 rather than dividing, and since r was on the order of 10^8, the answer was off by 32 orders of magnitude. (Yes, I now know about changing the units so that the numbers
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by troymc 9y ago
I guess you could just skip over Rails-6 and go from Rails-5 to Rails-7. Windows 8 went straight to Windows 10. The idea is that backwards incompatibility should cause a name change, so really any untaken name would do, e.g. Rails-McTavis
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Have you tried those Virtuix things?
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It's possible they know, and meant Kickstarter :D (But it's unlikely.) (But sometimes it's fun to imagine silly stuff.)
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by troymc 9y ago
Van Gogh was a great artist, but he sold almost none of his paintings. One source: https://www.thoughtco.com/van-gogh-sold-only-one-painting-40...
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As I noted in another comment, that's _not_ the conclusion of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance . In fact, it's one he ruled out.
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That's _not_ what the book concluded. One of Phaedrus' realizations was that quality is neither subjective (depending on the judge) nor objective (an objective fact, like the mass of a book in kilograms).
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Actually, you don't have to trust all of them. Some miners can go rogue and it won't matter; everything will still work. The software of blockchains is almost always open source, so you don't have to blindly trust it either
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Yes, I live in Europe and can confirm that this is much like my morning commute. I felt deja vu. Maybe it's about me? I thought nobody noticed I'm a cat.
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Did you notice that you can choose whether or not to stop at each stop. If you do, the cats will get on and/or off.
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I went to install it on my Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo but Google Play said it couldn't be installed in my country (Germany). The most interesting feature to me is the ability to add annotations along the way. I'd use that to describe w
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pdf and dmg are already pretty scary.

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