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by tsmarsh 7y ago
I work for Novartis. We did cure a couple of cancers using bespoke technologies that don't scale particularly well. The prices are ludicrous ($250-500k), but then it does take a team of scientists weeks of time per patient and its a si
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
It is. There is a focus on standards, pushing the technology forward then sharing that with other browsers. Rapid updates. A focus on security and performance. And Chrome is the product, not the operating system its running on. Arguably, yo
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
You missed charging the Apple Pencil on the ipad pro. Arrow keys being disabled in Safari iOS 3D Touch Removing the 3.5mm Jack...
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
Here is my list: * Its ridiculously ugly. * The layout seems designed to amplify the wind and somehow manages to do it in all directions. * Building restrictions that prevent affordable housing from being built. * They're happy to hike
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
Seems like a really good way of creating a niche for plasma proof viruses.
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
I would like to hear your thoughts on why a tactile device, the keyboard, is better when tactile feedback is replaced with visual clues. And why a device you touch and don't look at is more aesthetically pleasing when you remove the bi
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
The irony is that I do have capslock mapped to escape, but my fingers frequently rest where the esc key should be, so I catch it when I wasn't expecting it. Sure, this is my problem, its just only my problem on MacBook Pros.
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
No touch bar is a win IMHO. I'm not against it per se, but a soft `esc` was a mistake.
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
They are, but they're basically 80s/90s technology. I work in emacs with lisps (mostly clojure) on x86, usually via a terminal emulator. Old tech is stable, fast and cheap. I know that, you know that, Bloomberg make their billions
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
Pivots and trees. Long skinny tables to wide sparse tables used to be something we did a lot, now we return a JSON Tree... we were always parsing the sparse table into a tree anyway.
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
Says the company that runs on the Bloomberg Terminal.
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
You do get that boron smell though. Kinda dirty smelling.
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
Parent of two kids that have used swim diapers. I would be very surprised if those diapers were even 10% effective. Out of the pool they're basically 0% effective. And yes, I've read the instructions, and spoken to the folks who r
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
As far as driving OSX from the keyboard... yeah, it doesn't go out of its way to teach you how, but there are some pretty deep keyboard shortcuts. Of real note is readline, which is built into every text box. You can use emacs/rea
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
I’m a year in to having less social media no: facebook, twitter, instagram. I mean, I quit them because they were irritating me, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that removing an irritent from my life feels like a relief. The one remaini
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
> preparing CAM data — export 2d vector art for a waterjet machine or laser cutter; or generate STEP or STL, for import into third-party CAM software for machining Thats been my experience with all of the OSS CAM: g-code for 2.5D, or STL
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
I got into CNC milling about 9 months ago. SVG to 2.5D problems are easy, and get you to a lot of cute solutions, its about as close to the work flow of 3D printers as you can get. But the really interesting stuff is when you get to CAM. Mu
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
Lock in AND provide a low friction way to generate models. As a developer the learning curve and life cycle of OpenSCAD sang to me and I picked it up very quickly. I have still modeled more things with OpenSCAD than I have with Fusion. But.
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
Hey, I think you jumped to another conclusion. I'm not a smoker, vaper or toker. And I did read your links. I'm even reading your quotes, and I don't reach your conclusion. The language used here is defensive and deliberately
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
I wouldn't limit this to tobacco. Advertising to children is real problem. Adults may be equipped to deal with the psychological games advertisers employ, children are most certainly not. If children must be exposed to advertising, the
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
Thank you for the links. I did read them, but failed to reach the conclusion “pretty far from “harmless””. It sounds like an understudied but potentially very safe mechanism for nicotine delivery. The big issue seams to be poor behaviour fr
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
Is this more serious than the sugar epidemic? Or exposure to traffic pollution? Or reduced freedom to roam? It would seem that there are many social threats to my children, and vaping is maybe in the top 10? Should it be higher?
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
I'm still not sure of the history there. I remember one of the selling points of the early OS X was that it was a "Certified UNIX" and I remember that no one I tried to sell one too cared. Was it just the cost of maintaining
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
I really enjoy have openbsd on a server that I ssh into. OS X and Windows are better GUI, OpenBSD is a better place for a lot of my work... basically anything that I’d use emacs for.
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
Yeah, it does that. Its not just emacs lisp, clojure, clojurescript and CL2 all have tight integration. The difference is what it means for your repl. You can trivially attach your repl to a running process. So you change an expression, tel
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
I had a weird experience where I was offered an interview at a company I respected, but who used ruby a lot. I explained that to everyone in the chain that I'd want to try and work to change that, and eventually got rejected because I
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
I miss walking in a room of books. My parents had bookshelves that filled walls that I built with my Dad before they moved. I, and most other people that visited the house, would spend a fair amount of time just looking at the books on the
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
Whilst your core point about books aging is absolutely true I think thats mostly the mass market publications designed to ease entry than actual papers. Similarly, anything writen about an implementation is short lived. The Idiots Guide to
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
Farming, at least for your family and not commercially is not all that labor intensive. There are daily chores, a few peak seasonal activities, but outside of harvest its much easier than say an office job. Baseball and cricket exist to fil
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by tsmarsh 8y ago
Its a short book with a delicious twist at the end. I think the pay off was somewhere in the last 10% of the book.

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