unclewalter

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by unclewalter 4y ago
From Juba to Jive [0]: "In a minute (1980s-1990s) in the future, perhaps a month from the time said, but not immediately. (Southern city use)" [0] - Juba to Jive edited by Clarence Major
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by unclewalter 4y ago
The term I'm thinking is "pastiche". I usually apply it to "Disney World" type of items or places that try and recreate the feel of a different time. Some "speakeasy" bars fall in to that category.
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by unclewalter 5y ago
dougmwne's right. Though I can't find my poster online (for the life of me), the technical manual is pretty clear: [...]The various waste sludges recovered from the water recycling processes are a valuable resource. The organic wa
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by unclewalter 5y ago
Of course I don't think your statement's motive is to understand how we replicate the exact process of what is in Star Trek in the real world. More of a functional equivalent. However, because I have the poster, if you look at pla
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by unclewalter 5y ago
I didn’t see anything in the email that suggested they were agreeing to partition the market. Apple said they didn’t want to compete with Apple w.r.t. Office. Who would? Office is awesome and it’s not Apple’s wheelhouse. ClarisWorks would n
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by unclewalter 5y ago
I love the way Apple Maps gives turn by turn directions: “go past these lights and at the next set, turn left”. Just way more understandable as a ... human. However, it commonly gives me just the wrong destination. Just the other day, it pu
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Confessions of a Recovering Know It All(thriveslo.com)
2 points by unclewalter 5y ago|0 comments
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by unclewalter 5y ago
That actually makes sense to me. If I feel secure, I feel carefree. Maybe there should be a different word when providing a secure environment from the word where people enjoy that secure environment.
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by unclewalter 5y ago
Thanks, updated. My ignorance of this practice extends to all deadly pathogens, really.
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by unclewalter 5y ago
“Participants were then intentionally infected with malaria three months later to test the vaccine’s efficacy.” I did not know that purposely infecting people with a deadly parasite for research was a thing!
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by unclewalter 5y ago
To me, the parent wasn’t saying an asset holder would need to pay taxes on the asset unless they used it as collateral. To me, this makes a lot of sense. If someone owns a startup and worries tax implications would overextend them if the va
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by unclewalter 5y ago
Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein might disagree.
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by unclewalter 6y ago
An improbable drive?
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by unclewalter 6y ago
I train models for niche use cases where I haven't found any pre-trained models for. It's not great, but with PlaidML/Keras, I make use of my current MacBook Pro's GPU (AMD 5500M). I get a speedup of about 2x over using
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by unclewalter 6y ago
Perhaps Apple has hired topologists as their legal counsel?
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by unclewalter 6y ago
> What is an IC? Believe op is using it as "individual contributor"
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by unclewalter 6y ago
Shoes on the table!
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Covid-19 progression: Sweden vs. Finland(covid19.fixedprecision.com)
2 points by unclewalter 6y ago|1 comments
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by unclewalter 6y ago
There are probably a million dashboards using the Johns Hopkins data that's generously shared. A friend and I have put this one together that does comparisons and some analysis. We've slowly been adding to it, let me know if you h
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Show HN: Covid-19 Dashboard(covid19.fixedprecision.com)
2 points by unclewalter 6y ago|1 comments