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by verisimilitude 10y ago
I spent four awful, expensive years becoming a dentist in a brutalist building that began its life with the name "Health Sciences Unit A". Christ, what a mess that building was. The ugliness goes away after a while, the ugliness y
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by verisimilitude 10y ago
It is interesting to contrast this discussion today with the discussion Jobs' "Thoughts on Flash" spurred 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1304310
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by verisimilitude 10y ago
Sorry, I meant to upvote you but got the wrong arrow. Anyway, I once read a nice article about light pollution that made this point: light to reduce crime is a common misconception. Criminals don't like dark places any more than we do,
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by verisimilitude 10y ago
To make an implied reference explicit: "[Fermat's] famous Last Theorem was first discovered by his son in the margin in his father's copy of an edition of Diophantus, and included the statement that the margin was too small t
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by verisimilitude 11y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/prominent-n-korean-defe...
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by verisimilitude 11y ago
I'm writing this from a late 2008 Macbook (the first Unibody Macbook, and the direct ancestor of the Macbook the article talks about). On this laptop, I finished school, develop, Photoshop, store all my pictures/videos/music.
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by verisimilitude 11y ago
> just like a good doctor should be able to judge the reliability of information coming from the patient. Exactly! A good doctor must be able to read people well; their communication style, presuppositions, personality, and this will hel
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by verisimilitude 11y ago
That's not just a funny comment, it is literally true! "For more than a decade, Mr. Bankman and a small group of tax experts have called on the government to create a tax preparation method that they say would vastly reduce the ti
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by verisimilitude 12y ago
Prose of this style is common at The New Yorker. And since Gopnik has been writing it there since I was in diapers, I have to think he knows some things about writing that neither you nor I do. Furthermore, given the publication's lege
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by verisimilitude 12y ago
"Also, it hurt. Seriously: Try holding up your arm as if you’re looking at your watch. Now count to 30." My analysis of the muscles involved in holding up a watch here: http://tumbledry.org/2015/01/08&#
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by verisimilitude 12y ago
I assume the name is a reference to Edward Lear's favorite nonsense word? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runcible
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by verisimilitude 12y ago
For what it is worth, I had a neighbor who was so exhausted he retired. THEN he got a CPAP machine and felt so amazing he'd wished he'd kept working.
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Apple Watch and Human Anatomy(tumbledry.org)
1 points by verisimilitude 12y ago|0 comments
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by verisimilitude 12y ago
Thank you very very much for taking the time to write this up!
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by verisimilitude 12y ago
Both the DNS and the transparent proxy sound like an interesting way to improve the web at home (I'm thinking specifically of an iPhone on my WiFi) -- do you have more information about how you did these things?
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by verisimilitude 12y ago
This is the single best tip I've read about anything in the past six months[1]. Here's why: In 2012, I graduated from dental school in debt up to my EYEBALLS[2], and look, I can NOT afford the per article fee required for me to fo
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by verisimilitude 12y ago
In order to understand North Korea, you simply _must_ read Escape from Camp 14[1]. If not, then at least read the Wikipedia entry[2]. Dear lord, it's incredibly tragic... [1]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0143122916&#x
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by verisimilitude 12y ago
I've always loved this method. I think partly because I went through a phase where I was obsessed with those waterfalls which illustrate your webpage loading (like the one here: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!&#x2F
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by verisimilitude 12y ago
"the currency behind it" seems to be everything about this. These identical actions, under a different name that neither included nor winkingly referred to Markdown, would neither bother Gruber NOR provoke any community reaction.
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by verisimilitude 12y ago
I would think that even if logging used a non-negligible amount of battery power to take measurements the data are still valid because such a load was applied consistently throughout the sample period. So, the measurements are valid within
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by verisimilitude 12y ago
Accidentally downvoted you, meant to upvote... sorry about that. Anyhow: I was actually moving, told Comcast so, and I was indeed off the phone in a few minutes. "I wonder what everyone's concern about Comcast is anyway," I w
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by verisimilitude 12y ago
I use a vertical dock on OS X; I wonder if this lighting still makes sense or looks "right" when icons are stacked up in a vertical dock?
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TV Quality Will Decrease Before it Improves(vox.com)
2 points by verisimilitude 12y ago|0 comments
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by verisimilitude 12y ago
My understanding is that the number of people who like leaving off the www exceeds the number who remember to redirect all requests correctly. I believe the nginx server block would read something like: server_name www.website.tld; re
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by verisimilitude 13y ago
I will never say I've "read a book that changed my life" but this one comes awfully close: "The China Study" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Study If you get a chance to read it, you
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by verisimilitude 13y ago
Black backgrounds definitely have a different look on CRTs; that may have been a factor.
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by verisimilitude 13y ago
Not easy, but doable, especially on a straightforward design: e.g. http://tumbledry.org/
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by verisimilitude 13y ago
Enamel is really _really_ hard stuff. Believe me, air turbines are preferable to the cable-driven drills dentistry used to have. They do have electric dental handpieces now and the advantage is the same as with electric cars -- no loss of
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by verisimilitude 13y ago
The alloy he used is essentially identical to that used for dental implants (Ti6Al4V ELI, where the ELI means very low purity limits on iron, C & O interstitials). Interesting that you bring up the coolant -- using tungsten carbide wate
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by verisimilitude 13y ago
Love Base64 encoding... for anyone looking to optimize their CSS, check out Shaun Inman's CSS Cacheer... it can automatically inline images using that encoding: http://www.shauninman.com/archive/2008/05/30/check_out_css_c... Sorry for sli

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