willturman

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by willturman 2y ago
Capital has also employed anti-competitive actions to stifle, prevent, and kneecap "green" technology for the last century. The death of passenger rail and the stifling of the electric car for 30 years come to mind.
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by willturman 2y ago
It's a quote from Upton Sinclair from an era where you generally had to have a profitable business and employees before you had investors.
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by willturman 2y ago
Those books about British science/engineering during WW2 sound interesting. Any recommendations?
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by willturman 2y ago
Oh! Why didn’t I think of that? Thank you anonymous commenter for steering my existence towards a path of ambiguous and rooted utility!
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by willturman 2y ago
I don’t have any grass of my own but just enjoyed a patch above the Dufferin terasse in Quebec City. For others interested in alternative options to maintaining an otherwise lifeless lawn Re:wild is an organization dedicated to finding solu
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by willturman 2y ago
I had a role developing systems of increasing complexity of hardware, software, and interfaces and my mantra / threshold for development was always “no phone calls”. I sought to make a project robust enough to support like any other by
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by willturman 2y ago
I like long walks on the beach and not bending over backwards attempting to justify my unsustainable environmental impact and consumption habits. Shoot.
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by willturman 2y ago
It doesn’t though. I’ve left entire knowledge bases and bulletproof tools behind and haven’t looked back. Constant maintenance is a sign of shitty design. A hallmark of craftsmanship is leaving a supportable low maintenance environment in y
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by willturman 2y ago
Grass is literally a hellscape for pollinators and the only thing that spends time on most lawns is a mower. I don’t understand it either. “My family gets to see me swear at my old cars that get 10mpg that I insist on owning and somehow jus
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by willturman 2y ago
“Yes, but that’s what you should be looking for.” … and you aren’t going to find them in Silicon Valley.
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by willturman 2y ago
Redis already has the data structures for a queue and stack essentially straight out of the box.
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by willturman 2y ago
I implemented RabbitMQ based messaging queues as a mechanism to coordinate execution among discrete components of a handful of ambitious laboratory automation systems ~4-8 years ago. Given a recent opportunity to rethink messaging based arc
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by willturman 2y ago
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it ... An important scientific innov
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by willturman 2y ago
Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey A Brief History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson Entangled Life - Merlin Sheldrake The Hidden Life of Trees - Peter Wohlleben
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by willturman 2y ago
It’s a wonderful experience when hazy abstractions of complexity click into clarity. I’m not sure I’ve ever found that without tangible motivation and immersion in a problem space, although excellent writings can bring one to the doorstep.
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by willturman 2y ago
That pelicans surfing video is perfect - there's certainly not a whole lot of flapping going on. 100G will find the weak point on your model You know, just a casual glider built to withstand 10 times more gravitational force than an
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by willturman 2y ago
> did not land, did not eat, did not drink and did not stop flapping My understanding is that these incredible distances are achievable less by "flapping" and more by leveraging small adjustments to harness the incredibly pow
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by willturman 3y ago
I took it as a tongue in cheek reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
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by willturman 3y ago
Unreal. It looks like the aftermath of a tornado. Here's a before/after comparison: https://i.imgur.com/6MyTQmo.png
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by willturman 3y ago
Do you drive a Rolls Royce Phantom?
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by willturman 4y ago
people writing crap all over is the internet
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by willturman 4y ago
It's time to pivot to tangible long term assets, like tulip bulbs.
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by willturman 4y ago
Hammock Driven Development by Rich Hickey [1] is a presentation that dives into why taking a step back from the immediacy of a problem often leads to clarity. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
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by willturman 4y ago
I would argue that a "low skill worker" doesn't exist as anything but a pejorative stereotype for large swaths of people who form and perform functions that create the foundation on which an economy runs.
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by willturman 4y ago
Here is the historical (since 2004) time series and data: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
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by willturman 4y ago
You’re right - codified was a poor word to use as the exception was not written into law but established with a Supreme Court ruling. Major League Baseball’s anti-trust exemption was formally established 100 years ago and has been upheld by
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by willturman 4y ago
Stadiums used to be on the outskirts of cities surrounded by huge parking lots. Candlestick, Qualcomm, Kingdome, Astrodome, among many others. These stadiums have been replaced by modern venues in the hearts of American cities and emphasize
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by willturman 4y ago
That's obvious. It's also not necessary to drive to the stadium to see a baseball game in the 30 American cities that support Major League Baseball Teams with the exception of Atlanta, Dallas (Texas), Anaheim, and Kansas City, of
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by willturman 4y ago
Major League Baseball has an exemption to US anti-trust regulation. It's literally a federally codified monopoly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_v._Kuhn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fede
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by willturman 4y ago
Perhaps the 49ers were left out because the article references the cost to attend a baseball game, whose league (MLB) requires a team to host 81 home games per season which requires much greater consideration for public transportation tha

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