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by wmhorne 6y ago
> In many ways... Can you list some?
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A Tech Insider [Anna Wiener] Stylishly Chronicles Her Industry’s Uncanny Valley(nytimes.com)
1 points by wmhorne 7y ago|0 comments
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by wmhorne 7y ago
> The bit in Infinite Jest written in (attempted) African American vernacular is truly awful, though. Peck is clearly right about that. On this topic I certainly agreed with him. I found that section horribly out of tune and out of touch
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by wmhorne 7y ago
Funny, I found this book over a decade after it was published, having been exposed to almost none of this "hype" whatsoever---and I still liked it. I don't buy his thesis that its success was due only to the "hype machin
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by wmhorne 7y ago
> 2. Always work (note, write) from your own interest, never from what you think you should be noting, or writing. Trust your own interest. I have a strong interest, at the moment, in Roman building techniques, thus my notation above, ta
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The Truth About Tesla Model 3 After 1 Year(youtube.com)
2 points by wmhorne 7y ago|0 comments
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by wmhorne 7y ago
> The computer revolution was enabled, in large part, by a single invention: the transistor. Before transistors, we were stuck with failure-prone vacuum tubes. Yet vacuum tubes kind of, sort of worked: they translated abstract Boolean lo
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Digital Indology: A Collection of Digital Tools for South Asian Studies(prakrit.info)
1 points by wmhorne 7y ago|0 comments
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by wmhorne 7y ago
Why can't Tesla divorce their interest in producing electric vehicles from their agenda in producing autonomous ones? It seems there is so much call for the former and so little for the latter. I wonder why they've felt the need t
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by wmhorne 7y ago
> Unlike writing, speech doesn’t require multiple drafts before it “works.” Uncertainty, anxiety, dread, and mental fatigue all attend writing; talking, on the other hand, is easy, often pleasant, and feels mostly unconscious. While I li
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Nietzsche’s Eternal Return(newyorker.com)
1 points by wmhorne 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Are Coding Bootcamps Worth It?
1 points by wmhorne 7y ago|1 comments
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Ebib: A BibTeX Database Manager for Emacs(joostkremers.github.io)
3 points by wmhorne 7y ago|0 comments
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What Metaphors Does a Modern Computer Employ?
2 points by wmhorne 7y ago|1 comments
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Why Didn't Plan 9 Succeed?
46 points by wmhorne 7y ago|10 comments
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by wmhorne 7y ago
Leveraging a skillset unconventional to this forum, I can contribute concise, accurate, and logical writing to almost any component of any project, though preferably one that addresses a social, educational, and/or environmental cause.
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Ask HN: Do you subvocalize when you read?
1 points by wmhorne 7y ago|1 comments
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by wmhorne 8y ago
What do you like about them?
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by wmhorne 8y ago
What does this mean? And how would you transliterate it?