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by zerealshadowban 3y ago
Yes! this book is a first-person account of product development at Apple, showing how both the design and the features of a system tool keep progressing under the selective pressure of iterative review sessions, with creative and specific c
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by zerealshadowban 3y ago
They log too much data about their users. So they should promptly update their policies to a) stop logging so much, b) delete all past logs, and c) sharply limit the span of time until deletion of whatever logs they decide they really need
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by zerealshadowban 5y ago
but where does the CO2 go? normally it's exhaled via the lungs
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by zerealshadowban 6y ago
Have you looked at climate changes over the entire Cenozoic, let alone the climate record over the last 300,000 years? We're lucky to be alive during a warm, interglacial period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_
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by zerealshadowban 6y ago
Yes, the populist-biography kind of writing you describe is unsatisfactory, to say the least; the reason I point to Petroski's work is that he did not write like that. Another great book to read to examine modes of engineering failur
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by zerealshadowban 6y ago
Henry Petroski has written several excellent essays and books about engineering failures, why it is inherent in engineering pursuits that there will be failures, why it is important to learn the right lessons from these failures, and why ea
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EMA Covid-19 data leak and mRNA vaccine instability(bmj.com)
19 points by zerealshadowban 6y ago|5 comments
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Lou Ottens, who invented cassette tape and pioneered CD, dies at 94(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by zerealshadowban 6y ago|0 comments
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by zerealshadowban 6y ago
Life is a self-generated process of self-sustaining action. "If an organism fails in that action, it dies; its chemical elements remain, but its life goes out of existence."
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by zerealshadowban 6y ago
An attempt at an explanation: value is what we in fact act to gain or keep, from the simplest to the most complex objects or relations; what we have previously gained or kept is automatically recorded as a value in our mind; and thus wi
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by zerealshadowban 6y ago
I always "read" it in my mind as I <heart> NY, not I <love> NY.
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by zerealshadowban 6y ago
I've seen police abuse innocent people, multiple times, which should be lesson enough. More importantly, I've been falsely accused of assault by a Federal officer, and had to spend all my savings on a lawyer to fight it (one year
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by zerealshadowban 6y ago
Looks good. Thanks!
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by zerealshadowban 6y ago
Learn Unix power tools, study their options (`man` is your friend) -- and use pipes to combine their powers.
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by zerealshadowban 6y ago
I have similar, extreme anger issues due to how I was mistreated in my childhood (both physical and mental abuse + abandonment). I get better, from time to time, and then I get worse, like a yoyo for half a century. I have made my peace wit
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by zerealshadowban 6y ago
Comment fait-on pour être invité?
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by zerealshadowban 6y ago
Quelqu'un a-t-il jamais tenté de traduire le fameux « jargon file » en français?
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by zerealshadowban 6y ago
Pas mal. « Fouineur » est plus proche, mais en général je me contente de dire « hackeur ».
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by zerealshadowban 6y ago
Bonne idée! Il y a au moins 200 millions de francophones de par le monde...
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by zerealshadowban 6y ago
Le vrai sens du mot n'est pas « pirate ».
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by zerealshadowban 7y ago
Yes, supply and demand are both relevant. On the supply side, the very high cost of Intel CPUs has been adversely constraining the pricing flexibility of Mac computers. Apple sells orders of magnitude more iOS devices, all ARM-based; if the
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by zerealshadowban 7y ago
This bodes well in terms of lower prices, better battery longevity, and incredible performance for the soon-coming ARM MacBooks.
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How to Be an Effective Executive (Lessons from Keith Rabois)(delian.io)
2 points by zerealshadowban 7y ago|0 comments
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by zerealshadowban 7y ago
I don't. I like nature.
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by zerealshadowban 7y ago
I've made the same switch to AdGuard after upgrading to Safari 13, happy so far. (I've loved uBlock Origin for many years.)
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
"some random startup with no experience" -- what about the experience of the people who founded the company and those they have hired? does that count as "no experience"? "to do the impossible" -- since you hav
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
barring its revival, is there a macos tool to open/convert old FrameMaker documents? my PhD thesis and years of notes were archived in that format.
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
Isn't that typical of conversations between hackers?
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
dorfsmay wrote "to ship from producing site" then gave Sweden and Saudi Arabia as example producing sites. The only operational, limited extraction of oil in Sweden took place in Gotland, until 1993. The remnants of that activity
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
The point is a mix of mineral and monarchical accuracy. Norway is a significant oil producer and exporter, worthy of mention together with Saudi Arabia in the context of discussing oil producers (potentially) exporting crude oil to the US;

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