Ishmaeli

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by Ishmaeli 3y ago
One of my biggest pet peeves is when I'm walking in a crowded area, and as I follow someone through a doorway or other transition space, they stop and look around. The doorway or (whatever) is already a natural traffic bottleneck. And
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by Ishmaeli 3y ago
The Klutz Book of Knots was one of my favorites as a kid, and cited Ashley throughout. Here's what it had to say about the square knot: "But Which Knot Is Really The Best Knot? A true landlubber's question, but one that is i
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by Ishmaeli 3y ago
I think this might be my favorite kind of nonfiction book. Truly the Bible of knots. For years I have looked for a list of "Bibles" of their respective subjects, but have never found anything quite right. Chapman's Piloting
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by Ishmaeli 3y ago
I submitted Initech over a week ago and still don't see it.
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
Reminds me of a study from several years ago which found that we tend to regret virtuous decisions more than indulgent ones over time: https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/mygsb/faculty/research/pubfile...
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
Susan Fowler Rigetti posted a self-study curriculum last March: https://www.susanrigetti.com/math I don't know how good it is, but her earlier entries on Physics and Philosophy were well-received. HN thread: https:&#x
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
I can't tell if this is sincere or a send-up, because it's literally Apple's apologetic for everything. Always blame the customer. "If your phone has bad reception, it's because you're holding it wrong. Why w
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
I read a hard copy that was passed around my high school in the early 90s. The only chapter I remember was the one about tamping explosives in order to concentrate the force of the blast in the direction you want. That was really interesti
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
First exposure: Commodore PET at school, 1982. First computer at home: my dad brought home an IBM clone circa 1986. He had a buddy at work (he was an insurance agent) that was really into pirating games, who gave him one bankers box full o
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
Utopia on the Intellivision was a good one.
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
I'm using CALDav for syncing. DAVx⁵ is on f-droid, I think.
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
What are you using in place of Google Maps? I migrated from Gmail to mailbox.org about a year ago, but Google Maps is the one Google app I can't seem to replace.
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
I was just telling my wife the other day about a book I read a couple of years ago that I've completely forgotten. Most of the time I can remember at least the broad strokes. I can tell you that Guns, Germs and Steel is about how phys
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
I have the college dreams fairly regularly. Usually they are about forgetting to attend class for a whole semester. But my other recurring dream is about being an LDS missionary again. I think that experience in real life was even more st
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
Thirty-five digits or so get us to the Planck length.
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
That's what annuities are designed to do. In life insurance, you pay the company a small periodic payment in exchange for a large lump sum payment if you die while the coverage is in force. If you die after paying just one premium, yo
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
Because the King James Version (KJV) was so dominant for so long among English speakers that archaic language came to be associated with Holy Writ. Generations have been conditioned to think that scripture is supposed to sound old. Now, lo
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
Also, it seems like just knowing some of the dead ends would be a huge step up. Like maybe we don't waste a ton of time and resources trying to turn lead into gold, or teaching left-handed kids to be right-handed, or trying to figure o
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
That's like saying typing a book on a keyboard or dictating a book is not writing a book.
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
I recently attended a sales meeting for group health insurance reps at Blue Cross Blue Shield of TX. They are going all-in on HMO plans. Of course everyone remembers how unpopular HMOs were in the 90s, deservedly so or not. The Apple Newto
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
I have several friends and family members, all active LDS, who have done BYU Pathway, and they all say the same thing: "Wow, is it churchy!" That first semester especially. These people are all very familiar with the various iter
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
That's funny, STORY is much less esoteric, isn't it?
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
ADIEU STROY All the vowels and the three most common consonants in two words.
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
I found this GIMP tutorial several years ago and have used this method ever since. I insert my signature into PDF documents using the stamp tool, unless the software has a more sophisticated method. https://www.youtube.com/
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by Ishmaeli 4y ago
Same. 23 years and I don't mention it often because it feels like bragging, and we certainly didn't do anything to "earn" our relationship. I think it was just dumb luck that we fell into it and happen to be so compati
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by Ishmaeli 5y ago
A(G,G) https://xkcd.com/207/
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by Ishmaeli 5y ago
The Hacker's Diet worked for me. Lost 20 lbs in 2014 and kept it off since. It's nothing weird or special, just an approach that resonates.
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by Ishmaeli 5y ago
My problem with ebooks has always been the typos introduced by imperfect OCR. I look forward to wider availability of graphic novels on color e-ink displays, though.
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by Ishmaeli 5y ago
I'm in exactly the same boat. Currently trying HERE WeGo, it's okay. I think it's going to come down to reminding myself that Google Maps is not always as polished as it appears.
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by Ishmaeli 5y ago
I feel like I've spent the last 10 years seeing "boring" in headlines and thinking mundane, when actually it was referring to tunneling. Now I'm finally conditioned to think tunneling first, and this. It's like BLM

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