bathyspheric

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by bathyspheric 3y ago
I have found my cursive hand getting much better after spending some time with Gregg shorthand. The emphasis on curve and proportion in Gregg has made my cursive hand much more regular, flowing and pleasing to the eye. I’m sure similar bene
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by bathyspheric 3y ago
MakeCode allows you to begin with block code and slide into Python or Javascript. It has many resources available or you can make more sprites or tunes for your game. Even better, you can get a GameBoy-esque hardware to transfer your game
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by bathyspheric 3y ago
After a career in a science, engineering and IT, I am now teaching computer science and maths in high school and loving it. In Australia, any previous degrees would have a big impact on what additional training you would need before teachin
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by bathyspheric 4y ago
> The lost capsule is a density gauge, commonly used in mining and forms part of a level sensor. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-30/how-wa-authorities-se... ... possibly like this? https://www.ve
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by bathyspheric 4y ago
My teens was my first jobs; pizza places and pamphlets. My twenties was travelling, hospitality and finance. My thirties was university, science and programming jobs. My forties has been a masters and now teaching, I wonder what my fifties
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by bathyspheric 4y ago
Far from heavyweight, I was building innovative solutions for a small consultancy that became more successful and more practised at the same old solutions. Cue same boring problems. I took two years part-time to retrain with an education de
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by bathyspheric 5y ago
I think that plane was lost soon after takeoff because a raincover was left on an engine. Perhaps this incident was something related to landing heavily, unless the pilot made a very quick go-around. https://theaviationist.com&#x
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by bathyspheric 5y ago
Yeah sure, there is too much momentum in current climate changes for Australian policy to turn it around. But the argument that Australian emissions are tiny in comparison to US, India or China so we don't need to be a part of the glob
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by bathyspheric 5y ago
Why would coral culturing specialists like Madeleine van Oppen be the best at testing atmospheric alterations? Do you mean that the ultimate effects on the corals are important, rather than just a reduction of insolation?
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by bathyspheric 5y ago
I would say that there is a lot of interest in some quarters for this sort of solution, as it might mean that we could save the GBR without curtailing the energy industry. I think resistance to these ideas might be related to dealing with t
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by bathyspheric 7y ago
Emacs Lisp is still dynamically scoped, no?
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by bathyspheric 7y ago
Can I ask if I understand your use of `tail` in tail variance? Do you mean tail as in extremes of a distribution, or tails, as in losses. I'm very interested in using MC techniques to model extremes of a distribution, like 1-in-1000 ye
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by bathyspheric 8y ago
The google signin was the stopping point for me too.
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by bathyspheric 9y ago
It thought ChainMap might be useful (Python) but found out I need to be a lot more careful using it. from collections import ChainMap a, b, c = {'a': 1}, {'b': 12, 'c': 13}, {'c': 23} d
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by bathyspheric 9y ago
My daily drive is spacemacs, all the tweaking is there.
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by bathyspheric 9y ago
My only vim customization is `:imap kj <Esc>`. Takes 10s to write into a .vimrc on any new computer.
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by bathyspheric 10y ago
> Edge was disqualified because it seemed to bypass the hosts file and wouldn’t load pages from unique domains. I can do measurements so I might revisit this, but it wouldn’t have been a fair comparison as-is. Is it surprising that Edge
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by bathyspheric 10y ago
I don't think the bar would need to be stainless. The reinforcement cage in concrete weight coating used on subsea pipelines is relatively ordinary steel. The steel is protected from corrosion by the concrete itself and a system of sac
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by bathyspheric 10y ago
At times, I have found some comfort in thinking about my personal travails from universal perspective. Can my upset really have any gravity, any impact upon a drifting continent, on a spinning globe, travelling round a spiral arm of a galax