cjak

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by cjak 3y ago
I refuse to accept that the lack of spelling mistakes and the careful use of language is evidence of AI. I can be sloppy, but I've known Real Humans to take great care with their written language.
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by cjak 3y ago
The Dick Smith Funway books were a gateway drug for this primary school nerd. They were so simple even a parent could participate. https://archive.org/details/dicksmithsfunwayintoelectronicsv...
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by cjak 4y ago
And The Hollowmen, which is set in the Prime Minister's Office and is made by the same team.
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by cjak 4y ago
I use an analogy with perfect pitch to illustrate colour-blindness to those with regular colour vision. People with perfect pitch can be played a note on a piano, and identify it sight-unseen. "That's a C-sharp", they'l
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by cjak 5y ago
Could be Australian. But we also use "Seppo", from a fairly tortured rhyming slang etymology: "Yank" -> "Septic Tank" -> "Seppo".
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by cjak 5y ago
> One of the stories I heard about the 50 is that if you threw it into the ocean it would sink intermittently. Great computing joke, love it.
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by cjak 6y ago
Agreed. I find the tabular format of Cooking for Engineers excellent for this (for example, at the bottom of this brownies recipe: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/158/Dark-Chocolate... ). Julia Child&#x27
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by cjak 6y ago
I just finished a project that introduced features for both signal injection and signal extraction. So now we can enjoy both SIN and SEX, sometimes at the same time.
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by cjak 9y ago
> Counter proof: since BC's 15% foreigner tax was implemented, has the Vancouver housing market cooled off? No. To the contrary, it has actually heated up even more. This indicates that the "illegal Chinese dirty money" th
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by cjak 9y ago
I'd suggest this is already occurring, given the uncertain purity and dosages associated with the supply of recreational drugs. Probably a fair amount of placebo-effect too!
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by cjak 9y ago
> I think many many people would do MDMA every day. It's generally accepted that tolerance to MDMA builds up, leading to a loss of 'magic'. For example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15671132
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by cjak 9y ago
You can improve the flow of congested traffic by keeping a gap in front and encouraging other drivers to merge [1]. There are some intuitive diagrams and animations in [2]. [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/one-driver-c
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by cjak 9y ago
I do not undertake projects having an immediate or exclusive military application. Beyond that, I pick and choose based on my gut.
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by cjak 9y ago
Esoteric languages tend to play along that "so bad it's good" spectrum.
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by cjak 9y ago
Your life journey reminds me of the parable of the Mexican fisherman: https://bemorewithless.com/the-story-of-the-mexican-fisherma... Enjoy your retirement!
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by cjak 10y ago
Would you have a reference for that?
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by cjak 10y ago
> they can do things like check power and water utility usage About 5% of Melbourne's housing stock was recently found to be unoccupied, using water usage data. It was closer to 19% for investment properties. http://www
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by cjak 10y ago
Technically correct, the best type of correct.