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by yanowitz 1y ago
Don’t you have to be confident the clocks are sufficiently synced across the system?
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by yanowitz 2y ago
And its inspiration is still great but could use a refresh: https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
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by yanowitz 2y ago
Absolutely amazing. American TV was a desolate landscape with occasional stuff so good you couldn’t believe the oasis wasn’t a mirage. Max Headroom was in that category. And of course it didn’t start in the States. Dunno if it would hold up
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by yanowitz 2y ago
you have to actually remap your world to one where this person doesn't exist--that's a difficult neuro process and grief is part of it
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by yanowitz 2y ago
I found The Grieving Brain by Mary-Frances O'Connor really helpful. It gave me a frame for why grief is a necessary part of our brain processing the loss. It made it much easier to move through the pain.
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by yanowitz 3y ago
I think it’s important to remember (and buttresses the upthread points)—the volatility isn’t a coincidence—it’s a direct result of the discovery of the oil and the crucial role it played for imperialism and capitalist expansion.
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by yanowitz 3y ago
This seems super cool but is this like battery breakthroughs? Don’t get excited until we are much closer to it being manufactured at scale/appearing in clinical settings? This is a real question—I’m not clear on the significance of the
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by yanowitz 3y ago
And the driver can actually crash. Pilots have strict work rules for a reason. People die when pilots are too tired. Is there variance in how long people can work without degraded performance? Of course. But it still degrades for most peop
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by yanowitz 3y ago
While not that cheap, you could go to Space Camp for adults (over a weekend). Among other things, you get to run simulated missions—both from Mission Control and in a “space ship.” https://www.spacecamp.com/space/adult&
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by yanowitz 4y ago
As were Marx and Engels, 175 years ago in the Communist Manifesto: “Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all e
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by yanowitz 4y ago
This is horrific. I immediately thought of Puerto Rico, where women were forcibly sterilized for decades (until the 1970s), often after giving birth. (This is part of the importance of talking about reproductive rights, not just abortion
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by yanowitz 4y ago
Pairs nicely with this great book about all kinds of electronic components -- https://nostarch.com/open-circuits
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by yanowitz 4y ago
My favorite Easter egg is the title as anagram for “NSA reeks”
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by yanowitz 4y ago
Quartz crystal explanation and cutaway picture with fine tuning marks was all I needed. Preordered. Looks like a fun read.
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by yanowitz 5y ago
I've found this repo https://gitlab.com/doctorj/interview-questions to be useful as well.
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Omicron: We're Getting (Some) Answers(yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com)
11 points by yanowitz 5y ago|1 comments
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Omicron Update, Dec 2(yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com)
63 points by yanowitz 5y ago|114 comments
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by yanowitz 6y ago
I've found this repo to have a lot of useful questions, obviously you have to tailor based on what you value most. https://gitlab.com/doctorj/interview-questions
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Literary puzzle solved for just third time in almost 100 years(theguardian.com)
3 points by yanowitz 6y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 6y ago
Lovely quote, attribution likely apocryphal (and I don't think it was a poem). https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/06/ is a nice writeup (assuming you trust its citations).
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Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? (1999)(bikeshed.org)
3 points by yanowitz 6y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 6y ago
Came to say the same thing. Fascinating look into a time machine—what problems are we still wrestling with and what celebrated innovations then do we see as problematic legacies now (e.g., when a language allows 1 + ‘1’ to equal 2)? Very fu
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by yanowitz 7y ago
They could give back $21m of their carry.
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In a Chaotic World, Dungeons and Dragons Is Resurgent(nytimes.com)
2 points by yanowitz 7y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 7y ago
This is a fantastic talk. Well worth the time spent watching it.
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by yanowitz 7y ago
Great quotes and wow, is that a link worth following! If you’re reading this and haven’t gone to read more of the wisdom in taoup but you liked what’s above, I urge you to go do so now.
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by yanowitz 7y ago
A great essay. I suggest Out of the Tarpit as a later exploration (20 years after No Silver Bullet) with fantastic and challenging analysis. If reading the whole paper is too daunting, checkout the summary (and subscribe to his regular emai
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by yanowitz 7y ago
Either way, that video is amazing, even if it makes Danny the “heel” of the call. Take 5 minutes and watch it—it’s an incredible window into how far things have changed in 40 years (especially because at the time, what’s in that video is De
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Tesla mod to turn car into mobile surveillance station(wired.com)
7 points by yanowitz 7y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 7y ago
chrony[1] neatly solves these and a host of related issues by guaranteeing time increases monotonically on a given host, speeding up or slowing down the clock appropriately. It's a nicer alternative to ntpd. Also, AWS recommends it if

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