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30karma·16submissions·July 21, 2010
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Heh, that's my daughter - mostly self-taught with just enough misdirection from me to keep her guessing. The essay was from 1995, but was just in a listserv. The webpage was done in the early 200…
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My dad, John Perry, wrote this essay and followed it up with a book - The Art of Procrastination. I love to see the essay rediscovered & will share this thread with him.
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From Groq using Llama 2 70b:
To calculate the volume of space required to contain the world's population, we need to first convert the area calculated earlier to square feet. Area (square feet) =…
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If it is a USB iPad, you can plug it into an external display. USB-C to USB-C monitor, or get a USB-C to HDMI or DVI adapter. You can also use a USB or Bluetooth mouse if the digitizer is broken.
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Volume is more like a tenth of that, I think? Maybe interior dimensions 2 meters diameter and 5 meters length gives around 16 cubic meters if my math is sane (Religion major, so go easy on me if not).
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I love these stations. SomaFM carries this and others (or maybe they are just similar mash-ups). I have tinnitus 100% of the time, and silence is the enemy. This kind of sound - indistinct, with varie…
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Faster way to disable FaceTime is to hold power and volume-up for a few seconds to bring up the power-down interface. You don't need to power down or do anything - once that interface loads, the …
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a^2 (9) + b^2 (16) = c^2 (25)
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And you are qualified to express this view how?
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That would be politically inconvenient.
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Why is the Porsche referred to as a turbo if it is electric?
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Which is on purpose. We are a representative republic based on democratic principles, explicitly structured to avoid the “mob rule” tendencies of direct democracies. Which doesn’t make the Electoral C…
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There is a book: The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging, and Postponing https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0091YL5KK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ul... Full…
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Oh yes. What I did is put a 128gb in my 13" MBP (current generation) and then get a kit to replace the DVD drive with a 2.5" laptop drive. Everything runs very fast, time machine backs up my boot driv…