fdavison | 1 year ago | on: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
Now I want Apple Crisp
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fdavison | 5 years ago | on: A Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down (2012)
"While in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is."
fdavison | 5 years ago | on: Two capacitor paradox
"While in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is."
fdavison | 5 years ago | on: Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension
I don't know why you are being downvoted, sharecropper is exactly the right metaphor.
fdavison | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine. Changed my eight year old life in 1962. I wanted to work with computers and electronics from that moment.
Oh, and all the Tom Swift Jr series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Dunn_and_the_Homework_Ma...
fdavison | 6 years ago | on: The Myth of Self-Reliance: An encounter with Emerson’s essays
I think "I, Pencil" would blow Odell's mind.
fdavison | 6 years ago | on: Physicists finally nail the proton’s size, eliminating an anomaly
That reminded me of this video of NDT describing the size of the electron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6kjY6ppJRE&t=71
fdavison | 6 years ago | on: Physicists finally nail the proton’s size, eliminating an anomaly
DoctorOetker's most recent theorem?
fdavison | 6 years ago | on: Americans' fear of losing their jobs grows
Because we are near full employment and they now have jobs to lose? From this morning's Washington Post: "For the first time, most new working-age hires in the U.S. are people of color"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/for-the-firs...
fdavison | 6 years ago | on: What Will the Moon Landing Mean to the Future?
Yes! That was the first thing I thought of: "I don't understand how it subtracts"
fdavison | 6 years ago | on: Air Force Reveals Tests of Supposed Record-Setting Scramjet from N. Grumman
Johnny Armstrong, the Hypersonics Combined Test Force Chief Engineer for Air Force, until his retirement in 2012, passed away just last week. He worked in hypersonics from the X-15 to the X-51 Waverider.
https://www.edwards.af.mil/News/Article/1922993/team-edwards...
fdavison | 6 years ago | on: Radioactive ruthenium from an undeclared major nuclear release in 2017
The EPA has a website that displays a network of radiation sensors in the US:
Hope you never need that information.
fdavison | 6 years ago | on: Ross Perot Has Died
None of what I've read today on his passing have mentioned this interesting story of the rescue of his employees from Iran during the revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Wings_of_Eagles
A mini-series was produced about it starring Burt Lancaster
fdavison | 7 years ago | on: Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans?
I really enjoyed the whole Giant series by Hogan.
Star Trek Voyager had an episode with the idea of an ancient saurian species that left earth many millions of years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Origin
fdavison | 7 years ago | on: A Word Use That Doesn't Add Up
Literally true
fdavison | 7 years ago | on: Making Swallowing Safer for those who have trouble swallowing
I don't normally have trouble swallowing but a couple of big pills I take daily would give me trouble. A trick I learned recently was to turn my head to the side as I swallowed them. This video on youtube also describes different techniques besides turning your head: https://youtu.be/NUzRGKx79k4
fdavison | 7 years ago | on: Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook
This site on ethics routinely deconstructs the problems at Snopes: https://ethicsalarms.com/?s=snopes
fdavison | 7 years ago | on: Cortical control of a tablet computer by people with paralysis
The problem with BCI, eyegaze or speech control systems is how slow they are. There can no delay in a fast paced game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTfa0gh2WVg
fdavison | 7 years ago | on: Google to Sunset Analytic Services SDK, Transitions Mobile Analytics to Firebase
I've been burned by their dropping features and services too many times to ever gamble on them again.
fdavison | 7 years ago | on: Solving My Email Problem
I filter anything with the word "unsubscribe" into a separate folder, then add a few filters to handle the exceptions.
What is generally left in my inbox is stuff directly mailed to me that deserves attention. 90% of the stuff in the unsubscribe folder get deleted without looking beyond the subject line.
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