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I’m piecing together through their website, online articles, etc. that the photographer shoots a lot of film. So perhaps other than a deliberate stylistic choice, the magazine used whatever photo made sense for that block of text.

In any case, they’re all quite nice photos so I don’t mind too much!

There is at least one semiconductor test platform which uses Excel workbooks as the programming interface. Automotive chips going in to new vehicles today are being tested for functionality using Office 2003 and VBA

The article doesn’t mention lyrics, which has to be one of the biggest contributions a singer provides to a song. Being able to emote through language in addition to music may as well double the effect a song may have on people.

I bought a newer K&E probably 10 years ago. I brought it to college and even took it as a calculator backup to a few exams. It’s still on my desk in the office.

But I find it mostly stays on my desk. Operating a slide rule requires intentionality, and most of the time I really only want a quick answer. An RPN calculator is probably a permanent fixture on my desk.

I should get more use of my slide rule, though, just to practice that intentionality: sharpening the estimation skills needed to get the order of magnitude right, and the planning skills of what scales to use, what order, etc. so that the calculation is quick and the result is accurate. These skills are still quite useful in the present day, and few times do they come up as well as when using a slide rule.

This paragraph summarized the piece fairly well. It describes the ideology that the author thinks central bankers have:

> The answer may be down to the grip of an economic ideology espoused by tenured Harvard Professors like Larry Summers and Ken Rogoff. Both appear to believe that inflation exceeds in its power all other threats. And that inflation is largely caused by rising wages (even as real wages are falling) - or even the expectation that wages might rise. That to suppress wages and therefore inflation, central bankers are required to continue hiking aggressively even if this does depress demand, raise unemployment and slash wages further.

I don’t think that’s true though. The most mainline Keynesian would say that inflation has many more causes that just wage growth. And since one of the charter goals of the Fed is to reach maximum employment, I would imagine that rate hikes are trying to minimize impact on workers while still keeping inflation down (their real wages intact).

The author, in my mind, has tunnel vision for workers’ rights and wages, and won’t see the impacts of 6% inflation on the lives of that same working class. The rhetoric makes me think that they’re boiling the frog for a more commanded economy.

I used ledger for 2019–2020 and by the end of it I had scripts to pull just about everything automatically, whether via OFX, Plaid, CSV, or PDF. It became a drag when I realized that I’m starting a new job, I’m opening new accounts, &c., and all my tooling would have to be constantly changing.

Now two years later I’m porting my details into Beancount (the tool whose documentation is linked), and I’ve changed my approach to one that seems much more sustainable: once a month, download statements and enter them in with some templates to assist. Maybe I use a CSV parser for credit cards and other high-frequency accounts, but for what I want out of plaintext accounting, I don’t need hours of weekly time to keep decent finances, but perhaps an evening a month.

If you don’t mind me asking, what’s your use case or motivation for having sub-weekly updates to your financial picture?

Because of that article I bought a hot water bottle on Amazon. I’ve had it for about a month now. It’s very pleasing to use to heat a bed in a way that an electric blanket isn’t: it is much faster at warming, gives you heat in exactly the place you want it, and you don’t fear your house burning down using it.

There is not unfortunately.

Being a plan 9 nerd, I originally found 9ime [1] when I wanted a compose key in windows. It serves the same purpose and has the same default compose key of right-Alt. I’ve yet to be frustrated by it enough to switch to wincompose (but the UX is certainly better).

[1] https://github.com/sqweek/9ime

From my previous research on whole-house fans, they are a wonderful device to have so long as you live in a place where the nights are cool, and most importantly, low-humidity. Unfortunately where I live and it’s 80+% RH at night, a whole-house fan would just give me mold.

Both made by Renée French, wife of Rob Pike!

I believe they’re referring to this thread from December: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25472970

This news surprises me, as I was just preparing a route in the (iPhone) app. Seems like it hasn’t been updated for me yet.

I haven’t used maps.me much, but generally it’s been a good experience. Other than being told multiple times to make a right turn to keep going straight on a highway, it’s been nice having directions and search that is entirely client-side and blazing fast.

Using it has made me want to contribute to OSM to improve the quality. To hear that it’s changing owners and becoming more of a product is unfortunate.

I’ve used the similar Fluke 80K-40 a number of times up to 20 kVrms. The arcing is always concerning, but it’s surprising how safe it feels to hold.

They mean that all the pattern day trading rules apply to options just the same as stocks, i.e. you cannot be an options day trader with less than 25k in the account.

Given the measurements in grams, I’d assume the temperature is Celsius.

This appears to be an attempt to make a Wikipedia using the semantic data from Wikidata. The semantic web ideas of Tim Berners-Lee may be catching on.

This is an excellent idea, though perhaps too much like crowdfunding. There’s an early bird bonus that bumps your ROC—for instance, helping float a parrot store through COVID as one of the first X dollars can push me from 30% to 50% returns (both over 7 years).

Also, considering the uptick in cases over the past week, the timing of investing in small businesses seems suspect.

I do similar reliability work for power electronics (first job after BSEE). I wouldn’t have expected lifetimes at the working stress to be a concern, but I had not fully appreciated how large the E-fields were getting in these devices (about 4x larger than a 1 kVrms isolator).

Worse is Better versus The Right Thing strikes again.

I find that I can extend Pandoc’s markdown to do most of anything I’d want. Could RST or AsciiDoc do it better? Maybe. I haven’t tried. But markdown can do 80% of what I need right out of the box.

Postel’s law—be conservative in what you do, but liberal in what you accept from others

Off-topic: I really enjoy seeing online articles before 2010 or so that have modern stylesheets. It shows that writing is timeless, and the power of separating presentation and content.

Good article, interesting material to think over.

I don’t think the author’s patronizing attitude towards historical theories is helping his thesis much. He starts off proposing that chemistry in 50 years will be way ahead of chemistry today, and so we need to focus on how evidence from experimentation leads to theories to back them up instead of the converse. Alchemy and humors and the four elements all had some amount of observation of outcomes which lead to those theories, and later on evidence disproved them and a new theory took hold. There’s no need to talk about how silly and wrong those people were—rather, more so just how much more we know about the world.

Additionally there’s a hidden assumption that introductory chemistry should be teaching people what chemists do. I’d venture that a majority of people who take an intro chem class won’t go on to do any experimental chemistry other than baking. Their curriculum specifies that they need the class, and perhaps those theoretical concepts are built upon from a biological, medical, or physical angle. In this case, the important things to know are 1) the theory, and 2) that the theory explains the world as we know it, so that if another theory comes around to explain new evidence we don’t have “new math”-style public backlash of unfamiliarity.

I can add that 3 of 3 multi-family dwelling leases I’ve signed in Texas have a specific prohibition to changing oil.

C, given that the types are before the variables, and the function isn’t declared with func.

Oh yes of course! Actually, multipart/mixed really seems like it should be the way that all clients do things, and that quoting at the bottom is an abuse of the quote button.

Say someone gets added to an email thread some time after it got started—is there an easier way to get them all of the emails in the thread than having all of the emails as part of the one they were sent?

Using the author’s projects, I believe you can make your own “effort map” and run the genetic algorithms to make your own optimal layout.

c.f. http://nikolay.rocks/2016-10-22-keyboard-analytics

From [0], the types of cancer they can screen make up at least 81.4% of new cancer diagnoses, which means that with their 99.4% true positive rate, this test should be able to correctly identify ~80% of new cancer incidences. If I'm doing my math right, that's really impressive.

[0]: https://www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/cancer-trends/worldwide-c...

The only issue I had setting up a mail server was sending mail to servers using some service which blocks my domain. Places like my university and my work using Proofpoint, for example, seem to only allow mail from large, easily verifiable domains.