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Good article... it points out that J.A.N. Lee was appointed Program Head of the new CS program at UMassAmherst in September of 1964. And that is the same person whom the 2nd photo was from in the thread’s main article.

More info, sadly: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-image-confirm...

Another way to look at it, as I see it, this would certainly make Facebook better for their product (users) while making it worse for their actual customers (those who want the user's data).

If news distribution depends on facebook in a country, then everyone is screwed.

I’ve had regrets in my life. But never fucking regrets.

As one who has brewed beer for 27 years now, wort is definitely brought to a boil at the beginning of a brew to cause the ‘hot break’ proteins to coagulate. The wort is then held at a low boil or near boiling for 45-60 min after the bittering hops are added as those temperatures most efficiently allow the alpha acids from the lupulin glands of the hops to enter solution.

Grape juice for wine, as it can’t be heated without ruining it, is usually lightly sulphited for a day or three before adding yeast, which kills the bacteria present in the juice.

Got mine at the end of May. I use it basically every day, in both sitting and standing positions. Price was right, quality better than I expected. Their keyboard tray doesn't really fit if you get a tabletop with a curved indent like I did, I sent that part back. Not sure they sell tabletops like mine anymore.

Apenwarr shares thoughts on system design, career paths, products, and innovation versus disruption.

1) Flexispot standing desk & standing desk monitor arm

2) Wobble stool for the in-between standing and sitting height at my standing desk.

Between 1 & 2 my back health is so much better it is hard to believe. My old home office furniture was horrible. Best investment I made early in the 9+ months now working from home.

3) Elektron Model:Cycles FM Synth. Making happy bleep bloops.

4) Almost to the front of the line to order a Concept 2 Model D rowing machine to lose my 'covid 19' pounds I've gained whilst isolating - set to order on Dec 30.

Great book, I have a first edition.

There is a fairly direct successor I also have called The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells by Hans Meinhardt (Springer-Verlog 1995) which is also full of L-system goodness.

Przemysław Prusinkiewicz is also a contributor to that volume, although not being botany it doesn’t show up in the list linked above.

I predict, if this ever gets through, it will last one election. And then all the states whose electoral votes went to the candidate their state's majority did not support will vote for revoking the compact from their state laws, dropping the total back under 270.

More Linear Algebra plus Trig... trig won't teach you eigenvetors, normals, etc.

Ableton Live Suite. Started on 9, went to 10, I’m now beta testing 11. After adjusting / finding a workflow I really like it. Picked originally based on recommendations and compatibility with other members of my band. I have written Max4live plugins. Also written synths in NI Reaktor.

Had to be Win and Mac (some plaftform freedom) due to availability of highend VSTs I wanted and now have (FabFilter, Serum, Massive, etc).

I also use ChucK for some sample development programming.

Helped that I already played guitar and bass.

In the 10 yrs since turning 40 I’ve picked up audio engineering and full DAW programming and tooling for music. Been writing and mixing a lot. Have had a few tracks released on some label compilations, am working on a solo EP, and have a full-length album I’ve written part of and mixed all of with my band coming out in Feb. feels really, Really good.

Further, large trucks don’t travel on many roads, which are useful roads to people throughout suburban and rural areas. These roads need maintenance too, even if the wear is more from weather. As a car owner, one has to participate in maintenance of the system somehow.

Good to know, and I'm not surprised... that one reason I don't use them. Bait&switch, datacaps, and horrible customer service. Come to think of it, they are probably why the ballot measure was passed to start with.

I don't know, but I don't -- I'm paying $70 for phone and 60Mbps VDSL in a suburb of the Denver metro area from Centurylink.

That is on the high side for a connection in Denver -- I think you are overestimating costs.

I looked in a poorer neighborhood in Denver (700sq.ft. house), which is clearly close to fiber, and from Centurylink for $65/mo they can get 940Mbps, for $49/mo they can get 100Mbps.

Looks like for $20/month, xfinity will do 25Mbps at the same address.

This is an antibody test: i.e. have you already had covid.

You linked to a rapid test for "do I currently have covid" type check.

The lime helps the corn loosen its 'husk' as well... Nixtamalization also involves washing and husking the corn before grinding. The husk is the part that isn't digestible. More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization

I only read my own patents, painfully, to ensure the lawyers didn’t lose anything in the process of translating from engineer speak to patent lawyerese.

It is interesting to me that the same group isn’t up in arms about the many other works Spotify provides containing demeaning and abusive lyric content toward women and many others. I’ve never seen or heard Rogan, but it is hard to believe his stuff is as bad as many song lyrics already on Spotify for years.

In my opinion this makes these employees extremely hypocritical.

Louisville and Longmont, both in Boulder County, are also subject to this prohibition as is is a county-wide regulation.

In general, it seems like a good idea, but I worry...

Because PG&E is such an aging, unreliable electricity network I seriously worry about what this will mean for how people expect to reliably charge those cars in northern CA during the summers of rolling blackouts etc without huge amounts of infrastructure rebuild.

I'm using Excel from Office 365, and I'm not seeing "sluggishness" on mac (on an ancient 2009 iMac, 10.13 High Sierra). Not sure what version you're using.

I have a first edition Hennessy and Patterson textbook on the mips architecture from my early 90s college days which I used to write a mips emulator. They BOTH worked on it as original innovators, Hennessy for Mips in specific, Patterson for being a main innovator of RISC architecture to begin with. The pair won the 2017 Turing award for their respective contributions to RISC.

Nope. I personally run with this setting:

https://it.nmu.edu/docs/allowing-third-party-applications-in...

Amazingly it then lets me run all the open source I want that I download from the internet but am too lazy to build myself.

Pretty much all of them.

I’m 49. Already hit one funeral this week. 49 isn’t supposed to feel this old. :(

According to what I’ve read, the halon fire suppression was down for maintenance when the fire started.