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"when you ask him anything, he never answers 'no' -- he just yesses you to death and then he takes your dough"

No "level set"?? Booo

Miles Davis, 1953: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HJEfofdhwpc

Just this morning when I couldn't sleep I was reading the Wikipedia E-M algorithm page with its illustration of clustering the bimodal eruption distribution of Old Faithful: https:…

I've always loved Penn Jilette's account of attending a space shuttle launch: https://web.archive.org/web/20221026023636/https://www.tumbl...

> Decisions should be made by those with the best information. Sounds a lot like the Chevron Deference doctrine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820949

Obligatory link to "The Really Big One" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...

Reminds me a little of hammock-driven development [1] > the background mind is good at synthesizing things. It's good about strategy [1] https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcrip…

PSA tests are easy and cheap enough that any concerning single result should be followed up with several more to see if there's an increasing / accelerating trend. An elevated but …

The story of Daniel killing the dragon with hair cakes is also pretty good: https://biblehub.com/catholic/daniel/14-26.htm

Ha I did the same thing after that apple was on our fridge a few days. I wondered "how does it know which letter tile is inserted?" Looked at the back of a couple of the tiles, sur…

git diff-tree [1] is also super helpful. I've use it a lot to ensure the codebase after a complex rebase is in an identical state as before. [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff-t…

"Sand is one of our most widely used natural resources, but it’s scarcer than you think." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-world-is-r...

I had heard of this before.. >Sergey [Brin] wrote an app that lets you throw phone up in the air, measure how many seconds until you catch it or it hits the floor. https://www.busi…

Still remember seeing the first episode of Æon Flux on late night MTV when I was 13. Good stuff

Similar in spirit to the `until` loop.

I think it's the certain markets that determine how useful CL is--I'm also in LA. I've mainly dealt in furniture & electronics, and CL in other cities, particularly Minneapolis, wa…

Reliance on the federal government, by state: https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal...

I agree. The same problem (different devs with different settings) is solved by specifying line endings in per-repo .gitattributes files instead of global autocrlf settings. And we…

GMV | Senior Engineer | Los Angeles / Houston | Hybrid or Full Remote GMV Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) North America is a small group within GMV and a leading ITS provi…

> I refused to believe Wordle would be so evil as to have two repeated letters. I remember VIVID which was pretty tough.

Payphones are still a thing in northeast LA. It's incredible. Most have been vandalized or destroyed but many still work. See https://www.instagram.com/payphonesoflosangeles/