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The Omnibus Project (Ken Jennings and John Roderick) did a podcast on this back in June: https://www.omnibusproject.com/episodes/the-western-washingt...

Just ran into the fiddlyness of crosstab this week attempting to extend an existing query that used it. I ended up converting the query to use filters instead, which was a failure …

"Asking for a friend." I kid. If it were to come down to a single person, that's really a failure of the whole organization system and not of the individual. This apocryphal [1] pu…

The gem of this article is: "Messages that are difficult to process are less compelling." The best thing we can do when communicating is make it easy -- in both message and medium …

I wish I knew! I'm not in the field, and while I was close with this professor back in school we haven't kept in touch. The paper doesn't seem well cited, but I'm not sure what wel…

Along those lines, I had a college professor who had just published a paper (now 25 years old?) talking about why "the 20 amino acids." He was equal parts bombastic and brilliant, …

Came here to say this. This video of his really opened my eyes to what Blender can do ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY8Ol2n4o4A ) and makes a cool entry point into that world.

Same. I come from a long line of prematurely gray haired folks. I'm 42 and my hair and beard are almost entirely white. I definitely have a problem with stress, though given the nu…

Douglas Adams: "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/250456-anyone-who-is-cap…

I really enjoyed this. I'm not a shooter, but it's hard not to be excited by the analysis you've done. I learned a ton.

What about Kotlin? (Or were you thinking of avoiding all JVM languages?) We're very happy using it to power our server-side services.

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As the saying goes, "old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill." (I tried to find a citation, but the googles were less than helpful.)

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Reminds of the "Seven Minutes of Terror" video that NASA put out ahead of the Curiosity landing explaining how they intended to make it safely to the surface. https://www.youtube.c…

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This gets posted here every so often, and it's a great resource. I felt like I understood Markov Chains before I read it originally, but being able to see them visually was a real …

> As simple as possible, as flexible as necessary. That really resonates with me.

Lemans Corporation | Madison, WI | Full-Time | On-Site Lemans is looking for world-class engineers to be part of a new team that will amplify and build on our forty year success st…

I recently unlinked all my Dropbox sessions that were older than one month, which was a staggeringly high number to tell the truth. It would have been nice (and faster!) to have ha…

Wow: "If you have to ask, you're doing it wrong." This is a ridiculous statement. First, pedantically, they're the same words you used initially so they're not really "other words.…

... and then, in all likelihood, a murder.

Yup, my two kids here watched with me. Afterwards we talked about how difficult it is to do some things in life, and how we should keep trying even when things don't go our way.

> Nowadays, running out of coffee capsules (for example) still requires some interaction, via your phone or your laptop. Just taking a moment to enjoy that the above quote would ha…