Tag: skill-estate
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Preserved
Vintage.es has a feature on Port Washington, LI in the ’40s. Lots of interesting architecture, from old New England to the latest postwar houses with attached garages. This magnificent building especially caught my eye: A Studie dealer at 145 Main St, with a ’42 Champion in front. I couldn’t resist checking Googlestreet. Normally a downtown…
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Skills last forever, reasons don’t.
Two examples this week of the marvelous persistence of skill memory. 1. I got tired of 3d graphics and detoured into revising and expanding two old Windows programs. Both were originally done in 2002, recompiled but not revised in 2012. I haven’t done any C++ since 2014. The skill returned immediately after starting to read…
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This year’s yak-shaving
I tend to do the same things and think the same thoughts at the same time each year, without trying. Keeping a daily journal or worklog helps to spot these patterns. Right now I’m having fun shaving a yak. I started working on a 3d animatable waterfall spectrogram, extending the ‘live sine waves’ seen here.…
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Reprint on UNsolving
Speaking of leaders solving and unsolving problems, I managed to pull the subject together a few months ago then forgot. The endless torture chamber ruins focus, as I was saying IN this item. = = = = = START REPRINT: Humans want to solve problems. When a problem is important, we devote more attention to…
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Dust bowls and rice bowls
A surprising fact from the same Nov 33 issue of Electronics as the microwaved “bun sandwich”: More people than ever before live on the nation’s farms. Not only has the drift of farm boys and girls to the city been stopped, after thirty years of continuous growth of the city population at the expense of…
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Shrier’s speech
Abigail Shrier stated a simple obvious fact and got slammed by all the Cool People. She then tried to give a speech about her book at Princeton and had to give it in a private home with no cameras allowed. (But it’s worth remembering that she wasn’t jailed or officially punished, just socially punished.) Bari…
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