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Golden Geek + interoperability maven Dennis E. Hamilton
Seattle, WA 98116, USA
Joined May 2008
RT @vardi: We hate printers as much as you do. Printer Week is here to help. https://t.co/wEVZHTQstQ [ What! I thought computers are peripherals to printers so we can make beautiful marks on paper. ]
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The Help Desk’s series of stories and investigations into the state of printers is happening July 10 to 14.
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RT @orcmid: #Reagonomics was a bankrupt economic notion, and yet someone thought it a good idea to coin #Bidenomics with no economic notion whatsoever? Sloganeering over substance. Terrific. This will not age well.
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Reagonomics was a bankrupt economic notion, and yet someone thought it a good idea to coin Bidenopmics with no economic notion whatsoever?
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RT @TheOfficialACM: #OTD in 1956, @MIT 's Whirlwind computer became the first to allow its user to enter commands through a keyboard, {Uhh, https://t.co/SjD27KjkLD ]
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RT @orcmid: RT @S_Stantcheva: . A thread diving into the intriguing history of the General Property. [You need to have a normalized GDP though, since that ~1930 spike was in the Great Depression :). PS: Or just overlay GDP with its own scale.
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RT @S_Stantcheva: . A thread diving into the intriguing history of the General Property. [You need to have a normalized GDP though, since that ~1930 spike was in the Great Depression :).
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RT @JL202X: @orcmid @GeorgeLakoff ... If, by chance, you’re referring to them actually living by Jesus’ teachings, well then I’d have to say it probably shouldn't even be on the list, lol. [Precisely]
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When I was 8, my private christian school used test scores to place kids into a special gifted program. I was the only third-grader to qualify for it at my majority-white school. My white peers complained. The program never ran again after that year. It's never about "merit".
I’m thinking about the person who told me that when we were kids their mom would punish them whenever I placed higher than them at an orchestra audition. It didn’t matter that I had been playing longer or that I was more skilled. They should have at least beaten the Black kid.
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RT @jeroenhjanssens: I just learned about the expression "zero, zilch, zip, nada" and now I finally know where "NA" comes from. [or "Not Applicable", as here?]
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It is “big decisions” week at the U.S. Supreme Court. While most people have an opinion about how the Court is handling its job, the details are often obscure to a substantial share of the public. This week’s decisions will come as surprises to many. https://t.co/DDINehkCER
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Yeah, my mom and dad's interracial marriage was illegal until I was a year old and then--later--they struggled to buy a home in their Long Island community because people didn't want to sell to a Black lady. Good times!
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Logic is great for theorems but works less well for people, especially in negotiations. https://t.co/RQ9XcrymBB
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In my view this was key moment in CNN history. Jake Tapper speaking (on set with with Berman and Keilar, May 4 2021): https://t.co/gUoYiKKcxm "If they're willing to lie [about] the election, what are they not willing to lie about? Why should I put any of them on TV?"
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@sepehrvakil @fmanjoo I wrote a few pieces on this topic: https://t.co/Md5OPxHmHg
https://t.co/4gwFc5uDZf TLDR: Some things will change, but most of it won’t, and some changes will be good, some will be bad.
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Most that know me well know that I have a bit of a contrarian streak. I’m always interested in taking the other side of a debate. I…
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It's been a while since I tried to write an end-user facing program. I'm realizing my pain point is error-handling. Not that I'm bad at it; rather, I'm *really* good at thinking about *all* the things that can go wrong. This is painful to track, painful to code, and not much fun.
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The most harmful consequence of Higher Ed’s failure to adopt the public good as its core value is the concomitant failure to transmit that value to students.
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and Higher Ed for the Public Good
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Meta statement on the California Journalism Preservation Act.
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Ina Schaefer and her group's work on #CorrectnessByConstruction builds on work by Edsger W. Dijkstra and is book, "A Discipline of Programming." #ACMTechTalk
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