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http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/01/the-detailed-toys-and-rare-collectibles-that-keep-watch-over-our-home-offices/
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Jan 14, 2018 21:30
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nerds bad
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Jan 14, 2018 22:08
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uh this owns????
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Jan 14, 2018 22:33
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My "home office" reflects my interests and sensibilities. It has a strong Victorian flavor, with a strong touch of steampunk tinkerer. Most of the furnishings are hand-crafted (most by me) with model sailing ships, Bonsai trees, arts and crafts things (like drawing and sculpting tools) in their cases ready for work. My computer is, sadly, perfectly modern. One of these days I may design a more suitably period case, and do something about the shiny plastic around my monitors (Maybe brass overlays?). My steampunk rifles are mounted on the wall and my steampunk outfit is hanging from an old-fashioned hat rack in the corner. Again, all of those are self-made. No action figures, I'm afraid. Not many books, either (my bookshelves look more like an apothecary shop than a library, with quills, dip pens, ink wells, pencils, pads, easels, wood tool cases, leather scraps, punches, and lots and lots of little jars with alcohol, oils, dyes, etc.). The ambiance is wood paneling, and the lighting is generally soft and low. Oddly, this is really the first time I've looked around and seen all of this in this context. None of this was consciously done. It just sort of happened over the years in an organic flow. It's not arranged, not really very organized (even if I know where most things are). I usually find my office space based on where I can put my 90 year old executive desk. (Oh, wait, it's 110 now, made in 1908. poo poo, time does fly.) The rest just sort of happened.
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Jan 14, 2018 22:36
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arse technica has three types of articles: 1) bitcoin good 2) musk good 3) i loving love science 4) adverticals about some new car and then very rarely an actual interesting one the internet sucks now
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Jan 15, 2018 00:51
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:arse technica has three types of articles: they have a hard on for private spaceflight, but most of that is spacex so i guess that fits under 2)
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Jan 15, 2018 00:52
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I edited that and added another type of article so pretend I wrote 4 types. or not, you do you!!
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Jan 15, 2018 00:53
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:you do you!! Needs another edit, get yourself together man!
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Jan 15, 2018 06:27
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obligatory mention of Peter bright eating his own semen on wetabix
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Jan 15, 2018 07:56
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i'm a twenty page explanation of every new and existing feature of a mobile operating system
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Jan 15, 2018 13:56
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DuckConference posted:obligatory mention of Peter bright eating his own semen on wetabix
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Jan 15, 2018 14:01
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Boiled Water posted:i'm a twenty page explanation of every new and existing feature of a mobile operating system mospos
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Jan 15, 2018 19:01
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Boiled Water posted:i'm a twenty page explanation of every new and existing feature of a mobile operating system i would buy a book of siracusas macos x reviews i actually wouldnt but i think theyre very cool
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Jan 15, 2018 19:26
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carry on then posted:they have a hard on for private spaceflight, but most of that is spacex so i guess that fits under 2) Eric Berger is an actual good journalist. Timothy B. Lee is back but not writing as interesting articles as he used to. their headline writers make a shitton of clickbait. Peter B is good at explaining. Their semiconductor articles in the past were complete trash, maybe they’re better now.
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Jan 27, 2018 03:42
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conde nasty
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Jan 27, 2018 03:43
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Hed posted:Peter B is good at beating off in weetabix before eating them.
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Jan 27, 2018 21:48
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i read a neat advertical about some new mazda engine design mazda needs to make a small awd hatchback already 
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Jan 28, 2018 03:13
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poty posted:My "home office" reflects my interests and sensibilities. It has a strong Victorian flavor, with a strong touch of steampunk tinkerer. Most of the furnishings are hand-crafted (most by me) with model sailing ships, Bonsai trees, arts and crafts things (like drawing and sculpting tools) in their cases ready for work. Doctorow?
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Jan 29, 2018 06:50
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Boiled Water posted:i'm a twenty page explanation of every new and existing feature of a mobile operating system this isn't the android megathread
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Jan 29, 2018 09:49
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i want his job
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Jan 29, 2018 10:08
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What's a good science and tech blog?
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Jan 29, 2018 11:22
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lancemantis posted:Doctorow? idk he always mentions his linux distro with any mention of his laptop so
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Jan 29, 2018 13:49
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echinopsis posted:i want his job you want to review telephones all day?
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Jan 29, 2018 14:55
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Endless Mike posted:you want to review telephones all day? i think he also goes to apple events and rolls his eyes a lot while taking the pictures
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Jan 29, 2018 14:58
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Endless Mike posted:you want to review telephones all day? bing bing bing bing bing bing catastrophone
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Jan 29, 2018 16:31
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Captain Foo posted:bing bing bing bing bing bing catastrophone
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Jan 29, 2018 17:23
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arse means butt haha
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Jan 29, 2018 18:29
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Silver Alicorn posted:arse means butt haha yeah that's where all their
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Jan 29, 2018 19:02
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weetabix
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Jan 29, 2018 19:07
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What happened to the guy who wrote this? I wish they had a second edition, but they don't. 
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Jan 29, 2018 19:11
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Surprise Giraffe posted:What's a good science and tech blog? wired is ok
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Jan 29, 2018 20:28
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poty posted:wired is ok not really fam, at least not any more
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Jan 29, 2018 20:46
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Captain Foo posted:bing bing bing bing bing bing catastrophone
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Jan 29, 2018 20:56
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Silver Alicorn posted:arse means butt haha
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Jan 29, 2018 21:02
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Surprise Giraffe posted:What's a good science and tech blog? no. academic journals, or blogs who post that level of material, on topics that interest you. general tech and sci journalism is vvvv bad
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Jan 29, 2018 21:20
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a long time ago i worked at a university, and they usually had the journal "Science" laying out as lobby reading material. a lot of it went a mile over my head but it was p. interesting stuff
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Jan 29, 2018 21:24
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yeh. science and nature are the big gorillas -- though the papers are over the layperson's head (by intention), that's the Realest Science there is. read the abstracts and don't sweat the rest scientific american is also pretty good if you're into a more pop-culture science thing (right now the headlining article on their site is why dogs eat poop). MIT technology review is decent but they've got a lot of fart-huffing stuff about disruption and innovation and business poo poo too. there are no good mass-market "tech" publications. Popular Science is the closest you'd get to that and it's still full of articles about fighter jet laser guns and ads for sex pheromones. Popular Mechanics is worse. everything else is just lifestyle advertising glued together with college-intern-level copywriting if you want to read about new developments in a specific field of tech, read the relevant journals or look at the conference proceedings. start with the ACM and IEEE digital libraries, for instance
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Jan 29, 2018 21:42
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how was byte, comparatively? i mean, aside from the columns that someone described as "jerry pournelle's computers don't work"
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like, here. instead of looking at articles written by video gamers or graphics card companies talking about how lifelike the jiggle physics are in boob raider 2018, watch the siggraph paper demo reels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YvIHREdVX4
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