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I refuse to accept that the lack of spelling mistakes and the careful use of language is evidence of AI. I can be sloppy, but I've known Real Humans to take great care with their written language.

The Dick Smith Funway books were a gateway drug for this primary school nerd. They were so simple even a parent could participate. https://archive.org/details/dicksmithsfunwayintoelectronicsv...

And The Hollowmen, which is set in the Prime Minister's Office and is made by the same team.

I use an analogy with perfect pitch to illustrate colour-blindness to those with regular colour vision.

People with perfect pitch can be played a note on a piano, and identify it sight-unseen. "That's a C-sharp", they'll say confidently. Most others can tell if a note is higher or lower than another, or can pick an interval.

Regular colour vision is perfect pitch for colours. Most folks can identify a blue or a green in isolation, but some like me can only see relationships between colours (one is "bluer" or "greener" than another).

Could be Australian. But we also use "Seppo", from a fairly tortured rhyming slang etymology: "Yank" -> "Septic Tank" -> "Seppo".

> One of the stories I heard about the 50 is that if you threw it into the ocean it would sink intermittently.

Great computing joke, love it.

Agreed. I find the tabular format of Cooking for Engineers excellent for this (for example, at the bottom of this brownies recipe: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/158/Dark-Chocolate...).

Julia Child's classic (https://archive.org/details/JuliaChildMasteringTheArtOfFrenc...) does something similar in free-form.

I just finished a project that introduced features for both signal injection and signal extraction. So now we can enjoy both SIN and SEX, sometimes at the same time.

> Counter proof: since BC's 15% foreigner tax was implemented, has the Vancouver housing market cooled off? No. To the contrary, it has actually heated up even more. This indicates that the "illegal Chinese dirty money" that the wonderful local Vancouverites keep spouting is not, in fact, the driver of this growth. It's too bad because they are such an easy racial scapegoat, aren't they?

It could also be possible that the Chinese market for Vancouver houses is inelastic enough that the foreigner tax doesn't have teeth.

I'd suggest this is already occurring, given the uncertain purity and dosages associated with the supply of recreational drugs. Probably a fair amount of placebo-effect too!

> I think many many people would do MDMA every day.

It's generally accepted that tolerance to MDMA builds up, leading to a loss of 'magic'.

For example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15671132

You can improve the flow of congested traffic by keeping a gap in front and encouraging other drivers to merge [1]. There are some intuitive diagrams and animations in [2].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/one-driver-can-prevent-a-traffi...

[2] http://trafficwaves.org/

I do not undertake projects having an immediate or exclusive military application.

Beyond that, I pick and choose based on my gut.

Esoteric languages tend to play along that "so bad it's good" spectrum.

Your life journey reminds me of the parable of the Mexican fisherman: https://bemorewithless.com/the-story-of-the-mexican-fisherma... Enjoy your retirement!

Would you have a reference for that?

> they can do things like check power and water utility usage

About 5% of Melbourne's housing stock was recently found to be unoccupied, using water usage data. It was closer to 19% for investment properties.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-18/call-for-vacancy-tax-o...

Technically correct, the best type of correct.