The book opens with a passage about an Assistant Secretary of State named Helen Abel and she's simply having a little problem with her calendar. So let me read the first chapter to you. I've truncated it a bit."Helen Abel, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, looked gradually into the distance from a 17th century chateau. She visually traced the sandy avenue that
The viewport's there. The whole thickness is about seven inches and the viewport is about seven inches made out of acrylic plastic. A truncated cone. In other words the inner surface was very small, almost one eyeball. The outer surface was several inches across.
Another thing that-- I love this quote-- another thing that successful active managers don't pay We've truncated it here for ease of looking at it.
that his father told him when he was a child; the things about Pythagoras in particular. And again I've truncated the, the chapter somewhat here. "Outside of the two crowded tourist seasons—midsummer, and a space of two weeks around the peak of the fall foliage—Dorington was a picture-book specimen of rural New England. Even as natives
And we never got them back. We just started living with these truncated , stripped down rituals, which now, in dominant white culture, really focus around the death itself and a little bit after, meaning the preparation for the funeral, the funeral, the memorial service, and if you do a celebration of life a week or a month
It looked like a Lahori publication of a book. And this article was a truncated article from a report from actually a paper I'd written in law school about Blackwater and private military firms in Iraq.
When you're in a super remote location, and there's like nobody around like 20 miles around except maybe the person that you're with. And things start to really get close and truncated and you feel like if you're going to break an ankle, you're just going to die out there. So a lot of these locations were like that.
for interventions from bosses and clients and customers and even competitors and it's, it's not something that you have discretion over. So, attention is getting truncated , but it's also getting elongated in this world. This is great age of, of amateur experts. If you want to get a, a, an experts gain and expertise in a subject that you didn't care about a year ago, a week ago, or a month ago, you can do it now, thanks to the wonderful tools and the wonderful content that's available
bacon and Galileo and others he was when one of the ironies in his life you know historical figures all get kind of um uh truncated that gets shortened into little boxes of you know a couple of sentences that we know this is how we know George Washington or whoever uh and
We've been doing fine for the last however many years. It should refer to all those whose civil rights have been violated or truncated by this country, within this country.
Yes, completely. What is really blowing my mind, though, is remembering the "Dear Evan Hansen" stage door and the "Be More Chill" stage door He's hot. I guess that's the shorter-- --a truncated way to describe him.
But I was remarking that, in a lot of ways, I saw Justin's independent spirit come out in this. I mean, he just described that he had a truncated time frame. And they went in and he had to start making decisions without having a completed script.
And if they match, you're good. And the protocol makes it possible to do this by allowing you to use a short truncated hash because it does hash commitment in the protocol. Instead of just truncating the hash of the session keys, it makes it so that it's possible to use a truncated hash without a birthday attack
And the protocol makes it possible to do this by allowing you to use a short truncated hash because it does hash commitment in the protocol. Instead of just truncating the hash of the session keys, it makes it so that it's possible to use a truncated hash without a birthday attack by a highly resourceful attacker that could sit there and perform a lot of parallel calculations to try to force a match of the first 16 bits of the hash.
That's the normal one. And that's mine. And those branches, you can see they've been truncated there on that rendering, they actually go all over the brain. So I basically have got a search engine-- it's a lot like Google for images-- where you type in keywords and I get lots of pictures.
And it went great for like a day. We all know what national identity is on a global scale, that countries are misrepresented and misunderstood constantly in our world and truncated to
into a situation where, you know, when I was working at a company that was public and it was during the Internet start up. The decisions became more about how do you make those quarterly numbers and less about what's the long-term value. And so, those decisions get truncated and a lot of times they start making -- and I'm guilty of this as well -- start making decisions that are good for what's going to happen in the next month but horrible for
is actually changing in two directions in this environment. The most obvious one, an-, and the one that gets the most cultural commentary is, is it's getting truncated . Multitasking has now collapsed. Lots a-, lots of people's attention into short, little snack type bites and there's less deliberate, purposeful, long-term engagement with content than before.