AceyMan

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by AceyMan 3y ago
And, should you check such a file into a git repo, you won't be able to clone it on Windows. With that in mind I would encourage never doing so (and makes me wish git had a filter to prevent it in the first place or at least provide a
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by AceyMan 3y ago
At this stage of the game, I seriously have to ask: is retaining the type rating actually a money-saver for the carriers? I mean, airlines obtain new types all the time and pilots get trained to fly them. If it were so onerous, selling ne
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by AceyMan 3y ago
This, 200%. I can't think of anyone other than the most archetypal ditz (think, 'Friends' character, Phoebe) who would conflate the idea of the rubber part that touches the ground with the metal or other hard material the
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by AceyMan 3y ago
"Powered tools such as leaf blowers make them 'The Pickleball of Gardening'" seems like a good way to put it :-P
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by AceyMan 3y ago
Anytime you have an improvised fitting, eyestrain results. Long term eyestrain is deleterious to your vision. QED.
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by AceyMan 3y ago
The FAA / Aircraft Manufacturer relationship has been oft criticized in the past several decades as being a canonical example of 'regulatory capture.'¹ This incident is just more grist for the mill. ¹– https://en.wi
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by AceyMan 3y ago
Is the upshot, then, that we can steer the arguably horrible course of capitalism by changes in the tax code? Sounds like a plan to me. (Oh, wait, because lobbying. NM.) [Yes, I'm a yankee.]
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by AceyMan 3y ago
Bronson said what is intended with my now deleted post. And considering the landfills that are filled with things that replaced "expensive" goods like a Bell phone—maybe the tradeoff isn't worth it? I doubt any consumers then
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by AceyMan 3y ago
What is an "EU novel"? Kagi & urbandictionary are no help. (I'm going out on a limb and guess it's not the European Union.)
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by AceyMan 3y ago
ICAO standard prescribes "fower" as four (making it two syllables), as well as all the others that have been cited (tree/three, fife/five, niner/nine).
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by AceyMan 3y ago
Puretext is a free UWP app in the Microsoft Store for format stripping. The author is/was a MSFT dev, iirc. With it installed, WIN+V does a format_clear() paste.
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by AceyMan 3y ago
I read it as the thickness of the deck of bills (thousands or more) so if they are 20s or 100s, that's be some serious funding.
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by AceyMan 3y ago
Relying on Slack history is living dangerously. Viz., your org gets swallowed (or, is already a cog in a bigger enterprise) and Infosec/CISO starts to truncate all histories past NN days.
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by AceyMan 3y ago
nVidia should find a way into this list in all honesty. MANMAA, anyone?
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by AceyMan 3y ago
Major Major Lesson learned in the trenches. Business offices cut their chilled water supply back to minimums (or nothing) over holiday weekends & breaks. If you're running a server closet, even if you have a dedicated Liebert HVAC,
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by AceyMan 3y ago
In my experience, the typical picnic table sized open-plan/hotdesk furniture usually seats six (three per long side) so, in practice, six people seems like the most common group sizing.
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by AceyMan 3y ago
When I first got my own place I scored a Litton (!) from a thrift store with the same layout. It must have weighed 20 kilos; the thing was a tank.
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by AceyMan 3y ago
I begin with AGILE quite often, it's an 'anti-word' (? XOR word) that works about as well as the famous starter words.
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by AceyMan 3y ago
for those who didn't know what is RAG offhand (like me), https://research.ibm.com/blog/retrieval-augmented-generation...
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by AceyMan 3y ago
Why do we call them "baby names"; they're given names —a person will be using it their entire life—they just so happen to be chosen at birth. Expecting parents and their inner circle are always discussing 'cute baby nam
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by AceyMan 3y ago
from TFA, the current vendor link: https://www.sumologic.com/security-response-center/#eede153a...
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Sumo Logic discloses potential breach via compromised AWS credential(helpnetsecurity.com)
3 points by AceyMan 3y ago|1 comments
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by AceyMan 3y ago
as a Pixel 4a owner myself, I was caught off-guard a bit that updates were EOL this fall "already"—the past three years have really flown by. While I'd always previously driven either a pre-owned model or a new, on-production
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Lithium Comes from Exploding Stars (2020)(nasa.gov)
4 points by AceyMan 3y ago|0 comments
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by AceyMan 3y ago
I enjoyed Grammarly and I'm sure they enjoyed mapping my prose for training purposes. When I began to consistently compose 1000+ word passages, all while never triggering a red squiggle, I realized I'd gotten everything I needed f
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by AceyMan 3y ago
Looking at the landing page it appears they are aligning the product with the Diataxis framework (web: Diataxis.fr). I see that as a good thing.
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by AceyMan 3y ago
What about pickles? Do pickles fit into the nutrition profile we're looking at (Please, think of the pickles.)
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by AceyMan 3y ago
The syntax is different and I don't remember who compiles the binaries, but as a primarily Windows sysadmin, tcping is literally the first thing I put in my %PATH% on a new jumpbox; even ahead of dig, believe it or not. (After that it&
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by AceyMan 3y ago
I don't have any cats atm, but my BFF does. I brought over some circular placemats and set a couple on the floor and the large ottoman that sits in front of the sofas. After a few hours you can guess what had happened.
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by AceyMan 3y ago
The SR-71 is smaller than you'd think ([edit] to my eyeballs, at least). As far as fuel goes (a) in a three-dimensional object, "volume adds up fast," and (b) aerial refueling. (p.s. My dad was a US Navy pilot in the early

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