Alan_Dillman

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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
A different type of whale eat squid. The baleen combs of baleen whales is unsuited for chewing squidy bits. Rusty ships are avoided, some of the iron is molecularly bonded to other metals and minerals, and rust from ships will sink immediat
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Added to correlational hints as to my location, it would clarify six of ten digits of my phone number. There are probably other clever ways to skeeve the other four, and I cannot say for certain if some digits of those other four are situat
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
I think so Brain, but what about the other letters? Narf!
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Yeah its funny how experiences differ. I was at my parents,and wanted to sketch out something for my dad. So I grabbed my mom's win10 laptop, went to the blender download location, downloaded, double clicked, got a popup about updates.
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
There is no reason one cannot thot and do something else. Many of them seem to be enrolled in advanced education. Likewise, a good thot income can fund a future, either going to school at 30, when you have a much better idea of who you are,
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Our hands are like beaks to some hypothetical species, and it is hubris to assume we're great manipulators. Our fingers could be closer in utility to cow's hooves, than the manipulation techniques of some unknown species are to o
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
I think you could bear another watch yourself, and a little less negativity. The rear side panels are hinged on top, so they can be raised to the sun while the tuk is stationary. As well, in the back, on the roof is clearly another panel. Y
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
The RS ones sucked, and it was better bang for your buck to just get a load of calculators for a dollar each... at the dollar store.
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
But that'll put The Guardian out of business!
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
"Also consider a human's environment. That environment is not well suited for being able to build lots of things. How do you get to the <untranslatable> age on earth?" Earlier, you mentioned that beaks can't make s
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by Alan_Dillman 7y ago
Nope. The bone beds at the base of "Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump" are meters thick. 13 I want to say? The plains tribes of the area were running huge herds off there for a very very long time. >The buffalo jump was used for 5,5
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by Alan_Dillman 8y ago
Thank you for teaching me this. It seems there are a whole bunch `!gm search term` will access google maps for instance.
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by Alan_Dillman 8y ago
"One finger even or my nose if I have to. A double click does it. A GUI where I can see all the options, select them, apply and run. So...human." Blech. Do you remember when games like Leisure Suit Larry went from text input to &q
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by Alan_Dillman 8y ago
Precisely. The Linux community was/is a movement of people who do not want one size fits all. People who do not want a dictated experience. People who trumpet a unified Linux experience expect the river to somehow flow backwards.
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by Alan_Dillman 8y ago
The essayist doesn't but Vimes world character arc requires that he see the issue in black and white, top and bottom. I'm sure that was an allusion by Prachett: you're not supposed to think like Vimes. His books always have l
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by Alan_Dillman 8y ago
The thing I don't like about Vime's theory is that it postulates only two price points. That being said, I buy 200 dollar boots.
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by Alan_Dillman 8y ago
>convoluted web of big telecom corporations who are battling with each other to ensure that all users are losers by wantonly Balkanizing all our culture's media. No doubt, right? I want to watch a Canadian artist sing a song about C
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by Alan_Dillman 8y ago
>now we were having to look through multiple copies of the same file only to determine they were all duplicates and so forth. That sounds like a old fashioned ways in front of a problem, and in front of a solution. There are multiple aut
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by Alan_Dillman 8y ago
No friggin way. Only having one user interface is what drove me away from Windows. I'm not alone in my desire to have things my way, and to meddle with everything. Every time someone rolls out a new distro, a new package manager, or ju
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by Alan_Dillman 8y ago
Conky is great. For someone starting out in customising their desktop, Conky goes a long way. I used it for years till I started writing my own widgets. I was using Conky for a todo list on my second monitor, then I added another more speci
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by Alan_Dillman 8y ago
I have early memories of a non verbal world, and in it, objects were not discrete. There were visually distinct elements, such things on the walls, and the walls themselves, but I had no concept of them being separate, or having names, or n
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by Alan_Dillman 8y ago
Agreed, though they were not serfs in the case of my family/ethnic group. Rather, they were Germans(and some others) who colonized southern Russia, and were called the Volga Germans. In other ways you are correct: their lives and prope
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by Alan_Dillman 8y ago
Climatic and geographic familiarity is a big thing. My ancestors left the Russian Steppes and ended up in Kansas, by all accounts a much nicer place. They left anyway, and homesteaded in an area of Canada that is quite similar to the terrai
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by Alan_Dillman 8y ago
I used to be in vending. For bills and coins, I count by object, not denomination. Then multiply total by denomination. For counting large numbers of bills, I like creating stacks of 20. Then I count the number of stacks. After that I make
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by Alan_Dillman 8y ago
That Redhat commercial was right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE00uo3o_MU
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by Alan_Dillman 9y ago
Whats to prevent him? Remove him from development teams,remove his code from sources, and decline his contributions in future. Follow his activities(news about law suits are followed by FSF and GNU anyway) and contact litigators to inform t
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by Alan_Dillman 9y ago
You replied to a comment that presented a situation where a valid card was not needed at all.
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by Alan_Dillman 9y ago
>should we continue to subsidize childbirth as the economic value of a citizen tails off? Why spend money educating people who will never enter the labor force? What happens to immigration when immigrants statistically no longer provide
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by Alan_Dillman 9y ago
Yeah, that would have been great.
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by Alan_Dillman 9y ago
What bugged me was the creation of the server centers. "start building a series of massive computer facilities around the world" The AI can be quick as a wink designing these things, but the supply chains for huge buildings takes

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