BooneJS

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   by BooneJS 7y ago

   I too struggle to get the card out of my thin folder. I had to remove a few seldom-used cards because I couldn’t get the card out.
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   by BooneJS 7y ago

   Disney’s Animal Kingdom uses these in the Kilimanjaro Safaris ride.
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   by BooneJS 7y ago

   Ironically, I thought the email from Canon was a hoax and didn’t open it yet. I’ve got some patching to do today.
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   by BooneJS 7y ago

   They were legally taking over parental rights which made them eligible for enrollment as residents for all 4 years. This wasn’t an exchange.
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   by BooneJS 7y ago

   I remember foreign exchange students coming for a year, and they were never adopted by the host family. I guess the Midwest was different than your experience.
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   by BooneJS 7y ago

   Our son used to go to a HS in the east bay where foreign nationals would pay residents of the high school to essentially adopt their kid so they could enroll, take every AP and Honors class possible, and get into a UC campus. It’s crazy. We
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   by BooneJS 7y ago

   I started buying audiobooks during my time in the Bay Area with round trip daily commutes of 2.5 hours. Now I’m in a car for just over 3 hours a week and I’d rather lounge around with my e-ink Kindle.
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   by BooneJS 7y ago

   Back when he was at Intel, our companies did some co-development.
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   by BooneJS 7y ago

   Mike’s a really sharp guy.
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    We’re going to parachute into flyover country. Life will be good!
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    Not interested in waiting. We’re moving out of the Bay Area next week.
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    We watched this doc on Netflix the other day. It’s a combination of sad and disgusting. https://www.netflix.com/title/80164032
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    I’m quite certain that any US state’s department of natural resources would take great exception to diversion of streams.
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    No one I know has their crops in yet. It’s going to be a mess.
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    And the Q-Logic IB business.
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    Unless you’re TSMC, Samsung, Global Foundries, or Chartered, you’re fabless. Apple, Nvidia, Qualcomm, AMD, and many others are doing ok as fabless companies.
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    They’re fabless.
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    Not since Black Widow. It’s only been custom hardware interconnects since 2008 or so.
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    IBM had to sell a Cray computer to NOAA after they sold their server line to Lenovo. https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/noaa-announces-significan...
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    They’re coming back after selling it to Lenovo.
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    Did I miss seeing anything where they factor in kids with anxiety or other mental issues that make school overly challenging?
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    There’s tales of Bay Area families renting and moving their HS juniors and seniors to the Central Valley where UC accepts a higher percentage from.
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    That killed my brother’s English setter. Poor thing wasted away to nothing.
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    Looks like Frontier will use Cray’s Slingshot network. https://www.cray.com/products/computing/slingshot https://www.anandtech.com/show/14302/us-dept-of-energy-annou...
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    Looks great! Our house is about a month from being finished, but I would have loved mocking up our house as we discussed it.
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    TensorFlow has a StatusOr C++ class that allows functions to return a value that can be first checked to be result.ok() (no error), and then the actual value can be unwrapped. It’s Google’s way of not using exceptions. https://gi
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    It wasn’t “free” in terms of money. Neither were the tires that came with my car. It’s also not free in terms of time spent thinking about them. Like all dongles, I have to remember to bring them wherever I go in case I need them. They’re a
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    by BooneJS 8y ago

    I used that 43UD79-b monitor for over 2 years at work. It was too big to actively use it all, but I had a cheap window manager for macOS that could snap windows to squares. The upper squares and far right/left squares would hold docs o
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    by BooneJS 8y ago

    Goruck GR1. I’ve used it daily for over 5 years, including as my only bag for multiple business trips to India and all across the US. I bought Gorucks for my kids as they were wearing out backpacks every year.
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    by BooneJS 8y ago

    It’s a joke.