CharleFKane

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by CharleFKane 3y ago
People realized it was the Internet of Stupid Broken Things and decided it wasn’t worth the trouble.
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
The car warranty people always hang up on me when I tell them I want an extended warranty… …on my 1909 Stanley Steamer.
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
I thought this was a pretty smart take on the whole “got fentanyl on my skin” issue, by a retired law enforcement officer: https://thelawdogfiles.com/2023/05/fentanyl-and-you.html
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
You might check out John McPhee’s The Curve of Binding Energy , a non-fiction book. There’s a lot of stuff in there about how his interview subject (a former nuclear weapons designer) would approach the problem of designing an improvised n
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
With all due respect to the late Dr. Lucas, the prize is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. It was not one of the prizes established by Nobel in his will. This prize was created in 1968. It is not a
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
https://jvns.ca/ https://zombo.com/
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
I enjoy the Wambaugh I’ve read, but I had some issues with this article. Version_five is right about Martin Beck. (I wouldn’t count Maigret or Chandler as “police procedurals”.) Also on the list and predating Wambaugh: Ed McBain’s “87th Pre
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
"Some overweight Trump fan in the middle of Arkansas or Montana with an AR-15 has no chance against a single 5th gen Fighter, let alone an entire military with nuclear weapons, and a whole range of classified weaponry that us citizens
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
“… there's a reason you don't see gun control advocates arguing for banning single-shot hunting rifles or basic handguns.” Actually, you do see that. “Single-shot hunting rifles” are “sniper weapons”. Handgun bans have been advoca
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by CharleFKane 4y ago
I got introduced to this by way of Derek Lowe's blog: https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline and I really enjoyed it. The same site also has a PDF version of "Ignition!" which is both darn interesting an
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by CharleFKane 4y ago
The prize is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. It was not one of the prizes established by Nobel in his will. This prize was created in 1968. It is not a Nobel Prize. It is wrong and misleading to c
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by CharleFKane 4y ago
The reports I have seen (for example, from the AP) say it was a Bersa (a company based in Argentina), not a Taurus.
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by CharleFKane 4y ago
Pulled the wrong drive out of a RAID.
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by CharleFKane 4y ago
No. I deleted my account and stopped using all Stack Overflow sites after the Monica Cellio issue.
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by CharleFKane 4y ago
And to kind of tie several things together at once: The podcaster Simon Majumdar recently did an interview with Jacques Pepin. https://www.eatmyglobe.com/season-8/jacquespepin During that interview, he mentioned that,
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by CharleFKane 4y ago
“Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.” ==H.D. Thoreau
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by CharleFKane 4y ago
Berton Roueché was an extremely underappreciated writer. Thank you for posting this.
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by CharleFKane 4y ago
Julia Evans - https://jvns.ca/ Rachel By the Bay - https://rachelbythebay.com/ Monica Cellio - https://cellio.dreamwidth.org Mark Dominus - https://blog.plover.com/ Morlock Pub
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by CharleFKane 5y ago
I’d like to decide who lives and who dies. Second choice: philosopher king.
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by CharleFKane 5y ago
Alternative link: https://archive.is/RwCx6 Previous HN coverage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996333
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Dutch Publisher Apologizes over Disputed Anne Frank Book(nytimes.com)
1 points by CharleFKane 5y ago|1 comments
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by CharleFKane 5y ago
I would like to thank the author for bringing back memories. Not all of which are good... (I used to work for a four letter computer corporation doing enterprise technical support, mostly on tape-based products.)
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by CharleFKane 5y ago
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by apps, ADHD hysterical naked, swiping through the Internet streets at dawn looking for an anger fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for ancient heavenly upvotes from the starry dynamo in the m
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by CharleFKane 5y ago
So what I hear you saying is that you'll do anything for love...but you won't do that?
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by CharleFKane 5y ago
There was a presentation at DEFCON 25 (2017) by someone who obtained one of the then available smart guns and defeated it with $15 worth of common magnets. Here's a video of the presentation from YouTube: https://www.youtube
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by CharleFKane 5y ago
The answer I really want to give, but which isn't very helpful, is: go to a bookstore or to Amazon, find something that looks interesting to you, and buy it. Don't worry about buying the right book at the right time, or if you&#x2
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by CharleFKane 5y ago
I’m going to name several, as I have odd tastes. I hope there is at least one here that someone will enjoy. “A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome”, Emma Southon “How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Chang
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by CharleFKane 5y ago
“ But in my organization (military) it is normal for the more senior people to work those shifts.” I remember reading a story about Jim Mattis (back before he was famous). A fellow general showed up, found Gen. Mattis was the duty officer o
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by CharleFKane 5y ago
That’s a tough call. Two of the best were: * a moped when I was 14 (if I remember right). I told that story on my personal blog a while back and am not sure it is kosher to link here. * a camera (specifically, a Pentax K-1000) a couple of y
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by CharleFKane 5y ago
Good! Death to the vile emulsion!

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