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by DrScump 7y ago
I loved Shobol4! When I learned it as part of a survey-of-languages class in college (on an IBM mainframe), it was well before I had exposure to the UNIX/C/awk/regexp world, so its pattern-matching powers were a revelation.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Original submit, 360+ points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4128208
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I would always pick the most valuable to me side Of course, when you know nothing about the would-be victims. But on a pure numbers theoretical basis, you autodrive veers out away from the three killers fleeing police by driving on
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by DrScump 7y ago
Let's say your autodrive system replaces 100,000 driver-hours. Let's say those driver-hours would have resulted in 3 deaths of others (in vehicles or pedestrians) but your autodrive results in 1 different death (which wouldn'
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by DrScump 7y ago
John "Jack" Minnick, higher math professor at De Anza College and author of multiple higher math texts. I had to take the calculus sequence for my later B.S. in C.S. requirements. I entered Calculus I with some trepidation, but he
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by DrScump 7y ago
What conceptual model are you using? Where I used to work, we wanted a process by which problems, or apparent problems, with products could be submitted by anybody in the company with any sort of a technical nexus, including technical sup
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by DrScump 7y ago
This reminds me of a story arc on "Hill St. Blues" where LaRue comes across a great stand-up comic and invests in his management... only to find that his full name is "Vic Hitler"... and further finds that Vic had made h
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by DrScump 7y ago
Then in the 1980s, IBM came out with the 3800 laser printer, which was just insane for the time -- continuous form printing at speed, like a newspaper printing press. I got to operate them (my department had two).
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by DrScump 7y ago
Just another daily collection of Amazon affiliate links with no added content (tag=mostrecommendedbooks-20). reply
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by DrScump 7y ago
Just another daily collection of Amazon affiliate links with no added content (tag=mostrecommendedbooks-20). reply
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by DrScump 7y ago
Was cognitive performance improved, though?
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by DrScump 7y ago
I was interested to discover recently a South-Asian-oriented show for San Jose Sharks fans on a local cable access channel. The only branding said "IND TV". They seem to have some degree of approval from the Sharks, as they did re
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by DrScump 7y ago
Just another collection of Amazon affiliate links with no added content (tag=mostrecommendedbooks-20).
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by DrScump 7y ago
Very grateful for your work. Have you considered having the map be optional (a click away)? To preserve mobile data if nothing else. Also, given how often turnover happens, a link next to each itemized machine to notify you of changes (and
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by DrScump 7y ago
Fry's lost millions to an executive with a gambling problem: https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Fry-s-exec-dropped-mill...
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by DrScump 7y ago
Perhaps ironically, Microcenter's Santa Clara store endured a death spiral a decade(?) ago that looked similar to what Fry's is suffering now.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Unless you got an exceptional price for those GS5s, I'm missing why you prioritized that particular model, which was five generations old by 2018. I had two. One bought new, one bought off Ebay. Never had trouble with either, but I had
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Tesla drivers stuck waiting 4 hrs+ at CA charging stations during holiday travel(keyt.com)
5 points by DrScump 7y ago|0 comments
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That's why I hated Dickens' novels.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Please reread section 2.1.1 of the manual, covering the cosmoillogical constant.
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by DrScump 7y ago
#9533465222 closed as not a bug. Those objects were implemented in the documentation only and were autocorrect artifacts.
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by DrScump 7y ago
I bought a Samsung Galaxy tablet from Best Buy's secondary (opened packaging or complete returns) inventory that has been absolutely flawless. I was never a tablet person ("if it doesn't fit in my pocket, I want a damn keyboa
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by DrScump 7y ago
go all in on AWS Amazon Waste Services?
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by DrScump 7y ago
Your decently-sized QA department would investigate, case-by-case This describes The Real Real's business model perfectly... but turns out a lot of their "curated" stuff... wasn't. https://news.ycombin
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by DrScump 7y ago
There were also Best Products and Consumers Distributing with similar business models ("catalog showrooms"). We had all three in SV.
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by DrScump 7y ago
I lived in a city that decided to offer a "garbage collection amnesty week" Santa Clara does this once a year. I've seen people coming from wherever and dumping their trash on Santa Clara sidewalks (in a neighborhood
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by DrScump 7y ago
For example, if you're in an unincorporated pocket of land within a larger city, city taxes won't apply, yet you'll generally have a city mailing address. I once lived in an apartment complex with a San Jose address but was o
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by DrScump 7y ago
The San Jose Mercury-News and WSJ both had full-content websites before NYT. The Mercury-News even had a selective email feed of wire service content called Newshound . For $5 a month, you got up to 5 "hounds" (sets of search cri
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The San Jose Mercury-News used to be hugely profitable for exactly this reason. They had the biggest classified section of any paper in the country. The Monday edition was maybe 4X as thick as its modern equivalent.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Zip code alone isn't enough to define tax jurisdiction. One zip code can span multiple tax jurisdictions. Zip codes and even city names in a mailing address are just a layer of obfuscation for the convenience of the post office and do

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