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by DrScump 7y ago
See if there is a onebrick.org chapter in your area.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Bear in mind that financials in the form of exclusive corporate deals factor in, too. I used to buy a lot of videotape at Price Club. I really liked the Maxell Hi-Fi tapes; they carried multiple grades of the Maxell line. After Costco took
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by DrScump 7y ago
It was seriously scary. First, my doorknob would be tested/rattled. Later, knocking. Later, pounding. Next, a body hurling itself against the door. Eventually, quiet.
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by DrScump 7y ago
I was on a consulting trip to Seattle's Eastside in 1990, during the Goodwill Games. I had to stay at the Bellevue Hyatt because of corporate partnerships. Unfortunately, it turned out that my room happened to be on a floor where two c
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by DrScump 7y ago
In earlier days of computing, storage was expensive. Saving two bytes for each date field multiplied by thousands of records across hundreds of files saved real money. Another example of contortion for storage saving was Packed Decimal used
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by DrScump 7y ago
That's a digital only rate and only for a limited audience. The textbook prices complained about in the op-ed are all for printed copies . Apples to apples.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Note: MicroTimes was a free tabloid newspaper issued monthly, distributed in newsracks and at various retail stores throughout the Bay Area (and maybe elsewhere).
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by DrScump 7y ago
For me, this redirects directly to the app store and the website isn't visible.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Irony: a 7-days print subscription (to zip code 94089) to the NYT costs $520 per year during their "50% off" sale.
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by DrScump 7y ago
It's all spam. The book links are local but redirect to Amazon Affiliate links (and lack the required disclosure).
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by DrScump 7y ago
Seems like that's the end goal here, to capture 100% of the market and aftermarket. Exactly. But the reality is that the added friction in buying and using the tickets often results in not attending at all . Mobile-only ticke
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by DrScump 7y ago
To show how old this concept is: the very first episode (1973) of the TV series "Police Story" featured a bait car being used to track Chuck Connor's character from theft of the bait car to a store robbery.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Wow. I contributed on most and lurked on most of the rest. rec.autos Or as we called it, "wreck dot autos" comp.lang.c Cue Henry Spencer's .sig quote of Ritchie: "NOALIAS must go. This is not negotiable!&qu
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by DrScump 7y ago
"Netflix is available on Android phones and tablets running Android 2.3 or later. The current version of the Netflix app requires Android version 5.0 or later. Devices running earlier versions of Android OS (as well as the Samsung Gala
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California could lose housing leverage over cities under court ruling(sfchronicle.com)
10 points by DrScump 7y ago|4 comments
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by DrScump 7y ago
De Anza had a 370 in the early 80s, but I don't know what replaced it.
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Magnetic Poles Are a Myth(kjmagnetics.com)
2 points by DrScump 7y ago|0 comments
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by DrScump 7y ago
From the linked man page: "Reads from the /dev/full device will return characters." Literally two spaces between "return" and "characters". There has to be a specific result, even if it's random
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by DrScump 7y ago
LibreOffice is just so painful You were running it on a different OS and different hardware. LO vs Excel was not the only variable.
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by DrScump 7y ago
I worked at OkCupid 8 years ago You started before they were bought out by Match?
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by DrScump 7y ago
you have to be in on time, wear a tie, punch in, sit in a horrible cubicle with horrible lighting I worked as a software engineer in defense (mumble) years ago, and even then nobody punched in and nobody (except management) wore a
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Cahokia(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by DrScump 7y ago|0 comments
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Lunar Standstill(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by DrScump 7y ago|0 comments
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by DrScump 7y ago
Not sure what conclusions you can draw from that. Cars and doors are natural enemies in the wild.
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by DrScump 7y ago
> Are you under the impression that the attorney general of California is making up consumer rights that do not exist as law? Without getting into the competency of the current holder of that office... What you are quoting is criminal l
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Dropping in with Gravitational Waves (Suitable for Kids)(jpl.nasa.gov)
2 points by DrScump 7y ago|1 comments
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by DrScump 7y ago
a Douglas Adams quality To me, it has more of a Nicholson Baker's "The Mezzanine" feel to it.
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by DrScump 7y ago
More about the Bulwer-Lytton contest here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21591206
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by DrScump 7y ago
I think selecting him as the inspiration for painful opening sentences stems directly from the opening line to Paul Clifford : "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was ch
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The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest: 2019 Winners(bulwer-lytton.com)
144 points by DrScump 7y ago|62 comments

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