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by DrScump 7y ago
massive code listings or memory dumps anymore? When I started in mainframe programming, our organization had a license for a core dump formatting package that would do a lot of cross referencing for you and even break down COBOL int
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by DrScump 7y ago
Laser printers are absolutely wonderful. I got to operate IBM 3800 printers in the 1980s. The sight of a laser printer running at printing-press speed hour after hour, going through a 2' tall box of continuous-form paper in les
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by DrScump 7y ago
IBM mainframe documentation was amazing. I encountered cases of strange edge conditions that would be carefully detailed in some manual even though any given installation would be unlikely to encounter it. (The trick would be finding that
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by DrScump 7y ago
any question can be answered within seconds Problem is, you can find dozens of mutually exclusive answers to any given question and hundreds of copies of each served by content farms. In the Usenet days, you'd find a FAQ with a
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by DrScump 7y ago
Onion2k's experience mirrors mine. There was a genteel, supportive quality of having a participation base comprised mostly of sincere, interested readers and posters. There were trolls even then, for sure, but they were few and were ge
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by DrScump 7y ago
Blogspam of https://www.nps.gov/customcf/webcam/dsp_webcam_image.cfm?id=...
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Unknown Soldiers – How Black Barrage Balloon Troops Kept the D-Day Beaches Safe(militaryhistorynow.com)
7 points by DrScump 7y ago|0 comments
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Torpedowaffenplatz Hexengrund: Abandoned Torpedo Station in the Bay of Gdansk(abandonedplaygrounds.com)
3 points by DrScump 7y ago|0 comments
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by DrScump 7y ago
I just spotted Chris on the Planetscale About page; I worked with him at Infomix years ago! I dropped a nite via your site's web form.
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by DrScump 7y ago
kept locally and not stored anywhere in the cloud ... unless they put their backups in the cloud and absent-mindedly include everything
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by DrScump 7y ago
No matter how specific I enter a query, Netflix will respond with a scattershot collection of its own titles, quickly descending into utter irrelevance to my search terms. They never, ever admit that they don't have what I'm see
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by DrScump 7y ago
"Every penny that the city collects in property taxes goes into the (underfunded) pension system."
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by DrScump 7y ago
It's not foie gras as a food that is the problem; it is the captive force-feeding by which it is typically produced. Sousa has proven that not only is force-feeding unnecessary, it produces an inferior product compared to his met
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by DrScump 7y ago
For a property thief to net $84 would require taking $400+ worth of property and creating as much worth of damage in the process.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Rental cars are frequent targets, so much so that rental car companies remove exterior distinguishing characteristics like labels and license plate frames.
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by DrScump 7y ago
I still remember Henry's contributions on comp.lang.c thirty years ago .
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by DrScump 7y ago
At 55 feet long, shouldn't this be called a mural rather than a poster?
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by DrScump 7y ago
California had total Democrat control of the government from 1999-2003 Technically, Republicans controlled the Assembly for parts of 1995-6. Willie Brown bought off three different Assembly members to try to keep control, but ea
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by DrScump 7y ago
"For most of the history of the HSR, it was a dual-party state where the minority Republicans" Republicans were almost always in the minority in both houses (often, Democrat supermajorities), and you call that a "dual-party
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by DrScump 7y ago
Another variation on this is the opening titles to "Bob's Burgers". A series of disasters hits the restaurant before its ultimately opening (fire, pests, etc) and the respondents (exterminator,etc.) has a new, funny name each
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by DrScump 7y ago
Or "Otto's Collusion Repair"
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by DrScump 7y ago
I have a similar concept: collections of fake band names, domain names, stand-up comedy pieces, and rap-suitable lyrics. The trick is extracting coherent routines that tell a story well. Ages ago, in the age of Usenet, I had a huge collecti
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by DrScump 7y ago
Have you considered crowdfunding further development of your recipe, like the infamous potato salad Kickstarter?
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by DrScump 7y ago
To pick a bit, your *Breaking Bad" reference occurs well into the series, not at the start. It opens with his diagnosis, which sets everything else in motion.
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by DrScump 7y ago
and/or the exact text of the message. A vague search is fine if there are few matches,but there's a lot of cruft out there.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Sailors worked out a ship's position... No, that could give them only latitude . Accurate longitude measurements at sea are a different problem, ultimately solved only by the invention of a precision timepiece that was immun
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by DrScump 8y ago
Are there any implications regarding treatment of prion diseases like CJD, CWD, etc.?
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by DrScump 8y ago
Moffett Field's Hangar One (now with just its framework intact) was originally built to house the Macon . Ironically, NAS Sunnyvale was renamed Moffett Field to commemorate the death of Admiral Moffett in the crash of Macon 's s
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by DrScump 8y ago
A friend of mine lived on a boat there in the late 1980s. He said it wasn't as ideal or romantic as one would assume. He lives in Wales now.
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by DrScump 8y ago
(Sunnyvale, CA Fry's is the new location. Market is in its 45th year!)

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