DrScump

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by DrScump 4y ago
>by 1971 it was probably present in a significant portion of us high schools. That would surprise me. In 1979, right in Silicon Valley, the biggest high school district (East Side Union) had one computer in the entire district, housed
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by DrScump 4y ago
Absolutely. I graduated with an Associate's degree from De Anza while already working in industry, then transferred to Cal State to complete my B.S. in C.S. I did it all while working and all without taking out a single student loan
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by DrScump 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30892081 40+ points, posted less than 2 hours earlier
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by DrScump 5y ago
Paywalled.
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by DrScump 5y ago
It's not very helpful given that it doesn't distinguish between existing domains and available domains.
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by DrScump 5y ago
Because this isn't a political discussion forum. There are plenty of those.
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by DrScump 5y ago
The funniest part is actually specifying "Enter CTRL-F and type in (company name)". For what role would you hire where the applicant won't know how to do a search in a browser?
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by DrScump 5y ago
There was a time when some writers would take long journeys on cargo ships because there were so few distractions available to divert their attention from writing. I have a vague memory of reading about specific examples (Haley? Michener?)
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by DrScump 5y ago
>It's not a fetish if you have ever ported legacy code that was not written with portability in mind. This. You can code portably and take advantage of platform-specific features or performance advantages. I used to work on a pr
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by DrScump 5y ago
Given that 54 of your last 60 submits (90%!) were Ask HNs, perhaps you are overusing this feature.
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by DrScump 5y ago
If there's a Best Buy in your area, ask what hours the Samsung specialist is on site.
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by DrScump 5y ago
>Initial treatment was an IV of caffeine. For you, or for the cat?
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by DrScump 5y ago
> https://boards.greenhouse.io/sourcegraph91/jobs/4032421004?t... >Remote - US (West) >... >Ability to work core business hours for US Eastern Time (US East region). Is it East, or West?
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by DrScump 5y ago
"We are open to all applicants between one hour west and six hours east of Eastern Time "
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by DrScump 5y ago
Or this speculation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_the_Dark
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by DrScump 5y ago
Unless there is life not based on DNA.
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by DrScump 5y ago
(Sunnyvale) Las Palmas Park (I'm there most afternoons) is a favorite haunt. Recently, I've seen them swarming in front homes on Spinosa Dr., feeding on some street tree leavings(?) There's also a large wild parrot population
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by DrScump 5y ago
>"...outward particle emission rates..." That's outward transmission when the wearer is already infected, which has nothing to do with mask protection of the uninfected.
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by DrScump 5y ago
CR has biases, and they leak out in various ways. When I was doing detailed car-shopping in the 1990s, I noticed that drivetrains in American-badged cars would show significant problems while Japanese-badged cars with the same drivetrain
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by DrScump 5y ago
Fun fact: Garcia spent his entire career before taking the Dallas role was in San Jose (CA), serving as Chief from 2016.
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by DrScump 5y ago
> the civil rights acts of 1866 and 1964 For the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (HR 7152), there were almost three times as many Democrat votes against (96) as Republican votes against (34) and 3.5 times as many Democrat (21) as Republican
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by DrScump 5y ago
Recent media article: https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/30/covid-travelers-infec... "COVID: Travelers infected one another across hallway, research shows"
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Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant in Tightly Monitored Isolation(wwwnc.cdc.gov)
38 points by DrScump 5y ago|15 comments
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by DrScump 5y ago
The original on YouTube credits Ridge wallets as a sponsor (complete with referral link spam), so that's one company I'm never patronizing.
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by DrScump 5y ago
I think you meant https://patricklee.nyc/blog/20211228_my_walking_desk_setup
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by DrScump 5y ago
Then, why would you be worried about missing out on only "crap stuff" in the first place?
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by DrScump 5y ago
Details and co-conspirator list: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/victim-and-witness-assistanc...
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by DrScump 5y ago
>There's no way to tell what is in illegally manufactured drugs. Legal items are counterfeited all the time. And lots of cannabis in California's legal cannabis market comes from illegal grows with unsupervised processes, for
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by DrScump 5y ago
"After adjusting for cancer stage, the mortality improvement in expansion states from the periods before and after expansion was no longer evident (HR, 1.00; 95% CI, 0.98-1.02; P = .94), nor was the difference between expansion vs
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by DrScump 5y ago
(October 2020)

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