DrScump

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by DrScump 8y ago
It's hard to put a company town in the middle of nowhere and get good schools, restaurants, and performing arts Chernobyl/Pripyat (Ukraine) was reportedly one such example... until the meltdown.
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by DrScump 8y ago
I even tried manually deleting all the files in the user-specific directory; made no difference. There comes a point when the time investment has to be viewed as a sunk cost, and move on.
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by DrScump 8y ago
My Windows 10 machine just did a huge update. Ever since, Chrome closes within a few seconds unless I let it Run As Administrator. Uh, no thanks. I tried various suggested fixes and even did a complete remove and reinstall. So, no more Chro
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by DrScump 8y ago
And good riddance. Yeah, who cares about the disabled, those who live in "scary" neighborhoods, or others that taxis are mandated by law to take while ride share drivers decline?
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20-week Study: Facial exercises help middle-aged appear more youthful(news.northwestern.edu)
57 points by DrScump 8y ago|12 comments
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by DrScump 8y ago
Not to defend any rudeness on their part, but that route is an infamous one for smuggling, so higher scrutiny of an out of area vehicle is not a huge surprise.
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by DrScump 8y ago
I generally decline rental vehicles with out-of-state plates (meaning of a state that is no part of my trip). It brings unwanted scrutiny from LEOs and thieves alike.
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by DrScump 8y ago
It's a long standing govt right in the UK. Well, there's a differentiator right there. In the USA, government doesn't have rights; it only has enumerated powers .
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by DrScump 8y ago
I had no resources and an innate fear of significant debt, so I worked my way through school in the 80s, including a few years of graveyard-shift computer operations. It took six years to get my B.S.C.S., but no debt.
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by DrScump 8y ago
That's a foolproof strategy. Meanwhile, thieves who aren't fools will simply remove the plates and toss them into the nearest unattended truck bed.
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by DrScump 8y ago
A couple of my devices have Facebook in the stock bloatware; it can be disabled on a per-session basis, but it cannot be removed (without rooting). Even though I have auto-update for apps disabled, the bloatware apps can update whenever th
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by DrScump 8y ago
"Osman II had not endeared himself to the military by closing the coffee houses owned by many of their members, as they were suspected to be places where seditious groups met to plot rebellion." This reminded me of England's
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by DrScump 8y ago
Somebody had an IEBGENER fetish, maybe? Speaking of ugly JCL, it was typical of my environment for production jobs to not bother with cosmetics and comments since changing anything was a manual process requiring either sitting at the keyp
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by DrScump 8y ago
Actual title: "How to Hack Hacker News". Github, the New York Times, and Medium are the sources most trusted by the Hacker News community Most clicked != Most trusted.
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by DrScump 8y ago
(2013, and irrelevant today)
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by DrScump 8y ago
I just missed the 360 era when I became an operator, but the 370 console was similar in sci-fi-ish feel. There was a hexadecimal rotary dial via which you'd set the boot device address, and an actual mechanical switch to boot it up. In
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by DrScump 8y ago
That mainstream Dems would speak well of GWB I don't understand this at all. Did you mean GHWB (#41) rather than GWB (#43)?
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by DrScump 8y ago
JCL isn't scary. Think environment variables plus shell scripting. In the mainframe environment where I started my career, OS JCL was sort of viewed as a black art by most of the programmers (plus an annoyance, as production JCL had to
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by DrScump 8y ago
That's exactly the point: topical application vs. systemic ingestion. I've yet to see a credible model for ingestion having any uniformly beneficial effect. Toothpastes, rinses, and topical application by professionals are f
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by DrScump 8y ago
I was there. I spent the night before in Sausalito, and we came from the north, reaching almost the middle before encountering the wall of people from the SF side. It was damn scary. People continued to crush in from both directions, and th
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by DrScump 8y ago
How close does it get to the stated 25,000 passengers per hour throughput metric?
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by DrScump 8y ago
Sometimes, bicyclists kill pedestrians. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Cyclist-p...
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by DrScump 8y ago
"Indirect Evidence for Lévy Walks in Squeeze Film Damping" is one of the most revered Vogon poems[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogon#Poetry
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by DrScump 8y ago
REVEALED: How a high-vacuum gas particle learned to follow fractal paths using this one weird trick!
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by DrScump 8y ago
Mollusks are placed at even greater risk by their own deviant behaviors, as described in this BBC documentary: https://youtu.be/8R2zvE615dM
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by DrScump 8y ago
Trains with modern power sources seem like a really good idea Tell BART that. Their new Antioch extension will be diesel powered .
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by DrScump 8y ago
It had the benefit of cheap Depression-era labor and vastly inferior worker safety constraints (12 died). The disastrous new Bay Bridge project was more representative of modern California infrastructure projects.
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by DrScump 8y ago
100k people per hour per track direction Your source for this statistic?
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by DrScump 8y ago
A more accurate title would have been, "Uber Overrode Volvo's Factory-default Emergency Braking System in Crash"
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by DrScump 8y ago
The paper: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/05/24/scien... More detail on the K-Pg Extinction Event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_e

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