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by DrScump 6y ago
San Jose's infrastructure isn't as high tech as you seem to assume. Heck, many downtown streets are on fixed pedestrian cycles rather than controlled using magnetic loop detectors, for one example.
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by DrScump 6y ago
They had real UNIX System V R2 (at least - R3, maybe?)) deployed by 1990 at the latest. GTE Mobilnet had their usage tracking running on whatever the biggest VAX was at the time. I had to fly to Bothell in August 1990 to diagnose a problem
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by DrScump 6y ago
Reinforced concrete has strength but not resilience. Check out the Cypress Structure collapse in the 1989 earthquake. There were similar failures of reinforce concrete spans in the later Northridge earthquake. The manufacture and transport
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by DrScump 6y ago
Do any of these papers determine the exact transmission vector? (Air to eye, air to nose, air to mouth, hands/fingers to eye/nose/mouth, etc.)?
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by DrScump 6y ago
Much of the west, especially the five Pacific states, have to set seismically safe construction standards. Wood frame buildings have flexibility.
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by DrScump 6y ago
Please don't editorialize titles with misleading conclusions. The reword implies that D3 blood levels have no effect. Actual title: "Effect of Vitamin D3 Supplementation vs Placebo on Hospital Length of Stay in Patients with Sever
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald (sank 45 years ago today)(en.wikipedia.org)
10 points by DrScump 6y ago|0 comments
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by DrScump 6y ago
"during the fires, armed vigilantes set up “checkpoints” in small towns" That's quite a claim given that the reference link doesn't even exist.
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by DrScump 6y ago
This is exactly the impression the author wants to make upon the reader. But it fails to point out the relevant numbers: 1) most deleted polling places are in blue states, not red States. 2) what is most important for access is not the raw
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by DrScump 6y ago
Why would you have any reasonable expectation to have privacy in your house? Americans do. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
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by DrScump 6y ago
Starbucks is really bad at this as well. I used to sit at a counter next to the pickup shelf, and probably 40 times a month just during times I was there, a mobile order would come through for unavailable items.
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by DrScump 6y ago
No, it was a logic error on the part of the server. Since he requested without cream, their lack of cream was irrelevant.
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by DrScump 6y ago
In the good old days the soft serve and shake machines were taken apart every night and every piece was washed and bleach-sanitized by hand. I was a McD manager in my youth. Not only were the internals fully disassembled and saniti
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by DrScump 6y ago
A pet peeve of mine is badly written articles... about writing . This is the sloppiest writing I've read all day. "The static nature of its inability to edit calls for precision in writing and clarity to what you're trying t
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by DrScump 6y ago
"It was the third of September That day, I'll always remember..."
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Papa Was a Rollin' Stone (1972 song)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by DrScump 6y ago|2 comments
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by DrScump 6y ago
Maximinus Thrax: Tchéky Karyo
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by DrScump 6y ago
new technology will always empower more positive change than negative. Empower , yes. Implement , not necessarily.
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by DrScump 6y ago
The issue isn't size of the testing suite, it's covering all the edge cases. Some rather common edge cases go ignored. Unless they've updated Waymo in the last couple of months, they still fail to distinguish when they have a
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by DrScump 6y ago
There's no such thing as "states' rights". States, like all levels of government, have no rights . Government has powers , not rights, and only those powers granted it by Federal/State constitutions. People some
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by DrScump 6y ago
De-fender the Police?
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by DrScump 6y ago
Why OP was allowed to create more staff users than his plan allowed is kinda strange. Not at all. You have two staff users. You need to replace one. This allows you to create the replacement before having to delete the one being r
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by DrScump 6y ago
When I was coming out of school, non-prestige schools (and locales) were simply left out of recruiting altogether . I graduated literally first in my class year, with a BS in CS and Business Administration minor... and wasn't pursued
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by DrScump 6y ago
In the COBOL shop I worked at in the 80s, GOTOs existed in some legacy code, but ALTER was avoided like the plague.
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by DrScump 6y ago
Sybase used file system files rather than raw devices?
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by DrScump 6y ago
The parent commenter may have meant why not use a low-power FM transmitter for your own mobility needs (source to FM transmitter to any FM radio)? They are cheap and ubiquitous now.
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by DrScump 6y ago
I just found my Aiwa HS-JX779 in perfect condition the other day. It was maybe the best prosumer portable cassette player/recorder ever made.
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by DrScump 6y ago
I don't understand. My Samsung Galaxy series phones (GS9+, GS8, GS7s) all allow 2G data to be disabled in the Mobile Networks menu. You can choose LTE/3G/2G auto-stepdown or any subset thereof. I set all my phones to LTE&#x2F
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by DrScump 6y ago
If you use Netflix that way, it effectively becomes a push technology. I hate push technology, clear back to Pointcast. The other thing that I hate about Netflix is that even when you search for a specific title , and they don't have
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by DrScump 6y ago
Military small arms ammunition must be jacketed, per the Hague Convention.

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