DrScump

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by DrScump 7y ago
His recent "Word Crimes" video is incredible artistry: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
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by DrScump 7y ago
He got his start on "Dr. Demento". IIRC, My Bologna and Another One Rides the Bus were first performed during an in-studio visit to Dr. Demento (which then aired on Sunday evenings via Westwood One).
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"This story is available exclusively on Business Insider Prime."
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local taxes are rarely based on the street address No, they're based on the underlying geographical boundaries based on the parcel number. This usually corresponds to the city in the mailing address (in contiguously Incorpora
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by DrScump 7y ago
USA mailing addresses are strictly that -- an identifier for the convenience of the Post Office which may or may not correspond to the underlying jurisdictions for things like political boundaries, tax authorities, etc. I learned this when
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by DrScump 7y ago
Do your tests distinguish between active (infectious) SARS-CoV-2 DNA and remnants that aren't infectious by themselves? Do they detect antibodies? What is the false negative rate for nasal swabs vs anal swabs?
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My vivid memory is of that excruciatingly slow zoom into a bar graph representation of a directory, to which the girl exclaims, "this is UNIX! I know UNIX!". A real world UNIXer would go straight to a shell prompt, especially in a
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by DrScump 7y ago
That film's horrible misrepresentation of UNIX almost ruined it for me.
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Allan Sherman, the Weird Al Yankovic of his day, turned the tune from "Fascination" into "Automation" in 1963, a song about his RCA 503 sexually harrassing him: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RsDFYUD5KUA&amp
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by DrScump 7y ago
One advantage of a legacy system is that you can create your own great test data just by making appropriate extracts of your existing legacy data. Where I worked, original test data was sparse and incomplete, and it avoided edge conditions.
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Unless working in a Halon-protected, 50-degree, raised floor environment confers immunity. It's only fair.
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Fun fact: the third-party dump formatting package we had in the 80s could show line by line what assembly code corresponded to each line of COBOL. I actually diagnosed a CAPEX optimizer bug that way once.
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by DrScump 7y ago
If you get an S0C7, your JCL is probably fine (else you wouldn't get far enough to get a data exception). JCL is just another scripting language. I found it fun. I did all the JCL for my group's production jobs and commented the
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by DrScump 7y ago
Traveling nurses AKA "Flying nurses" have been a thing for decades. I had a good friend who first came to SV as one in 1983.
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StubHub has also been withholding payments from sellers for a month now. They would be making millions on interest alone if interest rates weren't so low.
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"Wearing a face mask was a protective factor against influenza infection." The key word there is influenza .
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ROMANES EUNT DOMUS
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(Regarding the 2014 film)
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by DrScump 7y ago
It's live here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22663029 Sometimes people see the older article second and flag it as the dupe.
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Burger buns, fry boxes, burger wraps, bags, receipts, etc. are all vectors. Consider that fast food workers are generally living on the margin and will be more tempted to work when sick, in general.
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The five cast members included Steven Colbert, Any Sedaris, and Paul Dinello (Colbert's longtime writing partner). Four of the five later did "Strangers With Candy". It looks like Comedy Central has put the entire series on Y
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Exit 57 (Sketch comedy TV series, 1995-96)(en.wikipedia.org)
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The DOJ has no power over Congress in impeachment proceedings.
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You know the dietary practices of "all" top athletes? Athletes in sports favoring fast-twitch muscle presumably wouldn't do keto, but endurance athletes, sure. The SF Giants' Hunter Pence is a vocal keto practitioner.
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This one is baffling. LDL "significantly increased" while triglycerides "significantly decreased"? Calories/day not stated; if, say, 3200 kcal, that means 40g of carbs. n=17, so who knows.
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Recently, cops have been getting in trouble for shooting suspects as they run "away" from the police. I don't see this as commonplace at all. Generally, deadly force is authorized only in response to an imminent threa
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Cell type is much more relevant to curability than location.
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I remember it being stressed to me: "don't call it 'X-Windows'. It is 'X', or 'The X Window System', if you must." This was in an environment where upper management wanted to take away the deskto
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by DrScump 7y ago
It had peers in the compact pickup category then, e.g. Datsun/Nissan, Isuzu, Chevy LUV. My 80s roommate's LUV was a rebadged Isuzu.
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The compact pickup, yes. It's no wider than, say a Camry. I have the '93 club cab, so it's a touch longer, but it's dwarfed by an F-150, let alone anything larger.

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