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Leftovers are awesome. I just got done recycling some leftover In 'n Out fries in an omelette this morning (and for those wondering how you can have left over fries - I intentionally bought an extra serving yesterday so I could have l
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Reminds me of this Dirty Jobs episode about recycling the scraps from the Vegas buffets at a local pig farm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKTQtNuJ_0w
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Awesome article. If there is one takeaway for everyone from it is the myth of the "expiration date". Boggles my mind that food banks routinely reject *canned* food that is even one day out of date.
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The optimism was always naive - and those of us who had been around in the usenet/bbs days knew better. And as linked elsewhere in the comments here, John C Dvorak was pretty spot on in his assessment (at the time).
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as long as you hold the correct opinions!
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Ah, the days when John C Dvorak wrote the anti-editor column in the back of MacUser....
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"...and proving one of them wrong is pretty much the dream of a scientist." What an odd and somewhat alarming statement!
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Just look at the popularity of the Maverick and Santa Cruze - there is a significant demand for smaller (or dare I say, mini) trucks. Safety regulations caused the 80's mini trucks to start to die out - yet Mazda still produces the Mi
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DOn't forget the chicken tax - it froze Mahindra and other manufacturers out too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax https://carbuzz.com/news/5-amazing-trucks-the-us-can-t-have-...
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Maybe if Disney produced content people wanted to watch instead of letting the insane leverage their platform to elevate their voice, more people might be interested in subscribing. Discovery, post merger, seems to be interesting in refocus
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lol - the $80B is for agents, not clerks. Nice puff piece though.
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lol - none of these new POS cars have keys. It's all electronic and pushbuttons. Good luck!
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The author thinks he's being clever not providing docs. I hate it when people play games - and yes dev, you have failed.
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Yup - an indication of how to trigger/what it would look like if successfully triggered might actually help with troubleshooting?
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If it's not search or advertising, it means f*k all to Google. Any time you are confused about their obvious incompetence in an area, just go back to that first statement.
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"“There’s no way that somebody I’ve never heard of has done this.”" Gatekeeping in a nutshell. Gotta love academia.
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>are Snap or TikTok disadvantaged because Facebook, Microsoft and Google are sharing information While I think it's ridiculous entities like Meta have taken it up on themselves to have their own "watch lists", in this inst
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The ONLY thing in your list that is the purview of the federal government is defense. Seriously people, read the freaking constitution. It really isn't that many pages (purposefully!)
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But then the whole cottage industry that is the parasite of tax filers and accountants latched onto our economy wouldn't exist either! And if they go away so do all their political contributions :p
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I have unsubsidized Century Link fiber for $65 a month for gigabit symmetrical and it is indeed very good. Considering Century Link was birthed from US West, the company that we fondly coined "US Worst" back in the day, I've
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If all your neighbors get on 5G with you, you are no longer going to get anywhere near the speeds you currently have. The real benefit of 5G for the phone networks is the higher frequencies means the signals don't penetrate as well, c
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>Nothing is stopping apple from rug pulling the project next cycle. Why would they do that? As others have pointed outed, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, etc. are indeed pulling the rug out on the other side (in the name of security). Lockin
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If, god forbid, I ever have to buy a newer car the first thing I will be doing is yanking the damn cellular modem out of it. It's my car - not one I'm sharing with the manufacturer and who knows who else. With luck I'll be
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Everyone loves energy until it isn't there. "renewables" aren't going to be able to take over any time soon and it takes a LONG time to establish new lines of supply. All short sighted moves like "tax the hell out o
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Because?
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I find "gifted" is usually a derisive term for "hard worker" :p
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Teaching is indeed the best way to become an expert at something. Whenever I want to learn a new technology I like to hang out in support forums for it and start answering other people's questions. With one particular product, after
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https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
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Speed reading - tips on how to process letters and words, skim paragraphs for the key points, etc. Stuff I learned in an extra curricular class in high school that has served me my entire life. Of course being curious about the world and w
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Yup - when I was at my most organized I would make a normal family sized meal, eat one portion then portion up the leftovers on a plate, slip the whole thing in a bag and seal with a vacuum sealer and toss 'em in the freezer. Home mad
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