Gibbon1

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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I just remember Bolivia. The silver and other metals from Bolivia funded the Spanish Empire for 200 years or more. And every ordinary person is poor and the infrastructure is ramshackle.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
In industry trade magazines I'm seeing references to automotive batteries that would be good for half a million miles. Typical US driver would take 40 years to drive that far. Also seeing that companies are serious about actual product
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
There was nothing at all wrong with your comment.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
My take is if women can control how many children to have fertility drops down to replacement rate. If women have to give up autonomy when they have children they'll go lower than that. That's China, Japan, and Korea.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
First BASIC I used was Rocky Mountain basic on an HP 9845C. After that Pascal and C strings were so terrible. Rocky Mountain BASIC also had multidimensional arrays and array operations. And support for sparse arrays.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Block
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
> Is there an alternative that retains max privacy in a world with a trillion bots spamming away? Block and fine ISP's that host bots. Throw people in prison that run bots.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Why you don't have an alt libc that takes safe strings is beyond me.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
> But the fact that a merge can have arbitrary changes in it always bothers me! After that xy thing where they were trying to install a back door having changes that are hidden like this is a big red flag. In fact changing include <so
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I wonder if you could create a pragma in C to do almost the same. I don't have a good name for it but it would force the compiler to ignore previous definitions. With an 'undo' pragma as well.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Best I can guess is batteries are rated by name plate power. And raw capacity is about 3-4 times that. Wouldn't surprise me if there is a bunch of finkie dinkie technically driven accounting stuff around how fast and how deep a charge
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
A filthy filthy hax January 12 1923 is 12JANX3
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Up until WWII most working class people didn't pay federal income taxes.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I made a joke to my GF about ten years ago that I'm going to write a travel book called. Live Flat Fucking Broke in San Francisco for Only $300 a Day. Take one person in a non married couple earning $116k and the other unemployed. Stri
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
One of the biggest issues I have with economists theory of comparative advantage is it ignores the self sustaining ecosystem aspects of economics. Some places if you need someone to do specialized thing X you can just walk down the street.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Friend went through the canal and had to sit for a few days with a bunch of other ships. That's something operators hate. Because any time spent waiting is lost opportunity. I'm assuming being able to punt and offload and swap car
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
SF is it's own special. Having lived their for a large portion of my life it's big issue is the lack of mass transit. That's due to Federal car centric infrastructure policies, prop 13 that causes muni's to favor commerc
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
At work we're using Windows 11, one drive, and teams and the experience is just trash. Mikhail Parakhin has accomplished more to destroy Microsoft's desk top OS monopoly than anyone else.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I think it's the opposite, the ruinous callousness that sees able bodied homeless sleeping on the street and thinking they're a problem that needs to be eliminated. Instead of thinking why is an able bodied man or woman not be abl
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
After reading accounts of floods on the Mississippi before it was embanked and straightened. I'd totally believe that sort of stuff happened on the Tigris and Euphrates's rivers back 5000 years ago when it was wetter. We can make
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Sort of ironic then people protesting that Hamas is being prevented from committing genocide against Israeli Arabs and Jews. You have wars of choice and wars of necessity. People that support Hamas's war of choice against Israel I&#x27
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I have read here and there that about a quarter of cowboys in the old west were Black. My dad mentioned that as a boy in the central valley in the 1930's a lot of the farm labor was done by Mexicans. Mexicans used to work their farms i
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Well if we're going to do this I'll start by pointing out that people that excuse Hamas's atrocities and crimes not only against Israeli Arabs and Jews but also against the people of Gaza are complicit. This constant encourag
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Calling your spotters journalists doesn't provide any legal protection for them.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Base64 you get 6 bits per byte, hex you get 4. For most things base64 provides no benefit worth the hassle.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
And of course the Nutty Narrows Bridge in Longview Washington. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty_Narrows_Bridge
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Or perhaps engineer another set of knuckles to bring the count from 12 to 16
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
We could use genetic engineering so people have six fingers. However better would be to genetically engineer humans to have four arms and ditch the pinky, then we could use base 16.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Friend of mine got his engineering degree when the Feds still gave out grants. So he didn't pay a thing. I went to a state school with no tuition I just had to pay student fees and for books. All told it cost me $15k out of pocket. Not
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
This exactly. Another thing that annoys me is they legalized pot. Seems like a good idea in theory. But what about all the people that went to prison when it was illegal. Imagine having served five years in prison for selling pot and there

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