HankB99

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by HankB99 9y ago
When I tried an early beta (of 10.04) I was unable to find the mosquitto client tools in the software store. Neither does it show up in either list you linked. I guess it was left out for other reasons. At one point there was a setting in t
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by HankB99 9y ago
The odds of happening to her (if she ever gets on a plane again) are the same as if it had never happened to her in the first place.
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by HankB99 9y ago
Agreed about the gold. That came to mind also. I also agree that the I-beams would rust away, as would rebar embedded in concrete. Would they remain as identifiable shapes or would the material migrate?
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by HankB99 9y ago
Yes. And television is bad for your eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXCpYgd338U
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by HankB99 9y ago
Aren't plastics hydrocarbons? Would the hydrogen be driven off (cracked) leaving something like coal. I think that we might be more likely to find concentrations of metals left over from artifacts of civilization. If so, would these lo
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by HankB99 9y ago
Further discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16838010
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by HankB99 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16838058 (My post before I found this one.)
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by HankB99 9y ago
'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is one of those movies I can watch today and enjoy as much (or more) than the first time I saw it.
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Atlantic Ocean Current Slows to 1000 Year Low(npr.org)
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by HankB99 9y ago
They consider email addresses composed of different (valid) characters to be equivalent.
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by HankB99 9y ago
I was wrong. I cannot find any information that indicates that the RFC specifies that the period is not significant, only that it is allowed. In this case I suppose it is Google that is wrong.
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by HankB99 9y ago
My understanding is that the RFCs define how the Internet work so by definition, they are not wrong. You're certainly free to assert that they made a bad decision and I'm not qualified to offer an opinion on whether you are right
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by HankB99 9y ago
I wonder if that was a tongue in cheek comment or if you knew this is already done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power...
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by HankB99 9y ago
I watch morning news in the Chicago market for weather and traffic. I suppose I also get local news. And I get irked because I don't think cute Youtube videos are news but regardless of the station I can't seem to escape that. I&#
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by HankB99 9y ago
I think if any of the wire loops break you have the same risk.
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by HankB99 9y ago
Probably a ceramic coating.
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by HankB99 9y ago
Our kids have a corgi that eats corn cobs (leftovers when we have corn on the cob.) I guess he sees the horses eating them and is convinced they must be good. Perhaps it is an acquired taste. He once got into serious trouble by eating some
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by HankB99 9y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. My sons are both involved in technical careers. They both develop S/W for a living. They both were also involved in the arts, both musical and graphic. The younger one continued with music through coll
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by HankB99 9y ago
I think target fixation also contributes to accidents involving emergency vehicles on the shoulder. Back to Uber, the number I hear is that they are striving to go better than 13 miles/intervention to prevent an incident. For Waymo thi
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by HankB99 9y ago
I dunno. I think a program that produces subtly wrong results is the worst. It reminds me of a project I once did. It involved producing reports from tens of thousands of records including summing some of the fields. I was constrained to wo
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by HankB99 9y ago
Were I FB, I would make sure that the deletion only made the data invisible to the user and kept it for their customers. After all, we "gave them permission" in the first place so this would not violate that. If they're smart
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by HankB99 9y ago
In some areas that maneuver is a strategy to collect an insurance payout. If the car had many passengers (who would all get soft tissue injuries) this might have been a "swoop and squat."
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by HankB99 9y ago
2017 Legacy with "Eye Sight." I have had one or two situations where the car emergency braked on my behalf. It happens when the car in front of me turns off the road and is nearly clear. I don't brake because I know that the
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by HankB99 9y ago
This seems like a simple case. I would have expected the driver assist in my 2017 Subaru to have reacted to something in the road. I'm surprised that the much more sophisticated self driving system did not.
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by HankB99 9y ago
This was discussed on a recent "No Agenda" Podcast. Adam Curry is licensed to fly helicopters and claims to have flown this model. He is insistent that this explanation is wrong, that the lever pictured controls ignition retard an
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by HankB99 9y ago
When I worked at what was then Inland Steel (Indiana, US) they had a coal fired 60 Hz power station. It did not produce all of their power but it did produce a significant amount. The reason it was there was that they could use steam after
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by HankB99 9y ago
Some milkweed came up next to my garage a few years ago. I let it go and it spread. This last summer I saw Monarchs around it a couple times. Once I thought I saw one lay an egg and later when I checked the plant, I saw what looked like an
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by HankB99 9y ago
Does having the package available for 3.x facilitate code migration? Would the references to the builtin in 3.x require other code mods (or just the import statement?)
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by HankB99 9y ago
I have a Nexus 5X that was 2 years old late last year. At that time I git it's last major OS upgrade. (It will continue to get security updates for another year or so.) This is as good as it gets in the Android world. It was hobbled at
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by HankB99 9y ago
Much the same as Pluto is no longer a planet. These things run on a continuum and the line has to be drawn somewhere.

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