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by Hilift 2y ago
I think this is a quick start with multiple templates to get back up and running after being booted.
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In August 1995, OS/2 was already dead. Windows NT 3.1 was already released in 1993, Windows NT 3.5 in 1994, and NT 3.51 (Daytona) around the same time as Windows 95. Those NT releases eventually replaced Windows 9x entirely. IBM wasn&#
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The US administration of the next four years has no intention of making a principal payment on the debt. They borrowed $7 trillion before, they can do it again. If a country dumps their US treasury bonds, the administration will impose tari
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USGS have maps from over 100 years ago. They have already been digitized. These are probably projects to search through like a person would looking for things. People that collect insulators used to collect the actual maps long ago looking
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Yes. The US has excellent national standards (low beams can be 15,000 to 20,000 candela per side), however nearly everything is administered by the states, and only 14 of 50 states have annual safety inspections. It used to be most states,
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VMWare has been dying a death of 1000 cuts for years. It's been passed around to now the third owner. They created an entire market and have been watching it erode away.
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It's called "an entrance exam".
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The solution is economic diversification. "...sources suggest that 6 million Kenyans are employed directly or indirectly in the coffee industry." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_production_in_Kenya Also:
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TSMC Arizona 4 nm fabs are a contingency. TSMC received $6+ billion in the CHIPS and Science Act, and the fab opening is delayed until 2025 due to they don't have the local talent yet.
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Next up: What did Birmingham do with the £216 million for the 2020 Oracle Financials upgrade that will not be completed until 2026? For a city that has a 46% child poverty rate. Sometimes the technology isn't the problem, it's the
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This is particularly true of accounting systems. Anyone who has worked in a similar environment with thousands of users on a distributed ledger.
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You have to ask about the little red button though. The only thing I find odd is that the dealer didn't notice this and remove or plug it.
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"Unpacking the reasons for this increase goes beyond the extent of this essay, and it certainly wasn’t just because of AT&T and Bell Labs. But Bell Labs’ achievements, particularly the invention of the transistor in 1947, seem to
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More people setup VPN servers these days. Spiked with the Iran protests. Wireguard makes it eas-ier. Circumventing some rules like content distribution.
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A bit more recent. Soylent Green was set in the year 2022, and was about how humans and climate killed the ocean as the world's largest food source. In the film, they are always sweating and it's 90 degrees F at night.
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Isn't Hetzner impacted in Europe at the moment from a cable cut? Wouldn't surprise me if there is a wave of people moving stuff over to the US because of that. I don't know much about cloud though. I believe "The Ship ha
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Venona Project was a gold mine for sure. I think The Mitrokhin Archive (The Sword and the Shield in the US) had more revelations though. It was released around the same time, but not published until 1999. Something to keep in mind, the Russ
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China has a lot of fertile ground for archaeological discovery. "The tomb, designated M27, is located in the Wangzhuang ruins in Yongcheng city and dates back to the middle and late periods of the Dawenkou Culture (4000 BCE-2600 BCE),
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This article is pointless. The issue is what occurs with the waste after it is produced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Philippines_was...
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Are you referring to his book written 20 years ago or 25 years ago? "customers with large [C++] code bases" there aren't that many of these. Vendors, government. With code bases that have stewards, not programmers.
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Something missing is deindustrialization following WW2. The US northeast (where "Ivy League" schools are located) shifted a huge amount of industry to other parts of the country, where factories had been established during the war
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I call it the "smile and wave boys" response.
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Greek society switched alphabets between 750 and 950 BC, and adopted a number system. There were writing collapses. There is still a lot of history to uncover from the end of the Bronze Age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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Rihanna "Had number one singles in five consecutive years in the UK" 2007-2011. "As of September 2018, Rihanna has sold over 250 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists ever." Her son&
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The allies threw 7,800 bodies at the Battle of Blanc Mont right as the war was ending. Two days after the battle, Germany requested an armistice, and the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires disintegrated. Two months later in the US in 1919
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Rihanna sold more records in the UK than the Beatles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_art...
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Salmon are also making a resurgence in some areas where storm water runoff is being controlled and filtered. A chemical in tires to prevent cracking is lethal for Chinook and Steelhead, so keeping that out of watersheds could create huge po
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If the goal is to create a model that simulates normal human intelligence, yes. Some try to measure accuracy or performance based on expertise though.
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Some prominent universities in the US have ballooned with administration in the past 20 years. MIT in particular has a $1.2 billion administration cost out of a $4.5 billion annual budget.
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Yep. Even if there were a case, it would be litigated in the courts for years.

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