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by JJMcJ 1y ago
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother lived to 102, and her date of birth was fully attested. Many others lived past 100. Last Civil War veteran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Woolson another example.
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by JJMcJ 1y ago
I got VPS and other types of shared hosting mixed up, though I have seen VPS offerings with monthly or daily maximums.
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by JJMcJ 1y ago
Old enough to remember when most museums and art galleries were absolutely free. This had pretty much ended by 1980, unfortunately, and now they are enormously expensive.
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by JJMcJ 1y ago
Finally, an open source project that actually meets an urgent need we didn't realized we had.
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by JJMcJ 1y ago
Friend ordered a widget from China. Needed for a project he was prototyping. Widget $30 Shipping $60 Shipped via DHL which did have the mechanisms in place to declare contents and pay the tariffs, but not for free. For people ordering tube
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by JJMcJ 1y ago
That's why I like VPS setups. You hit the monthly maximum, and it just stops working. I host demos, not running a business, so it's less of an issue to get interrupted. Better an interruption than a $50,000 bill for forgetting t
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by JJMcJ 1y ago
This is an example of why cloud hosting is so scary. Yes, Amazon, and I assume Azure and Google's cloud and others, "usually" refund the money. But I don't want to be forced into bankruptcy because my five visitor a week
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by JJMcJ 1y ago
They are sadly underestimated as technologists.
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by JJMcJ 1y ago
They manufactured bicycles, then the apex of precision mass produced products, and they also had a quite scientific approach to the design of their aircraft, with wind tunnels, for example. They were also the first to understand that steeri
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by JJMcJ 1y ago
Do you want mere children exposed to David Attenborough and Mister Rogers?
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by JJMcJ 1y ago
The usual solution to the paradox of lower home prices and the political need to not have home prices decline seriously is to tell people "a 70 mile commute is good for you". In the Bay Area that means Stockton, Gilroy, and the l
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by JJMcJ 1y ago
Usually if the worksite moves more than some distance, usually +/- 50 miles, you can claim UI if you don't relocate.
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by JJMcJ 1y ago
Years ago I used Sourceforge and they had a policy you had to ask permission before deleting a project. After left-pad, I understood why.
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by JJMcJ 1y ago
It has a von Neumann sound to it.
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by JJMcJ 1y ago
One reason that 1 is often excluded from the prime numbers is that if it was included, it would complicate the theorems, proofs, and exposition by the endless repetition of "not equal to 1".
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
The well known book "The Mythical Man Month" is in large part based on the author's experience as one of the top people on the System 360 project, and what went wrong during the effort.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
As an example, a not very good partial modeling of a three cell neuron cluster in C. Elegans is a significant research result. C. Elegans because every adult has the same number of cells in the same configuration.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
Just for completeness, the screw tabs were for an antenna, the notorious rabbit ears if you were close to the stations, or one on the roof if you were farther away.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
According to Albert Einstein, or maybe Benjamin Franklin.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
The singer's name is Björk. Guðmundsdóttir just tells us her father's name. It's not a family name in the sense that e.g., Swift is for Taylor Swift. If she was Icelandic, it would be Taylor Scottsdóttir.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
g(x) is mind-bending. I can write out a proof that it is continuous at 0 and nowhere else, but it still barely makes sense. I can understand the reactions of the late 19th Century mathematicians, though I suspect much of it was exaggerated
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
Also "Counterexamples In Topology" - same but for topology.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
Note that the solid set, all points within a certain distance of the center, is called a ball: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_(mathematics) If the boundary is included, it's a closed ball, otherwise it's
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
The book Lord Of The Flies made a lot more sense when I realized it was a satire of British elite schools, rather than a real exploration of what cast away young people would actual do in that situation.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
If not that, a relatively small fee will remove the ads. I believe it's under $20, one time.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
They do own the house. The mortgage holder has a security interest in the property.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
During his college/grad school days, he was going half nuts, ideas would come to him faster than he could write them down. Finally one professor saw what was happening, insisted that Gauss take some time off - being German that involve
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
Gauss did something along these lines and held back mathematical progress by decades.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
Do Reddit mods also edit math journals?
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
Yes, desktops. From other comments you can still sort of configure your own laptop. What I was referring to was laptops already configured with Linux. So all the drivers are working, for example.

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