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by JJMcJ 2y ago
If you're lucky enough to live in an area that still has small computer shops you can also get made to order if you aren't up to making one yourself. In Silicon Valley you can go to Central Computer, though they aren't a tiny
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
Two things a lawyer told me, in a social setting, not a consultation. 1. Legal terminology has specific meanings, sometimes going back hundreds of years, with a multitude of rulings to define that meaning. 2. If you aren't a lawyer, do
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
Recently read that if you are going to be using an LED bulb in an enclosed space, buy bulbs designed for the high temperature, otherwise you WILL get premature failures in bulbs that will last for years in ordinary lamps. https:/&#x2F
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
For a time there were automatic transmission cars with push buttons. I think it was a 1950s/60s Great Idea. If I remember you had to reach around the steering wheel to access them. Never used one but it fell out of favor.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
Most news reports also give the percentage change as well as the point difference. That began about 20 years ago.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
> (upper) middle class people It reflects a great change in Western society, which really began to flourish first in the Netherlands, where the merchant and industrial classes began to be dominant, and were growing sick of pretending it
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
Rembrandt could put life into rich people's portraits in ways few were ever able to match. Besides the Night Watch, this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rembrandt_-_De_Staal... known in English by var
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
His degree was for work that the books used, not for the books themselves. That doesn't mean that the books might well have been half nonsense.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
Input in Morse by space bar, output by LEDs.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
After the novel itself ends, there's quite a bit of additoinal material.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
Sent Morse by one of the LEDs like Caps Lock. Nowadays 99% of laptops don't have those LEDs.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
> people writing passwords down Which is better, a strong password written down, or better yet stored a secured password manager, or a weak password committed to memory? As usual, XKCD has something to say about it: https://xk
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
Telephone central exchanges used to have enormous lead acid battery (like automobile batteries, the starter motor not the EV kind) arrays if they lost power. It was amazing to see the battery array discharge ammeter at 5000 amps when utilit
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
Rotary was fine until the first time I used Touch-Tone, as AT&T called it. I also remember the old Western Electric 500 and its touch tone younger brother, the 2500. Those were phones that were built to last: https://upload.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
I laughed but I can imagine circumstances where errors of this magnitude could cause serious problems.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
I saw a catalog of mobility aids and they had self-pay electric wheelchairs for around $2 to $3 thousand, just as an example.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
Most blog sites don't have an RSS link any more. Of course the protocol still exists and is usable to track sites that allow it.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
Now if RSS would just make a comeback it would be a new Golden Age.
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by JJMcJ 2y ago
Just calling it Autopilot pushes the idea that the car requires no attention.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
> MongoDB is a document database. Thank you. A one sentence clarification of the issues in Mongo vs RDBMS.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Newpaper sites are notorious for this.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
The Jeremiah O'Brien, while docked in San Francisco, actually is in running order. Once in a while there are cruises around the Bay. It was at the 50th anniversary memorial for D-Day, steaming off the Normandy shore.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
> 35¢/page Might as well go to FedEx Office (formerly Kinko's) for that price.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
The fallout from this isn't done yet.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
In early days of computerization, companies tried to dodge liability due to "computer errors". That didn't work, and I hope the "It was the AI, not us" never gets allowed either.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
> “this could be a commercial success" Someday maybe, but if not, that's fine anyway because I learned something and had some fun.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Wouldn't the air above the water tend to hold the water in the bowl, since emptying the bowl would create a partial vacuum? And would that effect, if it exists, be enough to prevent effective flushing?
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
On the other hand: Santa Barbara to San Diego Bay Area to Sacramento Sacramento to Bakersfield and on to LA Portland to Seattle - or paralleling I-5 through Oregon. All reasonably dense.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Amazing how Boeing has thrown away a century of good reputation in the last five years.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
> small Europe Europe isn't microscopic. Paris to Amsterdam is about 300 miles, which is the same as Chicago to Cleveland. This is for intercity travel, and of course in the Western USA, except for the Pacific Coast, it is really

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