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by OrangeMango 7y ago
https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/dimetrodon-not-dinosaur They have a wonderful section in the museum about dimetrodon; you have to pass through Mass Extinction #4 to get to the dinosaurs. PS - somewhat controversial pe
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Lowering the Water Isn’t an Option(wgntv.com)
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
Additionally, dolphins enjoy playing in the bow waves of a sailboat; they stay far away from powerboats if ever they can.
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
Came here to write that. In modern sloop-rigged boats, I believe that the general consensus is that tacking is less dangerous and gentler on your equipment than jibing(gybing)/wearing. In the tall-ship era of square-rigged vessels, we
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
In this context, which age groups are generally considered to be younger men and which are older men?
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
That article describes why containers start up more quickly on Clear Linux. I believe that the main reason applications run faster is that it determines which exact CPU you have and compiles everything with the flags that enable every optim
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
Does it have a refillable reservoir? If so, that's a great bargain if you like the way it writes! Part of what spurred me to try this experiment is the feeling that the quality of the Uni-Ball lineup has been dropping, including the D
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
What processor does it have? I have Clear Linux running on a Haswell Core i7 and it's great, but it doesn't run on a Core2Duo I've got laying around. Also, it needs EFI booting - not sure yours is new enough for that.
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
> allow total removal of phone app Apple still produces the iPod touch, and it runs iOS 13!
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
> I use a fountain pen As an experiment in waste reduction and to see if it could end up less expensive as well, I started to use a fountain pen instead of my favorite Pilot Uni-Ball Deluxe pens. I paid $45 for a pen, converter and 50mL
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
Their bulk data API now only serves NOAA data. All the personal weather data contributed for free is not available in bulk.
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
Yes, that is exactly what happened back then: it was in the ratified spec. I can't believe that newer systems would be any different.
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
I worked on wireless infrastructure software about 20 years ago - some of the stuff that counted as 3G. The phone does not "dial" the emergency phone number. It tells the tower that it needs to initiate an emergency call. At tha
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
It is about big tech: WhatsApp doesn't need section 230 immunity if it isn't part of Facebook.
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
Apple should just be super courageous. Their current phones already follow a charging standard: qi. The $5 qi charger at Ikea charges an iPhone just fine. I have one on my desk. Now, you are probably thinking that if something goes wrong,
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
Just do a websearch for "Dell Workstation". Look at the Precision 3630. Some say "Precision 3630 Tower Workstation" and some say "Precision 3630 Tower". Scroll down and you'll see that where it lists th
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
The source for this article is here: http://statchatva.org/2019/02/11/national-population-project... What is interesting is that despite their prediction of half the population living in 8 states, their predi
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
If you read that as me suggesting that the people living there are somehow to blame, I apologize: that was not my intention.
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
This town is nearby to Cahokia [1], which was most likely the largest human settlement in North America until the late 1700s. It declined and was abandoned (in the 1300s or earlier) and there is ample evidence that flooding was a major cau
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
I went to the linked page and tried to make configuration changes - the same computer with and without Windows. I couldn't find that option. On Dell's website, they let you do this to many of their workstation computers and it ap
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
I am reading this right? They are giving 8 days of notice? I'm inclined to think that they are doing this for legal reasons or something.
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
You are probably right. The thing is, if Apple wants to drive more iPad sales, they really need to open up what it is allowed to do. iPads from 5+ years ago are still great for almost anything but the most intense games. I have the 9.7&qu
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
Mac sales drop is fair small - 3% or so. The iPad saw a drop of 12% or so. Fairly significant.
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
"error bootstrapping app" Quite a worldchanging blog entry.
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
Wikipedia says that this guy has been an MP since 1997. Presumably that means he has won many elections and thus his constituents do not think his no-email policy is a problem.
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
You can do all of this because Git repos are self-contained complete historical records. You could do this with a traditional VCS as long as you took frequent backups. Git is an improvement in this regard, but not a revolution. Furthermore
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
Of all Git users, only an extremely small percentage use Git as a DVCS (Linux kernel, etc). GitHub is a centralized VCS. In fact, I think you could argue that the emergence of GitHub is a demonstration that DVCS is nearly useless for the
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
Automated testing existed at the time Brooks wrote his essay. In "The Soul of a New Machine", published 5 years prior, engineers arrived in the morning and examined the results of the automated tests that ran overnight, looking f
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
> buying and maintaining rental properties in Ohio unless you have family here or someone to help out on the ground I have an extended family member that at his peak time owned about 90 homes in NE Ohio. He lived there his entire life,
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
Repossessing an asset has nothing to do with punishing the borrower and everything to do with giving the lender something they can sell to make themselves as whole as possible. Being able to buy a degree at public auction is absurd.

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