ThinkingGuy

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by ThinkingGuy 2y ago
I at least expected a description of the conditions inside data centers that portrayals in movies in TV shows always seem to get wrong: how _loud_ and _cold_ they are.
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by ThinkingGuy 2y ago
Doesn't everyone set Firefox to delete cookies at shutdown? (with exceptions for a small number of frequently-used trusted sites)
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by ThinkingGuy 2y ago
Yeah, the requirement to create a Google account was a show-stopper for me.
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by ThinkingGuy 2y ago
For one thing, they really seem to have worried about accidentally being buried alive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_coffin
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by ThinkingGuy 2y ago
Crossing the international date line is fun. On my first trip from Hawaii to New Zealand, we got to skip a Monday on the way there, and enjoy two Saturday nights on the way back.
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by ThinkingGuy 2y ago
Thanks for that info. I’ve wondered for years what the meaning of the utf parameter was.
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by ThinkingGuy 2y ago
KRUZ https://www.morningstar.com/etfs/bats/kruz/quote
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by ThinkingGuy 2y ago
Airline pilot/author Patrick Smith has a pretty informative article about turbulence on his website: https://askthepilot.com/questionanswers/turbulence/
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by ThinkingGuy 2y ago
Summer solstice* *In the northern hemisphere
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by ThinkingGuy 2y ago
Is the headline possibly a reference to this Oatmeal comic?: “Exposure” https://theoatmeal.com/comics/exposure
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by ThinkingGuy 2y ago
Rushkoff’s TED talk on this tpoic: https://www.ted.com/talks/douglas_rushkoff_how_to_be_team_hu...
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by ThinkingGuy 2y ago
Most likely scenario: school boards buy it, then use it to justify cutting the number of teachers.
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by ThinkingGuy 2y ago
The Straight Dope was also a long-running newspaper column.
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by ThinkingGuy 2y ago
I've known 2 people who were previously addicted to heroin but had been able to quit. Both of them were still dependent on nicotine.
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by ThinkingGuy 2y ago
For an alternative viewpoint on the supposed “vagueness” of Japanese, I would recommend “Gone Fishin: New Angles on Perennial Problems,” by Jay Rubin, from the Power Japanese series. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5609
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by ThinkingGuy 2y ago
Dnsmasq was recently the subject of a FLOSS Weekly podcast episode: https://hackaday.com/2024/03/27/floss-weekly-episode-776-dns...
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by ThinkingGuy 3y ago
I grew up in cassette tape era, but they shared a characteristic with vinyl: albums had 2 sides, providing a "break" or "intermission" between sides. Many artists would purposely arrange the songs on an album to account
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by ThinkingGuy 3y ago
Theses companies are part of a larger trend of the Atlanta rental market coming to be dominated by investors. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution did a whole report on this last year: https://www.ajc.com/american-dream/inv
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by ThinkingGuy 3y ago
Sounds like aphantasia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
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by ThinkingGuy 3y ago
There's also a bit of marketing and psychology involved. A lot of people, especially men, would be embarrassed to say they're "going to see their therapist," but have no problem saying "I'm getting counseling f
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by ThinkingGuy 3y ago
Also notable: Bessie Coleman, who received her pilot's license a year before Earhart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Coleman
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by ThinkingGuy 3y ago
If you wait long enough, the problem will fix itself. My 2012 Nissan Leaf is equipped with a 3G cellular modem (upgraded from the 2G that it originally shipped with). Since the providers all shut down their 3G networks, it's been effec
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by ThinkingGuy 3y ago
On the day each of his three children was born, my dad saved a copy of the local paper. I still have my copy.
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by ThinkingGuy 3y ago
In 1979 the US issued a new $1 coin. Seemingly overnight, a black-and-silver sticker reading "This machine will not accept the new dollar coin" appeared on every single Coke machine in the country. https://en.wikipedia.
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by ThinkingGuy 3y ago
Pretty accurate, except for one major thing: all the pages load instantly. In 1999 you pretty much expected each web page to take at least 10 seconds to load, mostly for the images to gradually...fade...into.....view.
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by ThinkingGuy 3y ago
Like WT Social? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WT_Social https://wt.social/
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by ThinkingGuy 3y ago
A large part of the problem is that dietary supplements in the US are basically exempt from truth-in-advertising laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Supplement_Health_and_...
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by ThinkingGuy 3y ago
I had a friend in college who worked part-time at a shop that sold and installed audiophile gear. He was a music engineering major, so he was aware of how much of what they sold was snake oil. Example: a 3-foot RCA cable that sold for seve
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by ThinkingGuy 3y ago
The charm of the Clapper was still resonating in 1997, when "Saturday Night Live" did the parody sketch "New Microsoft Products" (Relevant bit starts at 1:22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt4SZydEbqo
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by ThinkingGuy 3y ago
Trumpet Winsock - got me connected to the Internet (so I can play my favorite MUDS)

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