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by Wistar 4y ago
In the course of helping an acquaintance do research for a book, I listened to hours of interviews with an 80 year old aerodynamics specialist who worked for Boeing for decades. It was fascinating stuff. One of his specialties was the desig
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by Wistar 4y ago
I realize that I have amazing dreams of intricate complexity and richness but only recall the impression I had of the dreams upon waking. The rich details dissolve away within minutes. I am left only with the sketchy, and disappointing, met
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by Wistar 4y ago
I built a couple purifiers using a box fan atop a cube made of four HEPA (MERV 13) 20x20x2 furnace filters. Inside the cube, I hung two UVC lamps, one merc vapor at 254nm and one LED-type at "far uvc" 222nm, in the hopes it would
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by Wistar 4y ago
Apt.
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by Wistar 4y ago
I once had a check for about $900, drawn from a home equity line with tens of thousands available, rejected at a camera store by the Chex system which the store used at POS. There was no recourse that I could find despite spending quite a b
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by Wistar 4y ago
I realize that the district cannot fix the signal strength but needs to bring some political strength in complaining to the carriers. The 2FA is text but should be authenticator.
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by Wistar 4y ago
Given all the under-the-radar, play-it-fast-and-loose stuff I was encouraged to do there, I was quite surprised by the episode. This was just after the consent decree came down and the whole place become very risk-averse practically overnig
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by Wistar 4y ago
Oft espoused at Microsoft BUT, as I found out, that one case where I ordered an extra $150 whiteboard for my office without first going to my manager resulted in a really stern rebuke.
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by Wistar 4y ago
My spouse teaches in a school that is an isolated area between hills and has so little cell signal that teachers are forced to go outside and stand in a particular part of the parking lot and wave their phones around to transmit or receive
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by Wistar 4y ago
Agreed. His was one of the best voices out there. There are folks who think Reagan's 1984 landslide was propelled, at least in significant part, by Riney penned and voiced political ads, especially, "Prouder, Stronger, Better&quot
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by Wistar 4y ago
When I was an online editor (video) in SF, I got to work with Hal Riney on several occasions. There was this joke among his agency staffers that, no matter what commercial he screened, if he hadn't voiced it himself, he always said (so
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by Wistar 4y ago
Although I have not heard (or even thought of) it in… well, decades, Tomita's Pictures at an Exhibition was something I really loved, especially "Ballet of Unhatched Chicks." I need to try and listen to it again.
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by Wistar 4y ago
I misread this as "How to feel enraged at work," and thought that I really didn't need any guidance.
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by Wistar 4y ago
Perhaps although I have always associated the name with noise reduction.
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by Wistar 4y ago
Great points. Thank you. Perhaps my friend's perspective is tempered by his being native to Seattle. He mentioned that he thought Montevideo was the southern hemisphere match to Seattle. Hmm.
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by Wistar 4y ago
"Ballmer’s viewpoint is more succinct: 'There wouldn’t be a Microsoft today without Dave.'" Nicely written 2016 article about Cutler: "The engineer’s engineer: Computer industry luminaries salute Dave Cutler’s five-
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by Wistar 4y ago
A good friend spends a lot of time in Montevideo, Uruguay and he says it has fairly steady pleasant weather.
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by Wistar 4y ago
My late father-in-law and his buddies used the expression "uglier than a hat full of assholes," and I always assumed that "asshat" came from that. Guess I was wrong.
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by Wistar 4y ago
> And although I hardly use my phone I still feel some anxiety not having it when I leave the house. Edge case anxiety?
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Absolutely true.
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by Wistar 4y ago
I have experienced exactly this. Painstakingly detailed wireframes that look like finished designs. What I have gotten back from world-class designers are my exact design but expertly, gloriously, colored inside the lines I inadvertently cr
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by Wistar 4y ago
I have heard that a Spoon Sports modified F20c can do 11k reliably. The engine has a very long stroke for its size, and stock, the piston speeds are already higher than almost any other car engine, so that it can spin as fast as it does is
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by Wistar 4y ago
I have heard that a Spoon Sports modified F20c can do 11k reliably. The engine has a very long stroke for its size, and stock, the piston speeds are already higher than almost any other car engine, so that it can spin as fast as it does is
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by Wistar 4y ago
Last summer's trip was in a Mercedes GLK, not exactly the paragon of slipperiness.
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by Wistar 4y ago
It used to be—80s and early 90s—that a couple hundred mile drive down the Oregon coast would need at least one or two stops for bug splat removal. I made that drive last July and there were perhaps two splats for the entire 400-mile round t
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by Wistar 4y ago
Perhaps a noisemaker that emits a continuous cavalcade of decoy fart sounds?
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by Wistar 4y ago
And, alas, found guilty: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/03/25/1088902...
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by Wistar 4y ago
[adds "bikeshedding" to vocabulary.]
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The NYT doesn't seem to know. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/business/elon-musk-politi...
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> "A lot of the books I actually own physical copies because I bought them thinking I would read them, and then never got around to them and I now have many boxes of books in the garage." Me, too. A couple years ago, right here

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