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by Wistar 7mo ago
Thanks. These are waaay better instructions.
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by Wistar 8mo ago
I was an Eddie Bauer XLT guy for years until they suddenly made them way too skinny. Best fitting shirts ever. I am wearing one of the old ones right now. Land's End Tall sizing is a good fit although some of their fabric quality is a
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by Wistar 8mo ago
[Adds “clothoid” to vocabulary]
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by Wistar 8mo ago
Paul Newman won his last race at Lime Rock in Sept. 2007 driving a 900-horsepower Corvette when he was 82.
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by Wistar 8mo ago
Tungsten, perhaps.
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by Wistar 8mo ago
I, too, am a fan of the Ian’s Knot site and for at least a couple of decades. A while ago I noticed that he has posted a page through which people can donate to the site’s operation but also which details all of the income sources that have
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by Wistar 8mo ago
The names of someone close to me and his (adult) daughter both show up in the latest Epstein file release but for innocuous reasons. They both have published a lot and, apparently, Epstein was recommended some of their works.
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by Wistar 8mo ago
… or the sesame seed labeling law that resulted in sesame seeds being added to everything. https://apnews.com/article/sesame-allergies-label-b28f8eb3dc...
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by Wistar 8mo ago
On my Macbook Pro, I usually need to use both touch and a password but that might be only when some hours have passed between log ins.
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by Wistar 8mo ago
Oh man. This guy. His work is simply some of the best explanation content I have ever seen
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by Wistar 9mo ago
My thought exactly.
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by Wistar 9mo ago
I added a local-only account to a Win 11 Pro box just two days ago. Nothing seems different to me—the usual horsing around with the no online account stuff but it let me create the account.
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by Wistar 10mo ago
I saw rnicrosoft in use the other day, somewhere.
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by Wistar 10mo ago
I just read the complete Eighth Circuit guide and found it to an excellent reference. Thank you for the link.
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by Wistar 10mo ago
“… any substance, reflective matter, illuminated device, spray coating, covering, or other material that can be dynamically altered so that it interferes with the legibility or detectability of a vehicle/license plate pair (“fingerprin
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by Wistar 10mo ago
A real Kramer is often much, much more than $2,500. Kramer’s mid-line knives go, even used , for $10–$30K while his high-end, rarer stuff goes for much more. In fact, Bourdain had a real Kramer with meteorite used in its construction tha
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by Wistar 10mo ago
Worked very well for me on iPad Pro and Safari. Only took a few secs to load.
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by Wistar 10mo ago
Quick! Fins a Nakamichi 550 Portable. Amazing sonic and build quality.
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by Wistar 10mo ago
I cherish my iPhone 12 Mini and treat it with great care as it is the form factor I want and I want it to last as long as possible.
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by Wistar 11mo ago
My empirical observations conclude this is true in my little circle of the world. In our offices, we are using 2017–2019 era computers that are kept up and many of my friends, family and acquaintances are using iPhone 14 and older. I use an
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by Wistar 11mo ago
Big model related: Back in the 80s, when I lived near Sausalito, one free Saturday I visited the US Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model. It is a huge and incredible scale model of the hydrology of the whole Bay Area and a part of the Sacramen
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by Wistar 11mo ago
I have, for a while now, wondered when an airborne battery incident will be calamitous enough for a complete ban on power banks.
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by Wistar 11mo ago
Good grief.
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by Wistar 11mo ago
… or a steerable corner-cube array or retroreflector prism. Steerable in that it needs to slightly redirect its reflection to above the light source—to the windshield area of the offending vehicle—rather than exactly back to the light sou
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by Wistar 11mo ago
5 years ago, I would have agreed with you but not today. Just too many of them to all be user-modified/augmented lights.
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by Wistar 11mo ago
I am not sure that the incredibly bright Tesla Model 3 (and sometimes Model X) lights are on brights but are just stupidly bright at low-beam settings.
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by Wistar 11mo ago
Adaptive headlights that actively shield oncoming drivers were finally made legal in the US in 2022 but complicated bureaucratic hoops make them hard to implement. BMW seems to have them working as I find their higher-end lighting (ex: ICON
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by Wistar 11mo ago
Lately, I see a lot of drivers who turn on their brights and just leave them on and this includes cars with the older halogen and even incandescents. This is a change in behavior. As for LEDs, to me, the Tesla Model 3 headlights are the wor
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by Wistar 11mo ago
Exciting friends can be exhausting.
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by Wistar 11mo ago
There are current litigation efforts to hold Amazon liable for suicides committed by, in particular, self-poisoning with high-purity sodium nitrite, which, in low concentrations is used as a meat curing agent. A 2023 lawsuit against Amazon

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