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by Wistar 6y ago
One day a few years ago as I was walking into the Kirkland, WA Costco, I noticed a familiar-looking older guy pushing a line of shopping carts in from the parking lot. It was James Sinegal, then CEO of Costco.
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by Wistar 6y ago
Asympastote.
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by Wistar 6y ago
I learned that word, tsundoku, right here at HN, from user Xophmeister.
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by Wistar 6y ago
I, too, have signed up for a few newsletter subscriptions——just in the last few months——that I never seem to read. Is there an email-newsletter equivalent for "tsundoku?"
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by Wistar 6y ago
This is a face that really appeals to me. Nice, nice work. It reminds me of my father's precise lettering on his technical drawings from the 50s, especially the uppercase N.
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by Wistar 6y ago
I think that an IT department should have enough wherewithal to be able to distinguish between student accessible resources and teacher accessible resources.
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by Wistar 6y ago
My spouse is a teacher and can confirm that their IT dept uses a very broad brush in blocking things on the network. Many of the blocks are of sites that have become important teaching resources such as pinterest.
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by Wistar 6y ago
To Photoshop?
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by Wistar 6y ago
Not sure about gyrocopters but fixed-wing pilots who later transition to, or add, a rotary wing license are intensely counseled to resist the baked-in urge to push the nose over to counteract a stall or imminent stall. In almost all single-
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by Wistar 6y ago
But do the police have the proper BMI/ASCAP license for public performance?
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by Wistar 6y ago
A bit of an aside: An article on Ag Web about a farmer with 7,000 acres, and who has limited his tractor fleet to only old, but re-vamped, tractors for which he has assembled his own maintenance team. "Misfit Tractors a Money Saver for
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by Wistar 6y ago
Nice find. Ordering now.
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by Wistar 6y ago
It is common for serious users of time-line-based animation and compositing software as well as layer-based software such as Photoshop and Illustrator to use one display in portrait for the timelines and layers. I know I do. I have tried us
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by Wistar 6y ago
Not super S100 focused but, in the early 80s, I used an Alpha Microsystems S100 multi-user system with a WD16 processor. Later, the company I worked for, a video production company, upgraded to the 68000 based Alpha Micro. The whole company
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by Wistar 6y ago
Related: See (hear) author Michael Pollan's 2018 Fresh Air interview on NPR about his experiments with mushrooms, LSD and other psychedelics while researching his book, "How to Change Your Mind." https://www.npr.or
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by Wistar 6y ago
On Fios in Seattle. Seems good here.
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by Wistar 6y ago
Indeed. Witness all the folks who insisted Amanda Knox was guilty because she didn't act and look as they thought she should were she innocent.
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by Wistar 6y ago
Many a small airport in the U.S. has met its fate by the complaints of newcomers.
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by Wistar 6y ago
That is a great site. Many years ago, my father, a mathematician, gave me a well-worn copy of the book "Thinking With a Pencil." I still have it and, even though I have internalized much of it over time, I sometimes still refer to
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by Wistar 6y ago
Perhaps this story about a Florida man and his fitness app data that "placed him" at the scene of a burglary because he had the misfortune of having ridden by the crime site three times during his ride? https://www.thev
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by Wistar 6y ago
Cessna Caravans, mostly. The Beavers are definitely not turbine but I see them less and less these days.
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by Wistar 6y ago
I really (really) like the Bic Velocity Bold. At 1.6mm, they certainly lay down some ink and are incredibly smooth. They are my favorite, by far. The 1.0mm is good, too, but the 1.6mm is great. https://us.bic.com/en_us/
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by Wistar 6y ago
I have both a ~1999 Mk 1 and 2018 Mk 2 100-400. The Mk 2 is waaay better in almost every way: focus accuracy, no push-pull, better bokeh (marginally) better contrast… just better results with less effort. Also a lot more expensive. I have t
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by Wistar 6y ago
Ooh. I'd love to try that lens. I have both the 70-200 2.8L II and the 100-400 II and I love them both. That 70-200 is one of my all time zoom faves but the 100-400 is not too far behind it.
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by Wistar 6y ago
Pick up an $11k Canon 200-400 L lens and it is this super solid, beautifully made thing. Pick up a Canon CN-E 30-300 cinema lens and it is this exquisite, jewel-like thing that seems as though it is made by NASA. And it's $45K.
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by Wistar 6y ago
I have a 70-300mm DO and it is not a lens I like much. The 400 DO is probably light-years better. It is definitely light-years more expensive.
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by Wistar 6y ago
Many years ago, I worked for a guy who regularly monitored mobile phone frequencies and recorded conversations. He wrote screenplays and used the recordings for dialog study. At least that was what he claimed.
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by Wistar 6y ago
Heck, they render fast and smooth on my 3 year old iPad.
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by Wistar 6y ago
There is a reason it is called "Scarepoint," even internally.
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by Wistar 6y ago
Of course, you are correct.

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