abirch

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   by abirch 4y ago

   Kids are inexperienced as well as impulsive. My wife and I joke, "why can't our kids have the perspective of middle aged people?"
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   by abirch 4y ago

   Exactly it's the consequences of what could happen. It's good for kids to learn the hard way most of the time, but I'm not letting my kid swim in shark infested water so that they learn about the value of signs.
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   by abirch 4y ago

   Correct. Many of the large private equity companies were started in the 1980's when the rates were significantly higher than they are today.
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   by abirch 4y ago

   My only guess is that when your kid is missing, you may not be thinking clearly. It's why we say nine-one-one instead of nine-eleven. This app probably prompts you to take a mugshot of your kid so it'd be easier for the police to
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   by abirch 4y ago

   I still can't believe that they opened the PDF on the company computer. I always use my home computer and the poor hacker would get bored of seeing all of my Raspberry Pi projects that I haven't done.
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   by abirch 4y ago

   One of my friends had a Nobel Laureate as a professor. The professor half-jokingly told everyone that getting a Nobel prize is easy, just disprove something that everyone accepts as accepted truth.
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   by abirch 4y ago

   Yes, I can't get the conspiracy theory that Michael Jordan was betting on basketball games, got caught, but suspending him out would have hurt basketball so he played baseball to serve out his sentence. It doesn't make sense as he
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   by abirch 4y ago

   Depth First Search for heirs.
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   by abirch 4y ago

   I feel that Zipcar would be a fairer comparison to owning your own car. You could compare a taxi to your own chauffeured car. We own our own car out of convenience not cost savings.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    Exactly, they literally design their own hardware. To me it's like trying to roll your own word processor. You can but unless it's core to your business, it's cheaper to buy.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    Exactly. I know if a large bank that went to the cloud after one of its infrastructure employees walked away with data on a USB stick.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    MIT is an R&D corporation which has a college attached. MIT filed 358 US patents and had 435 issued in the year ending June 30, 2021. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/02/23/1044184/5-mit-pa...
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    by abirch 4y ago

    OMG nothing of value was lost. Now I can even invite my crypto nephew to Thanksgiving this year.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    Check out Roblox.com/create
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    by abirch 4y ago

    I've heard that SSDI with a lawyer is much more doable than without one.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    Can you imagine getting your news from a version of Richard Stallman.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    I actually have a coworker moving to California for their university system. Like taking his sophomore daughter and 4th grader and moving there.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    Found this for cows' burps https://www.zelp.co/
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    by abirch 4y ago

    I was wrong, the methane capture that exists is methane from the manure. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1077235578
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    by abirch 4y ago

    Medical oxygen tanks are over 85%. That said everything would be more flammable.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    If you happen to have an article of converting sea water to methane, please post. My searches bring back methane dissolved in sea water and I'm curious where the carbon originates.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    This would be useful for dairy farmers. Addition revenue for cow farts and greenhouse gas reduction.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    Programming languages can be similar to bacterial DNA. Even if the language never gains broad acceptance, parts of it may be incorporated into other languages.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    Atari loved that Steve Jobs worked at night because they suspected Woz who was a better engineer would help him. As long as the work gets done...
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    by abirch 4y ago

    MANAGER: We need to hire someone. EMPLOYEE 1: We should hire Homer. He was at my last company and great. EMPLOYEE 2: We had a Homer at my old company, he was great. But he and I worked together at a different company.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    I was born and raised in farm county. You wouldn't want a pig farmer to move in next door. Yes too much zoning is a bad thing; too little is bad as well.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    To be honest, I wish that better code repositories we're given more weight. Microsoft's should be given more weight, especially considering the security issues that is autosuggested by copilot. https://arxiv.org/ab
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    by abirch 4y ago

    >Random coincidence, which you notice in the one case where it happens but not in the 99 cases where it does not. In addition, there could have been 100 instances in the past but they didn't stick.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    I've seen this frequently in large companies as well. That's why you see legacy systems with random tech.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    I'm talking about my needs, ditto with the XKCD guy. Basically I just need to be able to create a PR from my local changes. Not much more.