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by abruzzi 4y ago
I'm sad...I tested my page and its 14.1k. I suppose I should remove that header image.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
a system for tracking gas turbine and diesel engine parts, the engines they were installed on, and the ships the engines were in or docks they were stored at for one particular division of the US Navy.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
Agreed. Taste is very personal, and to me Granny Smith are still my all time favorite apple. Most other apples are too sweet for me.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
the article mentioned possible clawbacks, so that one thing. However I don't know if clawbacks will be limited to unspent funds or have the possibility to demand back funds that were already spent. Another possibility--and I have no i
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by abruzzi 4y ago
Clark also used it as a throwaway line in Childhood's End. IIRC, humans were given a device that would allow them to see the past--most religions didn't survive seeing the true origins of their faith.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I didn't realize there were so few BeBoxen made. I wonder if I kept mine what it would be worth to a collector?
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by abruzzi 4y ago
DePy - decentralized pyramid. I say this in jest. There are more than one reason to be interested in crypto, but when bitcoin suddenly went from 1BTC=USD$1 to $1BTC=USD$100 (I don't actually know when the boom happened--I wasn't
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by abruzzi 4y ago
yup. my salary and everyone else at my organization is published every year by the local newspaper. We aren't required to publish it ourselves, but if anyone asks, we are required to reveal it, so the local paper files a request ever
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by abruzzi 4y ago
not a plumber--some contortions are sometimes involved to get into tight spaces (not as bad as my brother who is an auto mechanic when he has to get under the dash.) But I have put my name in for the position that drives the lawn mower fo
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by abruzzi 4y ago
what interesting is there is nothing there. The only something are gas wells which the whole area is dotted with, so my only guess is leaky gas wells? https://www.google.com/maps/@32.3761968,-104.0819087,4787m/d.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I don't reccomend Valis for anyone but the most diehard Dick fans. Its an attempt to fictionalize an experience Dick had and spent the rest of his life trying to understand. It has some great moments, but it doesn't hold togethe
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by abruzzi 4y ago
we humans tend to enjoy numerology for some reason. I remember turning 55,555.5 miles on my motorcycle and stopping to take a photo. It turns out I was on a small back road with a 55mph speed limit, and I was close to a "Speed Limit
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I've read that vitamin D can play a role in cancer prevention at a cellular level. Our bodies synthesize vitamin D using UVB in sunlight. You'll notice that most of the states at the bottom of the list (except DC ?!?) are sunny
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by abruzzi 4y ago
that could be it. I wouldn't have thought APL just because, well APL is so far out there with so many custom glyphs. Thanks, I'll have to dig more into this.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I'm curious if anyone remembers this--I remember an ad, probably in Byte magazine, for a laptop (this was way before laptops were commonplace.) It was thin and kind of teardrop shaped, and instead of BASIC, the built in programming la
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by abruzzi 4y ago
"we value your privacy" ... so here is how we are going to track you.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
damn, you're way ahead of me, almost double my number. I haven't looked into local backups. I'll have to see how that is done (and buy a bigger harddrive.) I didn't really realize that Apple made this possible since I
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I currently "own" 493 movies on iTunes. I don't use any streaming servies because my experience with them has been horrible--a couple dozen movies I want to watch with hundreds or thousands of filler movies that I have no in
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I don’t know the specific setup, but the app passes you to AAD which passes you to a SAML source (Okta in this instance, but we use Cisco Duo). The SAML provider authenticates you, sets a cookie, then sends you back to AAD, which sets its
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by abruzzi 4y ago
yup. I live the Peter principle every day. Its really that your promoted because you were good at your old job, but that doesn't guarantee that you are good at your new job, and eventually you get promoted to a job you're not go
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by abruzzi 4y ago
in fairness the old XP/Server 2003 notepad would frequently freak out on me and suddenly remove all <CR> (or <LF>, I don't really know) from a file I was editing (not a unix or mac generated file, so it was not a <C
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I don't know how it did it, but the old DOS version of MS word actually displayed bold/italic/underline in the DOS terminal. It wasn't WYSIWYG but the display was a bit nicer than Wordstar.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
This reminds me of a thought I had a few years ago. A Sheriff in my state was arresting for buying IT equipment using department funds (I think it was Cisco gear) and selling it on eBay and pocketing the cash. He had done this a bunch of
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by abruzzi 4y ago
they are similar yet very different. Stalker focuses on a single journey into the Zone, Rodaside picnic focuses on the life and world surrounding the zone. I've always said that Roadside Picnic is dark realist SciFi that dabbles in P
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by abruzzi 4y ago
still have a 2000 upgraded to 2100 in a closet somewhere. At some level the iPhone was such a disappoinment after having owned a Newton, becuase the early iPhone, even after the introduction of the app store, felt like a bunch of siloed ap
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I sometimes suspect I'll continue to drive my 20 year old gas powered vehicle until I can't buy gas anymore. Its not that I want a gas vehicle, but that the rise of EVs coincides with a complete re-thinking of the automotive mode
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TikTok’s In-App Browser Contains Code That Follows Your Every Move(petapixel.com)
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by abruzzi 4y ago
Cloudflare, if they support the TLD you need. My personal domain is a .cx which they don't support, so I stick with Namecheap for the time being.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
my peeve is that if you bring up the terrain map, you see topo lines, but they disappear the moment you get close enough to actually read the elevation of the lines.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
My father shot thousands of slides when we lived in Nigeria in the mid 70's. He still has them, but I have started scanning them myself with Pentax DSLR, and macro bellows with slide copying attachment. It been pretty fun--I was 5-6

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