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by addled 3y ago
The explanation I got when I worked there was that it was put in to help identify competitors that were blindly scraping our online catalog. There's a couple others if you keep digging. Similar to the concept of "trap streets&quo
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by addled 3y ago
Same, except the one in my hometown hadn't even thrown out the VHS tapes yet. There were still aisles full of early 80s movies in their faded, original edition boxes that had probably been there since the store first opened. I remembe
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by addled 3y ago
Nice. I think the code is at https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix for those interested. I had played with version 0.0.1 trying to get it to work with https://www.freeallegiance.org/ , but ran i
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by addled 3y ago
The most sarcastic children's book I've ever read was about ballooning: "Launching, Floating High, and Landing - If Your Pilot Light Doesn't Go Out", by Gary Paulsen (1979). I stumbled upon it at a thrift store a wh
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by addled 3y ago
Having escape hatches is critical, but they should also be well built, or it can cause just as much headache. Example from us using Azure Data Factory: You can add a step to call out to an API, which we did for a data flow that had a lot of
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by addled 3y ago
My kids and I figured out that an overdiluted mixture can be a lot of fun too. Take a clear pie pan or dish. Add a quarter to half an inch of water, then a couple drops of food coloring, and slowly mix in cornstarch and observe how it beha
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by addled 3y ago
My favorites were the ones that intentionally defined terms in the most outrageous ways. One time the topic was something about allowing pilots to be armed in the cockpit. After the first couple rounds we realized our jokers were scheduled
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by addled 3y ago
There's Busytown board game that's pretty fun to play with young children: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/64220/richard-scarrys-bu... . It is very distinctive, with a huge 6 foot long game board. P
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by addled 3y ago
My company's employee portal currently sports not only two carousels (on different timings, of course), but also a huge banner with a countdown clock. That's just above the fold. There's a 3rd carousel if you scroll down.
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by addled 3y ago
You're right. My mistake for lumping that in there.
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by addled 3y ago
I think Kubrick's movies are fantastic, deep, atmospheric, thought provoking. True art. I have never made it all the way through one without falling asleep. 2001, Blade Runner, Dr. Strangelove.... Even movies loosely associated with
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by addled 3y ago
Or did loss of megafauna contribute to the change in climate? Fun project trying to test the direction of causality: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park
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by addled 3y ago
I've read that the Romans got pretty good at anti-elephant tactics. https://acoup.blog/tag/elephants/
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by addled 3y ago
I have seen this in the US at rural cafe's or diners. When my wife was waitressing, she'd call them the "coffee-drinkers". Every morning there'd be a group of semi-regulars that filtered in to drink coffee and swa
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by addled 3y ago
A geophysics prof I did a project with one summer gave me this sage advice: "Be good to your coax, and your coax will be good to you."
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by addled 3y ago
Similar concept behind https://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor
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by addled 3y ago
As a kid, someone gave me a toy keyboard. Checking Google, it looks nearly identical to a Casio PT-1, but was probably a clone or slightly different model. 9 year-old me was delighted to discover that it would start playing on its own when
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by addled 3y ago
Anecdotal counter-example: yeah my ADHD son can play Minecraft for a couple hours straight, but if you watch he's constantly switching tasks. I love spending time with him on our home server, but trying to keep up with him is sometimes
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by addled 3y ago
Perhaps they're the time traveller in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Say_Nothing_of_the_Dog ?
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by addled 3y ago
Oh nice! I've always thought this was a cool mission, but it has felt more... personal after seeing 17776.
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by addled 4y ago
That was really good, thanks for sharing.
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by addled 4y ago
If you can't find a foraging community in your area, try your county Extension office. They've got a lot of resources on local plants and animals. My wife's aunt works at one, and it always makes her day when someone shows
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by addled 4y ago
I'm sure they do, but it might be less common because it takes more effort to launder than credit cards. There's millions of retailers that accept credit info in exchange for goods and services. You can't use ACH to buy Wal-M
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by addled 4y ago
I don't know about the others, but Azure DevOps' mermaid support is several releases out of date, or custom-limited to certain features. This means a lot of the examples in the official docs or elsewhere online don't work. B
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by addled 4y ago
The auction in question: https://www.hgpauction.com/auctions/114234/twitter/ Doesn't list what things sold for, but you can still view the catalog. Surprisingly few computers considering the number of em
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by addled 4y ago
Interesting perspective. I could see my inner child treating it like an astronaut going on a spacewalk!
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by addled 4y ago
Seeing that 50-70% drop in accounts up front would have been a better way of introducing the 70% staffing cuts.
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by addled 4y ago
Could probably trim it down 10-20% and call it "The Collected Works of Jon Skeet".
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by addled 4y ago
Yeah, I think there's opportunity to learn about it in most high schools, usually through extra/co-curricular activities like that. Like someone else mentioned in another comment, I experienced Robert's Rules during speech an
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by addled 4y ago
While we are talking about dictionaries, I really wish more word games would include definitions. My kids (well, me as well) really enjoy word games like Bookworm Adventures, Wordscapes, etc. However occasionally these turn into random gu

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