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by aj7 4y ago
I asked NFL+ for the ability to hide scores, since I have evolved to avoiding the news, and then watching selected games as though they were live, and it was there the next week.
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We’ve had 50% Republican administrations. Regulatory capture is their technology as they can’t pass anti-competitive legislation, no matter how much they are bribed.
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The Grateful Dead had a system where you just bought the tickets. If you didn’t make it in the lottery, your envelope was returned unopened. Don’t remember what the method of payment was.
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by aj7 4y ago
Not true on StubHub. No information on original purchaser. Also effectively not transferable as you can’t print the ticket. Must use mobile device, not optionally use. Stubhub prices appear to be significantly lower, but I had to call them
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Because it actually works.
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Good post.
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In Tucson, with 350 days of Sun, until fairly recently, electricity was generated from COAL. Now natural gas.
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by aj7 4y ago
China GDP/person 1/5 that of U.S. Don’t confuse the Chinese urban elite, who indeed have a Western level of income and wealth, with “China.”
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F* around in the machine shop.
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by aj7 4y ago
“ While the current date is 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang, the average star will last over five trillion years.” No. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-do-stars...
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by aj7 4y ago
Thank you.
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by aj7 4y ago
I learned Fortran 4 in high school in 1967-1968. That’s how good the NYC exam schools were — Stuyvesant in this case. We had our own 1130. This came in handy in college, I did the programming in a physics group, immediately. But it seemed t
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by aj7 4y ago
As a consultant, I almost fell into the curse of knowledge. I'm working on instructions for manufacturing, namely drawings. There is a law that must never be violated: Never give the shop a choice. Choosing the most specific instruct
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by aj7 4y ago
I occasionally go back to Windows. I am in hell for a while. If I had to use Windows to drive a car, I'd wreck it before the mindset would reload.
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Preview is awful but you actually use it. Forgive me. My Twitter personality is showing.
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How about willfully admitting yourself into the Amazon prison, to build up prison credits. By so doing, you could commit small crimes with impunity, using your already earned credits to skip punishment. Hmm. The rich already commit large
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by aj7 4y ago
I don’t believe a voice modulator alone would be effective in the gender “equalization“ of speech. It would act as a form of distortion, not equalization, and cannot mask differences in usage, pauses, emotional messages like giggles, breath
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by aj7 4y ago
I’m an alter cocker and I feel way too tired all morning and not tired enough when it’s time to go to sleep.
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by aj7 4y ago
Not selling, in Tucson. Get a screwdriver. Or a shop will fix it fir $50.
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Facebook has 75,000 employees? Doing what?
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It’s very amusing to see “young people” be into retro computers. At 71, I’m the opposite. Because I deal with actual (slow) functional degradation, I can’t be bothered with old computers. That’s a young man’s game. 2017 iMac Pro, soon to b
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Ian Horrocks Book https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzaceaffaddwzzdbdu57rg...
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If you paste an expression into the search box… Try it with (66/6)^2/2
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A huge strength of the original HP9100A programmable calculator, http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/HP/HP.9100... , was that ALL 3 rpn stack registers were visible AT ONCE ON THE CRT. So he has
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Of great importance was not rewiring or modifying all the engine controls: the new engines had to slide right in and attach to the controls the old engines used. This alone demanded 8 small engines. Read about how they solved the flutter pr
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What is pre-registration? https://www.cos.io/initiatives/prereg
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The purpose of engineering management is to create a buffer between the engineers and the a’holes, who, if permitted to manage the engineers directly, would drive them from the company. This is a critical, but not full-time job, as evinced
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No. Not the rich. Not at all. The educated. (Example: Making a criminal out of Dr. Fauci) It’s the educated that resent the rich.
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You are right. I was focused on the bubble that persons with good tech careers live in— they almost never come across the resentful 33% in their lives. By the way, those “resentful 33%,” in their own way, are not wrong. I saw a YouTube of w
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I'm really having trouble understanding why this is even relevant in 2022. Who cares what the excuses and problems were within Nokia in 2011? Is Nokia's inability to keep up with cell phone technology in 2011 and important part o

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