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by aksss 5y ago
This is getting to be a trope - "what you knew is wrong, the guy who is generally given credit was actually an evil bastard who oppressed these other team members who did the lion's share of the work." I'm not sure we ne
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by aksss 5y ago
Canada has high latitudes as well. Only part hyperbole, which is why I make the statement that even if you're doing only 0F and 150m, the same prep is a good idea. Really any drive where, in the event of your vehicle breaking down expo
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by aksss 5y ago
This is good practical advice for how to maximize EV energy use in an emergency. That said, these vehicles are clearly not made for a long haul cold weather existence. Can they be made to work for occasional use with some planning and praye
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by aksss 5y ago
Batteries are a point of vendor lock-in and forced obsolescence. Not saying modern tech isn’t great, but young me who spent all that money tooling up with cordless has changed to older me who honestly prefers corded or hosed (or even ICE) t
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by aksss 5y ago
The only exception to watch out for is when buying a crappy version of x will negatively color your new experiences with an activity. Tools meant for precision but the cheap versions are plastic rattle traps that get out of calibration&#x2F
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by aksss 5y ago
A lot of times the price differential is such that I can buy two or three of item x for the price of a single premium version. If you seldom use the tool and it isn’t getting handled a lot (transportation, etc), this is the way. You can rep
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by aksss 5y ago
His blog had a mildly interesting post on rereading one of the SM Sterling novels, Against the Tide of Years. I really enjoyed those books, and in the comments it appears SM Sterling is actually there engaging, which is very cool!
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by aksss 5y ago
Spelling matters, for sure.
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by aksss 5y ago
Jeez I don’t know - SQL is the eternal language and people are always trying to replace it or come up with alternatives so they don’t have to learn it, but those efforts have always turned into their own obscure learning domains with the ex
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by aksss 5y ago
Basically an infomercial for a $600 product
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by aksss 5y ago
everyone has a history of it, and many non-western societies still have a barely concealed if not government sanctioned industry of it.
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by aksss 5y ago
sounds a bit like how asynchronous programming is a 'virus' in that once you start applying the pattern, so much upstream and downstream code needs to start implementing the same pattern.
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by aksss 5y ago
well, maybe less about ability as about energy consumption. Perhaps we've got a long way to go before robots can do the same work as kids for the same equivalent energy cost of three bowls of rice per day.
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by aksss 5y ago
Gosh, the section on "Mission failures caused by payload fairings" is understandable but not something I've ever heard of before. The launch crew error of failing to remove two lanyards.. ugh. To be "that guy" must&
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by aksss 5y ago
In re the youtube vid, that's a flippin' huge hanger. Crazy that this stuff is sitting dormant.
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by aksss 5y ago
I believe the banana is the Internet standard for visual scale.
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by aksss 5y ago
I wouldn’t hold my breath. Here’s a similar breakthrough two years ago: https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/lithium-sulfur-battery-news-ev... A steady 2%-3% y/y improvement in batteries is the trend, I believe. 5x impro
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by aksss 5y ago
I kinda want an aol account just cuz.
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by aksss 5y ago
Just as likely you’d awaken to planet of the apes or morlocks.
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by aksss 5y ago
The big secret you learn about central banking pretty early in adulthood is that “we” (society) is still figuring it out, tweaking it, and making it up as we go, and it’s not so old as to have this huge body of proven method that we’re all
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by aksss 5y ago
The actual analysis from Chain Security can be found here: https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2... Pretty damning but it remains to be seen how much of this applies to Yealink models built for M
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by aksss 5y ago
Employment contracts are a double-edged sword that would warrant their own discussion. Also you’re not really signing an agreement that they can fire you, you’re signing an acknowledgement of the at-will employment status so you can’t c
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by aksss 5y ago
I’m kinda jelly of “you people”. I grew up/live in far PNW and am a history nerd. Going to the east coast it’s just stunning how much living history is there, not to mention the accessibility of museums and archives for stuff I’m inter
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by aksss 5y ago
Wow, new to me. Fascinating, thanks!
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by aksss 5y ago
The cast list in True Romance always shocks people unfamiliar with it. A different generation of greats though. Val Kilmer, Dennis Hopper, Chris Walken, Brad Pitt, Gary Oldman, Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, James Gandolfini, Jack Bla
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by aksss 5y ago
> The messenger arrived with a big envelope. I opened it. It said Sneakers. My heart sank. It sounded like a bad teen comedy about a hapless junior-high basketball team that is saved when they recruit a girl point guard who’s a great sh
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by aksss 5y ago
Ha, I made a point to visit Culpeper specifically because of the TV show Turn (and the book it’s based on, Washington’s Spies ). I guess the Culpeper spy ring in the Revolutionary War was named for this town that George Washington had surv
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by aksss 5y ago
> IME most people will never do that so it'll always remain niche. like vim.. winces in anticipation of things thrown at him
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by aksss 5y ago
I love linux distros but let me just say that anytime I hear "linux" and "just works" in the same sentence, I knowingly snicker to myself at the road that lies in front of that poor sucker. I "just works" with
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by aksss 5y ago
> time is the main reason If time is your valuable commodity then buying a first gen "revolutionary" product was never going to be a good move. In your case, buying "known good" was the direction you should have gone

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