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by alricb 6y ago
Or you could look at "Activate my hate" by mHz: ftp://mimic.ca/pub/ascii/remorse_collies/r-mhzamh.txt
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by alricb 6y ago
Cadillac did try that, they called it the "Pinnacle Project", but the dealers (mostly the smaller ones) didn't want to do it.
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by alricb 6y ago
Cadillac has wanted to get rid of smaller dealers for some time [1] [1]: https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2016/09/cadillac-president...
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by alricb 6y ago
The principal author, Philip Eash-Gates, presented his master's thesis last year: Modeling barriers to cost change in solar and nuclear energy technologies [1] [1]: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/12216
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by alricb 6y ago
A Brannock device? (essentially calipers for feet) https://brannock.com/
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by alricb 6y ago
Looks really hard to get in and out of; not great for people who have to go do something else often.
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by alricb 6y ago
Quebec wasn't affected, it's on a separate grid linked to the rest of the eastern grid by back-to-back AC-DC converters.
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by alricb 6y ago
> Next level is use of elite academic credentialing, i.e., "we only like to hire from ___". And that's how you get numbered groups like the Cambridge Five
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by alricb 6y ago
Something about old standards and IBM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BktIY7VbrUs
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by alricb 6y ago
Maybe something like Fortress? [1] 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20060819201513/http://research.s...
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by alricb 6y ago
That's because of the Act respecting lotteries, publicity contests and amusement machines , art. 58 and following: http://legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/showdoc/cs/L-6?langCont=fr#...
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by alricb 6y ago
It's interesting, but I think the speaker would have done better to concentrate one language for each archetype, with examples.
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by alricb 7y ago
I see shades of Oz [1], but that might just be my imagination. [1]: http://mozart2.org/
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by alricb 7y ago
Micromanufacturing, aka the cottage industry. Everything old is new again.
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by alricb 7y ago
It took me a while to figure out that "AV" means autonomous vehicle ... I was kind of wondering what AV as in AV club had to do with trucking.
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by alricb 7y ago
It should probably change it to χξϛ ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast )
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by alricb 7y ago
There was a law adopted in 2018, and related regulations in 2019: https://www.blakesbusinessclass.com/revamping-canadas-anti-m...
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by alricb 7y ago
That's why a proper terminological database should contain a source and its date, so you can evaluate its currency and relevance.
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This Bud’s for You*… Marijuana grow rooms and commercial grow operations(buildingscience.com)
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by alricb 8y ago
I don't have a book reference, but this talk by Tobias Capwell is my source: https://youtu.be/COAIQPsgZWY?t=2311
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by alricb 8y ago
Another thing that was "whitened", or rather, polished: medieval armor. A lot of it was painted, but the paint was removed by collectors and "conservators" in the 19th and 20th century.
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by alricb 8y ago
See also: http://www.jensen-transformers.com/application-notes/ The author, Bill Whitlock, is the president of Jensen Transformers, makers of high-end audio transformers.
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by alricb 8y ago
There were civilian planes with folding wings, like the Fairchild FC-2 or the Avro Avian. The idea was to make it easier to move them by road or to store them, for instance in a small hangar in Northern Canada for the Fairchild, which was u
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by alricb 9y ago
It was Charles VIII the Affable (reigned 1483-1498), the great-grandson of Charles VI the Mad (reigned 1380-1422), who invaded Italy.
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by alricb 9y ago
Ada wouldn't fit because of compatibility and availability, but it's old, fast, safe and relatively simple, as compared to C with extensive scaffolding.
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by alricb 9y ago
> new implementation for math.random It's Xorshift128+, instead of random() or rand().
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by alricb 9y ago
Generally, these days, flexible PEX (cross-linked polyethylene) piping is used for new work in most places. I don't think pressure loss would be much of a problem since the curves in a properly installed system should have a reasonable
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by alricb 9y ago
> (Before railroads transformed the transportation of lumber, logjams had to be addressed by “jam breakers”—experts who spotted and removed the “key logs” jamming up the river.) River transportation of lumber kept going long after railro
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by alricb 9y ago
If you go to Montreal, you'll see the solution adopted by rural people when they moved to the city in the first half of the 20th century: backyard sheds. I don't know about the US, but here in rural Quebec, people in my parents&#x
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by alricb 9y ago
A Court of Cassation, the highest court of appeals in France, was conducted and Rais was fully exonerated later that year. That didn't happen. The "court" had no official status and no real jurisdiction, and didn't hea

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