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by batbomb 8y ago
I used to build guitar amps for fun and repair them for friends. I have parts of a Sound City, Plush, Harmony, Gibson amps in my storage unit. I have some old heathkit thing from the 60s. I have two different Traynors. Depending on your bud
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by batbomb 8y ago
Before I was 21 I would just give my actual, underage ID to get into bars a few times. The door person would look a bit confused sometimes, but would wave you on through. For big concerts, you could (probably still can) buy previous backsta
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by batbomb 8y ago
So he doesn’t eat corn, tomatoes, peppers, quinoa, etc... from the new world? Even brussels sprouts doesn’t pass that test.
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by batbomb 8y ago
Exactly, I actually thought this would be about neutrino EAS induced lightning strikes or something.
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by batbomb 8y ago
McMaster-Carr is probably a little bit close to the embodiment of something like that
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by batbomb 8y ago
I remember faces but not names. I’m sort of the opposite; I won’t engage because I know I have forgotten the name. This is mostly because names are arbitrary and usually common “Hi Matt!”
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by batbomb 8y ago
I got by okay without french in Lyon. I thought about (and think about) moving there. The Netherlands is probably the best bet in mainland europe, you could try Leiden/The Hague if Amsterdam is a bit on the pricy side.
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by batbomb 8y ago
I’ve been to Cape Town and I really enjoyed it. It’s got some shorty aspects, but it’s not a huge shock if you are coming from SF. Stellenbosch was also nice. Weather was unbeatable. Food was amazing.
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by batbomb 8y ago
We do this heavily in astronomy: http://ivoa.net/documents/TAP Although it's a bit crusty, it is heavily used. We store additional metadata about columns and we annotate the results we return. You can build someth
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by batbomb 8y ago
Mark Zuckerberg didn’t show up
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by batbomb 8y ago
That sounds like it’s more than just bail though, because they should be wearing a GPS tracker.
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by batbomb 8y ago
I wish we could get encrypted credentials a lá travis in a Jenkinsfile. I’ve found most configuration for a job can be in a git repo but you have to manage some things through the web interface, and it’s not that easy securely managing cred
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by batbomb 8y ago
gotta get that sprint burnt down
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by batbomb 8y ago
You can see Shanghai from it the location (on a clear day). I don’t think they operate it much because of the noise issue. Apparently they also even more rarely point it.
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by batbomb 8y ago
This isn’t the only stupid telescope. Just outside Shanghai city limits is the Tian Ma radio telescope. It’s 65m. I went there, I don’t think it’s used at all, and it was completed in 2012
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by batbomb 8y ago
AFS works fine over a WAN. Sometimes a little slow on metadata operations.
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by batbomb 8y ago
I think the point is it's not possible to even build a high growth index fund anymore - at least not one based on US companies. Existing funds skew towards emerging markets, and would never include a Facebook 2008-2012 or a Dropbox 201
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by batbomb 8y ago
What a lovely map. Glen Park BART isn't even in Glen Park in that map.
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by batbomb 8y ago
This is the correct answer - but that still implies a question on citizenship, though maybe it's implicit that if you have a SSN and a Drivers License then most banks assume you are a US citizen.
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by batbomb 8y ago
SCL/devtoolset is common.
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by batbomb 8y ago
It’s fine, especially with solid state drives.
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by batbomb 8y ago
A jar needs deps. A fat jar still often needs a script to run it with baked-in parameters, JAVA_HOME/PATH manipulation, maybe a tanuki service wrapper, a cron job to keep it running, some what to bootstrap it from scratch (maven) - eve
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by batbomb 8y ago
I really love the Onion, but I think I have laughed much more at The Hard Times these past two years. I’m not sure what that means, but I hope some of the Onion guys maybe make it over there.
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by batbomb 8y ago
Agreed, this is a true classic.
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by batbomb 8y ago
I'm not sure I follow. "High Energy" has a very specific meaning in physics, which typically refers particle physics, which may include nuclear physics but would definitely not include the UV spectrum. Energy, in the photonic
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by batbomb 8y ago
I’m sorry but this is completely apples and oranges. UV is not, in fact, “high energy” in any physics sense of the word. I’m not sure what the transmission of UV to a solar panel is but I’m sure it’s not 0%, and with all of this, workers ca
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by batbomb 8y ago
If that's how you feel, then you need to block about half of everything on Seeking Alpha
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by batbomb 8y ago
It’s not a great general purpose language the way Python is. Neither is Matlab, so that’s okay if your competition is matlab but not if the competition is Python, C++, etc..
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by batbomb 8y ago
“I wanted to move to this language and here’s the blog post I’m using to tell a story to my boss”
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by batbomb 8y ago
This book (Far Travelers) has a lot of interesting details on early probes. I first ran across it in a university library twelve years ago, I seem to go back and re-read parts of it occasionally every other year. Some of the personal histor

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