bayouborne

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by bayouborne 2y ago
non-paywalled - https://archive.ph/R7s7J
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by bayouborne 2y ago
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501707728/the-...
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by bayouborne 2y ago
Here's a Reddit posting from a Costco worker from 5 years ago: "So, as someone who's done this job, I gotta be completely honest to those of you bagging on us and calling us liars. If a receipt shows under 20 items, we count.
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by bayouborne 2y ago
Is there a list somewhere of what year the tech was implemented, on a model by model basis [a.k.a. snitch-free rides]? Because regardless of what the manufacturers say, it seems like the data's going to inevitably leak out by some mean
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by bayouborne 2y ago
Cinemax's excellent 'The Knick' (about a chief surgeon at the Knickerbocker Hospital in 1900's New York) had a gut-wrenching one or two episode arc about efforts to refine transfusion techniques and why the team kept se
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by bayouborne 2y ago
It’s not advanced alien technology because it doesn’t work like our concept of advanced alien technology.
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by bayouborne 3y ago
Sep 3, 2012 I Am Legend.
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by bayouborne 3y ago
Intel's Andy Grove in the mid '90s was particularly candid about his experiences and I think his willingness to discuss his experiences with the then state of the art advanced the public discussion in a healthy way. https:/&
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by bayouborne 3y ago
#1 - Executive Suite, 1954 starring William Holden is great. Back-stabbing, dissimulation and betrayal abound. Also starring June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon, Louis Calhern (The Asphalt Jungle), Dean Jagger (Bad
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by bayouborne 3y ago
"I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly
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by bayouborne 3y ago
About 15 years ago I had a roommate who, 8 months after successfully filing for bankruptcy in Ga, was offered a credit card with a $700 credit line - unsolicited. She was shocked. It seems that in the perverse world of credit, someone who o
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by bayouborne 3y ago
This is a wonderful quote. thank you.
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by bayouborne 3y ago
The license plates say "Sportsman's Paradise" The subtext to that phrase is that whether it crawls, flies, swims, runs or otherwise, there is some strata of Louisiana society that eats it with relish (or hot sauce).
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by bayouborne 3y ago
'60 million U.S. citizens are infected with Toxoplasma Gondii' US 2023 pop >> 340M .. so about 1 in 4 people you randomly interact with are allied beings.
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by bayouborne 3y ago
I thought this was already settled science, and that this knowledge was what was driving the interest to get to Europa via the Clipper probe. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper
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by bayouborne 4y ago
Because Russia and China's occasional hyperbolic rhetoric notwithstanding, one gets the sense that behind the posturing, the people with their hands on the nuclear machinery are cold-eyed professionals. North Korea doesn't appear
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by bayouborne 4y ago
The name Accenture was also chosen because they were able to keep using Andersen Consulting's existing ac.com domain w/o interruption.
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by bayouborne 4y ago
> There are no humans on the Internet. Isn't this one of the necessary bridges to Meta's vision? The first steps are to kill authenticity and any aspect of defect - from there it is a gentle fall into the cosseted, synthetic al
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by bayouborne 4y ago
The collection: https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-wo...
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by bayouborne 4y ago
'80's. Super-tweaked Siemens b/w inkjet printers modded to print color. Siggraph in Vegas. Feverishly iterating through successive builds until the very last second, catching a red-eye out to opening day. Exploded booth print
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by bayouborne 4y ago
I found those slides fascinating as well. A burn scar for a young person person seems particularly debilitating. I think this approach is getting traction elsewhere too using fish skin in place of Saranwrap. i.e. "..mixed dermal burn w
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by bayouborne 4y ago
It's the Holga effect all over again. https://www.lomography.com/magazine/39913-holga-120gn-imperf...
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by bayouborne 4y ago
"..He went back a few days later and the price was still wrong." I've occasionally wondered about this, as an entirely new class of crime. One where a motivated regional manager at a modern supermarket chain could get togethe
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by bayouborne 4y ago
Soon AI agents will be using AI to identify and filter out AI generated content thus insuring various AI entities will be constantly training on original data made by genuine wetware.
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by bayouborne 4y ago
Starter replacement on my strait-six LX450 took ~1 hr. Pull the wheel and you're practically looking at the unit. OTOH the Birfield Joints are kind of like prehistoric CV joints and have to be rebuilt in-situ. I love mine, 400k+ miles,
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by bayouborne 4y ago
I think Aldi's strategy of cheap, quality staples will continue to get traction. Lidl's trying to have it both ways and doesn't seem to be as successful.
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by bayouborne 4y ago
"..we’ve designed-in multiple redundant systems and engineered out all single points of failure." Can this aircraft glide or auto-rotate to the earth if it has a catastrophic power malfunction?
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by bayouborne 4y ago
In the US there are glider kits that let old Diesel engines belch forever on highways legally. https://www.csmtruck.com/the-pros-and-cons-of-glider-kit-tru... https://www.fitzgeraldgliderkits.com/what-is-a-g
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by bayouborne 4y ago
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon by Henry Marsh
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by bayouborne 4y ago
"Parsons’ first order of business was the plutonium gun. Because it needed a muzzle velocity of at least 3,000 feet per second it would have to be 17 feet long. It should weigh no more than a ton, a fifth of the usual weight of a gun t

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