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by bbarn 2y ago
The difference is HN is a community curated feed, not an advertiser and for profit curated feed.
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by bbarn 2y ago
The issue at hand is despite federal rulings forcing all states to have some level of "shall issue" concealed permits, and laws on the books, California's process has left it to county sheriffs to follow the evaluation criter
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by bbarn 2y ago
Heh, I was going to say the opposite. Sign me up!
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by bbarn 2y ago
I was a big fan of cocaine back in the 90s. I never got to the "problem" level with it but if it was there I was the first to raise my hand. My personality has changed a little, but I'd still probably jump at it today, if it
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by bbarn 2y ago
By 17 I was on my own and joining the military. My daughter is 25 and just got her first real job out of college. By her age I had a 6 year old child (her). I'm not saying I took the right path (I didn't) but the level of matur
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by bbarn 2y ago
Well, prior to 7 I had the yellow one. 6? and no books or manuals, just some snippets from a Peter Norton book I got from the library enough times that the librarian asked me to not check it out for two weeks once. I got 7 for christmas a
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by bbarn 2y ago
The last version of TP I used was I think 7? and it added in inline assembler. It was super nice for 14 year old me to learn assembly just enough to do the things TP couldn't do (like control a mouse on DOS). It was my gateway to a l
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by bbarn 2y ago
Because they make money on low price candy, like gumball machines and other quarter operated stuff that kids impulse buy with their parents money.
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by bbarn 2y ago
I have a non-technical friend that runs a vending machine business. He targets exclusively small locations like gas stations, bodegas, etc. He makes a great living, but he's also started farming out filling and collection to employee
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by bbarn 2y ago
He was a legend.
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by bbarn 2y ago
No disagreement for the most part. I used to be able to say search for Trek bike derailleur hanger and the first result would be what I wanted. Now I have to scroll past 5 ads to buy a new bike, one that's a broken link to a third par
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by bbarn 2y ago
Teal is my favorite color and I felt attacked..
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by bbarn 2y ago
Commonly, Teal or Turquoise.
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by bbarn 2y ago
There are some people that believe hunting should just be go to the woods, with your rifle or bow, and start walking around looking for deer. They are opposed to things like setting up feed piles of corn or apples, having cameras set up to
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by bbarn 2y ago
I think the charter-type hunters are probably a statistic irrelevance in hunting in general, but unfortunately, money speaks, even when you don't want it to speak.
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by bbarn 2y ago
| Not to mention, hunting is actually very difficult (contrary to a lot of belief). This always bothered me. The attitude that you just walk up to some defenseless deer and shoot it and that's some unskilled cruel thing. In reality it
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by bbarn 2y ago
If memory serves, RAM was my reason why I couldn't. Not so easy to upgrade as it is today. I tried it once or twice, using some HDD utility at the time that partitioned off some space for RAM like a modern day swap file.. and it did
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by bbarn 2y ago
Was TP for Windows considered TP7? I spent my youth in Turbo Pascal 7 writing graphics based apps in DOS and never even know they made a Windows version. Not that my 286 could run Windows.
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by bbarn 2y ago
I must be the only person to have a bad experience with SwissMicros. I bought a DM16 when I lived in Iceland, it took months to arrive, and it was absolutely not worth the wait. The build quality was poor, the metal plate was crushed down
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by bbarn 2y ago
Yeah, I was in the navy actually, but my lane was purely electronics, I too only drive a 15' fishing boat.
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by bbarn 2y ago
Seems to me a technically advanced enough system like this should probably combine the independent throttles with the steering to some extent? I'm talking out of my rear possibly, but like if a severe enough turn radius was used, mayb
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by bbarn 2y ago
"Never" is a strong word. I could definitely see value in war-time, if perhaps one was degraded or damaged, and required special attention that might justify having a person focused on it and communicating with the helm.
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by bbarn 2y ago
I am totally with you here. It's amazing to me how as cars have gotten easier to drive with technology, we've continued to add distractions to the driver as "features". I don't even listen to music when I'm dr
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by bbarn 2y ago
Oh I certainly have. I've seen this quoted by my crazy family members: Revelation 13:16-17 King James Version 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in thei
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by bbarn 2y ago
The lack of a federal ID is almost irrelevant at this point. Most states have moved to "Real ID" which requires almost as much if not the same to get as a passport (federal ID). Requirement to have that has been coming (and admi
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by bbarn 2y ago
I read the domain name as Grandma Sword. Maybe her next project :)
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by bbarn 2y ago
I don't think this is quite the same. Newspapers were largely uninteresting to kids, and if anything would have helped literacy at that time which was still a struggle. Early radio and TVs were often family bonding time, as households
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by bbarn 2y ago
There are days on the bike where I would probably commit a crime to get a cold Coca-cola, and I almost never drink sodas otherwise.
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by bbarn 2y ago
Sounds like that never made it to market. Would have been great for me at the time, I was stuck having to trade my Outbound notebook in for a PC one because I couldn't get system 7 on it, and 7 was a game changer compared to 6 (Multi-
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by bbarn 2y ago
Why exactly?

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