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by bitbckt 5y ago
I miss IRIX, too. :)
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by bitbckt 5y ago
Have you read the parent comment?
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by bitbckt 5y ago
Buy a Wavian and the One True(TM) nozzle: https://armysurpluswarehouse.com/wavian-jerry-can-nozzle/
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by bitbckt 5y ago
We (English speakers) frequently use gratis for free-as-in-beer.
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by bitbckt 5y ago
Apropos: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ap...
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by bitbckt 5y ago
A Hilux and Tacoma are two different vehicles: different engine options, different chassis, and almost zero interchangeable parts. Try taking a Tacoma to a parts counter outside the US, or Hilux to one in the US, and you’ll just get blank s
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by bitbckt 5y ago
That area of the city is built on infill, but that is by no means true of most of the city’s area.
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by bitbckt 5y ago
Read more of the article, and challenge that over-eager assessment.
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by bitbckt 5y ago
This reminds of the time at Twitter when all Japanese users were (accidentally) inferred to be female after a model changed.
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by bitbckt 5y ago
The direct listing was good to most everyone I know (lots of former Twitterati at Slack), and this deal doesn’t seem to have changed that situation. The post-acquisition exodus has started, which might imply folks aren’t interested in joini
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by bitbckt 5y ago
I’m shocked - shocked! - that the brilliant minds of HN have no commentary on this work.
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by bitbckt 5y ago
I have to _reduce_ the mains to 55psi to keep my water heater functioning. Plenty of pressure here (USA) without a pump.
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by bitbckt 5y ago
I run a mobile GMRS in my Jeep with a couple of 5W HTs for spotting and keeping touch on the go - most folks I know have moved off CB entirely. There are excellent ground-plane independent antennae from Larsen and Laird that work well with
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by bitbckt 5y ago
> the blister pack radios you see everywhere These are FRS radios, which share channels with GMRS but are not capable of txing on GMRS-only bands, repeater use, or higher output. That said, get a GMRS license. $70 (soon to be lowered) fo
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by bitbckt 5y ago
> … and also to provide space for the side curtain airbags. … which increases the weight the pillars need to support, which causes the pillars to get thicker, &c.
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by bitbckt 5y ago
> I own a 2000 mercury grand marquis. With the secret de Sade trim, I hope. /s
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by bitbckt 6y ago
Sure, that is one sort of expression. And very typical “it’s you, not me” attitude on both sides. Another is that locals would love to know that they can afford a mortgage payment in their own hometown sometime in their adult life.
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by bitbckt 6y ago
As a Northern NV native and SF resident for the past 10 years, it’s been my experience that Reno doesn’t enter into the worldview of hip techie people in the Bay Area for a variety of reasons. Strangely, Boise _does_, but comes with state i
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by bitbckt 6y ago
That's been my experience in San Francisco, as well.
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by bitbckt 6y ago
I can’t stop laughing at this. No /s?
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by bitbckt 6y ago
Many of his video game or (current, pop) cultural references seem to stem from the challenges he faces teaching students for whom these references are their only exposure to pre-modern ideas. But they are fun. :)
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by bitbckt 6y ago
A boat is a funny shaped hole in the water where you pour all your money.
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by bitbckt 6y ago
You're right. I meant W-2 workers, not 1099. Thanks for the correction.
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by bitbckt 6y ago
NV residents who are 1099 employees of a CA corporation pay CA income taxes for the days which are spent on-site in CA. If that number is 0, all the better - no dealings with the FTB need to happen at all. Having roots in NV myself, and kno
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by bitbckt 6y ago
All of the managers I’ve worked with on the “great” end of the quality spectrum have excelled at being sh*t umbrellas. Perhaps that speaks also to the quality of the orgs I’ve been in, as well... This is a (the?) differentiating quality bet
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by bitbckt 6y ago
No question there. I wasn’t speaking to the GP’s question about progress but to their “not following the news” comment. I apparently should have made that clear.
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by bitbckt 6y ago
Just today, for example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/10/13/covid-vacci...
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by bitbckt 6y ago
A cousin of mine spent about 10 years as a Hotshot[0], and now runs an engine in Plumas County, CA. A few things that have stuck with me over the years of discussing his work: * Much like floods, he returns the same burn areas year after ye
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by bitbckt 6y ago
> UKB hasn't shipped yet Huh? I ordered one on 19 Sept. and had it on my desk in California on 24 Sept.
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by bitbckt 6y ago
BigBrotherBird (now OpenZipkin... thanks legal, sigh) used 128b trace_ids when we first built it at Twitter. I don’t recall the reasoning, but that’s the first system I know of which chose that size. Dapper used 64b IDs for span and trace,

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