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by bluedino 11mo ago
GM/Chevrolet are still making small-block 350 engines, they started in the 1950's https://www.gmperformancemotor.com/parts/19433032.html
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by bluedino 11mo ago
I remember 15+ years ago reading about certain laptops (Dell?) that you could 'hear' scrolling on websites, somehow the video chip was interfering with the sound chips. I had one at the time it was pretty weird.
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by bluedino 11mo ago
In the 90's only drug dealers had pagers and cell phones, at least in the eyes of the board of education. If you were caught with one you'd be expelled.
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by bluedino 11mo ago
Sounds about right. Those engines ruined diesels for Americans. A friend of mine had one as his high school car, but his dad converted it to gasoline. I think it was in an Olds 88
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by bluedino 11mo ago
But not in 1981 which is the year we're talking about
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by bluedino 11mo ago
They had gotten rid of the V6 diesel by 1981, and then they used the infamous 350 diesel https://www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/automot...
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by bluedino 11mo ago
> I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. Or you end up with the lone coder problem.
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by bluedino 11mo ago
> I can’t think of too many other professional jobs where the line between hobby and work blends, for so many of its workers. I would argue that the majority of rank and file programmers are not coding outside of work.
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by bluedino 11mo ago
My dad has one of these in the garage. Hasn't driven it in a few years because some of the parts are hard to find. I always thought it was a weird car compared to the 240 or 300 since it was a 2+2. I'm not sure if I've even d
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by bluedino 11mo ago
The best selling car in 1981 (450,000 sold) was the Oldsmobile Cutlass, with 110 or 180 HP V6/V8 engines and a three speed automatic
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by bluedino 11mo ago
We're talking about budgets here. Not health. I think everyone knows that pre-packaged ramen noodles aren't the healthiest thing for you but they aren't any worse than half the other takeout crap you can eat. At least they ar
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by bluedino 11mo ago
What about fried shrimp, bbq sauce imitation crab, mayonnaise and cream cheese? Because that's what most of the 'sushi' is at that place.
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by bluedino 11mo ago
You don't get an hour lunch?
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by bluedino 11mo ago
Sure. And there's also shared lunchroom areas you can take your own lunch to.
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by bluedino 11mo ago
I was always taking noodle bowls to work. Fill with water, microwave, enjoy at my desk. A dollar or two. Couldn't believe how many people would go to the sushi restaurant at the base of the building and spend $25 on lunch a couple days
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by bluedino 11mo ago
Somewhere around 2011 when I switched my MBP to an SSD (back when you could upgrade the drives, and memory, yourself), Chrome opened in 1-2 bounces of the dock icon instead of 12-14 second. People used to make YouTube videos of their Mac op
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by bluedino 11mo ago
Honestly though HN really is just as bad.
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Data center 'cooling issue' continues to halt CME stock futures trading(cnbc.com)
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by bluedino 11mo ago
A lot of departments terminate chases very early
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by bluedino 11mo ago
Some steel body panels. Much of a car is made of plastic/urethan type materials, hoods are usually aluminum, some bodies are all aluminum....
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by bluedino 11mo ago
I've seen a few things called 'Zork source code' in various places over the years (even on a CD that came with a game programming book of some sort), and copies like this: https://github.com/MITDDC/zork
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by bluedino 11mo ago
Mousetrails, anyone? I was talking with someone about a post we saw on social media, a $4999 laptop from 1992 or whatever, and it had something like an 8" screen. "How did people even use those laptops!?" Then you remember ev
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by bluedino 11mo ago
> Pickup trucks are great, but they're only available in "behemoth" size in the US. Not all trucks are 1/4 or 1/2 ton in the USA. There's things like the Honda Ridgeline, Hyundai Santa Cruze, and the Ford Ma
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by bluedino 11mo ago
Nobody we've hired in the last 10 years wants to touch anything Perl. That said, we re-wrote all of our monitoring scripts in....Bash. Ugh.
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by bluedino 11mo ago
Most of those CO's are in buildings that don't have all that much space in them, were built in the 40's and 50's, and likely aren't suitable for that kind of thing. Cooling would be a big deal.
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by bluedino 11mo ago
Would love to see some interviews etc with DJ if he's up for it
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by bluedino 11mo ago
I don't leave trash on the ground because littering is against the law.
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by bluedino 11mo ago
I don't get there often enough to know. I would assume it's rare, and ALDI shopper is different than say, a Wal-mart shopper.
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by bluedino 11mo ago
> a CartManager XD (whose name is extra hilarious to me). They're made by 'Gatekeeper' which is even better. You're only supposed to move 25 carts at a time with one of those, and we used to get videos from stores th
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by bluedino 11mo ago
I'm honestly surprised stores don't make you enter your email address, phone number, or shoppers card to use the cart.

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