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by bombcar 4mo ago
Something has to be horribly undesirable about that.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
NEDM, Prince. The sound of Doom was a big part of why it was so immersive, and everyone focuses on the mobs and gunshots (there's some pretty cool positional audio for the time), but the music really played a big part of the whole at
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by bombcar 4mo ago
The first somewhat general purpose humanoid robot will sell like gangbusters to the rich, even just as a parlor toy/trick.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
The first one has to blow up, or you'll never get off the ground.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Domain verifications leak information that they shouldn't - it should be "random key.domain.com in TXT randomkey"
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by bombcar 4mo ago
We've the plot for the next Home Alone - Kevin McCallister is now grown up trying to develop a home security company ...
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by bombcar 4mo ago
That would legitimately be horrifying - you break in somewhere, suddenly all is dark and fog spreads everywhere, then the growling begins and then you're Ewok'd from behind by a tree.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Germany is roughly the size of Montana, with the population of almost CA and TX combined.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
I heard they're thinking of putting cameras in the AirPods - so we'll just add collision avoidance (and backup alarms).
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by bombcar 4mo ago
If I were a trillionaire I'd buy Apple and Microsoft and force all their engineers to use spinning rust on everything. No SSDs would be allowed anywhere except in the "does going fast break it" test room. Anyone above VP woul
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by bombcar 4mo ago
You need to add the dobermans - the old fog&dog gets 'em every time.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
There's even a form of bridge related to this IIRC, if a hand is passed out (nobody has opening to start the bidding), you stack the hands on top of each other and don't shuffle - because players organize their cards by suits, it
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by bombcar 4mo ago
It's often other reasons, usually because the house is designed with a single garage and there's an "upgrade" button available. It also makes the house fit on a smaller lot if the driveway is straight to the road. Most i
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Until quite recently it was often impossible to see the whole house at the same time, which can hide quite a few sins.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
The average HN enjoyer likely lives in a McMansion of some sort, especially since basically anything built in the last 30 years is reminiscent of one, at least.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
It's both expensive and not that expensive; roughly the cost "all-in" of getting a good motorcycle. If I were to do it again I'd save up and take time off and do all the training in a month or two. Half the cash I burned
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Sport pilot or "perpetual student" may be other options - https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/airmen_certificati... (Perpetual student - you can be in control of a plane but not PIC without a medical or
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by bombcar 4mo ago
I recommend getting out there and getting involved - it's surprisingly easy to end up talking to the actual owners of these buildings, and they're more often than not just a guy and not some weird conglomerate REIT and they&#x27
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Have you heard the story of Boeing and the "cost-plus" contracts? Digging a hole and filling it in can be quite profitable!
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by bombcar 4mo ago
We'll get it by Friday.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
The problem is it might be worth it to the company, but likely not to you - a 5% productivity bump likely results in $100k a year.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/airmen_certificati... implies there may be a path (depending on what "special issuance" means).
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by bombcar 4mo ago
That's the missing link on these - the owner is making payments either way - the bank is getting their money. They don't want to disrupt the flow or trigger contract clauses, so they cover the missing cashflow from elsewhere.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Then you've benefited nothing beyond the paper and the letters. It's really the "cheat yourself" problem, except we put some value on that paper and those letters.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
A local library may have or know how to get access to your areas "sectional charts" - perhaps even historic ones, which show all these things.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Small GA airports out in the middle of nowhere can come into being, but it's rare, and the whole GA field is aging out and disappearing (both the pilots, planes, and people).
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by bombcar 4mo ago
I landed at that airport, it must have been soon after your grandfather passed - it wasn't NOTAM'd as closed, but the phone number had a recording that the owner had passed and it was closed - I relocated to the larger 29 Palms ai
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by bombcar 4mo ago
A ground-up rebuild can be wonderful, but something is lost in those US plaster-planned cities that attempt to imitate Florence or other EU cities; something about organic growth that is very hard to replicate ex-nihilo. This likely doesn’t
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by bombcar 4mo ago
I take Schultz as the epitome of the “danger” of going forever - the early Peanuts is substantially different than the later ones. But he’s also a good example of “growing with his audience” - the latter strips pleased his readers even if
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Until surprisingly late, each computer (and then computer system) was a custom-crafted device. Even after somewhat "mass market" systems, the software was almost always entirely custom for the end-user.

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