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by cagey 5y ago
A possible source of confusion is that in this context, "Sprouts" is likely the name of a supermarket (not a type of food).
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by cagey 5y ago
On the same site there is a file "email-related-2018-structural-field-survey-report.pdf" which contains/embeds the same report in searchable format, and on page 18 includes a table "ENGINEER'S ESTIMATE OF THE PROBAB
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by cagey 5y ago
Byte Magazine ran a 2-part article on the design of the 6809 http://tlindner.macmess.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/Byte_...
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by cagey 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-ribbon_committee
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by cagey 5y ago
Born in CA, lived in CA my whole life (-1 year) until end of 2020 (last 30-1 in San Jose, working in tech the whole time). Now reside in semi-rural AZ (working remotely for the same tech co as before I left CA). I might visit CA eventuall
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by cagey 6y ago
13 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26533270
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by cagey 6y ago
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty by Harry Browne
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by cagey 6y ago
Agree. At my employer the largest engineering BU has been a zealous user of Slack for many years. Problem is, Slack seat licenses aren't free (and are thus rationed) and TPBT are balking at adding any more Slack seats now that corp I
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by cagey 6y ago
I've been using RpnCalc by Edward Falk on Android for many years without complaint. Last updated 2017.11.
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by cagey 6y ago
Agreed: I invested in a bunch of the Monoprice version a few years ago. 1.59USD today (+ S & H). * https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=5296
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by cagey 6y ago
https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/6291 "I have put together a version of GrandView 2.0 for DOS that is completely portable, fully functional, and ready to run on any modern version of Windows, usi
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by cagey 7y ago
The linked city-journal.org article says "... VTA will become a leader of a different sort when it closes the Almaden branch of its system at the end of this year". The preceding article passage links to a vta.org page which has
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California’s Real “Train to Nowhere”(city-journal.org)
3 points by cagey 7y ago|1 comments
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by cagey 7y ago
I'm also a Inoreader user. It's one of the few services I pay for (bottom tier). I can't imagine being without an RSS-based content-monitoring/-consumption system.
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Gas Turbines Have Become by Far the Best Choice for Add-On Generating Power(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by cagey 7y ago|0 comments
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by cagey 8y ago
Keyboard-driven DOS Outliner Software: * Borland Sidekick Plus[1] (not to be confused with the earlier Sidekick) OUTLINER applet(?). I loved the features (and key-bindings) of this more than ... * Grandview 2.0 by Symantec (before it became
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by cagey 9y ago
One year ago I returned to work at a large'ish SV company that, in my absence, was acquired and in this transition was converted from "PTO accrued at an annual rate that increased with seniority" to "unlimited vacation [
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by cagey 9y ago
Maybe I've forgotten more C than I'd like to admit, while (--argc > 0 && (*++argv)[0] == '-') ... Notice that the decrement always occurs before the ‘>’ is evaluated. This would be true even if
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by cagey 9y ago
I know that practice by the name "California Stop"[1] [1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=california%2...
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by cagey 9y ago
++ I recall this being a great read triggered by previous discussion[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12019567
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Autoconf/clang (No) Fun and Games(undeadly.org)
2 points by cagey 9y ago|0 comments
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by cagey 9y ago
I'm a longtime outliner software user from the DOS days. One of the last outliner software packages I used was Grandview 2.0 by Symantec [1]. Amazingly, just a few months ago I discovered that it has been resurrected to run in Windows
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by cagey 9y ago
I once used wired ($200?) Sony noise cancelling headphones to listen to music in the office (and on airline flights). They wore out a few years ago, and instead of replacing with another pair of big $ NC headphones, I bought "Sentey L
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Anthem protests led poll of reasons viewers tuned out of NFL(espn.com)
2 points by cagey 9y ago|1 comments
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by cagey 9y ago
I recalled the acronym "VROOM" being associated with Borland's tools of this era, with the "OM" part meaning "Overlay Manager/Management"; a bit of searching yielded[1]: What is the VROOM in the B
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by cagey 9y ago
I use the same combo
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by cagey 9y ago
Password Safe[1] (almost entirely on Windows clients) and version control on home server via ssh. And most of my passwords are memorized by my Google account. [1] https://pwsafe.org/
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Toshiba wrangles with Western Digital over chips unit sale(mercurynews.com)
1 points by cagey 9y ago|0 comments
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by cagey 9y ago
All my cars (and motorcycle) have 3.5" adhesive convex mirrors stuck to the OEM side mirrors (both sides). Cost 3USD each to remove each side's blind spot.
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Calexit: The “Bad Boys of Brexit” throw their weight behind move to split state(mercurynews.com)
24 points by cagey 10y ago|71 comments

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