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by cat199 5y ago
Exactly.. i watch youtube for "whatever i'm searching for", which has never been a science video. Cars, computers, music, other random interests sure, but not science.
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by cat199 5y ago
Depends on what you are buying - relative prices of various goods change over time; many are critical of things like CPI as being a stand in for inflation for exactly this reason Example: 1970 corvette: $5,192.00 (Coupe), $4,849.00 (Convert
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by cat199 5y ago
Much of the problem with many skunky lagers lacking taste is storing them in bottles that don't block UV (green, for example) for extended periods of time. Not saying it's exemplary, but freshness is probably a factor sometimes
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by cat199 5y ago
There are, "and always have been" commercial emulators for keeping old software running when the original system no longer exists (PDP, VAX, etc)
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by cat199 5y ago
> Last night I watched this video on loop for a long time, Sounds like you found a different kind of wormhole :)
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by cat199 5y ago
According (loosely) to the CMM approach, Amish could be thought of as more technologically 'mature', since they have clear policies around evaluating technology according to clear requirements which have been optimized over time,
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by cat199 5y ago
Not in the industry, and these are complex issues, but the AMA is made up of doctors and is also a huge part of how medical professionals are qualified and has heavy influence on how funding for training, etc. is allocated. So while an indi
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by cat199 5y ago
if you reread, this is what the parent is asking of the grandparent, in less nice terms.
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by cat199 5y ago
> I thought this was a complete conspiracy theory It would only be a conspiracy theory if there was intent - plenty of room for accident without making it a conspiracy.
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by cat199 5y ago
but if the line had no basis in reality, he would just sound like an idiot, so ...
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by cat199 5y ago
good points. being 'that guy' and pointing out that it's not: > intense and purposes but 'intents and purposes'. a common eggcorn.
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by cat199 5y ago
the trash (or should I say 'rubbish'?) equivalent of 2600's 'payphones of the world'
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by cat199 5y ago
nice. random misc not on there for further curation if so inclined: - chuck - snd - stk - common music - processing
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by cat199 5y ago
I sometimes think john deere and harley and to a lesser extent ford/chevy are basically americana cults with merchandizing and machinery sales attached
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by cat199 5y ago
> those points are all iffy. for tractors generally, maybe, but have read many things specifically about john deere being very DRM/anti repair, and a quick google seems to highlight that there are court battles being fought over ex
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by cat199 5y ago
yeps.. we had an 8mb 386/33 at around this time, which is why i'm still amazed at my 1991 vaxstation with 80MB and 40Mhz though in those days it was def. a different class of machine
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by cat199 6y ago
"Buddy" "But yes, that wouldn't go deeper than name->number kinds of lookups."
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by cat199 6y ago
> At worst, they just don't lower prices as quickly as Moore's law decreases their costs. From a financial perspective, isn't this basically raising prices over time?
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by cat199 6y ago
Not sure what point you are making here. Most of these seem to be segregated unions for AA people that existed in the same places as the corresponding non-AA union run by the same overarching organization (e.g. AFL-CIO, etc).
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by cat199 6y ago
> box would start sounding like a jet engine. Not sure about the container connection, but Firefox also now has 'about:performance' which is pretty much like 'top for browser tabs'. When things start getting bogged do
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by cat199 6y ago
> America's "Rust Belt" cities all tend to have one thing in common Not anti union, but these also had high union activity, which some explain as a cause of their 'rustification' as companies moved production els
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by cat199 6y ago
No - https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696799/functions/ge... but no 'getopt_long' (AFAICT). OpenBSD, just as one example of a true unix-derived system, added it's own getopt_long only i
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by cat199 6y ago
remember seeing this buried in some ifdefs somewhere or in compile output back in the day.. to me finding the origins this is almost or more interesting than the longopt story itself :)
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by cat199 6y ago
iirc (only did this a couple of times and that was some time ago), at least by the 80s-90s, you'd call information in the target location long distance. But yes, that wouldn't go deeper than name->number kinds of lookups.
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by cat199 6y ago
This is literally the same research group, and the paper you link to is referenced in the article as being the predecessor 2020 publication to this announcement of a forthcoming 2021 paper expanding on the 2020 one. So yes and no - if you a
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by cat199 6y ago
speculating, but don't think it's about use case so much as it is about it being a simple way to implement ('C is portable assembly') which probably carried through to our more current notion of this being a 'langua
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by cat199 6y ago
> It's been a race to the bottom for the attention economy. Sadly, with the added knock-on effect of making more in-depth sorts of entertainment / mass culture less profitable, further degrading public discourse.. Being enterta
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by cat199 6y ago
high proof alcohol works great in a lamp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_burner
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by cat199 6y ago
I heard that they did, but the message couldn't be read because their monitors were not 4k+ ultrawide, and their software didn't have unicode emoji support at 64pt size. Plus they had the nerve to be colorblind!
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by cat199 6y ago
> clusters, which could be just 1 node Despite whatever the k8s crowd misuses the term to be, 1 node is not a cluster. It might be a single node managed using cluster-capable technologies, but it's still not a cluster.

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