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by chiph 4y ago
> There are other types of car giveaways run by more legitimate parties (charity raffles, event promotions) that do deliver the goods — but if you win, you’re liable to pay a hefty gift tax. I don't think it's a gift tax, but o
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by chiph 4y ago
Perhaps back when his fight with the automaker was going on. But typing "nissan" into Google has returned the automaker as the 1st result for quite a while now (SEO for the win). Someone would have to type the full domain name in
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by chiph 4y ago
Uzi was my ISP when I had ADSL in Raleigh and was a pleasure to work with when I had issues with BellSouth's service. I was sorry to hear about his death. The website was up just the other month, so this is a new development by his fam
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by chiph 4y ago
Well, the only good thing is that Google Maps will likely continue to run. My DVD based system had it's last update ever in 2015, so it will occasionally show me driving "off road" where the map database doesn't have st
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by chiph 4y ago
A niece did something like that as her high school science fair project. She got a cheap microwave from Walmart, then tested theories on how long various items would last before becoming a smoking pile, based on their sugar, fat, and prote
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by chiph 4y ago
A straw purchase is when a gun is bought for someone who is not allowed to own one (a "prohibited person"). Commonly, one person supplies the money for the gun, while the person with a clean criminal history is the one who fills
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by chiph 4y ago
Having a PiHole on your network makes it tolerable. But doesn't fix their broken recommendation system.
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by chiph 4y ago
My C# story: We were a Visual Basic 6 shop, writing COM+ components being called by classic ASP pages. Microsoft .NET had just been announced and we spent some time doing an evaluation between it and Java (JSPs and Beans) - our brand new C
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by chiph 4y ago
My graphics class instructor was Jack Bresenham. The class was given in Borland's Turbo Pascal, but I asked for permission to write my code in the then-new Turbo C++ (since Jack knew C, I was sure he'd allow it). It came time to d
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by chiph 4y ago
In the Southern US that has been the practice for a long time (also a hot & humid environment!). The rice grains are too large to pass through the holes in the shaker but will sometimes clog them, so you have to shake a bit harder.
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by chiph 4y ago
I was pretty impressed with it, honestly. But I understand what you're saying - a comedian's delivery is different from normal speech. It may be that GPT-3 just wasn't trained with enough standup routines. (I dread to think
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by chiph 4y ago
A cautionary tale for you - I burned through 8 months of savings in the 2008 crisis. While the I-Bond isn't subject to market fluctuations, I am glad that my emergency fund was in cash/CDs and not invested. Because it would have l
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by chiph 4y ago
I have tracked my MPG on fuelly.com since 2014. The lowest price was $1.429 on 23-Feb-2016, and the highest has been $4.369 on 11-May-2022. The average price over my 460 fill-ups so far is $2.61. These purchases have all been in Texas an
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by chiph 4y ago
Because "inlet fart", while descriptive of what happens, wasn't socially acceptable.
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by chiph 4y ago
Someone didn't run their domain name idea past enough people before buying it.
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by chiph 4y ago
I think your question was a pretty low barrier to winning, but I guess not. That's about when SXSW became more of a circus, filled with lots of "fake it 'till you make it" types. I would overhear people practicing their
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by chiph 4y ago
> Enforcing the use of the built-in scanner BJ's Warehouse Club self checkouts used to weigh your purchase, but also had infrared sensors to ensure it went on the belt after scanning. The sensors could not detect anything shorter t
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by chiph 4y ago
When I visited Belgium a few years ago, one of the things that really stood out to me was all the ads for American media and brands. Netflix, Marvel movies, Patagonia clothing, and more. It had been 25 years since the last time I visited E
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by chiph 4y ago
Walking along the train from Moorgate to Barbican while you "ride" it seems a little like cheating, but if the trip time is short enough you could be perambulating the whole time - so fulfills the spirit of the quest. Finding that
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by chiph 4y ago
Here's Jay Leno driving a Case IH 620 QuadTrac. It's so huge it needed a police escort to be driven on the city streets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zh3OBxh8Po
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by chiph 4y ago
The average price of a new car in the US in December of 2021 was $47k https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a38748092/new-car-average-... It's an astounding number. In order to afford an "average" car
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by chiph 4y ago
I have a friend who lives in a rural area. He'd like to build a house on some land he owns that is unsuitable for farming (too steep) but he is unable to get a construction loan from the bank as they will not write a loan that is secur
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by chiph 4y ago
I hadn't noticed the redesign (I don't buy OJ all that often). But looking at it - the sentence at the bottom of the article totally matches my impression of it being a discount store brand. > On the other hand, the new packagi
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by chiph 4y ago
You want my ZIP code to market to me? 90210
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by chiph 4y ago
They also blocked the use of Thalidomide [0], which was available over the counter in Europe. They get a lot of credit for doing that, in my opinion. The important question is why are they blocking European formula? Is there a nutrition
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by chiph 4y ago
An armor officer can answer this better than I can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI7T650RTT8 If you're watching the videos from Ukraine - the Russians are pretty much doing it all wrong. You do not send tanks into c
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by chiph 4y ago
Chrysler did this in the late 80's with the Electronic Voice Alert feature, using a Texas Instruments LPC speech chip (TMS5110A ?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW9nmuTqIE0 But the mechanical version from Datsun is c
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by chiph 4y ago
I'll consider using a self-driving system when it can safely drive the length of the Tail of the Dragon without using preloaded data for it (that would be cheating). The dragon has good pavement, clear markings, the occasional driveway
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by chiph 4y ago
There's also chicken-shit bingo in Austin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOmQ0WSUuBI
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by chiph 4y ago
> Even with a perfect record since 15.5 years of age. Each driving session is statistically independent. The probability of you getting in a vehicle accident resets every time you get behind the wheel. The actual probability in each se

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