cranky908canuck

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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
If you are wanting to do business in a baksheesh culture (ie., doing things that could be interpreted by others as bribery), then, not doing things that could be interpreted by others as bribery, works out to not doing business there, perio
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Also commented in a duplicate thread: No fan of DT, but this one does make sense (CAN chucked pennies years ago). If I read the article cited below correctly, penny minting has a smell of lobbying in a safe quiet corner: https:/&#x2F
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
No fan of DT, but this (if it's actually what it seems) makes sense. CAN discarded pennies years ago. The NYT seems to suggest that the ongoing minting of pennies has a 'regulatory capture' aspect: https://www.nyt
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
> Everything you have listed above could be solved with money. Except that when money was on the table, Reagan fired them. ATC is remote from most people's day-to-day awareness unless planes hit each other, but medical help that&#x
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Ronald Reagan?
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Big smell on this is rules 9/10/11. These say that you will have to play a lawyering game. The OP didn't have the time to immediately see that.
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Did you leave out a <sarcastic/> tag?
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
https://archive.ph/bIMka
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
https://archive.ph/mhnBU
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Took a look at this... Problem seems to be, what do you do about standard statements (balance sheet, income statement, scfp (statement of changes in financial (cash) position)? This and 'ledger' both seem to have crickets for thi
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Agreed, as the US is set up now, no way. But, throw it out there... as the fifty-first state, no. But, ten provinces, and three territories. More land area than the US. So, the next thirteen states... and twothirdish of them will probably
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Clickbait since the ads keep pounding in. Preroll ad, ok. Second preroll, ok, maybe. Then another plops in after. No. Don't bother.
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
I reckon that solar chips are approaching potato chips in terms of (relative to CPU) techological sophistication ... IOW, TSMC has better things to do than panels.
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
I really like Rust, and what it enables, but this seems like a wonderful counterexample. For a practical programmer, bsearch is on a sorted array. Implement that, with the necessary type abstractions. So: build the objects into an array o
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
TFA is deceptive (and so is the citation, but it's likely copying the deceptive headline, so, ok). Subhead says "... *should be* nominated. See below: if this is real then it's a leak of major proportions. https:/&#x2F
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Not sure if COBOL is actually 'stigmatized', but it definitely doesn't match the experience requirements in the job postings for most places where young programmers want to end up. It might well make a "second half of a
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
<mischief> Maybe the bootstrap process should use FORTH as part of the toolchain? </mischief> Not mischief: I'd probably look at that option if I was taking this on.
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Looking at the whole stack (starting from a sub-assembler), could this be a way to bypass the issues around "trusting trust"? https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
https://archive.is/I9A4m
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
In Canada, it's the "Musical Ride" process.
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
A hard truth in the discussion in TFA: >> One long-time admissions officer at a top institution shrugged it off: “Above all, it’s my responsibility to make sure that our graduates work.”
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
I think the specifics are correct but not confined to opera. I have no idea of how to convey the 'classical music culture' (if I could even define it) to "kids today" (ie., grandkids, who say "you listen to weird m
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
https://archive.ph/J3yIM
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Also observing (though this isn't quite the right topic to do so) that a truck as an RV tow vehicle is completely ignored by charging infrastructure. Of course yes you can drop the trailer, but now it's twenty minutes just to get
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
If I had to give a list, I'd give one thing from each of the major times (baroque, classical, romantic (early, late), early 20th, late 20th. Leave out the 20thC atonal stuff. Focus on "lively things" (think: does it have a
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
I'm really crypto-sceptic, but perhaps if cryptomining can be used as the next-best thing to massive resistors to stabilize solar/wind, maybe there's a use for it!
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Could be. The emerging picture (from some observers (including me, but I'm just one opinion) seems to be to build out like heck, then deal with the 'overproduction' using storage and markets. Storage can be things like smar
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Thanks for the reply! Seems like this is 'really short term' (under 1h) and in the realm of frequency stabilization (short peaks)...?
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Very dependent on the jurisdiction. From the discussion, most states that people comment on work similarly to ca.bc: The provincial assessment authority sets a 'value for property tax purposes' that loosely tracks the actual marke
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
Agreed, I made my comment based on the notion that there's a 'left-leaning-smell' to renewables (at least in TX), so a 'right-leaning' answer that maybe pulls (it/them/?) toward the centre would make sense

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