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by craz8 4y ago
We picked up our years supply on Saturday. Sadly, last year had no flavor, but this year tastes good, but the heat scale seems to be offset down one level In the Seattle area, Haggen does this - but not King County this year! Whole Foods u
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by craz8 4y ago
I work in Clojure now, after 15 years of Ruby Clojure is cool and all, but it has no Chunky Bacon
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by craz8 4y ago
I’m new to Clojure, coming from Ruby and C and Pascal - there is no way I’m am leading myself to use ‘juxt’ and possibly combining it with ‘into {}’ (ruby’s each_with_object gets you close, but it’s not as powerful) There are a bunch of par
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by craz8 4y ago
Just this is reason enough to go EV and charge mostly at home. But you know the fast charger networks will try this - but it takes enough time to charge that the user walks away for coffee and bathrooms, so the audience is much less captiv
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Richard Tait, creator of Cranium, dies(geekwire.com)
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by craz8 4y ago
The very first words I new of Guards Guards were read to me by Pratchett at a small con in London (at Imperial College?) before the book was published. And before he was super famous. The room wasn’t even full It was the bit about a milli
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by craz8 4y ago
I saw Jarre live in the London Docklands in 1988 - I was a poor student that lived within walking distance (Woolwich) The rain gave it an ambiance that worked, and the location was abandoned industrial location - now redeveloped The differe
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by craz8 4y ago
I have seen on Lake Washington, in the Seattle area, someone with a 1-2 person hovercraft driving/flying around At least one time they were dressed as Santa I’m a big fan - ha! - of these devices, but they are very, very loud for the a
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by craz8 4y ago
Larry Osterman is one of the Jeopardy questions to “Who’s worked at Microsoft longer than Bill Gates” I worked with him at what turns out to have been towards the start of his time at Microsoft. Lots of great stories even then
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by craz8 4y ago
In 2000, Microsoft exec Chris Peters ‘went bowling’ by buying the PBA (Professional Bowlers Association) - which is probably not the idea you were trying to convey Microsoft money was weird at the end of the 90s
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by craz8 4y ago
US zip codes are actually 10 characters, eg 90210-3356 These last 4 provide the resolution needed to avoid this confusion. I too live in the Seattle area and have this same doppelgänger problem, so I use the full zip code when possible (not
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by craz8 4y ago
Fred was a British TV star in the 80s young person. Back before HD TV and DVD quality. I grew up around people like Fred (and they may have known him from his steam engine work) - good at hardware. Luckily software came along for me to no
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by craz8 4y ago
I have a doppelgänger address that causes trouble (US addresses can have N, S, W, and other compass modifiers that are critical to accuracy). Fedex is the worst, as they have a manual override that mostly, but not always, catches the addre
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by craz8 4y ago
And I still call it Seahawks Stadium, the name it had before the rights were sold I may be biased though, as I did get married there the year it opened
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by craz8 4y ago
If NASA had plans for a moon base, and also had plans to send things back from there, this might become an interesting launch capability - no atmosphere and lower escape velocity provides more flexibility. Run it with stored solar power an
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by craz8 5y ago
I too had my unemployment record hijacked and money transferred in the WA state attack The state sent out a letter pretty quick, and I filed to stop this within a few weeks. I have no idea how much was stolen with my name, or how much was
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by craz8 5y ago
It’s interesting that Sucker Punch and Bungie offices were really close to each other - maybe 2 blocks? Although I read that Sucker Punch recently moved, and I don’t know the new location. I can imagine them sharing all sorts of things bet
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by craz8 5y ago
I suggest that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is set in the Marvel universe, and Caracatus Potts is the grandfather of Pepper Potts.
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by craz8 5y ago
This sometimes feels like ancient history, but then Facebook has recently started recommending Bob Frankston as someone I may know. I have been in a meeting that Bob was also in, but that was over 20 years ago too - and VisiCalc felt like a
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by craz8 6y ago
NFT derivatives will be the next big thing for the ‘20s - perhaps a NFT ETF I can put in my IRA?
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by craz8 6y ago
I’m surprised that no-one has mentioned that selling the Brooklyn Bridge is a very old scam, made famous by this huckster: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Parker New technology, same scam
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by craz8 6y ago
I’ve been down this route on a fairly large flight booking site a few years ago. The default result for Sydney was the Nova Scotia one Took me a few seconds to realize the error
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by craz8 6y ago
I’ve implemented email blocking recently where we stored a secure hash of the blocked email so we know we’ve seen it, but we don’t have it stored. So it is possible to do that correctly Discord probably doesn’t do that though
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by craz8 6y ago
I don’t think it’s being oblivious. It’s being removed enough to forget the painful parts, but being aware enough at the time of the good parts. The painful parts decay faster than the good part memories, but schooling pain lasts forever!
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by craz8 6y ago
This entirely depends on when you were born. For older people, the 50s and 60s were that. For others slightly older than you, the 80s were that. For people younger than you, the 2000s were great!
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by craz8 6y ago
I’ve visited some of the “Best Beaches In The World” - Hawaii, Caribbean, Fiji - but none as good (as a beach) as some of those in Pembrokeshire (south west Wales) where I grew up Now, many had much better facilities, and often much larger
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by craz8 6y ago
My heat pump was sold as having “700 levels” (that’s 30-100% in 0.1% increments), but the Nexia software shows unit % and also Level 1 or Level 2. Who knows if it’s actually using the fine grain control I paid a lot of money for? My first
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by craz8 6y ago
I would pay good money to get access to the API my communicating thermostat uses - the Trane device is terrible in many ways that basic software updates could fix
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by craz8 6y ago
It is, but are they actually planning to do this? The key is that you need to stagger them now - maybe over a 10 day period to be safe (plan for 2 days off, so 20% out of action with 10 days, try to use “weekend” time for this) But in the m
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by craz8 6y ago
Since this algorithm is obviously flawed this way, is it likely to be flawed with respect to the timing of the second dose? Every report I’ve seen from experiment subjects (who may have received the placebo) indicates that the second dose s

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