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by dave333 4y ago
Shameless plug for several free sudoku web sites with minimal ads: https://fiendishsudoku.com https://sudokuhints.com https://extremesudoku.info https://easysudoku.org Samurai: https:/&#
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Retirement - sloth, gluttony, and no cash (with apologies to Sir Winston).
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A detailed monthly budget in a spreadsheet is all you need to make a retirement decision. But there are a few unknowables that will affect things. Most important are future inflation, major medical expenses (at least until you are covered b
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If he chops down all the trees around the cabin then the wind will be much worse.
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The lunar "day" is actually nearly a solar month and it makes sense to call that a month. However on a shorter timescale, it makes sense for the "day" to be the interval for one rotation of the earth relative to the moon
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They should quote the house prices as % of median house price that year.
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It's worth taking a tour by clicking on particular objects that will zoom in close and show each object as seen by space probes that have visited. E.g. 21Lutetia that was photographed by Rosetta in 2010 is a 90km diameter oblong rotati
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Having survived (just) the dot com bust in 2000 I recently wrote up my experience: https://medium.com/@davenixon_44904/how-to-find-a-job-when-y... TLDR: avoid changing from homeowner to renter if at all possible - conv
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Unable to play any of these online in Chrome on Windows - first 3 games I tried fail to load with the message TypeError: failed to fetch. Update looks like it's timing out so maybe server is getting hammered.
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The theory has not changed much since the original work by Mills in the 1990s but the experiments and engineering have overcome a lot of hurdles and there are now many experiments that match the predictions of the underlying theory and pro
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I think you are assuming a big crunch?
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Read the talk page too - there's been a lot of dispute about that page
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We are not looking back into the past cycle, but we see mature galaxies that date from the previous cycle.
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Looking back now retired - I think I was always too keen to get out of those meetings to get the value out of them that I should of. A manager is the best resource to help you with your career - setting goals and helping you achieve them.
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Practical application of Tufte's Small Multiples pattern https://infovis-wiki.net/wiki/Small_Multiples
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The reason I love my air fryer is that meat and fish both taste great cooked in it and there's no need to stir it or even turn it over since it cooks all over at the same time. About the only thing it isn't good for is eggs.
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by dave333 4y ago
Have used Google Reader, then Digg reader then free Inoreader now paid Inoreader. What are the best feeds you like? Mine are BBC NYT ( via Readium) Business Insider (not so much lately) Hacker News Slashdot
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Easy to create an account and it looks interesting based on exploring and finding both expected and a couple of novel feeds. I would prefer a one row per article format that just shows titles that you have to click on to see the full feed a
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Still use ed commands but mostly in vi command line mode. For me the most useful feature is the ability it has to remember the contents of regular expression matches inside \( ... \) and when you combine this with the g global edit command
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I had a problem running the code see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74924661/typeerror-opena...
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Good news is it will get better. Bad news is it will get worse first :-) The terrible twos (2-4 yrs) is a challenge as your little monster(s) learn civilized behavior. Then all is good until they become rebellious teenagers glued to their p
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I went from Google Reader to Digg Reader to Inoreader free to Inoreader paid. Has been pretty solid I have only found one bug - sometimes it doesn't show you the same article you clicked on. Tried to report that but they wanted me to g
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I sympathize as I had a lean patch after the dot com bust around 2001 aged 47 that lasted until I got another regular dev job in 2007. My problems were mostly financial although I did have some fun outside my marriage and also in places lik
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It's still decades away from power generation if ever. A much more interesting technology is Mills Hydrogen to dark matter converter that is now close to operation. https://brilliantlightpower.com/harnessing-power-from-
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We had a similar but not quite as funny occurrence when our teletype would sometimes flip a bit. When users logged into our system via the Asynchronous Multi Line Controller we got a console message AMLC IN USE however the last char was cha
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In 1978 Linotron 606 phototypesetters had an intermittent problem that sometimes a small section of text would appear as if the letters had been chopped up in a blender. Nobody could figure it out for about 6 months. Turned out to be a bug
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Free daily sudoku websites monetized with (a few) ads have provided steady income for nearly 20 years now and require very little maintenance: https://samurai-sudoku.com https://sudokuprintables.org https:/&#x2
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Speaking as an idiot trying to get hired in the depths of the dot com bust for programming in javascript that I did not yet know two that stumped me were: Is javascript case sensitive (I got the answer right purely by guessing, but the hesi
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The usual instant knee-jerk downvote I see. I wonder what it is in what I wrote that you object to?
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Short answer is the Big Bang theory is wrong. Physics has major problems including identity of dark matter and the whole quantum entanglement spooky action at a distance thingy. Mills has proposed a purely classical atomic model that solves

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