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by daveslash 3y ago
Re>> Kanji characters convey meaning ... you already have to know what it means Yep. To Westerner's, it's Karno, when his mind was fogged , but really it's The beast at Tanagra , despite many Westerners being Kiteo
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by daveslash 3y ago
As the number of people who have walked on The Moon dwindles, I've long wondered if there will every come a period in which we, as a species, can say "we have been to The Moon, but there is no one currently alive who has" .
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by daveslash 3y ago
Someone out there loved Clippy so much, they wrote erotic fiction about it. Warning: Mindly NSFW. I'll see myself out... https://www.amazon.com/Conquered-Clippy-Erotic-Digital-Desir...
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by daveslash 3y ago
I'd be a bit reluctant to quickly judge someone's exposure to the various terminology around this topic. CGP Grey has a good video on the terminology as used in the US [0]. From the video: " Talking to people over the last [s
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by daveslash 3y ago
I don't know why you're downvoted. I think it's a legitimate question. When I was in high school I asked " Why don't we just shoot our nuclear waste into the sun? ". As an adult, Kerbal Space Program has taught
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by daveslash 3y ago
Yep! You got it!
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by daveslash 3y ago
I don't know who specifically invented file extensions, but Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing has some good insight into why they are important on Windows. Edit: In summary, it is to be able to support Tape based drives and avo
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by daveslash 3y ago
And telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
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by daveslash 3y ago
"The Whitehouse Page" I had to read that to ensure it was talking about Whitehouse. gov and not Whitehouse. com - the latter of which fooled many-a-schoolteacher in the 90s.
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by daveslash 3y ago
This. I once had a code review with a new hire who couldn't understand a for loop in C#. Something almost as simple as the snippet below. Their resume showed a B.S. in CompSci from a CalState school. But they professed "I never u
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by daveslash 3y ago
I've gone into the back country for days at a time, usually in places without cell service. I love the "just being bored". It's such a good mental reset. But last year I took a trip to a remote island. The ferry dropped
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by daveslash 3y ago
I left the office today at lunch so I could finish from home (Which is okay with my direct manager)... but I was thinking about this as I left... If my boss cared, he wouldn't have to memorize my plate in order to recognize my car. I d
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by daveslash 3y ago
https://devhumor.com/media/dilbert-s-team-writes-a-minivan https://web.archive.org/web/20040602185208/http://blogs.msdn...
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by daveslash 3y ago
Same. I didn't realize it was other people until I came here. Then... I went back to the page and had fun trying to follow other people's cursors.
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by daveslash 3y ago
Caveat: Unless you're running Windows 10 v21H2 LTSC IoT Enterprise. Then you'll get updates until 2032. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history#cit... Edit: Source on Microsoft https:/&
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by daveslash 3y ago
Insert: Zoidberg says: "Why not both"? meme
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by daveslash 3y ago
As someone who's visited the Salton Sea, I assure you, I can imagine. That said, the more dead the sea becomes, the less it smells. The Salton Sea smelled so much worse when there were will fish to die off [0]. The fish population woul
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by daveslash 3y ago
To look for life like urchins? Or urchins specifically to eat? Full Disclosure: I am not an expert on inter-tidal foraging. Here are my thoughts, but I do not know if they are correct. I have eaten purple urchins out of the Mission Bay ch
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by daveslash 3y ago
Sea Urchins are fascinating. The Purple Urchins have been destroying the kelp in California lately, and as this article stated, they can live for a long time and go into a zombie like state. They also dig holes in the rock with their teeth
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by daveslash 3y ago
Glad I read the article. At first I ( naively ) thought "why? just pump more seawater?" But according to the article " it takes around 50 million gallons of fresh water to move a ship through a lock. The panamax locks lose
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by daveslash 3y ago
I'm in medical device software. I'm mid-way through my career (15+ years). I've been on my current codebase (which is 20+ years old) for 5 years. I work with a coworker who's been with this code base for 20 years, but is
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by daveslash 3y ago
I know that generally speaking, disposing of waste in the ocean and expecting it to disperse enough to be harmless is foolish and wrong. But in the case of salt, It would seem to me that the ocean can handle that amount of salt. Course, I h
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by daveslash 3y ago
Yeah, the article is light on details. We don't know if they sank or if they're adrift on the surface somewhere after some failure. If they experienced an emergency underwater and were not able to surface, I'd fear for th
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by daveslash 3y ago
Re>> "Someone’s done a lot of find and replaces -- NEVER a good idea in galleys. Ah, the Scunthorpe problem. [0] It's never a good idea, but the immature 12 y/o in my always giggles at the examples. One of my favorite
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by daveslash 3y ago
Low quality comment: I looked a lobster in the eye yesterday. It was definitely very curious about me - intently feeling my hand with its antennae. I tickled its antennae an it darted away. But it was back in a few minutes, watching me as
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by daveslash 3y ago
Yes. Put the Wordpress on a completely separate server so the WordPress instance is properly firewalled from your main application/database. But don't leave it on a subdomain -- set up a reverse proxy so you can route to a subdire
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by daveslash 3y ago
I've been playing around with it. I think it's neat, and it's impressive from a tech perspective, but I'm not terribly impressed with it from a content generation standpoint. I'm sure it will get better.
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by daveslash 3y ago
Same. I saw a reddit post last night about someone complaining that the generative fill wasn't working on their machine.... so when I saw this headline, I first thought that they'd rolled it back in a sloppy way.
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by daveslash 3y ago
Sorry all, that was me. It was 1989, I was in kindergarten, I didn't really know what I was doing. My bad.
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by daveslash 3y ago
Reading the title, my initial thought was residential skyscrapers. Reading the article clearly indicates that it's discussing offices. But back to residential: I understand that many wealthy people buy real estate for the prestige of h

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