dbcurtis

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by dbcurtis 5y ago
The purpose of the senate is to make sure that low population regions have a voice, and that majority interests don’t trample minority interests. To say that one party doesn’t want people to be represented at all is a ridiculous straw-man.
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Because one party wants two more uncompetitive senate seats.
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I thought it was an illness. But yeah, family first.
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The trick with holes is to make your negative geometry penetrate past the surface. Meeting exactly on the surface will be too glitchey otherwise with the fast floating-point approximation. Fillets and chamfers though, yeah. The lack of th
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Because all the current recipe sites are cesspools of adverts, unnecessary and distracting write-ups, and obfuscated printability? They are poster children for much of what makes the current web a miserable chore to use.
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Well, YMMV. I looked into permit-free structures in one California county. 1. 120 ft^2 max, outside dimensions. 2. No electricity > 30VDC. 3. No plumbing. 4. No wood-burning appliances. You could still squeeze an office or studio into
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
While you are correct, these other defenses are messy and miserable to live through. Let’s hope we find a less bloody path forward.
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Yes. Although there will still be places that need work. The Detweiler fire burned across my place a few years ago. Mostly burned “cool” - ground fire not crown fire - so a lot of fuel got eliminated. Came back healthier. Still, it could
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
I have one piece of anectdata. I own some property in the Sierra foothills, and a couple of years ago spent considerable time talking to the California Department Forestry (CDF) fire chief for the area about clearing a fire break through i
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Learning a bit of music history will give you a roadmap. By placing a composer in the time line of the evolution of western music, you will have a scaffold to frame your listening and other learning. When you hear something you like (or do
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Agreed. Burnout and depression may overlap. In my case, they did not. I’ve been burned out. I’ve been depressed. Burned out is better :) If you think you might be depressed, get some help. Joking aside, for me the therapy is the same for e
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
My strategy when faced with doing a DSL of some kind is to write an accepter in bison or similar and knock the bugs out of the grammar and basic readability issues. Then go recursive descent with a table-driven precedence-climbing parser fo
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Intel is notorious for not giving reasonable EOL notices nor last-buy opportunities. I don’t trust them as a supplier. I would not make the assumption that customers were treated well. Until I hear from my contacts, I assume nothing. (Sourc
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
A lot of experimentation these days is SDRs. But people still build. The founders of Elecraft met at a club focused on building radios and decided to monetize their hobby.
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Imagine the business decision of selecting between a post-open licensed ware and BSD licensed similar functionality. In return for 1% of revenue and the hassle of an annual usage audit, you get what value in return, exactly? That is the ke
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Pretty good summary. Clarification: for-profit users pay a percentage of end user revenue. non-profits and individuals pay nothing. Automated auditing envisioned. This is a proposal, not nearly ready for roll-out. The concepts are interes
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
> helping people to live healthier lives while they're young so their bodies aren't in horrible shape by the time they're old would also make for good priorities. Agree. But let me add that finding that sweet spot where t
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Even most US dentists are reluctant to use it in my experience. Ours has it in the back corner, though. My wife likes to get a whiff before the numbing injections so that the injections don’t hurt so much. It helps with the anxiety, as you
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Probably at least as far back as WW II we had linear taper pots and audio taper pots. Bam. Done.
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Well you have dog-phobic or people with allergies for neighbors.
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Some destination-dispatch systems used in high-end residential towers will not schedule pet owners and non-pet owners to the same cab at the same time. Which makes a lot of sense.
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Pfft. List is far from complete. I have done 3rd party interfaces to several elevator controllers. I am highly encumbered by NDA’s, so won’t say much. But I still wonder what “Korean Lunch 2” mode does???
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
I would say more likely in the days of coax, before hubs existed.
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Plus insurance will go up, and in California the annual license fee is partly based on the value of the car.
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Insightful. When I moved to California from Minnesota my cars were covered with “road cancer”. People looked at the rusted body panels like “What the heck is that? I’ve never seen that.” Now one of my cars is over 22 years old and still go
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Or “Griefkit” was another name. But a lot of the early and mid vintage ham gear was decent and a good value. I built or owned 2nd hand several back in the day. A former coworker of mine that lived for a while close to Benton Harbor said tha
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Yes, well, when you live with them as next door neighbors you find that they have as many angels and scoundrels, as many wise and as many fools as any other group. The practicalities of their life are different, but they are people like you
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Every community IS different. Amish hold Sunday meeting in their homes, rotating who hosts. Therefore, everyone in the community must live within a practical buggy ride of each other. The community elects a bishop. The bishop has final say
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This
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The article leaves out my favorite part of the Post-It Note story. When Silver and Fry were trying to get 3M management to productize Post-It's, they could not get any traction with anyone with authority to launch a product. So, they

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