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by derekp7 6y ago
My biggest problem with Snow Crash was at the end of the book. The author has done this in other books too, where you have a very detailed story but then it feels like the end gets rushed. Kind of like another 200 pages of novel get squee
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by derekp7 6y ago
So kind of like how a bar has a bowl of nuts or pretzels out for free. Or, at work, I bought a pastry from the cafeteria. About 5 minutes later they put out a whole platter of the same pastries in the dining area for free (they didn't
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by derekp7 6y ago
I was using "Roomba" as an illustration device. I necessarily wouldn't expect that the technology I described would be available at a consumer price point, but many of those items on my list should be doable with the same te
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by derekp7 6y ago
But that factory won't do any good unless it gets input, and can put its output somewhere. The input would supposedly be from the local regolith which has a lot of the same problems that the example roomba would face. Now a factory on
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by derekp7 6y ago
What if you don't owe the debt, however you are hit with dozens of summons to show up to different courts for different supposed debts? How is it fair to force a totally innocent person to take time off of work, possibly hire a lawyer
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by derekp7 6y ago
Agreed. The benchmark I use is I'll believe that robotic missions make human missions irrelevant, when the day comes that I can get a roomba that works across multiple floors, climbing stairs (and cleaning stairs), empties itself in t
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by derekp7 6y ago
Their list of Linux vendor certifications is here: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd031426
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by derekp7 6y ago
For me, learning came when I was on an IBM RT/PC (pre RS-6000), in something like 90 or 91. I used IBM's editor from the console, but one time I had to edit something from a terminal back in the shop. Which didn't have full
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by derekp7 6y ago
No, I was thinking of designing and 3D-printing a magnet holder clip -- didn't realize someone else thought of it too. I guess what they say is true, there is no unique new ideas. Is what you saw just a couple clip on magnets (like wh
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by derekp7 6y ago
I've got another trick to use in place of a Magsafe type cable. Get a cable that is a few feet longer than you need, and attach a couple magnets a few feet apart on the cable. Then click the magnets together. Now you have a cable wi
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by derekp7 6y ago
This works except in the case where your backups include live database files (where you put the database in extended logging mode, back up the data files while they are being modified, then back up the logs). I haven't found a good way
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by derekp7 6y ago
I have an idea. What about putting a solar powered radar that lights up a flashing sign when cross traffic is detected to draw the driver's attention. Even better would be coupled with signalling that indicates which direction a vehi
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by derekp7 6y ago
For generally fighting off viruses, I wonder if Vitamin D is the reason why many colds / flues tend to peak in the winter months and subside over the summer.
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Also, a good approach from the employee side is to explain during the interview what all they can do for the company. That's the approach I took last time around, I got in the mindset that I was a consultant that was there to solve th
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by derekp7 6y ago
When you have to hire a professional, for example a plumber, do you put out an ad and say "I need to hire a plumber to fix a broken pipe by running a new sewer line out to the street, and the job pays $60.00 per hour". Or do you
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by derekp7 6y ago
A quick read through doesn't necessarily make it easy to follow. For example, Sarbanes Oxley compliance is a huge business, that is fairly expensive for a company to implement correctly. And the compliance requirements of it stems fr
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by derekp7 7y ago
I use Fedora as my daily driver, since I primarily work with RHEL/CentOS at my job. The main problem I have with Fedora is their 6-month release cycle, without having periodic LTS versions. The support a version for 1 year, so that m
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by derekp7 7y ago
And it happened gradually. "Ingredients: ... Sugar and/or High Fructose Corn Syrup ..." appeared on the label for the longest time.
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by derekp7 7y ago
I've got a conversion setup that uses a geared hub motor, apparently the gears are some type of nylon. They're fairly durable, as there isn't a lot of torque on the gear teeth themselves as this is a reduction gear (goes fro
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by derekp7 7y ago
What happens when someone asks you about one of those items? You consult your memory reserves, and you find that those are proper names of specific entities. So your brain returns those entities. Now there very well be a high school band
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by derekp7 7y ago
It would be really nice if the search engines would automatically apply the "-" when it sees the work "without".
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by derekp7 7y ago
Do you find that when you have to do something mentally unpleasant (such as homework back when you were in school / college, or doing your taxes, or whatever similar thing affect you), do you tend to space out? Or do you get a feeling
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The problem with being a top performer (2017)(scientificamerican.com)
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by derekp7 7y ago
Ah, I completely forgot about flinux. Seems there were a lot of neat innovations back in the earlier days, including a couple of single system images (SSI) implementations (the opposite of VMs, making a network of hosts look like a single
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by derekp7 7y ago
Question -- from what I understand, WSL2 is closer to Linux running in a VM, whereas WSL1 was like a Windows kernel level version of Cygwin. Is that mostly correct? Regarding that, remember a number of years ago, prior to VMs there was a p
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by derekp7 7y ago
I've had similar experience as you in a previous job. No matter what, I couldn't get people to listen to my ideas, and it actually felt like I wasn't part of the in-group (similar to certain high school experiences). My solu
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by derekp7 7y ago
My Aunt would disagree. She had a bunch of her pictures of her late husband ruined because Google thought it would be cute to Photoshop David Hasselhoff into them. Especially some of the last pictures she had of him in the hospital (he di
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by derekp7 7y ago
The big thing I can think of is assisting the patient with breathing when needed, yet allowing the patient to still breathe naturally when they can. Things like not forcing air in when the patient is trying to exhale, or removing air when
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by derekp7 7y ago
The problem is that typically you buy a house attached to a piece of property. So if the house is 20 years into a 25 year life, you have an issue of trying to 1) dispose of the house at the 25 year mark, and 2) finding a place to live for
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by derekp7 7y ago
What about having a hole in a corner that you could run a string or wire through? Was there a spot to position a hole that wouldn't interfere with the card reader? Heck, if possible I would do a 3 ring binder. Or rubber bands at a m

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