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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
There's a lot of protectionism around asphalt maintenance. I knew a city manager that got a city out of a major projected shortfall, without cutting any services, by investing in redicing long-term expenses. He was celebrated for it, t
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
The whole job application/interview process is more of a legal/HR compliance thing, than a creative decision process. Apple gives their legal department just as much leeway as they get in any conglomerate, if not more, so it&#x27
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
I learned to program on the Commodore 64 and in QBASIC in th 90's. I'll give it a try. Considering how much it supports, if it could chainload a full operating system, it would make a great replacement for GRUB or rEFIt.
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
I worked near a datacenter, and it never made any discernible noise. There were portable gas turbines a few miles away, installed to expand a city-owned power plant, because the NIMBYism process to approve a real power plants meant that we
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
Amazon beat everyone to the punch, with Lab126.
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
I feel like this is par for any random paper. Never trust any conclusion's take on correlation vs causation.
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
It's just NIMBYism, which itself is usually justified through fake science. There's honest to goodness people who think we shouldn't disturb space rocks, because they will no longer be in their pristine natural state.
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
It's not just Belgium, Practically every major monarchy has had some kind of controversy that could have easily been resolved through DNA testing, if it existed at the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretender
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
If gigabit was the baseline, I wouldn't be able to get my $20/mo plan wouldn't be available, and I'd have to pay more for service I don't use.
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
Well yeah, matching the speed of the rest of the traffic is what maters. Reducing drivers speeds on dangerous stretches of roads has a significant impact on safety, but otherwise average speeds don't really make a difference.
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
I used to think the rise of cryptocurrencies for international transaction could decouple the US dollar enough to limit the ability to create too many bonds or too much quantitative easing, butt then stablecoins got popular, and they really
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
That's a hair over 5% interest. As long as the US is also printing enough money to keep inflation at that level, it's not costing anything. That alone can't cause an economic collapse, but sure can make one much worse.
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
They had modal menus back then, they just didn't display them. You had to memorize which obscure symbols to press, to change various settings. For example, in the 1970's, HP's calculator watch required pressing ⯅• to switch
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
When your entire business plan is to display scraped data, you don't want anyone scraping your data!
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
Automation isn't having robots assemble things, it's laying off accountants who read numbers from spreadsheets, type them into their calculator, and enter the number back into the spreadsheet, and replacing them with a spreadsheet
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
It's easy. If you want to save and quit, all you have to do is type this: :wq[enter] …then notice you typed that text into the document and undo it with this [esc][shift+j] k[end]dl.. …before finally saving and
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
I guess it's time to air this ad again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDeDQpIQFD0 There's a lot of Canadian expatriates in US history, so I'd presume a large chunk of multi-generation US Americans are eligib
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
It's still working for me, even in an incognito window.
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
As camera resolutions increase and storage space becomes more valuable, the HEIC format is here to stay. Maybe in the same sense that BMP and TIF are here to stay, because someone uses them occasionally. I doubt anything will eve
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
Is that still a thing, or is everyone on student loans, nowadays?
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
I don't see how it's any less communicative than what was printed on the front page of a newspaper a decade or two ago. There'd usually be a high temperature, low temperature, and icon showing how sunny it would be, possibly
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
Does the 'Å' pop up if you long press 'A'?
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
The benefit comes from no one ever using the earlier inferior versions.
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
Last time I heard this much discussion about movies in theaters was Barbenheimer, which was three years ago.
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
I can't imagine anything they'd be introducing is any worse than hydrofluoric acid, which is already in common use. If they're going solely off what the chemical is, and not what the safety and containment strategies are, th
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
An engineering committee brought us the Littoral combat ship, and it's difficult to go downhill from there. The US Navy is in good need of a pivot, and they're probably just using the president's comments as an excuse.
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
I've found the pizza varies a lot from location to location, within the same region. The good ones are some of the best pizza I've had, and others are less desirable than frozen pizza.
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
I just searched Google for "highest calorie tuber" to try and see what the best choice would be (cassava/tapioca/yucca) but Google was very insistent I see the search results for "highest calorie tube ".
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
I hope it's not a health food to anyone. Also, I've bought the hot dog and forgone the soda.
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by dlcarrier 2mo ago
I used to think they were entirely useless, but since then I've learned of many instances where a much better technology is developed because the first iteration is patented. For example, the Wright brothers biggest contribution to avi

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