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by dmckeon 3y ago
Relevant not-xkcd "The Science News Cycle" https://tapas.io/episode/18523
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by dmckeon 3y ago
Dürer made some choices that should appeal to entrepreneurs: he was perhaps the first artist to explicitly sign his work, and did it with with his own brand, the stylized A/D. He also chose to work in printmaking, thus being able to
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by dmckeon 3y ago
Less than 6.9%, according to the article.
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by dmckeon 3y ago
Some-time ambulance person and crash survivor here[0]. I am delighted to hear of this change, and am also glad to see evidence-based decisions about medical work outside of clinical environments. If you think other drivers drive badly i
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by dmckeon 3y ago
SO/SE might benefit from a "this question smells like homework" button that could shunt questions that are posted without any code or evidence of adequate clue off to a forum specifically for homework, rather than leaving the
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Rules for “civilian hackers” during war, and 4 obligations for states(ejiltalk.org)
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by dmckeon 3y ago
Also covered in https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/05/red-cross...
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by dmckeon 3y ago
And keep doing that until you get to a paved road, and use that as a runway.
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by dmckeon 3y ago
"Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant." Elwood P. Dowd, _Harvey_
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by dmckeon 3y ago
There is some unpalatable concoction served as "sweet tea" in various chain sit-down restaurants in the greater deep south area that I assume either uses some non-sugar sweetener or some instant tea mix. I now order unsweetened i
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by dmckeon 3y ago
From that link: > Level 3 and above Connected Vehicles constitute almost the totality of new vehicles produced today.
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by dmckeon 3y ago
Anyone who likes the units command should plan an evening where they can sit in a comfortable chair with an appropriate beverage, and read all the comments in the data file in the source. It is like a novel about the history of measurement
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by dmckeon 3y ago
Two Cajuns are sitting on the porch just about sunset, when a UFO gently settles down on the levee. Wilton says, "What that thing?" Boudreaux grabs his shotgun, and says, "I'll go see. You start a roux."
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by dmckeon 3y ago
Should be interesting to see how these work in the combination of wave action, high wind speed, and high rotor tip speed. Seems like the rotor blades would be under flexing action from passing waves. Cool idea, and reduces the classic kil
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by dmckeon 3y ago
The American Heritage dictionary deserves a mention, not only for its extensive usage panels of writers, but for its practice of putting the most current meanings first, so that the dread “Webster’s defines X as…” is not followed by some an
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by dmckeon 3y ago
Simple moderation of a newsgroup on Usenet approximated running a mail list: known users (like list subscribers) could post anything to the newsgroup, while messages from unknown users would be diverted into something like a mail spool, and
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by dmckeon 3y ago
> It's not illegal to let your registration or inspection lapse if the car isn't being driven. True in many states, but California wants vehicles to have valid registration even if the vehicle is not at all operational. The o
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by dmckeon 3y ago
Unpopular opinion: rent controls should be used only in times of drastic changes in housing supply or demand, and have short time limits equal to what it would take to resolve a housing crisis. Sudden change in demand or natural disaster d
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by dmckeon 3y ago
> when Walt Disney World was built near Jacksonville, FL, and Four Corners, FL. My skepticism threshold went way up on reading that bit of geography. Four Corners is 5 miles from Disney World, Orlando 20 miles, JAX 200 miles.
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by dmckeon 3y ago
FYI, GMail will not forward mail messages sent by Gmail - security alerts, "you logged in from a new device", those dire warnings, and possibly any warning that they are about to delete your address, or turn off forwarding. Cave
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by dmckeon 3y ago
> shifted since the 1970s to numbers Post-2000, SoCal usage is usually with the definite article: "the 101 or the 5" NorCal is usually with no article: "101 or I-5". The SoCal pattern is rooted in the named freeway
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by dmckeon 3y ago
The windowing UI/UX I wish for is to arrange a bunch of app's windows on my screen, then run some tool that notices what is running, where they all are, and what has input focus, and can save that state to be reinstantiated later.
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by dmckeon 3y ago
> The Eureka is no ordinary blueberry. It is large – often the width of a dollar coin. Okay, what country's dollar? Australia? Canada? The USA? And if the USA, a Sacky, Tony, or Ike? Perhaps the Guardian is returning the favors of
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by dmckeon 3y ago
Explore the Associated Press "AP Stylebook" (pay-walled, sadly), and propose a mapping to them. It would take a few years to get accepted and more to propagate throughout the working press.
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by dmckeon 3y ago
Programs that use configuration files should provide ways to: show which sources of config data were used: files, CLI, env vars, etc. with --verbose, also show which potential sources were not used show any conflicts or o
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by dmckeon 3y ago
Compare to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tap_code
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by dmckeon 3y ago
Or, "the packet is sent from the client to the server, and it ...." I see this a lot in technical writing where the writer is explaining a flow of code or data, and is very well aware of the antecedent of it - but the reader now
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by dmckeon 3y ago
I expected the writer's footnote regarding organ donation to be anecdotal, but was surprised to find studies confirming a small, but significant basis in fact: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedici
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by dmckeon 3y ago
And you thought the current time zone confusion was bad. Now you have two sets of time zones, and a varying delay of about 5 to 21 minutes between them. Oh, the joy!
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by dmckeon 3y ago
One could argue that, from the point-of-view of a reader, Reddit is a clone of Usenet, or Fido, or BBSes. Not the back-ends, of course, but the UIs, the organic growth of communities, the community spirit that often develops, the meta-

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