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by dmckeon 3y ago
Interesting to note that the root of the complaint was not the number of residents, but the number of vehicles or parking spaces used. Some of those numeric residential restrictions date from times when it was hard to distinguish between a
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by dmckeon 3y ago
Not world, just state. It is a skill where both speed and quality benefit the employer. Would a software company prefer programmers who produce buggy code slowly, or better programmers? [considers state of software industry ...] Uh, never
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by dmckeon 3y ago
Asked a former champion shearer, who said that maybe 1% of sheep being sheared get nicked, more likely by inexperienced shearers. If the skin is not held taut, nicks will happen. For people who shave their faces with a blade, how often do
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by dmckeon 3y ago
> a former Royal Canadian Air Force base in Gimli, Manitoba, which had been converted to a racetrack Technically.
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by dmckeon 3y ago
What would it cost the US government to buy out the major tax prep providers? The IRS could then provide free tax estimates to a large percentage of filers, and hire many former tax prep workers as IRS agents.
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by dmckeon 3y ago
But if you are working with horses or other draft animals, you work them from the "near" (left) side, and not the "off" (right) side. Next up in directions trivia: shotgun, deasil, and widdershins.
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by dmckeon 4y ago
Similar previous research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefania_Follini spent 130 days underground, isolated from external clues about time and circadian rhythms. Her sleep cycle lengthened a lot.
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by dmckeon 4y ago
From that article: > Church policy is that people baptize only their own dead relatives but indeed, some adherents apparently do proxy-baptise unrelated people.
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by dmckeon 4y ago
> DNF is slow as molasses Run dnf with -C / --cacheonly unless you need package metadata that is fresher than your coffee. Much speedier. The fastestmirror setting may help, but unfortunately is based on ping time rather than down
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by dmckeon 4y ago
This was pretty strong: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1337
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by dmckeon 4y ago
Wikipedia gives the altitude for the South Pole station as: > The station is located on the high plateau of Antarctica at 2,835 metres (9,301 ft) above sea level. The screenshot shows air pressure, expressed as altitude and pressure. 68
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by dmckeon 4y ago
It is also thought to have been a contraceptive and abortifacient.
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by dmckeon 4y ago
Some suggestions re Amtrak: review carefully the speeds on your journey legs of interest - 80 miles/hour across Kansas is nice, 35 m/h on "slow orders" across West Texas feels interminable. Also (as OP mentions) note si
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by dmckeon 4y ago
Matt's channel seems to focus on innovative technology. For a slightly more traditional approach to a "spec" (speculative) house-building process, see the "Essential Craftsman" series of 150 videos by Scott and Na
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by dmckeon 4y ago
Video from fire/rescue on scene: https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1610075687981023233 Local news: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-california-cliff-2-kids-2... Reports suggest tha
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by dmckeon 4y ago
Great review of a complicated and developing topic. Best line, and so true: > Unfortunately, because science is all too often taught in school as a collection of facts, rather than a dynamic process of enquiry, people can be vulnerable
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by dmckeon 4y ago
For context, search "accelerationism" - here is one point-of-view: https://www.fpri.org/article/2020/04/the-growing-threat-pose...
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by dmckeon 4y ago
Also 40 years ago, 40-some years after penicillin was introduced, gonorrhea had evolved to produce an enzyme that acted specifically against it, penicillinase. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1046026&#
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by dmckeon 4y ago
As Mister_X mentioned, in the US, start with the National Speleological Society at https://caves.org/ There is also a sub-reddit at reddit.com/r/caving/ Definitely find a local group - if there are caves in
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by dmckeon 4y ago
Aren't those the "pre-agricultural erosion" rates that are lower than the current rates?
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by dmckeon 4y ago
Survived, yes, but > The flight carried 102 passengers, 36 of them got injured of which 4 seriously injured.
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by dmckeon 4y ago
Code golf is an enemy of clarity, and clear Perl has been a victim of that.
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by dmckeon 4y ago
I believe that the apparent benefits to traffic safety from various lighting schemes share an underlying reason: producing uncertainty in other drivers, and thus more delay or caution before maneuvering. Daytime headlights for motorcycles
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by dmckeon 4y ago
A set of satellites that could do laser ablation of debris or EOL sats would be great, but would need safeguards to not become a weapon of economics or war. Avoiding splash-over or collateral damage to other sats in or near the line-of-sigh
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by dmckeon 4y ago
The US CDC suggests crouching, among many other suggestions: https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/features/lightning-safety/index.htm...
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by dmckeon 4y ago
No need for "$@" there? (Not many file names with spaces?)
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by dmckeon 4y ago
An interesting side-effect of universal mail-in ballots is the detection of fraudulent voter registrations. If ballots addressed to Tinker, Evers, and Chance arrive at 123 Elm Street, which is only occupied by the Smith family, one should
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by dmckeon 4y ago
In the 1200s the eastern horse-hordes used frozen rivers to speed up their rate of advance and took much of the area west of the Urals by surprise.
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by dmckeon 4y ago
I worked in a retail lumber yard in the mid-1970s and learned to be very patient with crochety old pharts who complained that "a 2x4 used to be a full 2"x4" dagnabbit..." Am now a somewhat crochety old phart myself, and
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by dmckeon 4y ago
Improvements in organ donation/procurement networks in the USA are needed. "In 2020, 21.3 percent of procured kidneys were not transplanted," per https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/0

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