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by downut 5y ago
This is correct. When I was still in grad school and the better half was working as an engineer I pretty much got the ultimatum that we needed to get married for the tax break. We had been living together for 7 years. But then we were bot
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by downut 5y ago
But the key is who regulates, prohibits, etc. If that power is local, NIMBY always wins. These decisions must be made at the state level. Cities are way too fractured into myriad municipalities competing for jobs and "quality"
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by downut 5y ago
Haha, I had cooked beans and rice no problem at all at sea level for twenty years. Then I moved to 5500'. Even a year after moving in, I once ruined three consecutive (same afternoon) pots of brown rice. I ruined a couple of 15 (or
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by downut 5y ago
I do pastrami the way Franklin BBQ book describes cooking brisket using their recommended side barrel smoker mods. I use scrub oak logs off the back lot, leave the door open, and smoke it for say 4-5 hrs. Then I take the still tough pastr
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by downut 5y ago
"properties purchased for the sole intent of knocking down the existing structures to build apartments/condos/etc" That seems like a particularly cogent example of the Free Market/Capitalism/Invisible Hand at w
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by downut 5y ago
Three years ago this happened to us at midnight before the check-in day for an AirBnB in Bucharest. I had to spend a couple of hours in the middle of the night with AirBnB support messaging back and forth. But AirBnB handled it near perfe
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by downut 5y ago
My wife is a master gardener at 5500' elevation in AZ. If the monsoon happens (50% chance) then there are two difficult months, May and June. June is the real bitch. Highs in the high 90s, hot winds out of the southwest everyday, an
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by downut 5y ago
In 1989 I wrote a letter (i.e., mailed) to a friend from grad school (ASU) pursuing her studies at a Northern UK university. I sez we will meet you at the center of Piccadilly Circus at such and such a time, on such and such date. She wro
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by downut 5y ago
My group at NASA Ames was specifically tasked with pushing systems such as the Connection Machines, Intel Paragon, IBM SP-2 into (boring) production status. Yeah, that was a fun job. Also contentious, but hey, you want the drama. But it
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by downut 5y ago
Mail delivery trucks. All delivery trucks? Regenerative braking is a beautiful thing.
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by downut 5y ago
A 2016 Prius gets ~40++ mpg on a 10 gal tank all day at 90mph. That is, >> 400 mile range per fueling stop. I heard this on the internets, of course, I wouldn't know, personally ;-). Fueling stops imply human fuel as well. I g
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by downut 5y ago
In the 90s we lived in SF SOMA and I had a 4WD pickup. It was excellent for hauling antique furniture and oddball arty type things (store couldn't possibly deliver). And it was perfect for exploring the Lost Coast, Trinity Alps, Owen
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by downut 6y ago
I cook constantly 2-3 meals/day for my partner and myself these days, and it's not just COVID. We live in a US smallish high mountain west city and frankly, with notably rare exceptions, the eating out or takeaway experience is j
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by downut 6y ago
From "The Birth of The Modern" by Paul Johnson: "So people walked, women as well as men. When Keats went on his tour of Scotland in 1818, he went by public coach as far as Lancashire and on foot thereafter. Worsworth, his si
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by downut 6y ago
How can a single city support so many cool bookstores in 2021? I visited this one a couple of years ago, it was a very pleasant place to spend an hour browsing. The English section is surprisingly large. I bought a Murakami that I had no
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by downut 6y ago
"They chose the latter, the engines held..." In the olden tymes, ordinary lusers were able to turn the machine's dial past 10..., knowing that their account might be terminated. Now all that's left is excel.
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by downut 6y ago
I'm 59 and a 2x cancer survivor myself and it just makes me so angry that such talent and joy for life gets taken. It is the way of the world. I had never seen that video and it made me laugh out loud about the idea of being passed by
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by downut 6y ago
Yeah, I run a raidz2 (I was young back when I built it ;-) and have replaced all but one of the drives at least once. Rock solid. And bhyve + zfs, that's really cool. More and more of my Debian (multiple version) appliances are smal
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by downut 6y ago
Not a developer, and if I were I might find such a question puzzling. Here's why I use it: +zfs +(poudriere & /usr/ports) +(helpful mail lists) +bhyve !systemd FreeBSD since 1994, Debian since 1998. But underneath it all
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by downut 6y ago
The 8087 chip I added on to my 8086 system sits on my monitor pedestal, forever. Right now, it's next to my ()&( ^&^%%$%^ Pixel 2 XL USB C audio connector. I was a grad student in numerical analysis and holy smokes! Hardware
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by downut 6y ago
Oh no. Only ms to live.
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by downut 6y ago
Both my wife and I graduated GT ChE 35 years ago and really liked living in downtown Atlanta. Not many traffic problems downtown, midtown, out east except Ponce at 5PM. Afterwards PHX, Mountain View, Santa Clara, and a delicious stint in
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by downut 6y ago
Yeah I agree with this more, but let's ignore the US for a moment and observe that inflation has been steady and low for decades now in most wealthy countries. And then we observe the same is true in the US. So whatever the causes of
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by downut 6y ago
I know nothing. I went to several sites and the display looks functional, but all I am hearing is white noise. Is there a tutorial somewhere? It has sounded cool for years, but I need to bootstrap somehow. I am so old school that 95% of
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by downut 6y ago
This is correct. Without humans, Minds go eccentric. Sometimes they go eccentric anyway. It seems that the more humans, the better for the Mind's mind; but sometimes it's mainly one (Excession). What is it about humans that ca
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by downut 6y ago
I had a neighbor hover a large, very noisy drone over my wife who was working in her backyard garden, out of sight from said neighbors, who were piloting from the house across from me. She was terrified. There easily could have been a lar
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by downut 6y ago
"...that can be locked down and monitored by experts." In my homelab? I guess I should also kerberize my NFS mounts, after I solve the SPOF problem for kerberos's dependent pieces. I might have a little time after doing all
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by downut 6y ago
"Does gout come and go..." Yes it does!! I want to shout here very loudly! (I guess we're off topic now, but please please please don't do what I did and ignore it.) Me, age 29, I've mentioned before that I'm
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by downut 6y ago
I guess I will be the downer dude. What KK's analysis elides is the entire concept of mental and physical decline. We are working with population distributions here, but generally speaking, there is a non-trivial likelihood that your
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by downut 6y ago
My understanding is that almost all Egyptian tombs, at least, were looted, as the euphemism goes, "in antiquity". Tutankhamun's being a very big exception. The story I learned while doing deep background for my own trip to E

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