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by downut 6y ago
I cook on a 30 yo gas range with all high capacity burners and regular knobs. The response is nonlinear: there's a big jump in flame intensity as you pass through nominal "low" to "medium". In practice I don&#x27
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by downut 6y ago
2x cancer survivor here. It's not a binary choice. The melanoma was chopped out and I was closely monitored for 10 years. Would have killed me in a year or two if I did nothing. The colon cancer was chopped out through an 18"
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by downut 6y ago
My wife and I spelunked quite a lot in the East, especially north GA and TN. I thought the cramped muddy passages were a lot of fun, ditto climbing up waterfalls. Prusiking straight up a 100', NBD. We're from FL and GA. Nice s
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by downut 7y ago
Oh I really really loved smex. That's probably why it took me so long to get helm. helm doesn't improve on smex for this use case, I think. At least the stupid simple way I'm only going to use helm. But helm improves on o
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by downut 7y ago
And now since I'm sucked into the cult of the helm-o-verse I find I am binding many fewer keys. Just start typing 'M-x ar' and now it's the second item. Add another 'r' brings it to the fore. Less (for me) to
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by downut 7y ago
I am developing a headache now, after trying this out, because I'm remembering all the times I have done this by hand. Or even writing an awk script, etc.
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by downut 7y ago
Before one takes the ideas of Rene Girard as seriously as I did, for quite a few years, it might help to read a careful critique[0]. [0] https://arcade.stanford.edu/rofl/deceit-desire-and-literatur...
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by downut 7y ago
Math grad student lecturer of various university entry level to intermediate mathematics courses at UF and ASU here. Over 30 years ago, but the following anecdotage is still vivid in my mind: I taught many hundreds of students quite a vari
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by downut 7y ago
A careful reading of that link does not support "a lie". Or another: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/oct/09... It certainly is easy enough to generate a reason acceptable
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by downut 7y ago
Yeah well Julia will not lead you astray nor will the early versions of the Joy of Cooking. There is no evading the time required to caramelize the onions. This adds cost and makes it non-profitable to serve to gullible tourists. Oddly en
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by downut 7y ago
Three trips so far mostly relying on Messy Nessy's recommendations and have not gone wrong once. Most memorable experience so far was Chez Louisette in the flea market, but not for the food, which was fine. I only have the barest mini
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by downut 7y ago
AZ parent just put a child through the public schools K-12 and then graduated U of AZ engineering BS without debt anecdotage: The local CC is a disaster for teaching anything to do with that cursed label "STEM": math end-game begi
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by downut 8y ago
But of course there was no emacs on the HP-9845. The integrated editor was "just there". I had no idea you could do things differently, and it was just perfect, for my brain, at that time.
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by downut 8y ago
Likewise the HP-9845. I was a co-op at General Electric's Wilmington NC nuclear fuels plant in '83 - '84 (think $$$ floating around), and taught myself how to program the thing. Over the course of 9 months in 3 month stints
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by downut 9y ago
Nobody has mentioned Computer Literacy! It even has a wikipedia page. That's where I bought huge numbers of programming and theory books in the early 90's working in SV. Better than the Stanford Bookstore. The old store even sm
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by downut 10y ago
My wife and I have developed a vacation strategy we call "M&M": markets and museums. We usually book an AirBnB near good transit and food markets. We buy food for breakfast and dinner at the markets and cook it or have a pic
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by downut 10y ago
Yes. I watch fairly closely and nowadays there's basically nothing. When I moved here there was actually quite a lot of interesting stuff going on. But it slowly eroded away.
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by downut 10y ago
I live in Prescott. The weather is fantastic, all four seasons. Weatherunderground zip 86301 for the next week :-) I've been here 22 years. The outdoors activities are world class: hiking, mt and road cycling. I live in-town and F