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by downut 3y ago
GaTech ChE here, married to a very successful GaTech ChE, been battling the financial efficiency wars for a quite a few decades: never met an engineer who couldn't be bought when the downside was (realistically, short term) job securi
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by downut 3y ago
Now to in order to multiply a sequence of numbers correctly in a "high performance" shared store, you have external process synchronization. Just awesome. Thank you for the lesson. I had no idea concurrent processing could be
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by downut 3y ago
Yeah, um, there's a difference between "the client" and "multiple clients". Multiple clients racing can't be fixed. I begin to wonder about this programming culture. Speed at generating LOC, doesn't nece
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by downut 3y ago
Your nuanced plan of paying for things yourself completely falls apart once you or a loved one contracts stage II or higher cancer, suffers life threatening injuries from a car crash or any of a panopoly of unfortunate situations that would
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by downut 3y ago
Essentially handmade bikes cost 2-5x more than $1500 now. $150 will buy you a Wallmart piece of junk. A utility bike suitable for bombing around a city is going to cost somewhere around $1000. I own three that each have a > $2K replac
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by downut 3y ago
If the island is privately owned then hard to see how "future generations" will be able to study and enjoy it. Maybe, but probably not, eh? That's the point of it being privately owned. Now if the State of Hawaii were to a
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by downut 3y ago
Oh I know where you're coming from, but a point of stocks is that they can be the basis for many things. Think of the flavorings as a "tilt". If you use star anise right from the start it tilts toward (to my taste) a generi
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by downut 3y ago
All three points are true, except for the bit about "exterminated to the last". Ideally the size of the deer population would reside more or less within the carrying capacity of the ecosystem but the eradication of the apex preda
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by downut 3y ago
Inconvenience? Hunter here, trying to understand why that would be.
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by downut 3y ago
I ran my own postfix + [lots more brain tiring things here] for 15 years with very few hitches and felt quite satisfied with my successful caveman lifestyle. But then I got too busy and settled on migadu and my gosh what a fool I was. My
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by downut 3y ago
Ah. You also have reading comprehension problems, on the face of it, but I don't believe that either. I believe that you are smart enough to understand the power dynamics in the House, and you understand that I don't think you&#x
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by downut 3y ago
Those "democrats" are not preventing a vote on the aid, which appears would pass with a large majority. The actual power here resides with the MAGAts, from the Speaker on down, directed by Trump. I am not sure I can be charitable
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by downut 3y ago
The MAGAts in the House from the Speaker on down are blocking all Ukrainian aid concretely, not rhetorically. That's literally pro-Putin, and it comes 100% at the direction of the leader of the MAGAts.
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by downut 3y ago
I think that as long as a) the effects of the measure were well communicated and b) there were no significant impediments to actually voting, then the percent that vote is immaterial and the result of the vote should stand for everyone. Aft
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by downut 3y ago
I used one for decades until I got a high end gas stove. A few months of perching it on the edge and I still cooked the handle. So I got another Italian gem, a Rancilio Silvia. Now people talk about the ritual of the Moka pot but with th
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by downut 3y ago
We moved from AZ to suburban Atlanta last year, and were familiar with interlibrary loan for rural libraries in AZ. But wow! PINES is sensational. We get books and DVDs, even some BluRays from all over GA. Been watching The Wire again,
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by downut 3y ago
I just find it almost impossible to believe that you regularly buy vegetables or other bulk goods via checkout and have few or no problems. How about that bar code label on the spinach/parsley/cilantro? It's paper and it get
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by downut 3y ago
Haven't driven in the suburbs and beyond, I'm guessing. A lot of places a PU is more common than, um, a "car". Most quite a bit bigger than my Tundra, too.
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by downut 3y ago
"However, as someone who has been driving for 30 years, cars are better in every way now than they were before (From a driving, efficiency, reliability and safety perspective)." Right. Sure. 2001 Tundra V8 owner here, and you&#x
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by downut 3y ago
That report is mainly about the upper Mississipi (Midwest) not the lower, or points east (Southeast). And it is only supposed to run during large scale flood events, which the report cites as lasting ~80 days, worst case? Looking at flood
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by downut 3y ago
This is HN in 2024, and people are complaining about aspect ratios? For about 15 years now I have been feeding physical DVDs & BluRays into < $100 USB DVD/BR players, filtered through makemkv, and then through mpv or whatever w
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by downut 3y ago
Does "the app" mean the site's app?
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by downut 3y ago
With a touch login on the phone and (say) google authenticator IMHO it's considerably less inconvenient to login into something online with the desktop than what Chase does to me. The phone is sitting right there anyway, and 6 digits
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by downut 3y ago
> I solve that, by not doing banking with my phone. Even though some scum corps like Chase make it a PITA to manage my account from a desktop through firefox, that's the only way I'm going to interact with them. "Download
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by downut 3y ago
Oh yes I am sorry; I didn't mean to imply that I thought that the DB was throwing an error. What the filing process email message body stated looked something like approximately "Form line xxx violates schema requirement such and
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by downut 3y ago
Now our family unit is not cash starved and can afford to wait, so in the past, before I started using the US Free Filing system I described in another comment, I always mailed in both US and AZ income tax forms. Sometimes it took a couple
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by downut 3y ago
I've used the US Free File Federal Taxes for the last five years and it just wasn't a problem, and I have yet to see anything that looked like programmer incompetence. Now, that said, the way you debug your submittal is to paste a
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by downut 3y ago
The flip side of this point is for non-trivial distances the people in the ICE vehicles with 400+ mile ranges mostly invariant to speed only now begin to realize how amazingly convenient it is to only have to stop for < 10 minutes every
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by downut 3y ago
So because she ignored both the beep and the reserve light turning on you spend quite a bit extra up front. More than once! I'm willing to bet she isn't that dumb. I will admit that I ran a car out of gas once in the last 40 year
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by downut 3y ago
procomm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datastorm_Technologies About 1986 or so. Worked perfectly.

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