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by dvtv75 9y ago
At the beige box retailer I worked for, about a decade ago, we got a couple of the local high school's computers in for repairs. They told us the systems just wouldn't boot, and they "smelled funny." Took the case off,
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by dvtv75 9y ago
> I would like someone who loves their work so much they do 150% of the expected amount of work, freely chooses to stay late to make the Foo they're working on the best Foo the world has ever seen. I had a job where I did this. Kno
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by dvtv75 9y ago
My father's the same. He'll walk along through town minding his own business, and then see someone he thinks is a Muslim. That's when the shouting begins.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
> He traded to get a 5-cent raise. A five cent raise in today's currency or back then? Per hour or week? Assuming it's hourly, if it's from "then" could you convert it to modern currency, or present it as an per
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Mine does exactly the same thing. If she's on the couch watching a movie, she's a goner, but the moment she moves to bed, "it's too loud! Turn it down!" even when it's at 1/10th of the volume when she wa
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Definitely.
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I just wish I had space to set them up permanently. I've had a brief play with the Microdrive, it's a lot faster than the old tape deck. I don't know much about the longevity of the media, though. Now I want to get the Spec
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Sandy Bridge i7 with 16 gigs and (as Kliment mentioned) Firefox, although I do occasionally have slight slowdowns. Those could be related to my six BOINC threads as the slowdowns are in YouTube.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Much the same here. I have six windows open, while only a few of the tabs are Hacker News, one of them has more than 100 tabs in it and the others have about 40 tabs. That's just on this computer. My laptop has another dozen tabs op
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I find myself hoping that there's one person in every hierarchy who loves his (or her, for that matter) country and the world more than the leader, and is willing to execute the leader to prevent a nuclear war. With the cults-of-person
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by dvtv75 9y ago
A friend of mine had been contracted to record a webcast with a few fairly important and wealthy businessmen. The company that contracted him provided him with some equipment, they set up some slides to appear in the background, and then t
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by dvtv75 9y ago
If I ever get a time machine and meet George Hudson, I will punch him squarely in the face. He wanted some time after work to look at insects, and because of that we have DST. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hudso
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by dvtv75 9y ago
About a decade ago, I worked at a beige box store. Someone brought in just his hard drive, and asked me to recover all his files, as his thesis was on it. So, I ran our recovery software (can't recall what it was) and found the drive
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by dvtv75 9y ago
You will get negative responses, accept that before you post. Perhaps there is some value to be gained from the negative responses, but you will also get people who care enough trying to help. Some of those will look negative, but read ev
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I had a very similar problem with an abusive ex-. She tried to bully me into starting a business in an area I was (am) totally unsuited for (when I was too young to be doing anything like that anyway), as well as studying for a career that
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by dvtv75 9y ago
My ex- told me that I had to stop believing in gravity because it's just (her) God pushing down on us. That's why mountains don't pull you towards them. (She cried when I told her about the experiment where just this thing
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by dvtv75 9y ago
If someone reading this is going to use resistance training to "fix" their weaknesses, it's important to have a trainer assist as they can pick poor technique when you think you're doing it perfectly. For example, I used
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Something to consider: On HN a few weeks back, I read someone's comment that some poor people are poor because they own cheap cars that cost a fortune in repairs because they're always breaking down, preventing them from saving up
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by dvtv75 9y ago
This leaves me conflicted. I've noted here (quite) a number of times that I have a disability that impacts my ability to absorb chunks of written material. I've had an occupational therapist tell me that I shouldn't work in
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Yet communicating in a clear, consistent, and accurate fashion is crucial. Many years ago, I worked in a photographic store. We developed film and printed photos, primarily. One of the women took in a film for development, wrote the custo
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Mine did. It has existed for about 90 years, maybe even longer. Without going into specifics, I can imagine that it could be automated as is right now, as it's not particularly complicated, and the whole role could be designed around
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I recall reading that about the F-117, many years ago. Can't remember the source, either, and I've no idea if it's accurate.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
My favorite sentence was this: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/11/cleveland_w...
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Both of my paternal uncles had paranoid schizophrenia. In the 50s, the police were called and confiscated their rifles, after they went on a (bloodless) rampage around the neighborhood. One was convinced that the other had control of cosmi
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by dvtv75 9y ago
(Not in the US.) My partner worked a factory job for many years. They used to have a "specials" group (unofficial name for them), who would be taken on and they would be trained to do just one job, but they would learn it and pe
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I live in a house by a road. A particularly busy road. Every time I go outside, whenever I sit inside, any time I'm digging the garden, all I can hear is traffic. Those few occasions that I'm outside and hear nothing, not even d
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Yup, I have an Odroid X running Ubuntu (I couldn't find a Debian that was set up to run on it). It's my mail server, apache server, has an outward facing SSH server, and acts as a sensor data logger. It's pushed pretty much
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I went on a tour through a slaughterhouse when I was a teen, as part of a school trip. Didn't want to go, but my stepfather decided that it would be "good for" me. I made it clear I didn't want to go and he laughed. H
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I know this isn't exactly what you were saying, but I recently bought myself the (ancient) Star Wars Empire at War games, and they run better under WINE than they did under Windows 10. There's some problem that makes it drop fram
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by dvtv75 9y ago
When I was doing Algorithms and Data Structures at the University of Otago, the required textbook was Cormen's Introduction to Algorithms first edition. More than $NZ130 at the time, and we got a few weeks into the course before they

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