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by eesmith 1y ago
I don't think you know what "old school" means. Old school Polaroid employees back in the 1970s started the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers’ Movement to successfully pressure Kodak to stop their secret support for apartheid So
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by eesmith 1y ago
I have not gotten a smartphone in part because I know how much even laptop access distracts me, to the point where I'll go places which have no wifi, like a park, just to get work done. I felt less alone after finding "Swapping 5G
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by eesmith 1y ago
I've been reading essentially the same proposals and arguments for a zeppelin revival since I was a teenager in the 1980s reading Popular Mechanics. If we tax carbon to the point where zeppelins become anywhere near cost competitive wi
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by eesmith 1y ago
I tried this out on a couple of different public mapping systems. It's interesting that a few of them REALLY don't want you to take US-62 between El Paso and Carlsbad. I think it's because of the salt flats, which OSM humorou
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by eesmith 1y ago
You have very high faith that automagic will do the right thing, but you can't explain to me what it is you want even when I ask direct questions about presentation alternatives. How then do you expect any AI system to do what you want
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by eesmith 1y ago
People do use radio (though not optical) for Earth-Moon-Earth data links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Moon%E2%80%93Ear...
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by eesmith 1y ago
Yes, I understand the appeal of automagical. I just don't understand why it's useful or why your friends would care. Like, do you want the specific route highlighted, and if so, why? Or do you want longer labeled line segments or
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by eesmith 1y ago
The future is unevenly distributed. > Video streaming services We watched a stream of the 1994 World Cup. There was a machine at MIT which forwarded the incoming video to an X display window xhost +machine.mit.edu and we could w
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by eesmith 1y ago
I can understand what you want, but I don't see why. My observation is that the same information is on a 1950s paper map. If you took a picture of it and listed the places on your trip, then your travel friends could figure things out.
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by eesmith 1y ago
Back in the early 1990s I was going through books in the college library and found one on numerical results of different 3-body starting configurations. I vividly remember the Pythagorean three-body problem example, and how it required spec
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by eesmith 1y ago
It should ask if by "Carlsbad" you mean the city or the caverns. And point out that you likely meant Roswell. (There is a Rosewell in Virginia. https://www.geonames.org/4782965/rosewell.html ) It should also
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by eesmith 1y ago
I just listened to https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/254_how_data_is_changing... today on that topic, during an interview with Amanda Mull. To figure out how to segment the market in order to sell more seats and make
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by eesmith 1y ago
Which one has better user/technical support, including account recovery? This comparison didn't discuss it.
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by eesmith 1y ago
> That had little effect on Americans unless they were the small minority of Japanese. Or the people killed in the Port Chicago disaster, and when enlisted men later refused to work due to unsafe conditions, they were court-martialed. (&
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by eesmith 1y ago
Most Christians are not Catholics, though it's close and recently was true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_denomination says just less than half of Christians in 2024 were Catholic (48.6%), down from 50.1
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by eesmith 1y ago
> and can be used as money Yes, and so can Canadian Tire money, but try paying your taxes in scrip or Bitcoin. > and if you don't trust them you can wait Nope. Models numbers are cheap. Each chain can get their own model number,
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by eesmith 1y ago
See even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing) .
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by eesmith 1y ago
If you want to go that route, money is immoral because it doesn't exist unless people are threatened by force to use it. When you need to pay the king's taxes with the king's money as otherwise the king's men will beat y
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by eesmith 1y ago
CR only reviews products after they are available on the market, it does not review all products on the market, and access to the reviews require a subscription. How do you compare three hot water heaters when all three brands are "ref
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by eesmith 1y ago
Insulation. When the day is hot and night cool, and humidity relatively low, use thick walls to moderate the temperature swings. Close the windows by mid-morning to block out the sun and keep the inside cool. Open them in the evening to coo
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by eesmith 1y ago
I used to solo play 2-player Gauntlet for the PC this way, back around 1990. In the 1980s it was pretty common to have 2-player games with both players on the same keyboard. Edit: Spacewar (see https://archive.org/details&#x
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by eesmith 1y ago
The article itself is behind a paywall. One thing I see is its focus on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. One of the citations is titled "Accelerated West Antarctic ice mass loss continues to outpace East Antarctic gains" See for exam
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by eesmith 1y ago
> is it ok to force people to pay for stuff that they don't want to? Yes. Happens all the time. Money doesn't exist unless people are forced to use it to pay for something they don't want to. (read Graber's "Debt
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They were almost daily in summer as a kid in Florida. https://www.weather.gov/tbw/RainySeason for reasons. https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/topics/thunderstorms shows I got about 80 per year. I misse
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by eesmith 1y ago
How much do they need? (Which is different than how much they get from Google.) Have they talked to sovereign tech funds from other countries? If so, why aren't other countries funding the project? If not, why not?
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by eesmith 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(surname) - 'Batman is a surname of English origin. It originates from Saint Bartholomew and means "a friend or servant of Bart."' It lists a few people, like &q
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by eesmith 1y ago
In Issac Asimov's 1980 short story "No Refuge Could Save", the suspected German spy is identified by a word association test based on the third verse of the national anthem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by eesmith 1y ago
It's now quite clear even to me that my understanding of this topic is well and thoroughly shattered. Thank you for putting up with me.
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by eesmith 1y ago
> the market rate for labor is not $7.25 anywhere in the country Here are a couple of restaurants where the feds found they broken the federal minimum wage law, from last fall. https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases&#
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There's a fair bit of caveats in that report: > The estimates of workers paid at or below the federal minimum wage are based solely on the hourly wage that respondents report (which does not include overtime pay, tips, or commission

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