eggy

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by eggy 3y ago
I don't know, but it sounds like the Odyssey. Both were relatively close in time - 1972...sorry, about your uncle. Sounds like he was on the early adopter curve like my Dad. We were dirt poor, and yet my Dad somehow pulled this off (pr
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by eggy 3y ago
Well, when the collapse happens and you have no batteries, satellites, etc., you can use the stars[1] to tell time and reset your mechanical watch to within a reasonable estimate given the circumstances. I own a relatively cheap mechancal w
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by eggy 3y ago
Lenovo vs. Apple notebooks. My ThinkPad T430u comes apart simply and you can remove subassemblies quite easily. I replaced the touchpad and battery on my daughters MacBook Pro and it was a nightmare.
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by eggy 3y ago
But Oumuamua will engage it's cloaking device or warp speed. After all it's an alien ship that will be divulged in the latest round IAP disclosures by the US government ;)
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by eggy 3y ago
We had the 1972 first-run Odyssey and a game where you identified the capitals of the US states was the one I remember and a haunted house. An acetate screen layover of the US and the outlines of the various states in different colors clung
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by eggy 3y ago
I don't know enough from reading the link, but how hard would it be to program games in F# using the Murder game engine?
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by eggy 3y ago
And so are rice, broccoli, beer, wine, and brussels sprouts due to their absorption of arsenic from pesticides, mining, and other causes. The Chinese don't seem to be too concerned with it, even though it is well known. Hey but eat mea
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by eggy 3y ago
"Plastic contaminates everything, even your implant. The plastic breaks but does not degrade. The microplastic becomes nano plastic, which breaks and becomes picoplastic which breaks and becomes femtoplastic and so on." [1] No use
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by eggy 3y ago
Wow, Scandinavia - Big Brother's Man Cave! No substantial bad factory conditions or request for higher pay, "just agree to collective bargaining agreements, that's all." I was a welder back in NY in 1997, and joined a co
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by eggy 3y ago
Wow, from an anti- to pro-union discussion and allowing people to purchase products that are currently and legally on the market for purchase in their country, and let a mob of workers come in between that contract, to heroin and violent ca
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by eggy 3y ago
I am not equating citizen adults with children, and I do not believe in trying to legislate intelligence. More in the classic libertarian sense that if what I enjoy is not directly harming you or taking away your rights, keep to your own bu
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by eggy 3y ago
Not fraud, never have. But to see what is coming out about how endemic and deep the censorship and bias was, I would say a lot of voters were manipulated by big tech, government, and media, and I wonder how they would vote now knowing this,
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by eggy 3y ago
My parallel to the iPhone was a reference to the horrendous conditions at Foxconn from 2006 to 2010, and the West's insatiable need for iPhones didn't draw any much support until it blew up in the media, and Apple looked evil. I t
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by eggy 3y ago
Yes, time spent indoors, and the West's obsession with anti-septic environments. I bought a little cabin on a lake in NJ after moving from NY. I didn't bother sealing every crack and nook with sealant given my energy bill was reas
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by eggy 3y ago
Agreed, and if Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, are for the people, let the people decide whether want to buy a Tesla and support Elon. Cutting off shipping to their rightful owners sounds like you are curtailing your own citizens from living a
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by eggy 3y ago
Given a lot of journalists and activists use encrypted communications to be able to do their job without being unduly or unjustly persecuted (yes, the bad guys use them too!), and 12 US State Attorney Generals just signed a letter and deliv
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by eggy 3y ago
It makes you wonder how much the Zucherbergs influenced the 2020 election with "Zuckerbucks". They were cleared by the Feds, but then even that investigation becomes suspect with these large sums of money and influence. Conservati
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by eggy 3y ago
J influenced the creation of Pandas by Wes McKinney. Ah, I sometimes have the wild thought that if he had just stuck with J or APL, Python may not be where it is today in ML. Python has become the Borg.
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by eggy 3y ago
April is amazing. I have used J for over a decade, and I am currently being swept away by uiua, but my old Lispy love teamed up with APL in April is a knockout combo: Do the generic stuff with Lisp and the numerical magic with APL.
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by eggy 3y ago
Yes, we will never know for certain, however here are some facts: The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which conducted research on zoonotic viruses, including coronaviruses similar to SARS-CoV-2, is about 7.5 miles as the crow flies from
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by eggy 3y ago
>>Ada doesn't have smart pointers out of the box I am a novice-intermediate Ada user (and I started with SPARK before moving to just Ada), but a lot of the arguments in favor of Rust mention that "there is a crate for that&q
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by eggy 3y ago
I saw a tequila ad the other day where a guy carelessly drives a motorboat into a swimming pool and other shenanigans. Alcohol is involved in 80% of all violet crimes. Are you for censoring beer and liquor ads on Youtube or other places? Ar
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by eggy 3y ago
Agree on opinion, not censoring ads of CG pickup trucks used mainly by workers in industry, not your family's SUV...
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by eggy 3y ago
"Although the coronaviruses known to have been used in the research were too distant to have caused the pandemic,..." Key words, "known to have been used". Given the bad practices of the lab at the WIV, the purposeful ob
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by eggy 3y ago
Totally agree. As long as it's been sussed out as available to purchase legally, who is anybody to tell others what they can or cannot buy? So many people looking at other people's backyards and not their own in most cases.
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by eggy 3y ago
Again, this is a pick up truck, not an SUV, and they are typically driven by workers in conditions that require durability and utility. I drove a Hilux in Saudi Arabia for 6 months doing major construction. I crossed desert roads and active
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by eggy 3y ago
Did they bring any weapons along with the scientific equipment? You never know when you are going to break ice on the Alien/Predator site! We know what happened with the Thing...
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by eggy 3y ago
Why did they take it down? Is it really to bury any pro-Palestinian rhetoric? I'd love to hear why from The Guardian.
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by eggy 3y ago
An all-female space walk and the last time a toolbag was lost it was a woman...just saying...really plays into stereotypes of women around tools. But it was reported the male astronauts couldn't find a can opener in the kitchen drawer
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by eggy 3y ago
IBM was always a powerhouse of R&D, so glad to see this to keep the field competitive between the few players in the game. I love APL and that grew out of Ken Iverson's work at Harvard, but then completed at IBM with double the sal

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