euroderf

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by euroderf 1y ago
Ex-pat here. Once again, folks: Finland is way up there on "satisfaction" but it is not identical to whatever the report means by "happiness". And in a glaring omission (IMO) there appears no mention of social cohesion a
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by euroderf 1y ago
Yes! But nobody ever came up with decent font entries that would look snappy on keys. Not even IBM (or Data General or Burroughs or whoever) I guess.
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by euroderf 1y ago
> Before there was any bomb there was the Chicago Pile-1 in the middle of Chicago in a space under the stands at Stagg Field originally built as a rackets court Groves's book ("Now It Can Be Told") mentions the people that
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by euroderf 1y ago
That was my intro (as a kid) too. It was a fascinating read.
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by euroderf 1y ago
> And clearing dog hair from the roller is a huge hassle. I'd like to get a robovacuum/vacuubot but I'd assume that cat hair fouls things up just as much as dog hair does.
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by euroderf 1y ago
Wasn't the development of the Norden bombsight in the same ballpark?
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by euroderf 1y ago
I've always assumed that gaseous diffusion required a process similar to silicon etching in order to achieve the pinhole sizes required.
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by euroderf 1y ago
Or Faceborg videos that cannot be fast-forwarded and have no progress bar, leaving unanswered the musical question "When does it get to the point, if ever ??"
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by euroderf 1y ago
One robot's "hallucination" is another robot's "connecting the dots" or "closing the circle".
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by euroderf 1y ago
ASCII FS GS RS US ... just make decent font entries for them.
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by euroderf 1y ago
Yes the 13 mini is a decent followup to the SE series. Except that the face recog is broken UI garbage.
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by euroderf 1y ago
> Nobody wants to be the team that built a thing that died on day 101 when the mission was designed for 100 days Maybe nobody in the science world. But in the commercial world, it's the requirement so it's not a bug it's a
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by euroderf 1y ago
Safety first. More hedgerows!
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by euroderf 1y ago
In New York state, virtually EVERYONE fails their first driving test. Rare exceptions. Second test pass is standard. I kind of assumed every state does this.
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by euroderf 1y ago
OT-ish but, can someone point me to a minimal framework that does collapsible trees ?
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by euroderf 1y ago
> (was it Network Solutions?) rs.internic.net, if memory serves. It stopped redirecting to anything some years ago.
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by euroderf 1y ago
I kinda miss bus plunge filler.
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by euroderf 1y ago
Another Red state theory about Blue cities ?
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by euroderf 1y ago
If you're keeping score at home, that's one point for shareholders, and a big fat goose egg for any and all other stake-"holders".
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by euroderf 1y ago
Shouldn't it be possible to encapsulate something like this with SQLite and produce an accounting engine that can guarantee consistent numbers and generate key numbers (trial balance, P&L, gearing, ...) ?
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by euroderf 1y ago
I'm wondering: if you get LASIK to fix myopia, then does this mean you'll need reading glasses to read fine print ?
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by euroderf 1y ago
Back in those days monitors came in two colors of phosphors, green or amber, and you could score one for eighty bucks. Pretty affordable even "way back" then.
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by euroderf 1y ago
The scene in Airplane with the Hari Krishna was an absolutely incredible hit with audiences.
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by euroderf 1y ago
Finland has MobilePay, it links bank accounts to phone numbers, very easy to use.
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by euroderf 1y ago
FWIW, I've been cut off twice, appealed twice, been reprieved twice. Some heckler I guess.
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by euroderf 1y ago
I wonder then how this idea of "failed star" got um started.
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by euroderf 1y ago
Doubleplusungood bellyfeel
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by euroderf 1y ago
If you try to blow thru all the books in one pass, it's grossly unbalanced for the head and tail, and many books in-between. I did it in three passes - which might be all in one session or might be broken into smaller sessions. First,
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by euroderf 1y ago
Where I come from it was called East Bumf!ck (but never "EBF").
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by euroderf 1y ago
OT: So if Jupiter is something of a "failed star", how much bigger would it have to be to be a successful star, and what would be the effect (if any) on other planets' orbits, and would it boil away a lot of Saturn ?

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