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by euroderf 3mo ago
There's a scene where Jack Klugman's character is staying in a hotel in Buffalo and he leans out the window and he looks up and down the street and he says I never knew that one street could support eight bowling alleys
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by euroderf 3mo ago
A new mantra for Wall Street.
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by euroderf 3mo ago
Burning aluminum.
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by euroderf 3mo ago
> the correct solution is separating sewage from irrigation water. This sounds a bit too advanced for the nation that came up with the atom bomb and the first man on the moon and the transistor.
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by euroderf 3mo ago
Unless I have a LOT less than a full dishwasher load.
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by euroderf 3mo ago
I would think that a _total_ ban on devices _during school hours_ would hit the 80/20 mark of preventing psychological harm to kids, without the invasiveness of digital ID. Idiot parents that say "omg what if i have to contact my
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by euroderf 3mo ago
> it was to discourage students from immediately declaring bankruptcy upon graduation. Yes, this was a thing in (IIRC) the late 70s / early 80s, and the fed crackdown on the non-dischargeability of school loans in bankruptcy was ena
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by euroderf 3mo ago
Three languages understood by humans: Music, Math, Money. Also donut.
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by euroderf 3mo ago
Now trying to imagine John Travolta portraying Musk.
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by euroderf 3mo ago
In the olden days, if someone saved your life, you owed them a year of free service. So this guy should be ready for a year of TOTAL housework dedication.
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by euroderf 3mo ago
Trees can point upward too. There's incoming references. There's metadata tags/facets. And there's multitrees, that might or might not help. https://interactivity.ucsd.edu/articles/In_Process/Mu
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by euroderf 3mo ago
"Capital of the Western World for a Cool Thousand Years" (TM)
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by euroderf 3mo ago
Frequency hopping is not THAT difficult.
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by euroderf 3mo ago
San Marino claims the year 301 AD.
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by euroderf 4mo ago
But you would have the freedom to give your children absolutely ridiculous names.
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by euroderf 4mo ago
> less water, less detergent, I achieve the first two goals by simply scrubbing+rinsing dishes after most uses and letting them dry. No glued-on food to go gnarly. They go thru the dishwasher once in a while. It's my personal strate
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by euroderf 4mo ago
> emdashes are supposed to be used—as a copyeditor once told me—without spaces on either side. But we've all seen the pages where the hyphenator is clueless about them and creates these massive superlong "words" that screw
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by euroderf 4mo ago
> Somebody needs to include this thing in the script of a science fiction film. "The Fly" is ready for a quick rewrite.
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by euroderf 4mo ago
Not directly related, but has pijul been getting any traction ?
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by euroderf 4mo ago
You might get the Riemann hypothesis robo-proven and unintelligibly dense. Would mathematic professionals trust it, or would they always be putting asterisks next to proofs downstream of it ?
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by euroderf 4mo ago
Didn't MS Word have Reveal Codes ? At least for some years ? I doubt it is (or was ever) in Mac Pages.
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by euroderf 4mo ago
> a green phosphor screen In the spirit of emacs-v-vim, I have to come down in favor of that other phosphor color of those days, amber. Better contrast !!!
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by euroderf 4mo ago
> then they'll just crawl into a hole, as usual. My wife's family's countryside ex-farm has a barn, and out in the barn we found... a mummified cat. By mummified I mean, desiccated, hairless, but much more than a mere skel
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by euroderf 4mo ago
I got a quick tree education. When my buddy and I were in grade school his family moved into a new housing development with streets lined with puny new trees surrounded by the usual wires and rubber guards. They were frail and we were growi
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by euroderf 4mo ago
This sounds like the manifesto of an Andy Warhol LLM.
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by euroderf 4mo ago
History should record that for a brief moment of time, the US government tortured at least one person to death.
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by euroderf 4mo ago
Early into the Covid pandemic, there was talk that vitamin D had some protective effect. Did this ever pan out into any kind of recommendation supported by evidence ?
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by euroderf 4mo ago
Point taken. Although perhaps a lot of the dislike of Hungarian notation is all those odd prefixed alpha-bits.
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by euroderf 4mo ago
An invented C notation: for an array item Fubar, I had iFubar as the index, rFubar for the array itself, nFubar as its length, pFubar as a pointer to any Fubar, aFubar as a Fubar passed in as an argument. "Works for me."
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by euroderf 4mo ago
> We tried cramming people from generational poverty into one place and it didn't go super great, therefore public housing as a concept must be the failure, and not our hilariously bad implementation? Well-stated! Yes, defective imp

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