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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
Schools in poor towns don't have multiple levels or basements or even extra storage rooms. What you see is all you get. If there is enough space to have a room full of books, it would be better used as a publicly accessible set of sta
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
40 years ago, my public middle school would periodically pick books that weren't checked out for a couple decades. They'd rubberstamp "discard" over the library's ownership mark and put them in a pile that said &qu
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
It would be my hope that unlike landmines, these might have a remote off switch/signal that can disable them after the war ends. At the very least, the battery will die and it won't fly around anymore.
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
Don't forget the $10,000 annual limit of purchases. If you want to go heavy into TIPS, you can hit that limit pretty quick.
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
Rule of law will always apply to the commoners. Congress critters can speed on the highways and ignore the Do Not Call registry, but the rest of us still have to obey the laws.
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by fhdkweig 4mo ago
Not the OP, but from a stock market perspective, improvement can mean "lay off workers, and raise subscription prices". Not good for the users, but good for the kinds of people who like reading news about IPOs.
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by fhdkweig 5mo ago
This appears to be the same New Rochester article as 4 days ago with 20 comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349507
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by fhdkweig 5mo ago
In the US, cell towers have battery backups so emergency calls can still go through. I imagine most countries do too.
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by fhdkweig 5mo ago
My understanding of the terminology is that: Meteor is a rock in space or in the atmosphere. Meteorite is the rock after it touches the ground. Falling/shooting star is the flash of light. I have never heard of meteor being the flash o
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by fhdkweig 5mo ago
Usually to "own" something requires to spend money to get it.
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by fhdkweig 5mo ago
I don't know what their plan is, but that is one way to "own half". I'm really hoping that isn't their plan, but this administration seems to love shoveling tax money to people who don't deserve it.
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by fhdkweig 5mo ago
I'm mostly commenting on the story a few days ago regarding having index funds change their rules to automatically purchase shares in the impending IPOs so that passive investors would end up buying shares without their direct knowledg
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by fhdkweig 5mo ago
I don't think LLMs will be the path to AGI, but anything nature can already build (a human mind) is proven to be possible. After that, it is just a science and engineering problem to replicate. There are those who believe that a human
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by fhdkweig 5mo ago
You can tax something without owning it. It is the owning part that bothers me. It implies that the government is going to shovel ridiculous amounts of money into these things and when the bubble finally pops We The People get nothing out
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by fhdkweig 5mo ago
I haven't watched those movies in a while. Can I get an explanation on those a.k.a.s?
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by fhdkweig 5mo ago
My solution to doom scrolling on the desktop was to edit my /etc/hosts file to disallow me from going to the offending sites. After a few weeks, the habit was broken and I didn't even miss them anymore.
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by fhdkweig 5mo ago
[dupe] This link was posted a few minutes earlier and has more comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322118
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by fhdkweig 5mo ago
I'm not an economist, but if we have runaway inflation (not saying we will), the value of the dollar will plummet and it won't seem too strange. In the 1960s, Gilligan's Island talks of the Millionaire and His Wife. My pare
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by fhdkweig 5mo ago
Georgia Tech has/had its own publishing company. They actually encouraged their faculty to write books like this. I can't seem to find any information about it, but I swear it was there when I took classes in the late 1990s.
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by fhdkweig 5mo ago
I don't know much about cars, but I have to assume that fewer moving parts means less wear and repairs.
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by fhdkweig 5mo ago
What if the number you want to return just happens to be the value of ERROR? You need an error flag that can't be represented as an int, but then C wouldn't let you return it from a function that only returns "int". It
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by fhdkweig 5mo ago
This was discussed 23 hours ago with 215 comments. The short answer is that "international emergency" does not mean "global pandemic". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168708
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by fhdkweig 6mo ago
I heard a rumor that NSA suggested changes to DES encryption that strengthened it from differential cryptanalysis attacks that the public cryptologists weren't aware of yet.
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by fhdkweig 6mo ago
You are engaging with a bot with -13 karma: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mondomondo
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by fhdkweig 6mo ago
> Given the lack of blackouts around here, I've not bothered to investigate if home PV systems can still charge batteries, or if the inverter dependence on the grid for phase-locking the AC prevents that. The technology is called &q
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by fhdkweig 6mo ago
But hilarious to give a raccoon alcohol. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=raccoon+liquor+store
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by fhdkweig 6mo ago
That account has a -10 karma. It is just a gibberish bot.
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by fhdkweig 6mo ago
That part is the obvious part. I want to know how they got all the entrenched landowners to let new builds in their neighborhoods and drive down values. The NIMBYs are usually the problem.
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by fhdkweig 6mo ago
I first learned about it through the Season 1, Episode 6 MacGyver episode Trumbo's World.
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by fhdkweig 6mo ago
Cats love the taste of earwax. They will give you a wet willy while you sleep.

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