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by fotbr 9y ago
I've been preaching the goodness that is Papa Dels since I was out there for a conference and programming competition at UIUC in the very early 2000s. Happy to see I'm not the only one. Just be aware, a slice of the deep dish is
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by fotbr 9y ago
As for not paying the NFL enough to make it worthwhile: Someone will pick up the rights to show the games, or the league will offer their own service, or the games won't be played on Mondays/Thursdays and will go back to just bein
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by fotbr 9y ago
I have relatives that served in Vietnam (drafted, most served in the enlisted ranks), and worked with several other Vietnam veterans (all retired officers, all were career military, and nearly all had been commissioned before the Vietnam Wa
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by fotbr 9y ago
There's no way I'm doing a subscription. I'm open to trying new things, and regularly do when I'm traveling, but at the end of the day I'm a midwestern, meat and potatoes type of person. I've yet to see one of
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by fotbr 9y ago
It is always easier on one's psyche to blame someone else than to acknowledge that you screwed up. The same holds for teams and tribes, and fans of those teams or tribes. Look at nearly any sporting event. You'll commonly see th
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by fotbr 9y ago
>If you are at least partly motivated by popularity (and who isn't), maybe pick another hobby that actually helps people be popular now There's a hell of a lot of people doing a hell of a lot of things for hobbies that aren&#x2
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by fotbr 9y ago
You can, however, buy your own compressor. They're not cheap, but they're also not all that expensive.
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by fotbr 9y ago
Not entirely true. Anyone who's EARNED their PhD might very well have a brain worth preserving, but there's many PhDs out there who purchased their doctorate from degree mills, and are dumber than a box of rocks.
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by fotbr 9y ago
The most useful cables I've had in my laptop bag over the years are a 6" USB-Lightning cable, a 12" USB-microUSB cable, and (many years ago) a 4" USB-iphone(30pin) cable. None were particularly easy to find/obtain
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by fotbr 9y ago
I wonder what affect 30+ years of "free tree" programs that various states and environmental clubs run for arbor day and such has had. Growing up in the midwest/great plains, ever year in elementary school we were given tree
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by fotbr 9y ago
Since there's a PM here from Microsoft, I've got a couple questions regarding the requirement to "sign in with your Microsoft account": With all your branding changes over the years, what's considered a Microsoft ac
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by fotbr 9y ago
Mine did that as well. He also offered unlimited extra credit at the rate of 5pts per error found. A small group of us got together that first evening and found enough typos, spelling and punctuation errors that we all passed the class wit
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by fotbr 10y ago
I just found my old TI-86, TI-89, and HP-48G+ calculators. All of which were great, when I needed them. What I want to find is my old TI-30X Solar. Basic, bulletproof, and does everything I want a calculator to do without getting in it&#x
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by fotbr 10y ago
We (the US) managed to pack one into an 6" artillery shell that weighed 118 lbs (or 128lbs for the second version) - the W48 [1]. That's much smaller than a suitcase. Heavy, sure, but quite a bit smaller than the carry-on suitcas
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by fotbr 10y ago
Counterpoint: I did not help the defense industry as a spineless sellout looking for money. I studied computer science because it was interesting. Period. Not because I wanted to change the world, or make a pile of money. I wrote code, a
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by fotbr 10y ago
Java and C#, with a bit of (MS)SQL and ASP.NET and a smattering of VBA and ASP at work. None are what I would consider "old". For fun, though, there's QB64's implementation of QuickBasic. I also have my old 8088 up and
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by fotbr 10y ago
I suppose if they include Quaker oats in "oatmeal", then they might count as "good for you" -- but the pre-packaged instant oatmeal is sugar filled and probably shouldn't be included. Too many variations under one
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by fotbr 10y ago
As someone who could stand to lose (more than) a few pounds, this bacon and eggs diet sounds interesting. Was this part of a low/no carb diet? Something else?
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by fotbr 10y ago
I'm late to the food-on-tv game. I learned a little in school, where we actually had mandatory "home economics" classes that taught basic food safety and a few simple dishes, along with things like balancing a checkbook (yes
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by fotbr 10y ago
Anecdote, from someone who gave up. I was fortunate to grow up with parents that played various instruments. Mom played the piano. Dad played the guitar and clarinet. Grandparents played the piano and the pipe organ at church. We kids w
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by fotbr 10y ago
One thing I rarely see brought up is that people lie to exit poll takers. Maybe I'm just stupid, or politics are too far above my understanding, but I don't understand why exit polling is taken as gospel (see 2000 shrub vs bore,
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by fotbr 10y ago
David Kahn's books "Codebreakers" and "Seizing the Enigma" are both very good and detailed reads.
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by fotbr 10y ago
I do the same, have since I was a kid. Walking out of the office a few years ago I was greeted by a sound I hadn't heard before; not the normal chinooks or blackhawks that frequent the local army airfield, but didn't have the dis
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by fotbr 10y ago
I used Trello for quite a while, and still use it for some things. In addition to the suggested "backlog, doing, done" columns, I have another "stopping thoughts" column, where I keep a few notes about what I was thinki
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by fotbr 10y ago
The only reason I bother with a lock on my (zippered) luggage is to keep the double-zipper ends together and keep it from working itself open as it bounces around the baggage handling equipment. Like most things concerning security in gener
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by fotbr 10y ago
I refuse to participate in a process I know from personal experience to be corrupt at the local level. When the people responsible for investigating are the same people responsible for the illegal acts and the state and federal agencies ta
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by fotbr 10y ago
'Tis very nicely done. I wish I had the time or talent to turn this into an actual shell.
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by fotbr 11y ago
I used to keep a few plain text files for such tidbits, broadly and generally grouped by topic. "work.txt" "programming.txt" "hobbies.txt", etc. Now, those have been mostly replaced by similarly named folders
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by fotbr 11y ago
Or as Sneakers (1992) did it: Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man. Bernard Abbott: Oh, this is ridiculous. Martin Bishop: He's serious. Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward men. Bernard Abbott: We are
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by fotbr 11y ago
It did when they first launched here. I dropped them an email and asked if they had plans to allow non-facebook users to use their service, and was politely told that they had no plans to do so because the social connections were central t

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