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by gramie 3y ago
I book directly. If there is a problem with the reservation, hotels have much more flexibility to accommodate changes. You can usually cancel on the arrival date with no penalty, change room type, etc. I've heard others say that if you
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by gramie 3y ago
The real problem is the insane policy of the U.S. to fund schools locally. That way, you will always have better schools in the richer areas and worse schools in the poorer areas. In Ontario (Canada), schools are funded by the province. Sch
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by gramie 4y ago
My Dad, born in the early 1930s, said that on any lengthy drive (I'm guessing > 100km), you just assumed that you would have at least one puncture or other minor breakdown. He and his cousin were given a car with a wooden body; once
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by gramie 4y ago
You had to pay to keep your number/address unlisted. It wasn't just a request.
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by gramie 4y ago
One of the programmers I used to work with took an online personality test, and told us that it reported him having "less empathy than Stalin". He was a good programmer, though!
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by gramie 4y ago
That's really fantastic. Better integration than the GOG client, and it isn't always trying to sell me something!
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by gramie 4y ago
I use the GOG launcher, which centralizes my Steam, Epic, and GOG games.
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by gramie 4y ago
Don't feel rushed, Rick's content is always on sale. I don't have first-hand knowledge, but have read some criticisms that the "Beato Book" is not always coherent or well organized. That said, I believe he has rec
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by gramie 4y ago
Canada has them, but fewer, smaller, and students still need the academics. We don't have the religious fervour around university sports that we see in the U.S.
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by gramie 4y ago
I was just helping someone who had removed IE from Windows and then couldn't start QuickBooks (from 2016 or so, I think). Not even get to the main page. My research showed that Intuit had known about this problem for at least 2-3 years
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by gramie 4y ago
I would associate "screeching" with women, just as I would associate "bellowing" with men. I fail to understand why using these words is bad, though.
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by gramie 4y ago
One possibility would be to create all the matching rows of the table in text (<tr><td>...</td></tr>), and then replace the contents of the table in one assignment. That's pretty fast, although I'
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by gramie 4y ago
> it is customary for full-time employees to work their entire career through retirement at a single company This has never been universally true, and today it is less common than ever. According to the Japan times, 8.8% of Japanese com
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by gramie 4y ago
> There have been a number of times the LDP was not in power The LDP has been in power since 1955, except for two periods (1993-94 and 2009-12). That's roughly 61/67 years. > rivers flood uncontrolled during the rainy season
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by gramie 4y ago
I especially like cooking pork via sous vide (in my Instant Pot). Pork is really hard to cook in a regular oven/pan without making it tough, but a couple of hours sous vide, and then quick searing makes it wonderful!
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by gramie 4y ago
I'm pretty sure that FreePascal and Delphi can do run-time bounds checking (it's a compile-time option). Pascal also avoids buffer overrun errors on strings, because strings are dynamically resized as necessary. You can also avoid
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by gramie 4y ago
If I remember correctly, the only person who went to prison because of the events in 2008 was a whistleblower.
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by gramie 4y ago
I have learned, over the course of five decades, French, German, Sesotho, and Japanese, with at least some immersion for all of them. Outside of being immersed in the language, Language Transfer (which I'm currently using to learn Span
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by gramie 4y ago
Yes, but you missed a chance to get paid a lot of money and not have to produce anything in the end except buzzwords and TPS reports. Like everyone else involved. That $250M didn't just evaporate, you know.
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by gramie 4y ago
I remember sitting in on a meeting with some high-priced consultants who solemnly declared that "the future of the web is blockchain". We were discussing an update to our main university website. The consultants had probably each
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by gramie 4y ago
In the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, James Holland and Al Murray repeatedly make the point that differences in production of weapons, fuel, and everything else (including penicillin) made the outcome of the war inevitable. A very
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by gramie 4y ago
I believe that if you buy the OS, it comes with printed documentation.
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by gramie 4y ago
Absolutely agree. Probably the best police drama I've ever watched. Note that when Cracker was on TV, he won the BAFTA award for best actor each of the three years.
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by gramie 4y ago
I didn't up- or down-vote you, but I would guess it is because your comment was an ad hominem, attacking her personality rather than her arguments. People can be angry for good reasons or bad, so calling her angry doesn't advance
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by gramie 4y ago
My opinion of Jerry Pournelle was that he was very opinionated, and very arrogant. I enjoyed his writing style, although I wonder if it was his editor who encouraged him to recycle many phrases that he seemed to thing were cute. I think he
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by gramie 4y ago
I think that the problem is that DST is a really, really bad idea. So you have a process that starts at 1:30am on November 6, 2022. If that's in Ontario, is that the first 1:30am or the second one? (At 2:00am, clocks go back to 1:00am,
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by gramie 4y ago
They are still available (some released freely by the publisher, others not), and the paraphernalia (which often contained information required to play the game) can be found at http://infocom.elsewhere.org/gallery/grey
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by gramie 4y ago
I also used Mix C. I think it only sold for about $20 (plus $20 for the debugger?). It also came with an electronic tutorial ($10 more?) called "Master C" that I found very useful.
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by gramie 4y ago
I never thought of getting paid for it. The chance to "play" on a beefy (for the time) Intel 80286 computer) was all the compensation I needed! If I remember correctly, I wrote a GW-BASIC program to decode WordPerfect macros, allo
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by gramie 4y ago
I kept a journal (paper, of course), but in spite of my good intentions I have never digitized it. It was another time, when letter to Canada and back took a month each way (the final 15k on horseback). Now, I hear that there is a cell towe

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