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by gshubert17 4y ago
I replaced the HD on my 2009 24" iMac with an SSD some years ago and upped it from 4GB to 8GB. A great performance boost. Old OS but it still works well for me.
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I think the article already showed that with the example -F, The problem is commas inside quoted strings, as in the example "Smith, Bob". I believe the field-separator option on awk will break the quoted string at the interior com
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by gshubert17 4y ago
You're right. s/trillion/billion/. The key fact is that the two ton object had the impact of 1.5 tons of TNT. Thanks.
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by gshubert17 4y ago
The kinetic energy of 2000 kg at 2500 m/sec is about 6 trillion joules. A ton of TNT is about 4 trillion joules. So the kinetic energy of impact would be the same as 1.5 tons of TNT. A Nasa document https://ntrs.nasa.gov&#x2
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by gshubert17 5y ago
The speakerdeck and github links are too high-level. I believe a better link to Beazley's talk is, https://speakerdeck.com/pycon2014/discovering-python-by-davi...
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by gshubert17 5y ago
I live close to the site of the Marshall fire in Colorado which destroyed a thousand homes at the end of 2021. The amount of soot was surprisingly large. After post-fire snowfalls, snow pushed to the edges of parking lots was blacker than u
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by gshubert17 5y ago
>> find it quite interesting that no single human ever has achieved even close to [160 years]. Human mortality varies widely, but one relationship seems constant: death rate increases exponentially with age. A mortality table from 20
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by gshubert17 5y ago
Don't know about the OP, but in my state currently, close to 100% of the cases are omicron based on the samples they've sequenced. If I get covid next week, odds are it'll be the omicron variant.
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by gshubert17 5y ago
Seems broken to me too. I put in 1926 for my 96-year-old dad and it says 61% remaining. Which would be great, but I don't expect him to live to 246 (of which 39% lived so far would equal 96). A calculator which is much easier for me to
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by gshubert17 5y ago
The first sentence in the Wikipedia article cites a link (citation #1) to https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179.pdf "Report on Adult Literacy in the United States" published in July 2019. This is a two-page PD
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by gshubert17 5y ago
or, perhaps, even farther: https://www.google.com/maps/place/2%C2%B016'55.9%22S+29%C2%B... shows a location near Gisovu, Rwanda, with a photograph taken in 2019 by Keiko Schmidt, of a sign which reads, "
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by gshubert17 5y ago
I was teaching a high school computer course when I discovered Codecademy in 2012. We spent three weeks using their introduction to JavaScript programming. Students learned basic programming working at their own pace. Everyone was engaged,
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by gshubert17 5y ago
Whiteman AFB is about 20 miles south and a little east of the plane in this image.
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The chart legend says it represents the total value of exports to Vietnam from its trading partners, equivalent to Vietnam's imports. In 2015 and 2016 Vietnam's imports of aluminum were much larger than previous years and later ye
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by gshubert17 5y ago
I grew up on a farm in east central Illinois in the 1950s and '60s and remember the hedgerows along the township gravel roads which were on a grid a mile on a side. There were pheasants and quail and I don't remember how many othe
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by gshubert17 5y ago
For the past couple of decades or so, you're right. HP was founded in 1939. In its first couple of decades the HP way described management practices that were unusual for their time. Bill and Dave were still visiting the varied HP divi
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by gshubert17 5y ago
> The other approaches mentioned above tend to make the tradeoff the other way--the consumer pays marginal cost of copying, but less art gets produced than consumers would like. One can infer a smaller supply of art, assuming standard ec
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by gshubert17 5y ago
> Before college can be creating well-rounded citizenry or provide "excellent life experiences" or any of the other things people want of it, it must first provide a good ROI. This is a necessary foundation. I'd like to sa
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by gshubert17 5y ago
There's a whaling museum in Lahaina on Maui, which has lots of good stuff. I happened to visit it one time while a book group was reading Moby Dick and it made a great impression. https://www.hawaii-guide.com/maui/
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by gshubert17 5y ago
Could a person who grows up in complete social isolation learn (or invent) a language? If not, could such a person name things or have a way to think about maps and symbols (representations of things) in a way that could lead to consciousne
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by gshubert17 5y ago
"Uncoerced market" or something, is closer to the meaning I seek.
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by gshubert17 5y ago
Links to Berkshire Hathaway's letters to shareholders from 1977 through 2020 are available at, https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
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by gshubert17 5y ago
What's the connection between aluminum (Al) and ammonium phosphate (NH4)3.PO3 ?
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by gshubert17 5y ago
But Mars takes 1.88 earth years to make one orbit. So, 6 earth months is closer to 3/12 of a Martian year.
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by gshubert17 5y ago
If it's only the cost of milk that has doubled, I agree that a 20% hourly wage increase will cover it. It's a different story if the overall cost-of-living outpaces wages.
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by gshubert17 5y ago
> h c/13 nm is about 95 electron volts; that's enough to ionize just about anything Wow! The equivalent temperature E = kT is about 1.1 million kelvin.
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by gshubert17 5y ago
Isaac Asimov's _Understanding Physics_ is older (1966) but is meant for the general reader or to supplement a textbook. It uses algebra and only a little trig. J. D. Bernal's _A History of Classical Physics_ (1972) begins with ide
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Regulators Are Investigating Boeing's Safety Culture Amid Engineers Complaints(text.npr.org)
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by gshubert17 5y ago
> How much income will you need...? I tried to get my own answer for this question in a couple of ways (retired 5 years ago, age 62 so not early). First, I tracked my expenses, but didn't have a planned budget. I wanted to know how
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by gshubert17 5y ago
Exactly: US President Eisenhower said in a 1953 speech, Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

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