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by gumby 3y ago
What’s unfortunate about them running those freight trains? It’s a greener way to transport freight than a bunch of trucks. (I used to live not far from a crossing in Palo Alto and they had to toot their horn as they went past at 2 am but
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by gumby 3y ago
If only I hadn’t included the word “episode” I could have claimed to have been talking about a failed coup attempt in Sri Lanka.
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by gumby 3y ago
This was a plot element in a Colombo episode.
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by gumby 3y ago
BTW the Caltrain corridor is SP's corridor (Standard and Pacific was Leland Stanford's gold mine) which SP maintains to run the occasional freight train and also gets paid to run caltrain on it. I haven't been following the w
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by gumby 3y ago
Sounds like things worked out, even if all you shared was your porn.
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by gumby 3y ago
Australia's cardboard drones have entered the field: https://www.defensenews.com/air/2023/09/13/cardboard-drone-v...
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by gumby 3y ago
> was on their 1,001st cup of coffee 9 cups is a lot but shouldn't cause cognitive disorder.
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by gumby 3y ago
> "Former satellite antennas are ideal as solar energy systems," Trackers almost never make economic sense; panels are now so cheap that it is usually cheaper to just take up more area. But when the hardware has already been de
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by gumby 3y ago
What a great story. The spanning tree algo is under appreciated: this allowed people who didn’t understand networking to plug networks together the way you would plug extension power cables together,* making networking simple ( or alternat
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The Economic Luminary Who Loved Solar Eclipses(nytimes.com)
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by gumby 3y ago
The GP I was responding to liked to https://brutalist.report/ The mastodon client was OK.
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by gumby 3y ago
This was German (where „ Kindergarten “) comes from, though that word means ~1 or so to 5. Then pre school („ Vorschule “) from 5-6 and then, if you pass the test („Schulreife Prüfung“ — “ripe for school exam”) the following year you start
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by gumby 3y ago
This sounds pretty crazy. I know how "Kindergarten" is defined in the USA but still: academics for 5 yo? At that age my kid's teachers were trying to keep them from taking their clothes off if they weren't playing in t
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by gumby 3y ago
> TSA doesn't like when the name on my ticket doesn't match the name on my ID (it's illegal) Not sure how illegal it really is in practice, as my driving license and passport have different spellings of my name and my gree
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by gumby 3y ago
I don't like brutalism in buildings, but this so-called "brutalist" web site seems pretty user-friendly to me.
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by gumby 3y ago
gcc/gdb/binutils; developing the original model for commercial free software from scratch; changing opinion so that forking was no longer considered a tragedy; originated FOSS projects with independent steering committees.
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by gumby 3y ago
For the same reason credit card interest rates are regulated: there's an asymmetry in bargaining power. Car prices are not regulated because there are plenty of options for the consumer.
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by gumby 3y ago
I don't know -- MIT's tuition and educational expenditures roughly match (it's a slight loss). Of course it's also a minor percentage of the budget. Tuition at my partner's New York private high school (she gradu
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by gumby 3y ago
I was responding to the GP comment about it being "sums beings sent overseas". I agree with you it's mostly unproductive (TBF you actually want military spending to be "unproductive" -- just enough to keep people
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by gumby 3y ago
> Is it also the case that the client apps SM push on people don't reveal link URLs to check any more? Just twitter
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by gumby 3y ago
Hostile is stupid, because Apple's brand is something along the lines of "make things straightforward and high quality for the end user". If they can't justify a short duration like a week they are betraying that bran
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by gumby 3y ago
> The stupendous sums beings sent overseas but if it gets to domestic expenditure they ("our representatives") get all contentious Most of the money "sent overseas" is actually spent locally (US "foreign aid&quot
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by gumby 3y ago
No, that increases the survival rate , but it's been documented for thousands of years at least that the "natural" human lifespan is over 70. Mean lifespan has been dragged down mainly because of high rates of infant mortali
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by gumby 3y ago
The merchant doesn't generally have much choice. I have some friends who ran a restaurant, and they stopped accepting Amex because the fee was too high. They sold the restaurant to an employee and he immediately started accepting Ame
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by gumby 3y ago
“Siri” (whatever it has morphed into) is a pervasive DWIM engine in iOS these days. When you do a search for an app Siri decides what to display (e.g. when I go to a certain location with a “smart” lock and pull down search, the app for th
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by gumby 3y ago
To keep you from discussing it publicly. I don’t know of any law that requires severance, afaik it’s always in exchange for your silence.
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by gumby 3y ago
> And I doubt many employees will report on their bosses for fear of getting fired, or retaliated against in more subtle ways. The point is that when you quit you cite this as a reason and they pay severance.
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by gumby 3y ago
This post happens to describe the world of the famous “Goto considered harmful” paper. Most people just know the title and simply fetishistically refuse to use a goto (most of the time they are terrible, but not always). But really the pap
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by gumby 3y ago
The GCC blog entry actually calls this out, which is nice.
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by gumby 3y ago
So UTC ("Coordinated Universal Time") isn't in fact universal after all? Not even solar-system wide much less galactic. Some marketing department must have been involved.

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