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by hadlock 4y ago
I was pleasantly surprised by the roads in Malaysia. We were doing the equivalent of 80MPH on the main N-S road between Kuala Lumpur and Penang and dudes would blow past us in a Toyota Hi-Ace minivan doing 100MPH. Some of the best roads I&#
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by hadlock 4y ago
My uncle used to live on an old ranch road in west Texas. It didn't really go anywhere just connected to larger roads together, probably 20 miles long and kind of wound through a couple of minor valleys. Eventually all the road frontag
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by hadlock 4y ago
We went to Costa Rica for a week, was planning on getting engaged there. Had heard all the stories of how beautiful it was, etc. Rented a car and drove up the mountain all the tourists go to. In most cases Costa Rica was as expensive if not
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by hadlock 4y ago
There are better octane boosters, the only reason lead was used was because it was marginally cheaper.
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by hadlock 4y ago
I remember reading about this in Popular Science in high school. Residential refrigerators powered by this technology by 2006! Twenty years after that magazine article I haven't seen any substantial progress towards a commercial produc
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by hadlock 4y ago
The CDC and WHO track any outbreak worldwide where a group of people mysteriously get sick in a very short period of time. CDC website is full of epidemics where a village in Nairobi or rural Vietnam get some hantavirus via a hampster or wh
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by hadlock 4y ago
I'm still using an ancient copy of Navionics on a 1st or 2nd gen iPad (that was gifted to me from my mother in law, because it wouldn't run any of her Instagram stuff) on my boat to get around San Francisco Bay. The depth near the
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by hadlock 4y ago
All 'G' was valid for Quake 3. I was surprised to find this out from my friend's 11 year old little sibling.
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by hadlock 4y ago
Every government org has a building, and any larger facility (20,000 sq ft) will have a "physical plant" with various machinery. Any large facility will have a machine shop of sorts to maintain HVAC equipment, utility vehicles, re
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by hadlock 4y ago
Government employees can design basic stuff (and some not-so-basic stuff) and 3d print it in their machine shop, or send the design to a machine shop to be made, rather than sending in a requisition for purchasing commercial CAD software, w
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by hadlock 4y ago
TF2 is one of the all-time greats though, it's worth the column inches
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by hadlock 4y ago
6th and 7th grade are pretty brutal developmental years. You get a lot more autonomy but also spend a lot of time grappling with who you are and what your identity is, particularly in monoculture suburbia.
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Taiwan has battery swapping stations for their...GoRo? Electric scooters, but they are the size of a coffee can and user-swapped using the integrated handle. Battery swap on a car-sized battery is going to be... Several magnitudes of order
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by hadlock 4y ago
Not at all surprised. They will be making Civ sequels a hundred years from now. Tropico sequels too, probably.
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Scenes and animations seem to be picked at random. Just watched George microwave something in the kitchen while having a conversation about something totally different. They really nailed it. Seinfeld is truly a show about nothing. Thinkin
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by hadlock 4y ago
Many of the big trees are on public right of ways. Nothing is happening to them. The center of many city residential blocks are still quiet green oasis. Busy streets will still stay busy, quiet side streets tend to stay that way. Go look at
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by hadlock 4y ago
Same as the rest of the world, metal detector and possibly luggage scan of larger luggage. US airline security is a ridiculous jobs program for the most part. People have been using the phrase "security theater" since the TSA was
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by hadlock 4y ago
It might(?) not be illegal to label sparkling wine made in california as such, but I don't believe I've ever seen labeled as such. It is not uncommon to see "method traditionale champagne" or similar in smaller print som
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by hadlock 4y ago
About a third of people over 55 I've talked to in the last three years decided to go ahead and retire. Covid is usually two weeks from infection to recovery (seems to get 80% of the population once per year), and 30% of employees have
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by hadlock 4y ago
ICE owns NYSE and several other exchanges. ICE stands for Intercontinental Exchange. ICE is the IT administrator for these exchanges. I helped sell some router management software to them a while ago. ICE is fairly new, NYSE used to be inde
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by hadlock 4y ago
I think the process was: 1. blogging 2. paid blogging services 3. free blogging services (livejournal, xanga, later myspace) 4. wordpress as a next generation blogging service (invented by ex-livejournal employees) both free and paid 5. wal
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by hadlock 4y ago
Servers make $2.14 an hour in Texas, they're fully dependent on tips. They often/always have zero control over the kitchen or management's ability to do staffing. Keep this in mind when you eat in that state.
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by hadlock 4y ago
I don't want social media crap in my messaging app. I use it for work and business notifications. When I want to waste time I have other apps for that sort of thing.
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We bought our samsung in 2016 and in... 2018 it started showing us ads, and then later they installed the "tv plus", uh, "feature". Which you can't uninstall so every time your toddler bumps the channel button on th
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by hadlock 4y ago
Once they started including cleaning fees on the regular, often for as much as a single night's stay, I've largely curtailed my use of the service, and have gone back to hotels. Very occasionally, like for an out of state wedding,
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Secure facilities still need janitors, plumbers, electricians other maintenance people. I worked in a downtown data center that did banking and securities trading and had to badge through three doors to get to my desk. Every night a differe
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China's made an entire business of expanding their territory by putting airfields on top of half-underwater islands. The Spratlys are horseshoe shaped atolls but have proven it can be done effectively and defensibly. ( https:/&#x2
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by hadlock 4y ago
> warning about Mac is this: Window management is utter garbage. Maximizing is actively discouraged. Tiling left / right etc? Doesn't exist. I've been using Spectacle ( https://github.com/eczarny/specta
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I kind of wonder if this "extra pages" was by design. I remember in elementary school WoT books were kind of a status symbol simply because they were absolutely enormous tomes of work, weighing in at 550, 600, 700 pages. Every oth
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by hadlock 4y ago
Surely the analytics team at netflix has looked at this in depth and decided their current strategy is the most truthful and reliable. When you start polling people vs looking at raw usage data, you end up with people voting ideologically v

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