jackfoxy

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by jackfoxy 7y ago
You won't die. I fully immersed myself in the Arctic Ocean at Barrow, Alaska, which was about at 0 C, and the air temperature at the time was about 2 C. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkOVKu7Mvb4
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Centuries ago you could get executed for possessing the wrong map. Maps were considered military intelligence assets, a threat to national security in the wrong hands. Kipling's novel Kim is based on the true history of how the Briti
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
> The CFAA is adopted to prevent deliberate intrusion on someone else’s computer — in particular, computer hacking hacking is commonly used to mean different things, and we imply from the context what the author really meant. Do any la
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
we reduce muggings by 80% of that individual's potential to commit muggings
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
He is not a joke in his field. He is highly intelligent. He has carte blanche to publish commentary on any topic he chooses, and some pundits will pick it up and say see, this well respected and smart guys says this, listen to him!
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Is there a condition not listed as a recognised condition in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders for seeing racist dog whistles everywhere? Wokeness comes to mind.
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Germany declared war on U.S., not the other way around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_declaration_of_war_agai...
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What Is Calcarta?(calcarta.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 7y ago|0 comments
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We have entered a time where the first generation of people who grew-up with the internet part of their entire lives are now in charge . What to older generations is terrible UX and bad or completely lacking documentation to them is just n
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
I knew the former chief court reporter in our California county. He told me the judges used to run the court system, setting their own calendars, etc. The state changed this by creating positions for professional court administrators. I thi
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Do any other wavelengths make this leap across the vacuum, or only infra-red?
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Supremacy is for racists – use quantum advantage(nature.com)
5 points by jackfoxy 7y ago|3 comments
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Elon Musk Hits Traffic Pylon with New Cybertruck After Dinner in Malibu(gizmodo.com)
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
How does fracking result in ozone? If you're referring to flaring field gas, that is a typical oil field operation, whether fracked or not. And doesn't methane combustion result in CO2 and water?
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Larry Page’s Turbulent Kitty Hawk: Returned Deposits, Battery Fires(forbes.com)
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Global Protests Reveal Bitcoin’s Limitations(coindesk.com)
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
It's more like the veneer of unbiased trustworthy journalism was a by-product of the mass media ad business. Journalism has reverted back to the journalism mean which was always biased, propagandizing, shoddy, and appealed to the confi
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Not just prop 13, but the capital gains part of the tax code. Used to be you could sell your house for more than you paid and have 2 years to roll it into buying a new house for the same or more money. Now the difference is taxable capital
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Which is why I prefer working with a strongly typed functional language. Domain Driven Development (well, my version of it) is the first step. Get all the types right. The necessary operations should be obvious by this point. Code them up!
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The genius of Luther Burbank, father of the most famous potato in the world(californiascienceweekly.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 7y ago|1 comments
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Can a Farsi speaker please translate the chants of the protestors in the videos into English?
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
System 370 assembler was the first language I worked in professionally. We called it the POPS manual. As I recall it was a paragon of technical writing. I learned how to read technical documentation on this manual.
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San Francisco homeless tax helps spur departure of another high-profile company(foxandhoundsdaily.com)
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
It's more like switching from fossil fuels gets all the attention. That's because there is big money to be made. Not so much money to be made by reversing deforestation, not sending garbage (dubious recycling) to 3rd world count
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
CO2 injection is not R&D, but established operating procedure. Its use can count to what determines recoverable reserves.
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
I assure you, the decision is entirely economic on the production side. CO2 is fungible, no? (in regards to sequestration subsidies)
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CO2 is also the best substance to inject into oil fields for enhanced oil recovery. It becomes supercritical at the pressures involved in the oil bearing formations and is more effective at sweeping recoverable petroleum than water or steam
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Just about everywhere in the S.F. Bay Area (a.k.a. Silicon Valley) is near big expanses of undeveloped nature and parks. Commute times are frequently more on the scale of 1 hour.
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
McDonald's used to fry fries in beef tallow, but caved to the settled health science of the day in 1983. Here's the recipe to fry your own. https://grannysvitalvittles.com/stovetop-beef-tallow-french-...
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
I work mainly in multi-project F# solutions. VS Code Ionide plug-in seems pretty solid for single project F#, but every time I've tried to use it for multi-project I run into some sort of situation that sends me back to Visual Studio.

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