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by jeffwass 10y ago
I think it was slashdot where years ago there was a comment lamenting the DRM-free digital downloads from purchased O'Reilly products. The user was complaining this wasn't good enough. He actually wanted O'Reilly to publish M
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I'm curious if you've tried Visual Studio Code for Python on Mac? I've heard good things about it, and just this past weekend tried it out, but couldn't even get a simple Hello World working on it for Python. I installed
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Prior to xkcd, I recall seeing Obligatory Simpsons Quotes on either usenet or slashdot back in the late 90's.
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I had a nearly full box of 36 unopened expansion packs, from summer 1994, sitting in my old bedroom closet that my dad recently found. Very annoyingly, the glue on the packs failed after 22 yrs, causing most to open up. Bummer. I'm cur
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by jeffwass 10y ago
Are you legally allowed to run a hotel in/on your property, and is it properly zoned? Adhering to the few rules you listed above doesn't mean you follow ALL the same rules as hotels. (Not implying that in your case you're not
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When reading these compensation threads, I've been curious about this for awhile. In your valuation, are you counting the stock's price at the time of issuance or time of vesting and delivery? If quoting as of time of delivery, I
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>"Trees are only sequestering the CO2, not removing it, so this seems like a bad solution at solving our removal of CO2" I don't follow your logic here. All of the atmospheric CO2 produced from fossil fuel combustion had b
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"With the Addams Family game for example, Fred just couldn't locate where the game stores the lives or any useful value - the only thing he managed to do was lock the jump button on, so your character was permanently and uselessly
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Whoa, I never knew about the "pick nose" trick, I've played thru the game a number of times as thief, both the original EGA and the VGA remake. IMHO, the thief was the best class, the only one where you could get all the skil
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If it makes you feel better : When they were kids, my father and his friends did the same with baseball cards. They would chew the gum, and then put the 'worthless' baseball cards into their bicycle wheel spokes. Who knows how man
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I used to do a lot of cryogenics work during my PhD. The statistic one of the professors often quoted was that "LN2 is cheaper than milk". Although LN2 is cheaper and more abundant, it's also 20 times warmer than LHe. That ma
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>How would you feel about a grid with parks sprinkled in instead of cul-de-sac? Check out Savannah, Georgia. One of the first planned cities in the USA. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squares_of_Savannah,_Georgia
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This is an amazing quote, applicable to much more than modular synthesiser hardware : "The tendency, as Buchla once argued, was that when engineers designed instruments, “they design from the inside out. They design the circuits, and t
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Unfortunately, I only use palindromic passwords made up of symmetric letters, so they're readable both directly and in the mirror.
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Your posting specifically mentioned professional relationships and not 'casual social conversations', and professional connectivity is the key focus of LinkedIn. Though I keep my friends as contacts here too. I do contact people c
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LinkedIn. I'm not on Facebook or any other social networks. LinkedIn is basically like a Rolodex of friends and colleagues that automatically keeps updated. So it's useful to query, for example, who in your network works at a part
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Almost exact same thing happened to my friend in 7th grade as well. Although he clearly lost the fight, he definitely won in the long term. This was in the late '80s. One of the bigger bullies came up to him in the locker room out of t
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Can they use the same charging stations, or are we approaching a forked situation like iPhone vs android? Also - can someone who owns an electric vehicle answer a question on highway driving? Basically I'm curious how quiet the interio
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Following on the parent's comment on the human eye : One of the most striking graphs I've seen was the plot of the transparency of water vs optical wavelength. Basically, there's only a tiny transparency gap, which coincides
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What surprises me is how (at least here in HN) there was a general feeling of annoyance when Apple tracked user locations with Apple Maps to identify traffic patterns, even though Google did the same for Google maps. But now with Tesla user
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We're not coating pipes or making ceiling tiles with the stuff (yet...) But when built into diced wafer chips, it's really no more hazardous than most other hazardous materials used in the construction and fabrication of the phone
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While that solution is cool for preserving shape across all slices, it was clearly postulated by theoreticians. An experimentalist would point out that pizza components have a radial dependence (Ie, crust on the outside), so it's not a
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Question - do you rip your vinyl to digital format? Or do you keep listening to the physical media?
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Correct. My concern is that such a move would give further credence to cyclists that they're "above the laws of the road", which would lead to even more of the dangerous types of cyclist behaviour I mentioned above.
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Would you pay the same amount to see a famous band play a concert vs a very good cover band?
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Many collectibles are like that. Eg : Jimmy Hendrix's first guitar as a child would auction for quite a lot of money. But the same model and condition guitar instead owned by some random guy in Omaha would be worthless.
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Agreed 100%. I live in London too. As a pedestrian, irresponsible cyclists have really pissed me off to no end. Many cyclists have an attitude of entitledness, which makes them a great danger to the rest of us pedestrians. Not all cyclists
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by jeffwass 10y ago
You had me until the CR LF, but clearly the true hacker's choice is just the LF. <ducks>
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You mean a private company that can legally declare interplanetary war?
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>Einstein said that nuclear fission was impossible, before Fermi promptly proved him dead wrong. Reference please. And was this before or after the famous Einstein-Szilard letter to Roosevelt, which not only motivated the Manhattan Proje

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