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by jff 11y ago
Visibility has really taken a nosedive. Over the last few years I've daily driven a 1962 Studebaker and a 1986 Ford Crown Victoria and both of them had incredible visibility compared to almost any car on the road today. Parallel parkin
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by jff 11y ago
> It's not cool to criticize startups in silicon valley because that's what the place stands for. Fucking what? Would you say nobody in Hollywood should ever judge a movie script because the place is about making movies? &quo
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by jff 11y ago
The interesting thing about the modern web developer is that they don't know jack or shit about HTTP.
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by jff 11y ago
It could absolutely be done as NICS: rather than a phone call, plug your form 4473 info into a website. Once they do the check, it emails you the code which is good for N days. Your seller then just verifies the code on the ATF website and
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by jff 11y ago
Sure! I've only used my FFL03 once, to order a Mosin Nagant rifle, but it still worked out cheaper than a single gun transfer in California ($30 for the FFL03 vs. $60+ for a transfer at a gun store) Part of having a FFL03 is the requir
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by jff 11y ago
It's not entirely clear from the article, but the data they're using appears to include all types of Federal Firearms Licensees. FFL01 is the license for a traditional gun store. However I hold an FFL03, which is a license to coll
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by jff 11y ago
Regarding private sales, I'd really like a system whereby the buyer can generate a 1-time code (by filling out some information on a gov't website, for instance) that's good for say a month. The seller can then enter that cod
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by jff 11y ago
Pretty rough on somebody with a Thinkpad 3-button trackpoint, maybe use +- or [] or something to zoom in and out.
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by jff 11y ago
And we all saw how well that worked out for Arthur Dent! I'm a fan of ring roads, Rochester for instance had a small inner loop and a much wider outer loop of freeways (with freeway segments and decent arterials connecting the inner to
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by jff 11y ago
The problem of getting from one side of town to the other very quickly, without clogging up the "walkable neighborhoods" in the middle, with their narrow streets and wide sidewalks. The people going through get on the highway, o
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by jff 11y ago
I've seen people create their own README and move the upstream one to README.upstream or similar. Seemed sensible to me.
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by jff 11y ago
If only there were some way to evaluate whether or not students were learning things better with one style of teaching or another... some sort of evaluation, a test if you will, a standardized way to judge what's been learned. Then may
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by jff 11y ago
> Coming from academia, I was trained to fiercely defend my intellectual territory, pissing all over anything that seemed remotely close to my area of interest. Anyone who has ever been through a conference/journal submission proces
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by jff 11y ago
65mph through the streets of downtown San Francisco was pretty interesting, but on the other hand we did get back to our hotel in about 3 minutes.
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by jff 11y ago
That's a pretty standard way to comment out a huge chunk of code, because /* */ will get screwed up if there's another comment using the same convention inside, and putting // in front of every single line
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by jff 11y ago
I analyzed 250 SaaS pages, and all of them were using Bootstrap
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by jff 11y ago
I stopped getting razor burn when I switched from disposables to a safety razor, and it's no less convenient. My main complaint was the high up-front cost for the razor but I'm now seeing starter kits in Wal-mart in the $20 range
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by jff 11y ago
Yeah but they're probably going to store their little collection of cricket pilots in a box inside the house... and if I know kids, they'll plop down at the kitchen table to load up a cricket before heading outside to play.
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by jff 11y ago
Seems like a really odd target market: kids who don't think bugs are gross, have moms who'll allow a box of live crickets in the house, have easy access to a source of live crickets, have parents who aren't totally weirded ou
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by jff 11y ago
You can get Almond Roca everywhere but Aplets and Cotlets are a pretty WA-specific thing, I've never seen them outside of the state. Those and the Idaho Spud are my #1 treats when I'm back home.
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by jff 11y ago
I grew up on "turkish delight" in Washington state, home of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Orchards which makes "Aplets and Cotlets", Turkish Delight flavored with apples and apricots. (It&#x
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by jff 11y ago
Scumbag Steve, his hat aslant
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by jff 11y ago
My keyboard is... weird. When I type Shift-9, I see ')' instead of '(' and I can't even figure out how to type a '+' character.
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by jff 11y ago
I was thinking of Micotil, my mistake.
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by jff 11y ago
Animal antibiotics are not the same as human antibiotics. LA-200, for instance, will kill a human but is quite effective in treating sick cattle.
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by jff 11y ago
> IMHO TV was better OTA than on cable. You had a small number of local channels and they had to compete for eyeballs. OTA TV still exists and it's not bad. $15 for an antenna and I'm getting about 40 channels in Albuquerque.
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by jff 11y ago
What basis? "Asians wise, Westerners dumb"
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This reminds me of how philosophers seem to spend 50% of their time writing about how important philosophy is. The other 50% is often spent writing philosophy based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the topic (see: any philosophy of tech
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by jff 11y ago
You're right, nobody is attempting to act against them. All the (ludicrous, unworkable, unenforceable, sometimes blatantly unconstitutional) bills that get drafted (and sometimes passed) in California, NY, Illinois, and Washington DC,
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by jff 11y ago
Most powerful in terms of money spent? Because they don't even make the top 30. CVS, the pharmacy chain, spends more money on lobbying. Or do you mean more powerful because they're backed up by the huge percentage of gun owners in

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