jg42

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Is the Daily Illuminator the longest running blog on the internet?(sjgames.com)
3 points by jg42 3y ago|3 comments
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by jg42 3y ago
Say gang, Steve Jackson Games has been running this daily blog for right at 29 years. They think they may be the longest running blog around. Does anyone know of a longer running blog (and even where to find such information)? Thanks!
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by jg42 3y ago
Thanks - I'll give this a try.
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Ask HN: Is there a modern “pop-up” blocker?
3 points by jg42 3y ago|2 comments
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by jg42 4y ago
The key here seems to be the word "many." Alaska Airlines has 289 airplanes (per wikipedia). All the other arguments seem to assume a large consumer type of load - tens of thousands of users, etc... I just can't see an undue
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by jg42 4y ago
This, but with one twist: "... plan through how you could lower your expenses if the hammer falls." Don't just plan - implement that plan now. You won't be any worse off, and will be much better prepared if the hammer
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Measuring forces packages experience during shipping(sparkfun.com)
1 points by jg42 4y ago|1 comments
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by jg42 4y ago
Sparkfun measured the forces applied to packages during shipping.
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by jg42 4y ago
'good product people' jumped out at me. Disney has _passionate_ engineers, not necessarily good. Disney also has the mantra of "we will tell you if your idea is good," rather than empowering their software team to make
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by jg42 5y ago
I'm going to go way out on a limb and assume no one received anything from them. Before I let my cynicism completely go awry, though, I wanted to check if anyone has received anything from them (cash, help with the impact of the breac
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Did anyone get anything from Equifax for their data breach?(equifaxbreachsettlement.com)
3 points by jg42 5y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Is your company altering its vacation policy because of Covid?
1 points by jg42 6y ago|1 comments
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Distributed computing via email: How GIMPS has lasted since 1996(mersenne.org)
1 points by jg42 6y ago|0 comments
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by jg42 6y ago
Initial commit was 38 years ago. Heh.
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by jg42 8y ago
Sort of. The "rules" to establish a contact generally state that you have to exchange some data, but doesn't define "data". Mostly this devolves into a simple piece of data - your grid coordinate is one example. D
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by jg42 8y ago
I can't get the math to work to reach 475 million American adults. Our current population is only 347 million and the birthrate is about 1.25%. Running a total for the last 20 years or so I can't get more than 300 million adults