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by jpindar 5y ago
WTF?
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by jpindar 5y ago
I wonder how many of them NEED all the fancy computers they own? (I know I don't.)
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by jpindar 5y ago
What else does anyone use the term satellite dish to refer to?
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by jpindar 5y ago
"The structure of the HIV capsid is analysed by cryo-electron microscopy and cryo-electron microscopy at cryo-electron-microscopy resolution." It really does like to repeat itself.
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by jpindar 5y ago
Pretty easy, even in hard mode, and not due to any knowledge of the subject matter. I'm 15 - 0 so far. I kept seeing certain types of grammatical error, such as constructs like "... and foo, despite foo, so..." or "with
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by jpindar 5y ago
When I was a kid, prices were printed on comic books and on paperback books in the US. I don't know when they stopped.
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by jpindar 5y ago
Essentially all the older non-software (i.e. electronic, mechanical, aerospace) engineers I know.
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by jpindar 5y ago
"only" a quarter million
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by jpindar 5y ago
Found it. https://limn.it/articles/car-wars/
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by jpindar 5y ago
See Cory Doctorow's Car Wars for a fictional treatment of this. I can't seem to find the full text online at the moment.
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by jpindar 5y ago
I've occasionally seen a job which had something like "please include the word banana in your bid so I know you at least read my description". And sure enough, some of the bids don't include the word banana.
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by jpindar 5y ago
When I look at those freelancing sites, the descriptions of what potential clients want are so short and vague, I don't understand how the freelancers who immediately give specific (and often very low) quotes can do so.
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by jpindar 5y ago
Then why not buy the cheap one I have and glue a piece of plastic over the other buttons? I'll even make a nice looking piece of plastic for you.
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by jpindar 5y ago
I would just like to point out that the UI for Audacity Portable is somewhat better than the regular Audacity, mainly in terms of the menu structure and wording. If you like Audacity but find the menus awkward, try Audacity Portable.
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by jpindar 5y ago
New Hampshire is like that - no sales tax on most things, but there is tax on things like hotel rooms, restaurant meals, gasoline, and, in effect, liquor (since you can only buy it in state owned liquor stores). Tourism is one of New Hampsh
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by jpindar 5y ago
The three individual "stimulus checks" went to everyone whether they worked or not. But in addition, unemployed people have been getting unprecedented amounts of weekly Unemployment Insurance payments. In normal times, you can on
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by jpindar 5y ago
Yet another advantage of remote work! How many offices have windows you can open? (I used to work in one that did, because it was in an old mill building. It was great.)
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by jpindar 5y ago
With modern mixed signal scopes, there's becoming less and less difference between the two.
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by jpindar 5y ago
>Shoving chars out a uart, in contrast, takes time, but considerably less time than a human hitting continue after a breakpoint. Toggling an i/o line (which you can monitor on a scope) takes even less. BTDT.
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by jpindar 5y ago
Once I put a book into Calibre, and make sure the metadata is correct, I delete the original. If there's any important info in the original filename I put it in the metadata. Is there a reason I need to save the originals?
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by jpindar 5y ago
Is Lambda the only school that's using this loan model?
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by jpindar 5y ago
OTOH, how many of us sometimes happily sit in a chair and stare at a screen for days?
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by jpindar 5y ago
There are certain roads where I live that are normally two lanes in each direction, but in the winter there's not enough traffic to need two lanes. When they are heavily snow covered, they become one lane in each direction, straddling
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by jpindar 5y ago
It's not like someone is controlling it live, I'm sure there are multiple people reviewing the commands.
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by jpindar 5y ago
A QR code contains text. If your QR code reader automatically opens any link it finds in that text, it is defective. You should replace it.
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by jpindar 5y ago
>The night sky is a commons and a natural wonder In the middle of a big city?
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by jpindar 5y ago
>How many businesses still operate with shared workstations? The ones that deal with physical objects. Ones that control machinery, keep track of objects in warehouses and stores, etc.
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by jpindar 6y ago
Static ips are not common, but ips that are technically dynamic but in fact rarely change are.
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by jpindar 6y ago
I think it could be a good idea, if it were run by an existing organization that was already financially successful and didn't need to optimize for growth or cash flow, such as a university or one of the existing MOOC providers.
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by jpindar 6y ago
What makes you say that?

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