jsymolon

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by jsymolon 10y ago
Just hit the over 40 bump ... readers are necessary. I went from needed bifocals to just readers and in 15 years; of wearing 1+ to 1.25+. Now, for fine detail work, i look like the guy from Toy Story 2 with magnifiers up to +4. SMTs are t
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1 study back in ... 1953 / 1957 ? the technology of headlights really changed in the past 15 years not to mention 70. For me, it cuts down on the amount of glare from those HIDs and maladjusted headlights. "PURKINJE SHIFT" i
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I went from glasses and astigmatism to LASIK and halos. I would still do it again and recommend it. The quality of life improvement is tremendous and the amount of money saved on not getting the glasses re-done every year offsets the cost o
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by jsymolon 10y ago
> deregulating environmental controls. ... as those factories dump chemicals into local areas ... Nope, Nope, Nope. See: 1970's, burning rivers, toxic smog, many "Superfund sites" that STILL haven't been cleaned up.
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> protagonist chooses to be just wasting lots of resources just doing something of no value In your opinion. Obviously they find it a good value for their resources. Study history for interesting human actions. Some strive to improve t
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by jsymolon 10y ago
> there is no incentive to price shop, Again there is NO single item that will solve the "healthcare" issue. Voodoo Free Market ... You don't price shop. Your OB/GYN has admitting privileges to 1-2 hospitals in the a
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by jsymolon 10y ago
> know how your congressman votes on each of the vote Actually, the opposite may be a better way. Our representatives votes should be secret for the same reason that the people votes is secret: prevents the voter from being intimidated a
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by jsymolon 10y ago
> Also, Paleo, like any similar structured diet, is just a trick to get you to ingest fewer calories. I wouldn't classify as a trick per se but a awareness that manufacturers tend to pack processed foods with a lot more addictive it
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by jsymolon 10y ago
Although this item falls on the borderline, it seems there are a lot of 10 minute videos, when a single image or paragraph will work.
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by jsymolon 10y ago
Correct. "old school" computer based DB and front end. Think of it as the Open Source Access DB.
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by jsymolon 10y ago
Highly Recommend Michael Feathers' book "Working Effectively with Legacy Code"
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by jsymolon 10y ago
> Being able to permanently and self-sustainably inhabit space means being able to .. Going to into space and making something of yourself rather than grabbing a gun and killing each other like rats in a cage?
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by jsymolon 10y ago
> Remove the boundries of the state borders. This is regulation. Yep, and I hope it's to prevent "lowest common bidder" syndrome on plans. Why does Delaware get all the Corps? Why does a East Texas Court get all the pate
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by jsymolon 10y ago
>My point was that "the market" meaning an unmanaged build-it-and-they-will-come approach would not be optimal, in response to my parent commenter's "an easy thing for a market to fix". The item that worries me,
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by jsymolon 10y ago
> The list of things to learn is endless. yes, however there are items that are more important (ACLs, AD, Security, OID ... etc) that are a little more important than the new shiny JS framework. I'd rather burn brain cells learning
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by jsymolon 10y ago
Basically, you need a workflow engine. Model that process on the engine, the engine takes care of everything else; notification, queueing, etc.
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by jsymolon 10y ago
Also, add that the passengers will not sit idly by any more. In the past, the message was, give the hijackers what they want and no one will get hurt.
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by jsymolon 10y ago
What's the maintenance cost of the lines and equipment vs the hydro ?
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by jsymolon 10y ago
> Shortage of local talent might be another possibility. Only shortage is, is a person at the price that they want to pay.
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by jsymolon 10y ago
> the work-life balance of ... BOTH employees are screwed to save a dime.
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by jsymolon 10y ago
> economic policies that rewards the privileged As shown as the cabinet is "old guard" republican ideology. Regulations! Bad! ... etc.
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by jsymolon 10y ago
Better off using the trending now to support a pro/con opinion fact checked section. Spend some of that money to support a newsroom.
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by jsymolon 10y ago
Biggest problem i see, is how to pick the gold nugget from the 55 gallon drum of verbal vomit. Each viewpoint is "correct" from the authors viewpoint, knowledge, and information. Doesn't mean that it's closer to the tru
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by jsymolon 10y ago
> live in one of the most expensive At .02 ? Nope Annual Average Price per Kilowatthour by State 46 Connecticut 17.76 47 Alaska 17.94 48 Hawaii 26.17
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by jsymolon 10y ago
Just showing interest and asking what the child is doing is often enough. If the parent can get the child to explain it, that also helps. AKA rubber duck debugging.
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by jsymolon 10y ago
Don't Copy that Floppy. Perfect example from the 80's, an arms race to prevent copying of software, which ended up doing what ? Software still got copied while increasing the publishers cost. Now 30 years later, efforts to preserv
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by jsymolon 10y ago
> for serious things like email account reset, to banking info. I've called American Express a couple of times to report errant emails with account info ending up in my email. THEY didn't care that one of their customers had
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by jsymolon 10y ago
Sounds like a "fail safe" operation. Eject is a lot safer than format.
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> binary explosives ... Please, what a frigging joke. Be cooped up in a small bumpy space for hours trying to create a very touchy explosive. ... hydrogen peroxide, acetone, and sulfuric acid ... put a beaker containing the peroxide &#
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> flash drives are ... Much more dangerous than an infected boot sector. See the BlackHat talk on a malware program can replace the firmware on a USB device.

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