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by lb1lf 4y ago
I think they are becoming more mainstream friendly as, well, the world has caught up with him, more or less - I find he's a master at grasping what technologies will explode into the mainstream a few years early, then spin a wonderful
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by lb1lf 4y ago
That sounds great; I have had Anathem on my bookshelf for years after life got in the way just after starting it; I had planned to finally read it this fall. Your observation makes me look forward to it even more, thank you!
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Much as I love Neal Stephenson's novels, I really wish he'd stayed around at the writer's class he surely took until they had learned how to wrap up books and write endings; more often than not, I turn the page on a Stephenso
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Back when I used to moonlight in video production, the quip was that NTSC was an acronym for 'Never Twice the Same Colour'. The French SECAM system? 'Something Essentially Contrary to the American Method' I'll lead
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by lb1lf 4y ago
I witnessed a watered-down version of an incident like this a few months ago on the road between Campos dos Goytecazes and Rio de Janeiro - traffic slows down, then stops, and as we look ahead, trying to see what causes the jam, we find tha
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Swedish journalist Anders Rydell wrote an excellent book on this very subject, called 'Plundrarna' (The plunderers). Highly recommended if you are interested in the subject and find it translated into English (or read Swedish, of
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by lb1lf 4y ago
I thought all those cameras were supposed to curb that kind of crime? Even on the short walk from my hotel to $CUSTOMER in Southampton (hardly a metropolis), I counted more than forty surveillance cameras - and those were only the ones I co
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by lb1lf 4y ago
You may be joking, but do keep in mind that the Canadians (well, the British, but if memory serves, a significant fraction of the force were from Canada) sacked Washington D.C. in 1814.
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by lb1lf 4y ago
But surely the police are well within their rights to have you do it from a safe distance? 8ft seems a reasonable compromise; close enough to capture what is going on, far enough away to not interfere in an ongoing struggle, for instance.
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by lb1lf 4y ago
This sounds good; a citizen can now refer to The Law(tm) and keep filming any police encounter with the general population from a distance of 8ft. I enjoy yelling about abuse of power as much as the next guy, but from the looks of it, this
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by lb1lf 4y ago
That it doesn't - teach you to communicate, that is - but I found DuoLingo great at providing the base vocabulary and phrases to enable me to make my first small attempts at communicating. (I suddenly found myself stuck in Brazil for w
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by lb1lf 4y ago
My signals processing professor apparently knew one joke, and one joke only. "A LOT (Polish airline) airplane is about to land in New York City; as they align for final approach, the first officer notifies the passengers that those sea
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by lb1lf 4y ago
-That's a fair point, I guess it would look bad in their annual reports even if the cost of collecting that money would be larger than the actual owed amount itself.
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Which, of course, is why any sane system developer would ask the client 'How small is too small?', then have the computer ignore, say, any claims below $5 or whatever. Or, better - accumulate claims until the sum is of a magnitude
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Lots of old Analog Devices app notes are masterpieces of concise technical writing. Also, their 'Analog Dialog' series [0] are quite something. Edit: HP, too, made some excellent tech notes back in the day. [0] https://
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by lb1lf 4y ago
I'm no hull designer, but I have worked on many ships with X-bow in the past decade and change, and anecdotally will claim that they feel much more comfortable in rough seas - say, North Atlantic, winter conditions - than conventional
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by lb1lf 4y ago
As far as the average end user is concerned, this amounts to the same thing as full-blown DRM; rather than being allowed to do the sensible and (for you as a consumer) cost-effective thing, this counter forces you to replenish detergent sup
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Mostly good. The last few years have been rather tumultuous for all the usual reasons - the pandemic, seeing the team I managed (including me!) get laid off out of the blue just as the country entered its first covid shut-down. For an encor
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by lb1lf 4y ago
-That depends on how you use them; this is a people problem, not a tech problem, as you (IMHO) correctly observe. If you use the voting machines to keep a running tally of votes cast so results are available immediately after polls close, y
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by lb1lf 4y ago
-Back in the day when file sharing was new, I won two rounds of beer from my friends in university - the first after I tried what I dubbed hardcore backups (Tarred, gzipped and pgp'd an archive, slapped an avi header on it, renamed it
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by lb1lf 4y ago
As it goes in 'Casablanca' - Capt. Renault - "I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" (Croupier hands him a neat pile of money.) "Your winnings, Sir" Renault - "Oh, thank you very
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by lb1lf 4y ago
This was sad news indeed. I have just listened to his works again for the first time in years, after a random encounter with a guy wearing a faded Chariots of Fire T-shirt - next thing I knew, I spent several hours in my hotel room, listeni
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by lb1lf 4y ago
-Presumably you are familiar with the Finnish Mustikka liqueur already? Lovely with a little lime and ice, but I agree - making your own is something else!
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by lb1lf 4y ago
But surely, after several hours whatever liquid remains on the brewer hardly tastes like coffee anymore?
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by lb1lf 4y ago
-Oh, anything can be bad if overdone. What balance we've struck is that coaches keep track of their results - say, to the nearest 4 inches in the long jump pit, we've labeled the edge in 4" increments and see how they fare wi
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Francis Rossi, of Status Quo fame/notoriety, depending on who you ask, quipped when presented with some award or other - "Wow! Twenty-five years. Three chords. Thank you!" I love it when people do not take themselves too seri
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by lb1lf 4y ago
There are exceptions, though. I wound up being a track and field coach for kids aged 6-9 in the local athletic union. Much to my surprise and delight, the culture from the national association and down is that kids this young will NOT compe
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by lb1lf 4y ago
This. I love my current one to bits (X1c 7th gen) - almost weightless, sturdy, excellent battery life, excellent connectivity, wonderful keyboard. Oh, and the 1080 screen, which isn't great, but did help improve battery life significan
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by lb1lf 4y ago
I believe Hitler's relatives made an oath to let the family die out, not having any children - but presumably there are remains to be dug up if you really want to put the case to death (pun intended). Additionally, surely there must be
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by lb1lf 5y ago
If memory serves - I have never put it to the test - my HZJ78 Land Cruiser owner's manual says wading depth is 700mm (doors closed), 875mm (doors open) - presumably the added depth with doors open is down to the reduced buoyancy. Part

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