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by litoE 2y ago
Of course he'll need it. The agency to go after the smugglers.
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by litoE 2y ago
Unify was also serverless. It handled multiple concurrent writing processes and supported SQL. We were using it in the 1985-1990 timeframe.
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Ask HN: Why do some medicines come as pills and others as capsules?
9 points by litoE 2y ago|8 comments
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by litoE 2y ago
It should be obvious that, since the earth is a flat disk, the "circular horizon from the cockpit of a jumbo jet" is just the edge of the disk. :-)
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by litoE 2y ago
I remember meeting Ashton, of Ashton-Tate. He (or she) was Mr. Tate's large parrot that lived in a huge cage in the lobby of Ashton-Tate's offices in Torrance, California.
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by litoE 2y ago
Procrastination is a good thing. Don't put it off until tomorrow.
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by litoE 2y ago
The dietician at the UCLA Cardio Rehab Center recommended trying 95% Cocoa chocolate if you have chocolate cravings because it has much less sugar than regular chocolate. My experience (sample size N=1) is that if I get a craving for chocol
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by litoE 2y ago
When I was an undergraduate we had Schaum's Outline Series (do they still exist?). Every chapter came with a bunch of completely solved problems plus another bunch of unsolved problems with the answers. The optimal strategy was still t
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by litoE 2y ago
My secret sauce as an undergraduate for all my math courses was solving problems. Solve all the problems at the end of the chapters in the textbook. Find other textbooks in the library and solve all the problems at the end of their chapters
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by litoE 2y ago
Books
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by litoE 2y ago
I use a desktop plus a cheap laptop, both running Linux. When I'm away from home I use the laptop as a remote terminal to the desktop. Since all the processing is still done on the desktop, I get decent performance. Plus, should I lose
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by litoE 2y ago
So that's why a Waymo car cut me off yesterday at an intersection in West Los Angeles. The two streets intersect at a 60 degree angle. Waymo had a Stop sign. I didn't. It just rushed out of the intersection going fast, as if it ha
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by litoE 2y ago
There is one growth industry when import tariffs are imposed: smuggling. Associated with smuggling come corruption of public officials to have them look the other way and of society at large because when you knowingly buy the less expensive
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by litoE 2y ago
Another approach that is in the works is the so-called States Compact whereby each state would assign all its electors to the candidate that gets the most votes nationwide . This has the advantage that no change to the Constitution is need
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by litoE 2y ago
Back in 1969 I had a summer job at a textile mill in the south of Chile. Time was regulated by the loud steam whistles of the three large textile factories that were the only industry in town. They could be heard throughout the town. A spec
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by litoE 2y ago
The only advantage I can see for stalls is that if your stall runs out of toilet paper you can beg the person in the next stall to pass you a roll under the partition. Ventilation? Why not use fans? Ease of maintenance? If ease of maintenan
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by litoE 2y ago
I've never understood why toilet stalls aren't built with floor-to-ceiling walls in the first place. It's probable even cheaper to build than the partitions they use.
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by litoE 2y ago
I'm confused. They have just now determined that they do indeed have Columbus's DNA so they can finally answer the question of where he was from. But all along they have had the DNA of his brother and of his son. Wouldn't the
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by litoE 2y ago
I have always believed that sharpiegate was the result of Trump being told the Bahamas would be hit by the hurricane (they were), him misunderstanding it as Alabama and later being incapable of admitting his mistake.
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by litoE 2y ago
It's been operating for 47 years and it still has fuel left to make attitude corrections. I wonder how they managed that feat.
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Turns out you won't be able to uninstall Windows 11's Recall feature after all(windowscentral.com)
34 points by litoE 2y ago|8 comments
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by litoE 2y ago
My Breitling watch has a built-in circular slide rule. When in a foreign country, I set it (once) to the local currency exchange rate, and can quickly convert how much anything costs into dollars. I could do the same with the calculator on
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The Key to Bizarro's Symbols(bizarro.com)
63 points by litoE 2y ago|4 comments
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by litoE 2y ago
The Olympic Organizing Committee for the 1984 Olympics was looking for office space as they geared up for the Olympics. Rents in LA, especially for a short term (1-2 years lease) were sky high because the raw land values are so high. So th
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by litoE 2y ago
I am the proud owner of one blank punch card. I found it inside one of my old college textbooks - I must have been using it as a page mark.
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by litoE 2y ago
Worked in the computer department of a swimming suit manufacturer. One day they came looking for a male, waist size 32, to model the new line for some visiting big shots. I was the only one that fit those requirements and I got to meet all
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by litoE 2y ago
Even in Beverly Hills. Here's a street view of Beverly Hills High School's athletic field a couple of years ago. The oil derrick has been removed since then, but they are still extracting oil there. https://www.google.
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by litoE 2y ago
When paying my property taxes I have two choices: paper check by mail or credit card on line. The first choice requires a postage stamp. The second choice adds a surcharge of over $500 to my annual tax bill.
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by litoE 2y ago
The article is 10 years old. I wonder how he feels about it today, as his "due date" approaches. For a contemporary rebuttal: https://surgicalneurologyint.com/surgicalint-articles/bioeth...
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by litoE 2y ago
The cards being dealt are read in real time by the electronics on the playing surface. While this information is not broadcast until two hours after the game, is it possible that this player was actually using the laptop to read the data fe

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