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   by mark-r 5y ago

   Just another anecdote. The company I worked for had pretty severe restrictions on when you could sell your stock, it was disallowed for some fixed time period before and after a major announcement. The company seemed to engineer their ann
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   by mark-r 5y ago

   Likely to be deleted I think. If I was their lawyer I'd insist on taking it down immediately.
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   by mark-r 5y ago

   If there really are aliens out there, wouldn't you like to have some proof of it?
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   by mark-r 5y ago

   Radar operators in the Arctic learned that they could stay warm by standing in front of their antennas. The first microwave ovens were called "Radar Ranges".
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   by mark-r 5y ago

   I believe they use microwaves for inspecting the welds on pipes and such.
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   by mark-r 5y ago

   I'm glad they're at least being consistent with prior decisions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
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   by mark-r 5y ago

   Before the point where TLDs became a free-for-all, were there any that were more than 3 characters?
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   by mark-r 5y ago

   No, I don't think that plant will ever be active again. There might be a danger if a tsunami came through again and washed more radioactive debris out from where it settled.
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   by mark-r 5y ago

   The thing is, they'd F up no matter what change was made to the daylight saving rules. At least this time we have the hope that it will be the last time we have to worry about it.
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    My car finally did it right - when you go into settings, there's a single on/off toggle for daylight saving. No more fiddling to reset the time by exactly an hour, it's as automatic as it can be without knowing which day to
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    According to Wikipedia the database was started in 1986 or earlier; it was known as the Olson database. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#History
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    And then you'd need to know your exact longitude to know what time it is - doesn't sound workable to me. Although it would make life easier for GPS makers.
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    That's regional though. Where I live, work generally starts at 8.
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    If the bill is already passed it would be too late, unless it goes to committee to reconcile with the house. Or maybe they've already done it!
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    Is that literally true?
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    I've gotten used to seeing cars without tail pipes, but I think this is the first one I've seen without a grille.
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    I have that same lane nudging feature in a 2020 Toyota Camry Hybrid. Not sure if you can get that in a non-hybrid model, never asked.
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    I've noticed a lot more Teslas in the Minneapolis area too. Not quite the way you describe, I still go most days without seeing one. But now it's not unique to see multiple on a single outing.
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    Interstate highways were also very expensive to build at first, but enough people thought they were a good idea that it got done.
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    Electric cars can use regenerative braking, so they're much easier on the brake pads - the electric motors might handle 90% of the braking force. I have to laugh every time I take my hybrid in for service and they say "the brake
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    I consider "in the grave" to be a feature. It means Microsoft isn't trying to pull the rug out from under me each night with updates.
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    I was completely mystified by this post, watched the video multiple times to try to figure out what point they were making. Didn't realize I needed to turn on the sound.
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    Windows 7 is the best version of Windows Microsoft ever made, and I won't give it up until I have absolutely no choice. I'm already disappointed that I can't get Python 3.9 - I don't understand why they have to actively
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    I think a lot of people were misunderstanding my comment. I never meant to imply that gamma is the only important consideration in color perception, I was only reacting to the statement that it was optional. Even color spaces that don&#x2
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    I always figured that the ability to set an arbitrary phone number was a feature for the benefit of large corporate PBX systems. Every person at the company gets their own phone number, but the number of physical connections to the phone c
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    If someone can't prove who they are, I don't care if I offend them or not.
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    One reason that vinyl is doing better than CDs is because of dynamic range (loudness) wars. Vinyl is being marketed to more discerning customers, so it's being mastered with MORE dynamic range. By rights the CD should sound better, b
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    I had the same experience when all the alternative rock radio stations shut down in our area, after their heyday had passed. All the music I had been listening to for years was suddenly no longer on the air, and unless I remembered somethi
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    Any image being displayed, or encoded in a standard such as sRGB, is using gamma. It is not optional.
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    by mark-r 5y ago

    I believe StackOverflow has been running with .NET since they started in 2008, and they were pretty surprised by the scalability and performance. They do use Windows servers though. They've been reasonably open about sharing their ar