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901.
by mark-r 6y ago
That wasn't funny.
902.
by mark-r 6y ago
Part of the way? I'd say that Intel's success has been entirely due to their ability to stay a step ahead of everybody in fab processes. Losing that ability is going to kill their profitability in the long run. Things are going
903.
by mark-r 6y ago
I had an accident last year, much less scary but required a trip to a level 1 trauma ward and brain surgery with over a month in the hospital. I remember well the daily list of questions - what day is it? Where are you? Who's the pre
904.
by mark-r 6y ago
I've used Google Play Music as the player for the mp3 files I've copied to my Android phone, ever since I got the phone. Never touched the online capabilities. It was perfect, did everything I wanted just the way I liked it. Th
905.
by mark-r 6y ago
You've obviously never heard of Pet Rocks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock
906.
by mark-r 6y ago
Having never contributed to an open source project, particularly one as popular and complex as Python, I'm not sure of the amount of justification necessary. Would I need to write a PEP?
907.
by mark-r 6y ago
I have a method for turning integers into strings that is much faster than Python's built in method when used with very large integers. I wonder if there's a place for it in this project?
908.
by mark-r 6y ago
If the RGB colors are equal it doesn't matter if you use a linear or non-linear color space, the color will always be gray. The brightness might be different but I'm not even sure that's true.
909.
by mark-r 6y ago
Yeah, I probably botched the exact wording - "at the bottom" would have been stronger. It's been a very long time since I've heard that one. I once worked with a guy who had gotten his MD in a different country. Didn&#
910.
by mark-r 6y ago
Also remember: What do you call a person who graduated in the bottom half of their medical class? Doctor.
911.
by mark-r 6y ago
I think that's the point of this report, the previous recommendations were way too low.
912.
by mark-r 6y ago
I heard "Ice Ice Baby" about 1000 times when I used to roller skate, and loved it. I found a used CD of "To The Extreme" later and snapped it up. What a disappointment - not only didn't the rest of the songs live
913.
by mark-r 6y ago
Has been posted here many times. For some reason it never gets any discussion, maybe because enough people are familiar with it now.
914.
by mark-r 6y ago
I can't imagine a worse time to launch a new aircraft. The airlines are all bleeding hard due to Covid.
915.
by mark-r 6y ago
My Camry won't let you turn off the radio or adjust its volume for about 30 seconds after you start the car. Evidently the radio UI is still booting.
916.
by mark-r 6y ago
The best part is the strong finish.
917.
by mark-r 6y ago
Acetaminophen is added to opiates to make sure there are bad side effects if you take too much.
918.
by mark-r 6y ago
I'm on a blood pressure drug. My pharmacy ran out of the dose I needed and substituted a 2x size, with instructions to cut the pill in half. I ended up forgetting about the substitution and took the 2x dose daily for a couple of mont
919.
by mark-r 6y ago
So your chances of getting such a job go from 0.001% to 0.01%? I'll take my chances in the Midwest.
920.
by mark-r 6y ago
Yes, white flight was real. One kid I went to school with moved immediately after he had a knife pulled on him, but I don't know any of the details so can't say if it was race related. Our own family moved about a year later. I
921.
by mark-r 6y ago
Zip codes are a problem for the same reason.
922.
by mark-r 6y ago
P.S. It doesn't matter if you never personally load a CSV into Excel. You need to ensure nobody upstream or downstream from you does either.
923.
by mark-r 6y ago
I think our company has a company-wide license for Office. When IT sets up a machine you get it automatically. Microsoft works hard to get those kind of setups to be common-place.
924.
by mark-r 6y ago
Doesn't Excel by default capture the .csv extension so that it gets called automatically when you try to open the file? Since Excel is one of the few standard pieces of software that knows how to open CSV, it gets used a lot of times w
925.
by mark-r 6y ago
Have you seen the kind of mess Excel can make with a CSV file? The names of several genes were recently changed so that Excel would stop mangling them.
926.
by mark-r 6y ago
Inertia, most likely. They were using XLS 10 years ago and never saw a reason to change.
927.
by mark-r 6y ago
Friends don't let friends use Excel. Unfortunately Excel is the great swiss army knife of software and it's hard to avoid.
928.
by mark-r 6y ago
Moore's law is dead. Small won't change nearly as fast as it used to.
929.
by mark-r 6y ago
Sure looks like one, doesn't it?
930.
by mark-r 6y ago
Bluetooth isn't really compatible with accurate sound reproduction. The bandwidth is limited so the audio spec mandates lossy compression. An update to the original allows different options for the compression, so if you're star

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