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by mark-r 6y ago
Mount Hamilton is one of my favorite places on earth, even though I've only been there twice. You feel like you're seeing the best that nature and man can produce, both at the same time. I'm glad they were able to save the
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by mark-r 6y ago
Technology progresses. What's hard today may be easy tomorrow.
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by mark-r 6y ago
There's only a single longitude line within a time zone that meets the criteria of sunrise and sunset occurring at the same time. It's silly to use that as the deciding logic for whether to keep DST or non DST when eliminating th
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by mark-r 6y ago
It's now -41F. It's not really rocket science, unless you're trying to trick me with a double negative.
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by mark-r 6y ago
I'm embarrassed to admit how long it took me to realize what the hamburger button did. Designers just started assuming everybody knew.
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by mark-r 6y ago
Obviously it's -39, and since -39C and -39F are different you'd now be required to specify. If you knew which scale the 1 degree was from it wouldn't be difficult.
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by mark-r 6y ago
My TV has a PC on one HDMI input, and a Chromecast on another.
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by mark-r 6y ago
The example of the weight of a Robin may have been backwards. It could be that the reference was the weight in grams which was then converted to ounces, with rounding.
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by mark-r 6y ago
We have litter boxes that operate 24/7. The problem is when the cats run out of food at 5:30.
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by mark-r 6y ago
Some cats recognize that the benefit is mutual. I have 4 cats, and 1 of the 4 will lay with me in a way that we provide a warm surface for each other.
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by mark-r 6y ago
Interesting bit of trivia: at -40 it's not necessary to specify C or F, that's the point where they're both the same. When I was a kid in the boy scouts, they had an award they gave out when the total low (with wind chill) on
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by mark-r 6y ago
It's simple, really - they're just trying to maximize the pageviews. If you have to click on 5 different Google search results to get the answer you needed, they've won. Getting the answer efficiently on the first click wou
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by mark-r 6y ago
In any sort of gamification there is a reward for reaching an arbitrary threshold. It's all part of the game.
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by mark-r 6y ago
I thought there wasn't a reputation requirement for writing an answer? A lot of people seem to get their start by suggesting edits that later get accepted.
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by mark-r 6y ago
I think it got me an interview once, but nothing ever came of it. In retrospect one of the questions I was grilled on in the interview was based on a SO answer I had given; it was so long ago that I didn't remember the specific point
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by mark-r 6y ago
I think you misunderstand the workings of true karma.
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by mark-r 6y ago
Nope. Because of the rep cap, you can max out your reputation gain every day without ever answering another question. All you need is a significant enough collection of old useful answers that get upvotes every day. Jon Skeet will keep h
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by mark-r 6y ago
A vote on a question used to only get half as many points as a vote on an answer, 5 vs. 10. They changed that recently, don't remember why - now it's 10 for each.
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by mark-r 6y ago
$10 billion in 1967 dollars? No wonder it never got built!
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by mark-r 6y ago
My midwestern city is out of bikes too, but it isn't because of a surge in demand. It's because all the bikes were made in China, and supply has slowed to a trickle.
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by mark-r 6y ago
Good luck with your Mark 1 Brain.
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by mark-r 6y ago
Don't get me wrong, the company pushes laptops for reasons other than eliminating UPSs. Even a nearly dead laptop battery should tide you over for the minute it takes for the building generator to get online. I don't think manag
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by mark-r 6y ago
The other part of the equation is that they're recommending that everybody switch to laptops, which are capable of running for a long time without power. My job involves a lot of long compiles, so I want to stick with a desktop PC to
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by mark-r 6y ago
I'm a bit older than you, and the typing class I took in high school (or was it junior high?) was the best thing I ever did. That was in the '70's sometime and we still had mechanical typewriters. It was not yet obvious tha
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by mark-r 6y ago
With random numbers there's still a non-zero chance of everything happening at the same time. Prime numbers make things more predictable and consistent.
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by mark-r 6y ago
Yes, carbon dioxide is not biologically inert like Halon is. It's the signal your body uses to say it's out of oxygen. You will definitely react negatively to getting a lung full of it.
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by mark-r 6y ago
My basement is 80% finished, but the freezer lives in the unfinished part. But "unfinished" is relative, I still have concrete floors and walls with insulation on the walls, just no sheetrock and bare rafters on the ceiling.
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by mark-r 6y ago
Oh Halon was very popular for a long time. I don't know how long they could be grandfathered, but recharge supplies must be impossible to get by now.
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by mark-r 6y ago
My current job refuses to replace old UPSs that have died, because they have a generator to keep the building powered in case of loss of power. But that doesn't keep your PC running for the moments it takes the generator to spin up.
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by mark-r 6y ago
Halon is a CFC and isn't legal anymore due to international agreements.

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