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by mark-r 3y ago
The "faster horses" comment is universally attributed to Henry Ford, but it appears he didn't actually say it. Here's an article that shows the results of researching the source, and has some interesting observations ab
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by mark-r 3y ago
Never mind, it was problems on my end. My system completely froze just minutes later.
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by mark-r 3y ago
Hug of death? I can't get to the site - no errors, it just never even starts loading.
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by mark-r 3y ago
Until my Windows became unusable, I was using Chrome about 90% of the time and Firefox about 10%. Since then I've been trying to get along with Ubuntu Linux only, and it came with Firefox. Haven't even installed Chrome yet, and
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by mark-r 3y ago
Only works in print unfortunately.
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by mark-r 3y ago
I had a CD player in my SUV that had the same problem. The only saving grace is that it could play mp3s from the CD, so I had mixes that had 100 songs on them.
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by mark-r 3y ago
Our cats have discovered that dead mice aren't any fun to play with, so they'll go to great lengths not to kill them. They'll pounce and stun them for a bit, then the mouse recovers and tries to scurry off - and the cycle re
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by mark-r 3y ago
Yes, I fell for a couple of "Memorex" products before I realized someone was just using the brand for a shot of credibility. The products themselves were absolute trash.
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by mark-r 3y ago
I have a Toshiba hard drive in my pc and it's been very reliable. The only problem I have with it is that it goes to sleep after some inactivity, and takes forever to wake back up - and Windows locks up while it waits.
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by mark-r 3y ago
That's exactly how Sears' Kenmore brand used to operate. I don't think they made anything themselves. I bought a Kenmore garbage disposal because it was an obvious rebadge of a major brand but was $10 cheaper.
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by mark-r 3y ago
Take a quick look at your phone.
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by mark-r 3y ago
I think the point was that oddness is a necessary condition for survival; that doesn't make it sufficient.
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by mark-r 3y ago
This is a real shame. There's value in simple apps that come bundled with the OS and don't change for years. Wordpad is the simplest way I know to get a sample of a font. My workplace doesn't use Microsoft apps so there&#x
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by mark-r 3y ago
This is cool! I've probably driven under that bridge thousands of times, and honestly I've paid more attention to the Grainger than to the bridge. Congratulations on digging into the story so doggedly.
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by mark-r 3y ago
That's if any of them are still alive! This was so long ago that a good proportion may no longer be with us.
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by mark-r 3y ago
This answers a question I had when they first announced the problem: how did they know it was 2 degrees off? Answer: because it was their mistake that threw it off, so they knew precisely where it was pointing.
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by mark-r 3y ago
I'm amazed there was as much detail as there was. How do they know how far off the antenna is?
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by mark-r 3y ago
"Voyager 2's trajectory is expected to remain unchanged" - I should hope so! There can't be any fuel left on board that would budge it, even if they wanted to.
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by mark-r 3y ago
That would be a beautiful story, except that hummingbirds don't eat spiders - they eat flower nectar.
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by mark-r 3y ago
But that's exactly what rain is! Water vapor that has condensed and hasn't been in contact with any minerals or contaminants.
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by mark-r 3y ago
Transformers though are the key to efficient power distribution. The power losses on running low voltage everywhere would be a killer.
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by mark-r 3y ago
Thanks for that insight. The part about not being able to do testing doesn't surprise me, it's to be expected.
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by mark-r 3y ago
Sure, I wouldn't expect to get any help from the Python folks if I had some trouble. I was hoping for more of a don't care philosophy. But the installer goes out of its way to disallow installing it. No, I haven't tried to
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by mark-r 3y ago
The documentation is very clear on how to use it to solve your timezone problem. The trouble comes when people expect it to "just work" without understanding how it works.
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by mark-r 3y ago
I have no choice, because 3.9 isn't supported on Windows 7. I've always wondered what feature of Windows was so important that they had to drop compatibility with older versions, it's intentionally a very stable interface.
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by mark-r 3y ago
It's a bit unfair to complain that pytz doesn't use the "standard" interface, when that standard interface didn't exist when it was created. The necessary calls for syncing the time zone with the date on datetime c
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by mark-r 4y ago
I don't know why anybody's surprised by white LEDs not aging gracefully. They're generally made by using a combination of a blue LED and a yellow phosphor. The thing about phosphors is they don't age well - they get di
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by mark-r 4y ago
Are there sockets for 24V or 48V bulbs that could be standardized on?
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by mark-r 4y ago
The super bright light I bought from Home Depot for my garage has 4 arms full of LEDs. But it screws into a standard socket, so when I need to replace it (long before its time I'm sure) I'll just unscrew it and screw in a new one
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by mark-r 4y ago
Minneapolis is also at 45 degrees; in fact there's a plaque in a public pathway that marks the exact spot. We just recently started getting sunlight at 5 PM again, but that will change soon once DST takes effect. Europe is going to be

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