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by mcguire 4y ago
This the same UK that had a scandal a while back about a high-rise fire caused by idiotic external cladding materials? :-)
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by mcguire 4y ago
The last house we lived in---a moderately expensive and well constructed house, compared to many of the others we looked at---didn't have electrical boxes behind wall- and ceiling-mounted light fixtures. The romex was just directly con
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by mcguire 4y ago
Everyone started out as an incompetent developer.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Teams is better than whatever we had before. Couldn't cut-n-paste code into a chat because it turned all the punctuation into emojis.
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by mcguire 4y ago
And that the cited document actually exists and says what it's claimed to say.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Monofur has been my goto text font for a long time.
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by mcguire 4y ago
The Telegraph article is a bit of a mess. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/new-peak-... " Topping up the e-Corsa’s charge by 80pc on a slow charger at peak times results in a cost of 16.18p
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by mcguire 4y ago
https://www.mikeglaw.com/is-sexual-harassment-a-crime/
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by mcguire 4y ago
Clearly, you would like an investigation into the probe?
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by mcguire 4y ago
When does the "second chance" clock start, the first time you do something heinous or when you get caught? How many "mistakes" (Really? "Mistake"?) does that first chance cover?
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by mcguire 4y ago
I believe things like @PossumEveryHour and some of the automated traffic/weather systems have announced they'll be shutting down.
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by mcguire 4y ago
" Lenore Skenazy is president of Let Grow, a nonprofit promoting childhood independence and resilience, and founder of the Free-Range Kids movement. "
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by mcguire 4y ago
" Analog is an actual circuit that completes, not this width washy best effort internet crap AND the kicker is I can talk over people and they shut up fast. " And then data communications ate voice communications.
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by mcguire 4y ago
...as long as you're willing to set up circuits between endpoints. Which tends to make the network expensive. There's a reason packet switching won.
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by mcguire 4y ago
In my more cynical moods, I might be willing to bet there will be massive dead zones outside of cities.
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by mcguire 4y ago
ATM was a horrible transport technology for IP. Start with 48 byte packets, then add virtual circuits because those packets don't leave enough room for data. Then make the virtual circuits semi-permanent because setting them up adds
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by mcguire 4y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/232580/burglary-rate-in-...
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by mcguire 4y ago
This is false. Texas and California are roughly tied in burglaries per capita, 370.7 and 369.7 per 100,000. New Mexico has the most, at 648.8/100,000. ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/232580/burglary-rate-
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by mcguire 4y ago
Paul Graham (who is about 4 years older than I am (eek)) and I apparently remember the 1980s and 90s very differently. At the time, Japan was going to eat our lunch while it simultaneously kicked our butts. Its government-academic-industria
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by mcguire 4y ago
You're giving me SMIT flashbacks here. :-)
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by mcguire 4y ago
"* From this perspective, I suppose Unix got composability right but its approachability to the average person is nearly zero.*" I strongly agree with the first part of the sentence, but I disagree with the second. Considering the
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by mcguire 4y ago
" It was an incredibly open-ended piece of software, allowing those without much expertise in programming (or even any at all) to build a wide variety of computational tools. To borrow a formulation from Seymour Papert (who co-created
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by mcguire 4y ago
Play the odds. I ride a motorcycle. (Well, I kinda used to. It's been a while.) I've been down a couple of times, but I wore the gear and didn't drink and ride, didn't speed, and didn't go out of my way to do stupid
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by mcguire 4y ago
Most things that are incredibly dangerous won't kill you individually. Something incredibly dangerous might kill 10%---one in ten. Years ago, I heard of someone feeding their pets cooked, bone-in chicken. Eating cooked chicken bones is
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by mcguire 4y ago
The major problem with resistive stoves is that they take a relatively long time to warm up and cool down.
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by mcguire 4y ago
The North American colonies belonged to the British Empire from early 17th C. (1607-ish) to the late 18th C. (1783); nearly 200 years. India was ruled by the British East India Company from 1760-ish to 1858 and by the British Crown directly
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by mcguire 4y ago
Speaking as someone who grew up in a neighborhood with brick streets,... They're insanely slippery when wet. A freeze-thaw cycle tends to make them move, eventually leading to weird dips and ridges. They're expensive to install an
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by mcguire 4y ago
Can I introduce you to the British Empire, pre-steamships: https://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/sailingtimes.htm Or in 1914: https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter1/the-setting...
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by mcguire 4y ago
Those same cities will start banning these when people wearing them start running into pedestrians.
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by mcguire 4y ago
At the time this was written (IIRC), public-key encryption was still under the DSA/RSA patents and therefore not commonly available. And (possibly) the machines didn't have the horsepower to do a lot of cryptography.

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