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by mrkstu 7y ago
The Gauls would fight naked in the snow against their enemies [0]. "This practice was common to the Gauls Aul Cellius Lib ix cap 13 quotes the account of the Gaul who fought with Manlius whom he describes as nudus practer soutum et gl
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Which may be an insight on how SpaceX/Tesla avoid some of those traditional business issues- the business is this case is a means to an engineering end, not a means to perpetuate the power/wealth/comfort of management.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Not sure why you would say the US doesn't have proper drivers education. I took a mandatory semester class in high school (in the 80s) with a proper curriculum, a driving simulator, a dedicated paved training area, cars with instructor
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Seems to be a state by state idea of whether they care about national immigration status. Here's a link to a NYT article about differing treatment in various states, with Cali generally lenient: https://www.nytimes.com&#x2F
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by mrkstu 7y ago
I am sometimes glad that Californians are around as a polity. They try the things the rest of us think are loony, but are motivated by strong ethical underpinnings. Sometimes they fail badly and serve as a warning to the rest of us that &#x
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Oh, and throw IPsec and a bunch of other protocols into the mix- networking is often a fragile beast: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2224654/mtu-size-issues...
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Interesting- I find it very useful. It even searches my email that is locally cached. Lots of apps create hooks into it. Major part of the ecosystem that makes MacOS what it is. Not sure why it's borked for you...
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Spotlight is the OG OS integrated full text search, originating 2004/5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(software)
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by mrkstu 7y ago
The Bloomberg candidacy will be an interesting test of this- he is emphatically not a charismatic personality, I’m curious to see how far his unlimited budget will carry him.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Look at Barry Bonds before and after- definite jaw/skull effects from the steroids and HGH.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Difference between a rideshare and a bespoke delivery orbit I presume. If it ain't going where you want to go, you're going to have to wait/hope that another ride comes along.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
And why do they need meeting rooms for everything? Because they don't have offices.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Which of course can never work in an office environment. Leave your desk for every Zoom/WebEx conference call? Whisper with the colleague who needs to talk to you for a minute about something? You're not going to decamp to a meeti
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by mrkstu 7y ago
I have this occasionally from my MacBook Pro to external 4k. My office seems to be conducive to generating static and I'll occasionally shock my MacBook when first sitting down, temporarily fritz-ing the connection to the monitor.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
I'd say its mostly just majority in-group dynamics that you'd find anywhere that a majority shared any characteristic. That combined with well intentioned missionary zeal will of course cause issues. That said, the Salt Lake Valle
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Any CSS wizards that could come up with user injected CSS that would move or highlight ads appropriately? Is GreaseMonkey the best for that, or is there a nice lightweight alternative more fit to purpose?
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Its pretty quickly obvious that I'm the technical lead to new people and they come to me for those things and go to him for 'soft' info. Works very well. The most recent additions are an interesting mix- I recommended a previ
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Its definitely truer than I'd have believed until recently. I have a co-worker whose technical chops are, let's say, below average. He tends to get a bit mulish about things and when troubleshooting often focuses on the wrong area
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by mrkstu 7y ago
And once you learn to drive big game into pits, most of the other options seem less efficient.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
From wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_in_English#Capi... ): > Generally acronyms and initialisms are capitalized, e.g., "NASA" or "SOS." Sometimes a minor word such as a pre
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by mrkstu 7y ago
UK's grammar rules differ from the United States- they don't capitalize acronyms. i.e. NASA becomes Nasa.
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Then the venue is opening itself to legal liability when any of the past drummers decide to sue.
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John's reviews were at arstechnica: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/04/after-fifteen-years-...
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by mrkstu 7y ago
For now- but if Turkey gets snippy back w/Google and tries to force the issue, that entity will simply cease to exist.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Well, actually, they'll limit the CA freelancers to under 35 articles a year and move the work to non-CA freelancers. Other companies are letting their CA workers go completely. The point is that this isn't particularly hurting Vo
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Turkey can if Google wants to do business in Turkey- if it isn't a legal business entity in Turkey, then no, not really.
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Fixed wireless.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
> "The doctors group told the San Francisco delegation that while they loved the city, postconvention surveys showed their members were afraid to walk amid the open drug use, threatening behavior and mental illness that are common
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by mrkstu 7y ago
I think stave+tab would be ideal. What little guitar I've picked up has actually been stave notation, but I've got a lot of missing chords in my knowledge base- having the tab right there by the notes/chords would help me mas
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Borg King Bezos

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