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by nwatson 2y ago
They haven't yet forced conscription. There's plenty of manpower available to Russia through this very unpopular measure. If pressed they'll do it, the question will be whether Putin survives the young people of Moscow and St
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by nwatson 2y ago
I watched a few, but if the wrong video pops up and hasn't been filtered / redacted by YouTube then I might accidentally have legally compromising material on my phone through no fault of my own, other than curiosity. At least wit
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by nwatson 2y ago
To watch silent film in a live setting with a live audience in the SF Bay Area you can go to Niles Canyon Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, CA. They apparently still have live film screenings on the weekends. I used to go once in a whi
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by nwatson 2y ago
The constraint often would be regulatory. Even if technically isolation is possible, management won't risk SOC2 or GDPR non-compliance.
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by nwatson 2y ago
A huge number of towns in the Bay Area and all over the Central Valley have Portuguese community centers, Sociedade do Espírito Santo (Holy Spirit Society) or something like that. Santa Clara, Hayward, San Leandro, Pescadero, Sausalito, New
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by nwatson 2y ago
`decreaseBy` is a multiplication and subtraction combined, map naturally to commerce domain, and is more complex than plain addition / subtraction.
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by nwatson 2y ago
Didn't the city come close to running out of water? ... per ChatGPT: "The most notable crisis occurred between 2014 and 2016 when the Cantareira water system, one of the main sources of water for the metropolitan area, reached cri
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Disney employees sue company over canceled relocation to Lake Nona(orlandosentinel.com)
6 points by nwatson 2y ago|1 comments
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by nwatson 2y ago
There are documentaries showing the huge industry in Africa of cutting worn clothes at the seams, choosing the best parts of the resulting panels, trimming them down, and reformulating a new good-looking garment of a smaller size. Other tha
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by nwatson 2y ago
A bottom bracket mounted Pinion C.12 transmission runs 12 gears (grip shift) and over 600% ratio from gear 1 to gear 12. I bought a reasonably priced Priority 600x mountain bike (now replaced by two newer models) with this system. No derail
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by nwatson 2y ago
See also Eclipse BIRT ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIRT_Project . It seems to have languished for a while but it's active once again based on updates to this Stack Overflow posting: https://stacko
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by nwatson 2y ago
I bought a bicycle with a Pinion gear box and a Gates carbon belt drive. No lube, no derailleur, no chain falling off, no maintenance, hose off after a muddy ride. The belt will last 3x longer than a chain presumably. EDIT: autocorrect
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by nwatson 2y ago
The Americans was awesome, especially that last "showdown" climax. Best TV ever, along with parts of Breaking Bad. I watched a couple episodes of The Diplomat and couldn't get into it. I'll give it another try.
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by nwatson 3y ago
Check out stoats hunting rabbits. Their strange antics put rabbits into a stupor, letting them eventually approach with little resistance.
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by nwatson 3y ago
Jetbrains tools (Datagrip, IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm) deal well with this if you leave a placeholder column before FROM, and write the FROM part with proper joins. You can go back to the columns and autocomplete goes just fine. You can amend o
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by nwatson 3y ago
Salesforce and its Force.com PaaS is another "serverless" offering with large uptake, Force.com (Apex programming language) was first offered in 2007.
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by nwatson 3y ago
Aldi North is called Trader Joe's in the USA.
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by nwatson 3y ago
Data is a mass/uncountable noun now (like meat) rather than a countable noun (like coin/coins). Turning it countable involves a helper noun like data point / data points. "Datum?" Almost nobody uses that in the vern
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by nwatson 3y ago
There's also Season 2 of Wolf Hall itself, filming sometime soon. Maybe they'll get the codpieces right this time, but it will be an awesome series regardless.
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by nwatson 3y ago
Hmmm, I haven't looked at Perl in ten years and my day-to-day for the past seven years has been Python with occasional Java. I was a fan, but now I don't miss Perl.
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by nwatson 3y ago
Beau of The Fifth Column (Justin King) emphasizes ... states/countries don't have friends, they have interests. He delves into specific cases all the time and is one of the clearest-eyed political commentators out there.
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by nwatson 3y ago
Your credit card expired and you didn't pay your last month of service and to update your credit card details you need access to your email account to confirm ID you but your phone is a new replacement phone and you don't have you
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by nwatson 3y ago
Hmmm, when living in California I got a speeding ticket late night in Kingman, AZ, sent in a personal check, they only took money orders, I never followed up. It's been thirty years. I visit family in Arizona frequently. I wonder wheth
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by nwatson 3y ago
My guess, "The Alliance" would be a QAnon trope, a confederation of select "White Hats" in the US military and parts of US government (and other select humans) and some alien "Arcturian" UFO contingent. They ar
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by nwatson 3y ago
The posed question addresses this in the second paragraph, after the very short first paragraph.
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by nwatson 3y ago
"Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance" by Herman Wouk. Written in the 1970s, from the perspective of a Jewish-American family. He also earlier wrote Pulitzer-Prize-winning "The Caine Mutiny" in 1951, it was a
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by nwatson 3y ago
Dr. Todd Grande channel on YouTube analyzes missing person cases, murder cases, situations of unusual behavior, and so on, from a psychological perspective, all with a soothing voice and a good level of sarcasm and dry humor. The material i
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Things to know about ASU's asteroid-exploring NASA Psyche mission(news.asu.edu)
1 points by nwatson 3y ago|0 comments
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Here's a video that may or may not use these techniques, I'd be curious for those who know to judge ... https://youtu.be/dXLCHvRsgRQ?si=wkniCf-7wNPt8DGj There's coherence frame-to-frame of the artifacts used
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by nwatson 3y ago
For a comedic take on dictionaries, see Rowan Atkinson and other great actors in the episode "Ink and Incapability", where Black Adder takes on Samuel Johnson and his first dictionary of the English language.

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