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by nwatson 3y ago
My daughter (nine years old at the time) was wearing shorts and went to jump from our backyard swing. She let go of the chain at a good time, but her slightly sweating leg skin stuck to the flexible plastic/rubber swing. She ended up
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by nwatson 3y ago
The UK is friendly to money-laundering, presenting the more respectable faces of an international network of questionable banks and financial institutions. API banking will allow a faster cycle of wash, rinse, repeat, an innovation in shady
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by nwatson 3y ago
For another, older, weatherproofing material that was hazardous, consider tent canvas covered in paraffin thinned with gasoline: https://todayincthistory.com/2023/07/06/july-6-the-saddest-d... The Ringling B
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by nwatson 3y ago
Yep, all your outbound emails (even non-marketing ones) will hit a distributed black hole once you get blacklisted for spamming. Never use your main domain for marketing emails.
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by nwatson 3y ago
The article suggests cold emailing. Never use your main domain for sending outbound marketing stuff. It doesn't take many to categorize the emails as spam before the domain suddenly becomes blacklisted and unusable for not just marketi
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by nwatson 3y ago
Experience. For some it's the third time.
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by nwatson 3y ago
A lot of murals in some towns in North Carolina too ... here's a sampling from Winston-Salem ... https://www.verbalgoldblog.com/best-wall-murals-instagrammab...
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I thought "Kentucky" and was 200 away on first guess.
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by nwatson 3y ago
The place most built in the spirit of Le Corbusier is Brasília, Brasil. Lived my latter teens there. It was ok, I prefer Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. Edit: spell
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by nwatson 3y ago
Wolf Hall is about the best TV I've seen ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Hall_(TV_series) "I, Claudius" and "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul" are in the same league.
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by nwatson 3y ago
"1" is for the airline. What does purchasing the plane, or a fleet of such planes, mean to the company? What will be the benefits, duties, obligations wrt to the airplanes, at a high level? Edit: word choice
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by nwatson 3y ago
Mark Rylance is excellent in the slow-moving Wolf Hall, about a no-name Thomas Cromwell's rise to influence in Henry VIII's court. I hope they go through with season 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Hall_
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by nwatson 3y ago
https://www.britannica.com/technology/cliff-dwelling
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by nwatson 3y ago
A good IDE like PyCharm makes it pretty simple, will offer to write all the import statements for you when you reference something that's new to the file you're working on. I'm taking a pretty decent course on Udemy right now
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by nwatson 3y ago
Tempe, AZ is an awesome place. I wish I lived there again, I'd be biking close-by South Mountain all the time.
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by nwatson 3y ago
Elon should not walk into any Saudi embassies or consulates. Anywhere. Any time.
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by nwatson 3y ago
We live in Skinner boxes.
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by nwatson 3y ago
Microsoft also had the PlaysForSure platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PlaysForSure . This platform included standards and certification for hosting music for sale and for physical services that would dow
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by nwatson 3y ago
I'm sceptical an F500 company would be willing to replace existing systems that are working ok and that integrate with their ERP system and the other cobbled-together offerings from their enterprise software/services vendor (eg Br
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by nwatson 4y ago
Parquet fits well into a system like Apache Arrow for good query performance, when considering partitioning (via directories), push-down predicates, and read-only-the-columns-you-need: https://arrow.apache.org/docs/pyt
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by nwatson 4y ago
Incidentally ... the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were dramatic single events that unleashed great destruction, but the results for those cities were not worse than those in other cities in Japan facing bomb firestorms. The nuclear bombs di
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by nwatson 4y ago
Incidentally, Yakuza have HQs, business cards, offices, office buildings, lots of presence in legitimate businesses (eg construction). http://www.japansubculture.com/resources/yakuza-organisation...
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by nwatson 4y ago
Specifics on using an API, configuring a deployment, or describing best practices for a tool are relatively easy, and ChatGPT had been amazing answering questions in these areas. Designing large coherent systems for a business use case is h
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by nwatson 4y ago
I've been a paying ChatGPT subscriber for about three or four weeks now. One day I had a few thorny work issues, asked the free version, and it was so good I got a subscription. Since then I've asked some about general knowledge,
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by nwatson 4y ago
They laid off the wrong person.
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by nwatson 4y ago
My old MSDN keys for Windows from ten years ago will still unlock Windows 10/11 installs when I need a Windows VM.
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by nwatson 4y ago
"The Year Santa Wore Orange"
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by nwatson 4y ago
Isn't there goodwill value left over because of relationships and institutional knowledge, even after SVB is stripped of assets and after debt is accounted for? Might some larger bank retain that operation and return some value to taxp
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by nwatson 4y ago
The sound-texture of my adulthood is desktop and mobile notifications from Slack. [0] and [1] (first sound). There is some perverse ad that incorporates a subtle version of the first sound from [1] into its jingle, and I stiffen up every t
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by nwatson 4y ago
In North Carolina I've found Guaraná Antarctica much cheaper at grocery stores like Compare Foods (carries Latin American products, even cashew-fruit concentrate (Marañon in Spanish, not Cajú), another great Brazilian beverage).

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