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by pacaro 6y ago
I'm sorry to be difficult, but my late step-father would respond to questions like this with "how long is a piece of string?" There is no useful direct answer to a question like this. Having said that, what are your normal co
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by pacaro 6y ago
If you like castle in the sky and live in or visit Seattle, then you may want to check out https://castleintheskyrobot.tumblr.com/post/183937582881/spr... which a friend of mine made and has in his front yard. Peo
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by pacaro 6y ago
Given that they end up with a breath test anyway, either there on at the station, and the field sobriety isn't typically admissible, I suspect that they do it for other reasons. It's either theatre to intimidate the suspect, or an
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by pacaro 6y ago
Humourously your 'ability' to judge the passage of time is part of a field sobriety test in many parts of the US
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by pacaro 6y ago
Yes. IMO the thought experiment is really more about us than anything else.
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by pacaro 6y ago
For category three I feel that goal-seeking (or the appearance of such) is sufficient for the anthropomorphism to kick in. The braitenberg vehicles thought experiment is a good example of this. Quoting from wikipedia "For the simplest
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by pacaro 6y ago
Isn't this the difference between common law and civil law? That under common law the existing body of written laws doesn't need to cover every eventuality, because equitable principles and "natural" law can be applied w
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by pacaro 6y ago
Interesting enough this is essentially what machine-made lace did for hand-made lace. Superficially a luxury product became mass-market available, which massively reduced the cachet of lace. But machine made lace is also drastically inferio
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by pacaro 6y ago
This is a reasonable question, and my understanding is that Melinda was the prime mover behind starting the foundation and pushing Bill to look outward. But that notwithstanding Bill has almost always been the public face, and one has to su
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by pacaro 6y ago
I wonder about this too.it feels like the availability of cheap meat has a significant social.impact that I don't see discussed anywhere. If factory farmed meat was unavailable a significant section of society would only rarely be able
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by pacaro 6y ago
If you're interested in this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph
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by pacaro 6y ago
Yeah, I once implemented a very simple AR tag mechanism -- using Binary Golay codes [1] which are super simple to understand. It turns out that you need a mask, otherwise you can too easily get a tag that is entirely (or close to) white or
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by pacaro 6y ago
The Great Fire of London (CE 1666) did this for London too
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by pacaro 6y ago
Back in the late 90s I had a PC motherboard that had a capacitor for exactly this. I could (if i was quick) change which outlet the pc was plugged into without loss of uptime
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by pacaro 6y ago
I would watch this movie
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by pacaro 6y ago
Banking in general and international banking, predate the US London, Glasgow, Budapest and Paris all have metro systems that predate the New York Subway There are multiple bridges that are still in use that predate European colonization of
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by pacaro 6y ago
The whole "an hotel" nonsense?
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by pacaro 6y ago
It feels ugly to me, but there doesn't seem to be a concise alternative. It's usually used to refer to a person's record of wins, as in the coach who has lead a team to more wins than any other coach, at which point they are
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by pacaro 6y ago
I've noticed that American and British pronunciation of French loan words tend to be inverted, wherever one is using approximate french pronounciation, the other has anglicized In the kitchen, the American standard favors the French:
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by pacaro 6y ago
The pirate eye patch is a legitimate solution for this. I used to drive a Fiat X1/9, which is a very low car by modern standards, putting me on eyelevel with SUV/truck headlights. Preserving night vision can be more important tha
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by pacaro 6y ago
British English
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by pacaro 6y ago
Even then a text editor isn't necessarily a necessity, I've been reading a lot of IBM 1130 code, (for example Guy Steele's LISP, and Chuck Moore's Forth) There was no text editor. The code for these was entered on punche
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by pacaro 6y ago
Thought provoking questions for sure! Some of the improvements are marginal, but not all, from a developer perspective moving between editors that support everything from syntax highlighting, intellisense, refactoring etc, to then using an
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by pacaro 6y ago
Of course, but editors written in 1970 (25 years before the Worth quote in question) often couldn't handle lowercase (and neither could early versions of Pascal) often because platform support was limited or missing. Much of the cabili
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by pacaro 6y ago
Yeah it also doesn't think that knackered or felch are problematic either
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by pacaro 6y ago
What gets me is part of the '95 quote about computing in the 70s "About 25 years ago, an interactive text editor could be designed with as little as 8,000 bytes of storage" Such a text editor likely couldn't handle lower
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by pacaro 6y ago
Cupressus Leylandii is the normal tree of choice for neighbor disputes. It's fast growing and light blocking
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by pacaro 6y ago
FWIW Greater London is approx 13% of the UK population, and the London metropolitan area is approx 21%. Intentional under and over counting of the size of London is pretty common depending on the interlocutor's agenda
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by pacaro 6y ago
I'm not sure what the criteria for "highly" flammable is, I'm sure it's flammable but I've never managed to ignite it with either a blowtorch (singeing the Hessian backing on the edges of freshly cut lino) or a
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by pacaro 6y ago
There appears to be little to no vernacular architecture in the PNW, nothing evolved here, it appears to all have been copied from the east coast and California. The upshot is that there isn't a common house type that really "work

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