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by paypalcust83 6y ago
Orange County / Orlando is a company town because they own so much property (48+ sq mi / 12.5k+ hectares), employ so many people, and wield leviathan political power. They're like the LDS in Utah, but a corporate cult instead
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by paypalcust83 6y ago
That's all well-and-good meaningless virtue signaling, but it doesn't give millions of homeless people homes, a decent standard of living to people working for poverty wages, those tens of millions people who have dropped out of t
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by paypalcust83 6y ago
Accessibility engineering perhaps. I'm fairly certain I'm going to get ARMD because of genetics and family history, and won't have anyone to care for me. It's going to suck. As my late grandfather said: Getting old isn&
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by paypalcust83 6y ago
The problem is divide-and-conquered mentality of tribalism, mob rule, dog-piling, conspiracy theories and scapegoating out of weakness, ignorance, and/or cowardice. The main global root cause is the weakness of the people to not come t
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by paypalcust83 6y ago
In my life experience, many Americans tend to be selfish individualists and fail to reciprocate or be concerned about anyone else. For example, a donation barrel at a local hackerspace one recent holiday season was essentially empty. Inequa
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by paypalcust83 6y ago
Interesting, I'll have to look at it. My T480 Clover hackintosh needs a rebuild because battery status broke and it hangs randomly every 15 minutes-3 days. It may have something to do with the Samsung 970 Pro 1TB. I have no idea about
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by paypalcust83 6y ago
I did that on a TAA even though I was GATE, NMS, and had a perfect math SAT I 800.# It loses dorm life and social aspects, doesn't save much money, it messes up course scheduling, and there can be an impedance mismatch in terms of cour
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by paypalcust83 6y ago
ACT requires prep. Ivy college admissions without legacy typically requires hiring an application coach 2-3+ years before applying. The big things you lose by not going to college are dorm life and friendships/networking.
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by paypalcust83 6y ago
Is it really that hard to just add a simple RC circuit? No polling required. And here's a component values calculator: https://protological.com/debounce-calaculator
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by paypalcust83 6y ago
Apropos anthem track: It Takes Time To Build (With Skit) 2004-01-01 - Beastie Boys https://youtu.be/fGv2VqE3xbY https://open.spotify.com/track/0JXd86ImsreGIfgQoVsrYt https://www.last.fm&#x
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by paypalcust83 6y ago
Noice find. TBH, on my T480, I only use the trackpad because the pstick is a smallish, delta-only pointing device that takes too long for me... it's too much like moving a cursor around with a joystick for my taste. YMMV and there are
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
Judging from the magical thinking, Montagnier seems to have developed psychiatric issues and so is no longer a trustworthy authority. It seems cruel and dishonest for news hacks to exploit this ill man to feed a racist conspiracy theory.
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
Control-freaks will use any excuse to act unreasonably by abusing their authority to control other people when no risk exists. It's usually people who lack control in their own lives, so they fail at MYOB and seek to impose their will
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
Climate-controlled cultivation will likely become a necessity for food production as climate change intensifies. Spain, South Africa, many Middle Eastern and other countries are already heavily reliant on greenhouses. Also given that megadr
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
Yeap. Clipper chip 2.0. The ruling elite doesn't want us "plebs" to have any privacy in order to make mass surveillance easier and to be able to exploit pilfered details to silence and defeat their enemies. It strikes me as i
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
Orwellian. Similar "but the children" fallacious legislation BS took down Craigslist's personals section. This makes encrypted, zero-knowledge customer data an insurance liability. Porn is next. And then the regulation of abo
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
EE/CS here. Kmaps only work for 4-5 variables unless you're some sort of 4D-chess wizard. And they're meant for manual, human pattern-matching rather than automated evaluation. There are numerous, specialized bi/tri&#x2F
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
Without a familiar object or a ruler in the pictures, it's difficult to tell how "miniature" these are.
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
A similar thing happened to a Fortune 500 client of mine when a payment gateway decided to make a production change to their API without notice and without deploy to their sandbox first. Another case is the E911 system used by either Vacavi
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
I'm crossing my fingers that the two SSDs I ordered in B&H's last order window ship today because their stores are closed and the warehouses are on reduced hours. Always buy from good small businesses first (vote with your w
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
When common sense and critical thinking skills break down, cult worship of dishonest charlatans, and pervasive dishonest, magical thinking and brutality overtake reason and decency, civilization is close to upheaval or on its way out. I thi
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
20 megatonnes/year is small potatoes compared to methane hydrates' 1-5 teratonnes storage that could go within a decade. There is at most 1.5 teratonnes of methane in arctic permafrost, but that will take much longer to release (5
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
Yes, the methane gun hypothesis. In modern times, there is an ever-growing risk of immense methane clathrates in the ESAS destabilizing and suddenly boiling off more than they already are. Methane has a GWP of ~1000x CO2 immediately, but it
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
There are multiple, dynamic risk-factors being discovered, treatment options, and different genomes of this species of virus circulating. 1) Being overweight is a major risk-factor for requiring critical care, and most US military folks are
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
MWP was about +1 C more, while the PETM was about +15 C more than global average temperature as of now.
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
Gateway 2000 -1998 name change-> Gateway -2007 acquisition-> Acer eMachines -2004 acquisition-> Gateway Wikipedia is wrong: not Gateway in 2000, but 1997 saw several sub-$1k computers, and possibly the first was the Compaq Presario
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
Btw, does anyone know how to buy boxed (PIB/WOF) AMD Rome EPYCs at reasonable (not full MSRP) market prices rather than OEM/tray (non-WOF) ones? I recently ordered WOF EPYCs from a small business that fronts one of the largest dis
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
It's interesting to get more precise and accurate machines out of the ones came before. These days, if you want to get milling and grinding down to 1 micron without lapping using only your own expertise and some parts from eBay (air be
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by paypalcust83 7y ago
Millionaires and billionaires to avoid $82bn in tax liabilities. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/15/tax-change-cor... I think this is only the beginning. The quadrillion-dollar question is how