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by peapicker 3y ago
I have enjoyed those (I have a complete Hammer's Slammers collection).... also definitely check out the Lt. Leary RCN series, starting with the novel "With the Lightnings"... my favorite series of his work.
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by peapicker 3y ago
So by my calculations, Each celebrity has flown the equivalent of 20 (24-hours) days worth of trips on average. I imagine if I had a plane that would be expected use, or probably wouldn't have bought one.
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by peapicker 3y ago
I have worked on systems that had to do this in the long-ago past, and the headline is simply wrong. There are many 8-bit EBCDIC code pages that support many languages (multi-hundred page book of them last I looked at it), at least as many
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by peapicker 3y ago
My great uncle (now departed), as a teen who lied about his age to join up, served in Taffy 3 on the Fanshaw Bay. His stories of the battle always had me riveted, the massive Yamamoto, and especially about the loss of his sister ships Gamb
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by peapicker 3y ago
A nearly 80 yr old man I know has a nearly 200k per year pension. Every five years he lives adds 1 million to the economy.
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by peapicker 3y ago
I've been on Ting fiber for almost two years in Centennial, CO. It is so much better then the incumbents... (Xfinity and Centurylink (now Lumen, also put in fiber over a year later)
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by peapicker 3y ago
Los Alamos, not Las. (I grew up there myself, 1st grade on)
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by peapicker 3y ago
“Marine World’s old home is now the international headquarters of tech titan Oracle.” Well up until Dec 2020. Oracle moved headquarters to Austin, TX that month. There is still a Redwood City presence of course.
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by peapicker 3y ago
Another cool grid-breaking language for Polyrhythms and euclidian and beyond sequences is Nestup. https://nestup.cutelab.nyc/ In addition to the website and github, It also has a great implementation as a Max for Live devi
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by peapicker 3y ago
This author has the strangest use of “overwhelm” I’ve ever seen.
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by peapicker 3y ago
EY was the implementation partner, Oracle the vendor. The article doesn't make that clear, but a linked one does. PWC and KPMG were brought in to try and fix after EY failed at additional cost. All three are known for putting brain or
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by peapicker 3y ago
Implementation partner was EY (Ernst & Young). Taking a heavily customized SAP into anything else is going to be painful, and the wrong partner for implementation can really cost.
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by peapicker 4y ago
A lot of the older code isn’t a great example of how to do things. Either too enterprisey, or C/C++ written by newbies coming from a mainframe RPG background.
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by peapicker 4y ago
I work on a 17.5 million line code base across 4 different languages that I know will not be something chatGPT has trained on and it won’t be due to commercial interests. Not worried about it.
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by peapicker 4y ago
Fire many of the deep layers Of administrators and get back to teaching.
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by peapicker 4y ago
Makes amazing stuff. A worthy hot sauce billionaire.
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by peapicker 4y ago
"...in my experience unless you are lifting a lot of weights 25 is the upper limit.." I get you... I'm 6'0" (183cm) and 212 lbs (96kg) (BMI=29). I'm at 17% body fat and am working toward 10%, but also have been
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by peapicker 4y ago
I’m living in a world that has to support a product which has many parts in C++ on Solaris, HP-UX, and OS/400 (in addition to Linux, AIX, and Windows). We can’t drop support yet for the AIX release that only support up to C++ 11 altho
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by peapicker 4y ago
The same interest rate for an additional 15 years is a lot more total interest paid. Example: 100k at 15yr and 6% interest with monthly payments, the total paid back is $151,894.23 - the amount over 100k was interest. 100k at 30yr and 6% i
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by peapicker 4y ago
Tesla’s interiors make me think of bog standard sparse office cubical with monitor. A cold soulless place to me. Luxury is far from my perception of Tesla except for the cost level.
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by peapicker 4y ago
Germany is huge in Digital Audio Workstation software. Ableton Live, Bitwig, Steinberg (Cubase and creator of VST plugin format), Native Instruments, Celemony (Melodyne=autotune), and the former EMagic, whom Apple bought to make Logic Pro.
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by peapicker 4y ago
This was brutal. Woke to -33f counting wind chill (-17f w/o). Glad my furnace kept working.
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by peapicker 4y ago
And yet another linked study does mention stevia. In case you missed the link and discussion in the article, here you are: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35987213/
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by peapicker 4y ago
"Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos" by Julien C. Sprott. I am lucky enough to have a 1st edition print, but there is now a free PDF online: https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/SA.HTM
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by peapicker 4y ago
I get what you’re saying but your home or McDonalds wifi is decidedly a third party, although encryption may mitigate that.
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by peapicker 4y ago
Gen Z still qualifies for their Gen X parents healthcare … until they turn 26. My 1998 born grad student daughter for instance still will be on my Gen X healthcare I pay for until her 2024 birthday of 26yo. Probably why Gen X pays the mos
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by peapicker 4y ago
Doesn’t mention if they went into Spotify’s Settings—>Audio Quality to set it to the non-default ’Very High’ (=320Kbps). The experience described makes me think no.
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by peapicker 4y ago
Seems US estimate may be low. I work in a large US tech company and I get 14 holidays (and we are typically dismissed 3 hrs early on afternoons before holidays, which adds up to another 5 days) and another 3-4 weeks of vacation I choose whe
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by peapicker 4y ago
Weird. I think of AARP as a political lobbying group - a strange requirement for a phone discount for AT&T. I guess they get payola from AARP?
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by peapicker 4y ago
I, too, as a former Los Alamos resident, immediately thought of Viola’s. I don’t have any idea how many hundreds of Christmas breakfast burritos I’ve enjoyed there. Haven’t been in years since my Dad retired from LANL and moved to ABQ.

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