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by peter303 7y ago
There is also a hack to put mini-games in the URL line using emojis.
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by peter303 7y ago
The rides since the 1990s with TV screens and shaky chairs are rather boring compared to earlier animatronics like Pirates. I generally never have done them a second time. You'd think with modern assembly line motion capture, robotics
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by peter303 7y ago
I have mental checklists I use all the time for routine tasks I could forget. I losealot fewer things. I get lost less frequently. First getting up in the morning Leave the house Leaving the garage Parking in the parking lot Starting work i
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by peter303 7y ago
E-buses consume 6 times the power per mile as a e-sedan. So they are more efficient if the average passenger load is larger than that.
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by peter303 7y ago
Covering both ears in a car or on a bike is prohibited in most states, but rarely enforced. However getting such noted on the accident report can establish negligence in a civil action.
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by peter303 7y ago
Note for comcast customers: the default on your setup is devote one fifth of your modem capacity to general xfinity wifi. So the general public can surf porn at your expense. Xfinity has settings to turn this off. However like Facebook priv
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by peter303 7y ago
Techies who dont have Prime and dont buy something every week, please raise your hands. Five hours later: still waiting for first hand.
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by peter303 7y ago
One explanation: Trump coal. Plus the conversion to natural gas has flattened out. Methane is 40% less carbon per BTU than coal. But it still creates considerable CO2.
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by peter303 7y ago
No one has achieved two nines yet. Embarassing recent downtimes for Google and AWS.
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by peter303 7y ago
Justa matter of time before Beijing use Tiananmen force to quell these protesters. Done so multiple other places like Xinjiang and Xizang.
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by peter303 7y ago
Most of that goes directly to landfill after these places extract 5% x10% thatcan be profitably resold.
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by peter303 7y ago
Some of the loneliest people are the elderly who have lost their mobility and cannot get around easily. This often happens in your 80s.
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by peter303 7y ago
Thats how Gates and Allen wrote their BASIC interpreter for the Altair microcomputer and started MicroSoft. They did not have access to a working 8080 microcomputer so they simulated one on a Harvard mainframe from a machine language specif
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by peter303 7y ago
Frame it. It will be a classic. Some banks allow you cash a check by cellphone photo instead of turning it in. Donald was one of the original crowdsourcers. He employed the public to improve his already high quality publications.
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by peter303 7y ago
But they bring their parents which they often put on SSI ($800 a month) and other freebies. Trump immigration proposals would end this, but unlikely to pas.
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by peter303 7y ago
In the mid 20th century coding was seen as a trade school skill. Perhaps boot camps are another version of this. When I attended MIT in the 1970s there was no pure computer science major even though competitor schools had such. The faculty
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by peter303 7y ago
Mission statement at I/O "be helpful for everyone" They showed how their improved software helps diabled and illiterate people around the world.
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by peter303 8y ago
Colorado limits the total increase in tax revenue to the sum of the population increase and inflation increase. This typically 4% a year. Property taxes are the assessed value scaled to this total. Its possible for the tax to decrease even
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by peter303 8y ago
Not until there was writing. The Egyptians had writing 5200 years ago compared to Linear A 3800 years ago.
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by peter303 8y ago
You have to admit the washing machine is one of wonders of the modern world, yet taken for granted. Until they were invented, a wife or servant essentially devoted most of a whole weekday to washing clothes. A washing machine and dryer cuts
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by peter303 8y ago
I dread laundry. Its one of signs you are still alive and soiling clothes. Some males never do laundry their entire lives. Their mothers do it until they marry. Then their wives and daughters.
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by peter303 8y ago
More like a co-sympton. Whatever cures the disease cures the inflammation. Unexplained inflammation might be sign of an undiagnosed condition.
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by peter303 8y ago
Landmark arts chain here is having a showing Holy Thursday April 18.
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by peter303 8y ago
I believe they have restored the first Saturday in October date also (suspended a few years after 9-11). However that weekend is also the Albuquerque Balloon Festival. So you have the bonus of viewing this event. But at the same time compet
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by peter303 8y ago
One of the fascinating parts of VLA is they allocate observing time in 5 minute chunks. When the next time comes, all 27 dishes move in unison to the observing region. Its is like a living creature.
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by peter303 8y ago
I went a decade ago. You can visit VLA any weekday too. When I went I could still see some trinitite, the green glass from bomb surface sand melting. Also not far away is Roswell with a UFO museum. For the most part it is an oil production
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by peter303 8y ago
Believe it or not petroleum will run low and become very expensive some time in the future. Clever technology has just pushed that date out to mid century. Petroleum is the main source of plastics and many chemicals. You might alternatives
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by peter303 8y ago
General purpose computers networks and software are far from optimal for high speed trading. A few years back ACM Communications published a comprehensive white paper of trading communications bottlenecks including the effect of virtual mem
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by peter303 8y ago
SGI dominatinated the 3D graphics market until NVidia upended them. SGI sold whole integrated workstations while nVidia was an addon board coprocessor. A PC plus NVidia cost much less than a SGI workstation.
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by peter303 8y ago
Hunter gathers made large waste piles a 100,000 years ago. They are called shell midens and other things. We only see a fraction of these because sea level was much lower then.

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