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by prpl 4y ago
Nice pun in there about the WEB page.
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by prpl 4y ago
I learned first on a dirt bike (13). I didn’t drive a stick until I was 19 for a delivery job but it was trial by fire at that point. I had to drive a stick to work my shift. I drove one later, 25-32. It was fine, I don’t miss stop and go t
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by prpl 4y ago
if you have 20% now, you had 16% before and 3% mortgage rates. Now you have 20% and 5% mortgage rates or an ARM. ARM might work to lower monthly if you think Fed will chicken out and you are happy to pay refi cost.
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by prpl 4y ago
probably not, because the loan still costs the same
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by prpl 4y ago
We tried to do passive radar for detecting high energy cosmic rays in 2009 (GNU Radio/USRP) that turned into passive-ish when the team brought a 20kW Harris NTSC Ch 2 (52Mhz) transmitter we decommissioned as part of the move to ATSC. W
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by prpl 4y ago
Qcad is fine. I did drafting/autocad in High School (2002) and it wasn’t too bad. I tried sketchup and it is not great for 2D. For 3D I didn’t like it as much either, I felt like you have to use the mouse a lot more. I had a ton of tro
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by prpl 4y ago
I literally was reading this substack last week and almost posted. There’s some other good articles in there.
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by prpl 4y ago
Three Stigmata… is also very corporate. Like if Comcast and Space-X merged to form a venture to mars
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by prpl 4y ago
The “File JIRA tickets” advice is ingenious. The system is so cruel and arbitrary - so finding the parts with any kind of process you can use to your advantage, it’s just ingenious.
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by prpl 4y ago
On some reflection, I don’t understand how this app ever makes it around those regulations in a form where it’s largest users can factor in advertised and actual rent prices to their prices, especially in a world of consolidation, where the
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by prpl 4y ago
Oh, I believe that - they are supercenters, and I that's especially true in rural communities. Walmart also has pure grocery stores (often much smaller). That's not the case with Target or the others. In the bay area, most the wal
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by prpl 4y ago
Meat departments are obviously missing from lots of grocery stores these days when they used to be effectively full-service butchers. A lot of that is because they are the some of the most interested in unionization (My dad had been suspend
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by prpl 4y ago
Combined, my family has easily more than 60 years at Smith's over 3 generations dating back to the 70s - my dad had more than 40 alone before they canned him. It is not an understatement to say I grew up in a grocery store. Kroger has
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by prpl 4y ago
Actually they don’t. I’ve cloned thousands of repos before (tried to archive conda-forge org for a project). I’ve also built many parallel repo downloaders for CI reasons. You can clone repos all day pretty much with little rate limiting. I
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by prpl 4y ago
It was an investment but I had actually accumulated all of the previous mentioned equipment I had - and sold it for what I had paid. That softened the blow quite a bit (I raised $1200) I am still using a Baratza Vario - I usually weigh out
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by prpl 4y ago
After 8 years of home espresso machines (a super automatic Saeco, Astra Pro Heat exchanger, Crossland CC1 - the last two with a Baratza Vario) while also doing lots of pour over, chemex, aero press, etc… I obsessed a bit and purchased a Lel
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by prpl 4y ago
outliers don’t always start out as outliers though, it’s a skill that needs development usually
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by prpl 4y ago
Nitrite, not nitrate. I think it’s because the other is mixed with salt (Prague Powder #1). You aren’t buying sodium nitrite though - you are buying prague powder. It’s packaged that way specifically.
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by prpl 4y ago
The things that tend to be "cheap" on campuses: Power (especially if there is some kind of significant scientific facility on premise), space (especially in reused buildings), manpower (undergrads, grad students, post docs, profes
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by prpl 4y ago
Actually computing is fine for most use cases (spot instances, preemptible VMs on GCP) and have been used in lots of situations, even at CERN. Where it also excels is if you need any kind of infrastructure, because no HPC center has figured
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by prpl 4y ago
Most of the infrastructure is likely still there as well. Most DOE facilities are also junkyards with the metals moratoriums so I could imagine this applies to BYU.
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by prpl 4y ago
The U has a 100kW reactor TRIGA reactor. It's at the western side of the Merrill Engineering Building (as well as decommissioned 1 or 5 Watt (IIRC) reactor from the ~50s that migrated over there from physics building at one point). The
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by prpl 4y ago
GE is so big and diverse that the laws of thermodynamics apply. Some parts have local minima and others maxima, the entire company trending towards entropy, and no Maxwells demon in sight.
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by prpl 4y ago
The environmentally and fiscally conscious astronomy community abhors it. It’s scientific value compared to those operational and environmental costs is terrible
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by prpl 4y ago
not sure it is new hotness anymore. Maybe in 2016, when it was still several years old and people still had tons of issues with it.
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by prpl 4y ago
So the city says it's legal in light of Martin v. Boise because, while they don't have enough shelter for everyone, the there's enough shelter for those who accept shelter. I guess we'll find out in 2024 if that argument
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by prpl 4y ago
in my first exposure to emacs I had used it in high school with “C Shape Edit” as an interface to alpha_1 CAD software at the Utah CS department. Just executing lines in the buffer, and waiting for a rerender on the ultrasparc https:/
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by prpl 4y ago
this is just a time based version of photosynth
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by prpl 4y ago
err, yeah, broken window theory fallacy :)
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by prpl 4y ago
Living in the east bay, all I want right now is that people get pulled over for missing/mismatched license plates. They probably should have camera at on and off ramps of the freeways and around the major roads, and at least trigger on

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