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by quercusa 6y ago
That he felt the need to explain the cassette leader made me feel very old.
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by quercusa 6y ago
Mostly it means that under federal law it doesn't need to be transferred through an FFL in your state. If you buy it online it can be directly shipped to your house. Otherwise you should assume local and state regulations for firearms
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by quercusa 6y ago
That's impressive. Nothing bugs me more than having to punch in my account number (or play the voice recognition game) and then have to go through it all again with the agent.
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by quercusa 6y ago
> - It's as annoyingly verbose as Java is I reviewed an XML-based international industry 'standard' that allowed both verbose and terse versions of the same tags. Example files I saw tended to use the terse ones for commo
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by quercusa 6y ago
I lived much of that story, and it's only the slightest exaggeration.
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by quercusa 6y ago
The move to Chicago was an early indication of bad decision-making.
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by quercusa 6y ago
"What a fool belieeeeves..."
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by quercusa 6y ago
I had a roommate with a stutter, but never when telling a joke, talking to the dog, or singing. We are way more complicated than we understand!
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by quercusa 6y ago
Yeah, but sometimes I don't need Snap-On quality. For non-critical tools Harbor Freight may be just fine.
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by quercusa 6y ago
And neither has any resale value.
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by quercusa 6y ago
This USian was quite a few decades old before realizing that Four of fish and finger pie might not be a strange British delicacy.
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by quercusa 6y ago
Ouch. Could you say a little more about the scrubbing process: Where to start, how to do it? Thanks.
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by quercusa 6y ago
I bought some years ago from Raintree Nursery[0] and was very happy with them. Their selection seems smaller these days. Trees of Antiquity[1] seems to have a huge variety but I have no experience with them. [0] https://raintreen
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by quercusa 6y ago
I'd encourage you look at some of the heirloom varieties that you'll never find in a grocery store. There are fantastic old apples that aren't a good fit for commercial production but are awesome in the back yard (depending w
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by quercusa 6y ago
I find Tree Style Tab even more useful than the old Tab Mix Plus extension. Anything I open from HN will be a child of the HN tree, which can be opened or closed as a group.
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by quercusa 6y ago
There's a lot of good info free at https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/ . It's a Taunton site (Fine Woodworking, etc.) and they'd like you to buy a Prime subscription but there's many knowledgeable buil
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by quercusa 6y ago
Philadelphia-area highs came in about 7°F under forecast today due to the high smoke from the West Coast.
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by quercusa 6y ago
I got suspicious when Portland moved from sorted recycling (four bins, I think) to 'combined recycling'. How could it make economic sense to then sort it back out?
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by quercusa 6y ago
> we are motivated by Interest, Challenge, Novelty, and Urgency Holy cow. You've just described my whole life in a single phrase. I need to go away and ponder this. Thanks.
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'Once in a lifetime' archaelogical discovery in Jerusalem(jpost.com)
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by quercusa 6y ago
This is a great hack! Searching for "over fibre channel" and "fibre channel over" will demonstrate that FC was seen as the answer to every need.
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by quercusa 6y ago
I've found it enormously valuable at the beginning of projects to hash out (erm...) a glossary so we know that everybody has the same understanding of the terms we use.
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by quercusa 6y ago
> phyphox Well, there goes my productivity for the day. (edit: fixed typo)
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by quercusa 6y ago
Not everything can be proven until it's too late; at some point experience and informed intuition need to be part of the risk evaluation.
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by quercusa 6y ago
The "How to Write a Thriller" guide, by renowned author 'Dan Brown', is spot-on: https://masterwiki.how/courses/how-to-write-a-thriller/
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by quercusa 6y ago
Another cause, at least in the old days, was bad board design, in which badly-placed traces could induce currents in other traces. Of course this only happened two+ hours into the test.
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by quercusa 6y ago
Your state may still require you to file a 'corporate' return for your LLC. In my state you wouldn't pay anything if your receipts were under some level, maybe $100K. But if you didn't know you were supposed to file, the
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by quercusa 6y ago
When raising our kids, we always made the punishment for lying about 'X' far worse than that for doing 'X'. The son was so incompetent at lying that he quickly figured out he was better of telling the truth right away. T
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by quercusa 6y ago
I'd like to hear some of your install stories.
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by quercusa 6y ago
That makes sense of it. Thank you!

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