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by quesera 8mo ago
Any of a dozen common situations, but probably the most common is having children who reach driving age.
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by quesera 9mo ago
That's awesome. I had to wait til I was old enough to get a phone line in my own name before running a BBS. And also til I had a modem that would auto-answer, which was not a given back then! But I confess my first question for a worki
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by quesera 9mo ago
Mine was 300 baud, probably 1982? And I felt privileged because the configuration for my TI-99/4A Terminal Emulator (which I believe was called Terminal Emulator ) had options for 110 or 300 baud, and I felt lucky to be able to use th
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by quesera 9mo ago
Oh it can definitely be a person. I've worked with a few!
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by quesera 9mo ago
> I've used links with modems rocking 1200 bps Yo, 300 baud, checking in. Do I hear 110? +++ATH0
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by quesera 9mo ago
The US Metric Board was cancelled in 1982 by one Ronald Wilson Reagan (anagram: Insane Anglo Warlord). RWR and the charismatic traditionalism he espoused have caused a great deal of harm to American society. Metrication is not at the top of
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by quesera 9mo ago
I don't get it. It does rain in deserts, of course. But most of California is not a desert anyway.
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by quesera 9mo ago
Most of the island is off-limits to tourists. It's administered by the National Park Service. Coyotes are territorial and usually have fairly large ranges. Alcatraz is small, but probably big enough to keep a breeding coyote pair well-
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by quesera 9mo ago
Of course you can. But where does it stop? There is a great deal of injustice in the world. Psychologically healthy adults have learned to add a reflection step between anger and action. By all evidence, Luigi is a smart guy. So one can onl
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by quesera 9mo ago
Well I don't mean to hope for his loneliness. I guess I hope that not too many suitresses are lost to the passion before he finds his mate of elevated luck and/or constitution. Any resulting pups are going to have to make some dif
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by quesera 9mo ago
It would be a clean and compelling narrative, if Luigi or someone he loved was denied coverage for a necessary treatment! But that doesn't seem to be true at all. He just had a whole lot of righteous anger, I guess. Gotta be careful wi
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by quesera 9mo ago
CEOs are not special humans. They know lots of people, but that's not an unusual trait. When one gets fired, quits, retires, or dies, you get a new one. Pretty fungible, honestly. But yeah, shooting people is a bad decision in almost a
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by quesera 9mo ago
The article speculates that this coyote might attempt to establish a pack on Alcatraz, by calling until a mate makes the same 1.5 mile swim in treacherous cold water. I wish everyone the best of luck here, but I can't shake the image o
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by quesera 9mo ago
FWIW, every non-US American I've ever known or worked with (from Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, Canada) has been more amused than bothered when I've asked how they feel about US Am
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by quesera 9mo ago
You're awfully condescending for someone who started out claiming to be genuine. That sucks. Good luck out there. (responding to your edits, for the possible benefit of any readers who are genuinely interested...) Both emacs and vim ca
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by quesera 9mo ago
Alemany. I haven't been there in (way) too long, but there used to be a great pierogi vendor -- so even on cold rainy mornings (too common) you'd at least get some warm delicious breakfast.
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by quesera 9mo ago
Not pedantry; just responding to your "genuine" desire for suggestions. My mistake, I guess. BBEdit is great, but if you need to learn something new anyway, or if being tied to macOS is ever going to be a concern, emacs or vim are
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by quesera 9mo ago
I think you're describing emacs, or vim. :)
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by quesera 9mo ago
Whose politicians are you referring to?
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by quesera 9mo ago
It's not like the wisdom is lost , it's just ignored in modern builds. All architects think about siting and solar exposure. But the builders are in charge, and they optimize for what the market responds to -- which does not alwa
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by quesera 9mo ago
... but unless I'm mistaken, (something closer to) instantaneous load is the important factor for aluminum wire thermals. Varying high loads are more significant than a continuous medium load in terms of the effects on wiring junctio
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by quesera 9mo ago
Sure, but there are more appliances plugged in today than there were. The simplest evidence for this is that there are never enough outlets in an old (unrenovated) home. In a renovated house, you won't have aluminum wire at all, so t
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by quesera 9mo ago
My best guess would be the size of the GPU market, before the AI crush. I don't track that market (not a gamer), but it seemed substantial enough that I was aware of it. I do travel in geeky circles though. Also, plasma TVs were big fo
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by quesera 9mo ago
These are good points, but having worked on a few older houses, I usually see overextended and overloaded circuits, not the opposite. Standard small-house service used to be 60A, sometimes as few as 4 circuits! It's now 100A minimum by
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by quesera 9mo ago
Only true for lighting circuits though, and most household circuits are mixed. The quantity and (edit: aggregate ) power draw of modern appliances is far greater now than 60 years ago, so the overall load on the old wires is much higher.
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by quesera 9mo ago
Sounds right. I was only an occasional attendee at the Galleria, but the timeline makes sense. H.O.P.E. brings back memories though -- I was very uncertain that that Poland Springs jug would contain the explosives taped to the Clipper chip.
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by quesera 9mo ago
I think I did too, but it may have varied by newsgroup, and I wasn't particularly prolific. I'm not sure whether I'm brave enough to search the archives for my own writing. :)
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by quesera 9mo ago
I don't mean to imply invention, just community ubiquity. Obviously e.e. is the o.g. :)
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by quesera 9mo ago
You know, I was trying to remember if anyone from Usenet did similarly, but I couldn't think of anyone. I was a bit post-Great Renaming into well post-Eternal September. And we may have followed different groups. The style arises spont
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by quesera 9mo ago
Corroborating. It goes way back to the early 90s IRC and MUD cultures, from which many of us sprung. Limor came to the scene a bit later, but the culture was well-established. Most of us would code shift when writing in other milieux, some

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