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by rlonstein 3y ago
Nice. I learned this "at the knee" from my grandfather and father. A few things in no particular order... This skill takes practice, the sharpening systems only help to get the angle consistent; you'll be happier if you learn
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by rlonstein 3y ago
Thank you, I won't jinx myself but I'm going on my thirty-sixth year as a motorcyclist including years riding (and bicycling) in NYC. I improve my odds by practicing annually and wearing fully armored gear including spine and ches
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by rlonstein 3y ago
Oh, I know, I have an application to a local range sitting right here! But I have other non-tech hobbies in motorcycling, metal working, and archery... I haven't made the time.
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by rlonstein 3y ago
Where is he? I ask because in the Northeast most game is taken at relatively short distances, tens rather than hundreds of yards. That's one heavy rifle to lug around if he's stalking. The old school Model-94 30-30 is around seven
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by rlonstein 3y ago
I have childhood memories of the M1. We spent summers at unlikely places like Camp Perry, Ohio and Quantico, Virginia. My father, a civilian, was an instructor and shot for the state team. I ran around the bases and spent time in the 1000y
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by rlonstein 3y ago
I'd also be interested in seeing how it compares to AMQP implementations (Apache Qpid for example) and any of the proprietary message queue systems (IBM and Microsoft) they refer to but don't name-check.
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by rlonstein 3y ago
> It seems, though, that those fees are really an American problem. Not at all. I saw this several years ago on a business trip in the UK at the preferred hotel as selected by my employer where on top of the higher than public rate ther
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by rlonstein 4y ago
> An example is Tekken where I play as Lei Wulong. He's extremely uncharacteristic and idiosyncratic, to the point that if you fight actual Lei players -- it's immediately obvious that bots don't play the same. One of my f
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by rlonstein 4y ago
> Are deer flies a biting fly? We've got flies that bite, but I am only vaguely aware of the term deer fly. There are different. There's the horse fly ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse-fly ) and its re
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by rlonstein 4y ago
> You won't see databases on k8s in enterprise production environments. Startups or companies/services with lower reliability requirements, sure. But don't expect to walk into a fortune 500 and standup a postgres operator
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by rlonstein 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/ Today is a good day then! There is, for lack of a better term, "folk knowledge" and technique even for simple tools that someone has to explain or demonstrate. I've been lucky and
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by rlonstein 4y ago
Paraphrasing the old joke about getting a dry pair, must be an SBC customer.
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by rlonstein 4y ago
I remember that and Locksmith, a different disc copier. As a pre-teen I was really into this and with copies of _Beneath Apple DOS_ and Zak's _Programming the 6502_ I wrote my own nibble copiers and boot sectors.
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by rlonstein 5y ago
:) We are legion
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by rlonstein 5y ago
> Blundstone seems to be a highly regarded brand, which outsources its production to various countries throughout Asia. I live in my Blunnies, I wear them daily but the quality has varied on the 500's over time, generally for the w
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by rlonstein 5y ago
If your life aligns with it, great (I also like that you're using the public library, I'm on my local library board and we also have b/w and color printer/copiers for patrons)! To reduce my printing and improve my own co
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by rlonstein 5y ago
My reply to that (as a motorcyclist of 30+ years) is, "If loud pipes save lives, imagine what learning to ride that thing would do?"
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by rlonstein 6y ago
I'd buy one but is there anyone selling an AMD Ryzen 5 or 7 laptop with a good panel and keyboard?
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by rlonstein 6y ago
I agree with the thrust of your argument as I was learning Common Lisp around then but you make a factual mistake: > Around 2004... There were two free, open source Lisps available (CMUCL, CLISP) and both were rather unloved and clunky a
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by rlonstein 6y ago
What countries? I recently ordered some motorcycle accessories from Perun Moto in Serbia (really nicely made stuff, btw) and they shipped DHL Express which was reasonable (about $50) and rather fast.
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by rlonstein 6y ago
It exists! Cling- https://root.cern/cling/ (and the earlier Cint- http://www.hanno.jp/gotom/Cint.html ) I used to occasionally use them for local experimenting with libraries and language features.
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by rlonstein 6y ago
Congratulations! My copy arrived yesterday!
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by rlonstein 6y ago
Sugar itself is food. It's the fact that sugar draws water out of the medium that it retards some kinds of bacterial growth (not botulinum for example).
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by rlonstein 6y ago
True but I remember reading books, or collections of articles, on construction as a kid in the 70's and 80's with imprints like Mother Earth News and (iirc) Foxfire and more mainstream ones by Readers Digest, Time-Life, and Sunset
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by rlonstein 6y ago
Quite. Once I was cutting out the rusted exhaust of a commercial truck with an ox-acetylene torch when the guy two bays away from me decided it was a good time to apply underbody coat to a new truck. The head mechanic started screaming and
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by rlonstein 6y ago
I found my Walkman, a WMF-100 from 1988 or '89, last year while going through a box of stuff I had saved: https://i.imgur.com/d1RqfVT.jpg https://i.imgur.com/11LWVnw.jpg https://i.imgur.com&
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by rlonstein 6y ago
You're being downvoted hard which I feel is unfair. The first part of your statement is true, they built the PA6T and was acquired by Apple. The second is your opinion. Mine is that Jobs wanted the team and acquired Palo Alto Semi to g
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by rlonstein 7y ago
Archive before it gets hugged to death... https://archive.is/7HxHk
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by rlonstein 7y ago
Most step out of the water and leave it flowing. I install a flow control valve (aka "water saver") behind the shower head which lets you take a "Navy Shower" where you lather up without the water spraying.
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by rlonstein 7y ago
I'm skeptical too but if they're doing a lot of communication with other services and they relied on bytes and ASCII just working and the code isn't backed up by tests then I can see them having a very bad time going from Py2

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