rlonstein

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by rlonstein 7y ago
I like the Alpine Butterfly Bend, https://www.animatedknots.com/alpine-butterfly-bend-knot , mostly because I already know/use the Alpine Butterfly Loop.
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by rlonstein 7y ago
You're right. A bicycle company, Kulkote fabrics (also happens to be in Utah, which is interesting), others?
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by rlonstein 7y ago
A quick web search shows that they sued Jagermeister and L.L. Bean... * https://www.snewsnet.com/news/kuhl-sues-jagermeister-tradema... * https://www.snewsnet.com/news/kuhl-sues-llbean
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by rlonstein 7y ago
> If your achievements came about by luck then how do you get off claiming credit for their success? The same way it doesn't stop gamblers, stock pickers, actors, and entrepreneurs from mistaking survivorship bias for talent. That s
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by rlonstein 7y ago
Cool. I thought it was something peculiar about my ad/js/cookie blocking. It wasn't significant enough to make me investigate.
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by rlonstein 7y ago
Appropriate... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOXtWxhlsUg
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by rlonstein 7y ago
I haven't heard it about cars but it applies to motorcycles. Generalizing, a maintained bike with good brakes and tires is probably more capable than most riders and faster than public roads so a 1990's or later 400-600cc motorcy
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by rlonstein 7y ago
https://perl.plover.com/yak/presentation/
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by rlonstein 7y ago
This has bit me a couple of times and is currently an issue between my Linux and Mac systems. Annoying but it works so well that I build it locally.
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by rlonstein 7y ago
> You could just select a camp where ticks aren't a concern. No problem, that rules out most of the US and Europe: * https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/geographic_distribution.html * https://ecdc.europa.eu&#x
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by rlonstein 7y ago
Apropos, I recommend reading https://www.amazon.com/Travels-T-Shirt-Global-Economy-Charac...
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by rlonstein 7y ago
Something positive _has_ happened with Old Navy's quality. I'm the parent of an active teenage boy and have been buying a lot of pants because he's either grown out of them or shredded them beyond patching (seriously, he tore
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by rlonstein 7y ago
The obvious defense is that it's already in common use and widely (if unevenly) supported.
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by rlonstein 7y ago
Hit archive.org so we don't run the batteries down... https://web.archive.org/web/20190718210140/https://solar.low... (For real, it's running on solar with a battery backup: https://
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by rlonstein 7y ago
> Endomondo seemed to stop evolving around the time it was acquired by Under Armour. I've noticed the same. Among my issues with it is that the accuracy of distance traveled has been way off for more than two years. Some releases it
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by rlonstein 7y ago
Similar but earlier story... staying up late at night or waking up early before school to login to BBS's. First with a Practical Peripherals modem that my dad acquired to dial into his business (which still used teletype). I got myself
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by rlonstein 7y ago
http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/09/no-one-ever-went-brok... TL;DR: Not Barnum. Paraphrased from H.L. Mencken.
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by rlonstein 7y ago
Every electronics manufacturer and distributor. Digikey has a calculator and Arrow has a chart but some-- TI, iirc-- make it difficult to get ones or twos.
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by rlonstein 7y ago
Play a round of perl golf? perl -pne '$_=$#$_++?$_:""' I'm rusty at this but shaved off six chars, five if you count the 'p' added to switches.
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by rlonstein 7y ago
> You can't export your data from Slack? You can. Nicely it can be had as json. But it's really only half useful since there are links and attachments that point within Slack itself and that content is not captured in the expor
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by rlonstein 8y ago
Quibbling... 28% in 2016 ( https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/... ), but this is after decades of awareness campaigns and enforcement. Then there's the ~70% of fatal accidents that
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by rlonstein 8y ago
> The correct number of monitors to have is always n+1. This applies to bicycles and motorcycles too.
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by rlonstein 8y ago
That's a very principled position. I'll see you on the other side of security.
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by rlonstein 8y ago
When I had a swimming pool, I used borax (the same 20 Mule Team stuff sold along side clothes washing detergent) to adjust the ph with the added benefits that it suppressed algae, made for soft feeling water, and reduced my use of Chlorine
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by rlonstein 8y ago
Keep your eyes open, I paid less than $10 USD plus book rate shipping for my used, very good condition copy from a random seller on Amazon several years ago. https://isbn.nu/9780070383609 I have no idea why sellers are aski
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by rlonstein 8y ago
> Hundreds of thousands of developers have MBPr's which are glossy only. also billions of flies can't be wrong about dung. https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...
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by rlonstein 8y ago
We're already aware you're enthusiastic about your business. Kindly leave the self-endorsement out of every comment.
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by rlonstein 8y ago
Let's also add a link to Loeliger's Threaded Interpretive Languages... https://archive.org/details/R.G.LoeligerThreadedInterpretive...
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by rlonstein 8y ago
The words 'oligopoly', 'cartel', and 'syndicate' are more appropriate.
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by rlonstein 8y ago
Reminds me of abusing the CRT on the TRS-80 to play "music" on an AM radio. Except we were kids and had very little idea what we were doing.

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