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by sanoli 12y ago
I've been a morning person and then a night owl, and then a morning person, and then a night owl, all depending on the demands that life, work and family threw at me. I stopped believing in this night/morning person thing. We just
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by sanoli 12y ago
In Brazil also: "armado até os dentes".
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by sanoli 12y ago
The problem here is that messing up the mirror on such a project in the first place was not very sound engineering.
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by sanoli 12y ago
You know, I'm a big space exploration geek, but, over the years, I've come to see a lot of it as money not well spent. Again, I'm a space geek, amateur astronomer, follower of Nasa's and ESA's missions, but, in the
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by sanoli 12y ago
>What's more human than ______________? Fill in the blank. Different cultures have different conceptions of what's more human, or what kind of drama moves them most.
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by sanoli 12y ago
If there were no rules does anyone know if it would make sense to remove the driver and make it remote-controlled? Would lag in something so high end as f1 be a factor (what is the minimum lag that can be achieved, money almost no object)?
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by sanoli 12y ago
That first paragraph's tl;dr was basically: I'm bad with numbers, I'm an artist, but someone told me about this math guy with an interesting story.
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by sanoli 12y ago
Two best things, bar none, that a geek can do, if that's what he wants to accomplish: begin working out, and get non-geek clothes (my wife calls them 'anti-girlfriend shirts', when referring to the only-hackers-get-the-inside
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by sanoli 12y ago
Probably because it was made in 1931. Eurocentric times.
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by sanoli 12y ago
someone's selling a copy of one on eBay right now. Not cheap though: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rolled-Map-John-Sparks-5-1-2-HISTOMA...
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by sanoli 12y ago
I was aware of the Cacophony Society throughout the early nineties, mostly through fanzines from the SF/Bay areas. Then I moved away from the US, and then when internet happened I just forgot to ever look it up to see some news. They d
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by sanoli 12y ago
You know the price is wrong when there's a "Fiance Available" on the sale page of an ethernet cable :-)
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by sanoli 12y ago
Bringing back? The dictaphone became smaller, pocekt sized, so you could take it anywhere, decades ago. After that it went digital, so no more tapes to fiddle with. Then it just merged with your phone. If people stopped using it, it's
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by sanoli 12y ago
I don't think the parent meant 'mega farms that are owned by families' to be the same thing as 'family farms'.
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by sanoli 12y ago
This. Times ten. I can't stress this enough to my non-lifting, skinny, geek friends who wish they were more attractive to women. I always tell them that the number one thing they can do is to begin lifting weights. They'll look he
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by sanoli 12y ago
He has a son, probably also a wife, he probably has a steady job. And he goes to the gym 2-4 times a week, for 1 to 2 hours each time. Lifting weights is one of the best things he can do, exercise wise, to his health. A 3-week effort on Aco
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by sanoli 12y ago
This. Pro bodybuilders take a bunch of other stuff to regulate what their bodies regulated naturally, before they jacked up their levels with external stuff.
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by sanoli 12y ago
Very interesting, thanks. I'm curious though, did your doc bring your levels up to normal range or lower, and did you ever discuss this (keeping the levels lower than normal)?
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by sanoli 12y ago
I don't know about SimBee (not into bees as I'm into ants I guess), but I would love a new SimAnt.
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by sanoli 12y ago
I thought it was some prize for new developments of the old time internet Gopher. Oh well, I'm getting old...
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How clothes can change your cognitive processes(nytimes.com)
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by sanoli 12y ago
> early in their testing they lost a nut I'm glad I read this till the end. For a moment there I was thinking the kid had actually lost, you know, one of his nuts.
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by sanoli 12y ago
I'm waiting for the years to pass and the time will come when I will have time to delve into Robot Odissey and try to finish it.
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by sanoli 12y ago
Well, if you're worried about transmitting lossless high quality audio, then that TV DAC is probably not the best. Yet it's probably just fine, where you won't notice any difference with those speakers, so you could achieve t
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by sanoli 12y ago
Yes.
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by sanoli 12y ago
The thing is, stars are so far apart from each other that there won't be any collisions. From wikipedia: "While the Andromeda Galaxy contains about 1 trillion (1012) stars and the Milky Way contains about 300 billion (3×1011), the
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by sanoli 12y ago
> Huh? Why would you stay inside Well in the full article they talk about the constant hard winds that sometimes shatter windshields and such. Also the poster who grew up there mentioned the constant rain that gets wind-blasted in yo
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by sanoli 12y ago
The thing is, this town is not only remote, but during the winter you have to pretty much dug in and stay inside. No going anywhere. It's not the same as just being somewhere isolated and remote, and you have to take that into consider
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by sanoli 12y ago
And I lived in a city with about 14 million people, where one building had about 3 thousand people living in it (it has its own zip code). So different it made me want to visit this town in Alaska.
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by sanoli 12y ago
True. I used win 3.11 when I had to use Word. Other than that, it was DOS.

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