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by scrumper 11y ago
Thanks, she's a vivacious and warm hearted three year old now, you'd never know she was a preemie. They catch up pretty fast. Hope your boy does well too. Your comment touched a nerve: it was a dramatically emotional time, and I j
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by scrumper 11y ago
Wow. My wife had a section with our first, 2 months early, with some weeks in the NICU afterwards. I had absolutely no inkling that recovery would be so hard for my wife; I'd always heard "too posh to push" and thought she wa
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by scrumper 11y ago
$180 on a toy for a 3 year old? No. We would absolutely play with this at our local library if they had one though. I love the screenless programming idea, embedding those concepts early.
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by scrumper 11y ago
Great read, thank you. A very lucky man, especially given that his crew mate bailed out before him, at higher altitude, going slower. The fact that between deciding to bail and pulling the handle took 4,000' is astonishing: 780mph is v
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by scrumper 11y ago
I think it has to be something to do with the binary component. I can't see this being an issue if they'd delivered all source code in their project and required users to build the entire thing.
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by scrumper 11y ago
Curious what the violation of the developer program agreement is. It contained a binary, presumably signed, so maybe that's it? I downloaded it this morning, very excited to try it as I can't stand the blue glow of my phone after
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by scrumper 11y ago
I believe the blue is the second stage igniting. Heavy nitrogen content in the Titan II's solid fuel, which lends it that color. There is a prima facie decent analysis and a different, good video over on Reddit: https://np.r
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by scrumper 11y ago
Well, the Terminal's UI when introduced in the early 1980s was cutting edge, but that meant text mode and keyboards - no GUIs or mice back then. If being launched today, just like back then, it'd be designed to provide both as sha
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by scrumper 11y ago
Do you like the hiring manager? Do you know if you'll be working on an interesting (if unlikely to be cutting edge) stack? Do you find the application domain interesting? (Meaning, if it's creating HR services, for example, are yo
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by scrumper 11y ago
Worth pointing out that this phrase was the title of a linked 3rd party YouTube video, not from Business Insider Malaysia who did a reasonably decent job on the article.
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by scrumper 11y ago
2k was the first Windows version I remember that I didn't have to reboot daily. In my first proper job (a web developer, in 2000, writing what you'd now call 'single page applications' in DHTML) I'd go home at nigh
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by scrumper 11y ago
I think this is exactly the case. I do remember reading that early versions of SIOP were designed to be easily triggered by a heavily compromised administration after an attack, so there wasn't any real room for options which would req
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by scrumper 11y ago
Very good. Hi-vis vest is astonishingly effective too. See recent Hatton Garden (London) diamond heist.
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by scrumper 11y ago
Ah true but part of the fun for OP will be having a smiling gentleman fondle his inside leg in an anonymous hotel suite. No app can reproduce that.
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by scrumper 11y ago
Is that a kind of privilege escalation?
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by scrumper 11y ago
Being a meekly frustrated warrior like many modern men, I sometimes imagine the process of putting a suit on in the morning as akin to donning chain mail and plate armor before a battle. Certainly it helps me get in the right frame of mind
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by scrumper 11y ago
It's not supposed to be about railway switches or some concrete scenario, it's a model of a problem designed to gain some understanding about how people make moral decisions. By saying all that, you're refusing to engage with
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by scrumper 11y ago
Sort of. I used to use a cheapo Wacom tablet with a painting app for online WebEx demos a few years ago; I'd flip from whatever thing I was demo'ing to a new desktop with a blank raster file open and draw explanatory diagrams. It
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by scrumper 11y ago
Hmm, seems to require Pandoc? I'd like a nice LaTeX CV template as I can't find the one I used 15 years ago so therefore can't make changes, but don't fancy working with (the entirely appropriately named in this case) YA
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by scrumper 11y ago
Depends on the ship of course, but this wouldn't have worked on at least one of the naval vessels I've visited. Common on newer ships are electric drives, where diesel or gas turbine engines are connected to generators instead of
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by scrumper 11y ago
Wow. Never heard of 'Suspended' before; sad I missed it as I was the right age.
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by scrumper 11y ago
The asbestos was stripped in the '90s, so that problem has gone. I'm quite sure there are all kinds of other nasties there though. Maybe Paul Allen will get involved. He likes large boats and has the capital to finance a refurbish
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by scrumper 11y ago
Isn't this article saying rather the opposite, namely that these people are willing to endure pretty horrible conditions in order to maintain some stability for their families? You can argue about whether or not it'd be better for
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by scrumper 11y ago
I'd never thought about a favorite piece of Apollo tech, but you make a strong case: the LM is pretty amazing. The MAV will have to do all that and a lot more besides, and in a much bigger gravity well, and with an atmosphere, and for
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by scrumper 11y ago
Stretching the definition of "killer workout" but it's good advice. Better (much) than nothing, and once you get a taste for zero-equipment bodyweight exercises there's lot more you can add.
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by scrumper 11y ago
I never even discovered that impressive spec! Buried in all the BS.
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by scrumper 11y ago
Thingy itself is interesting but that website! It goes on, and on, and on, and on, in an almost endless stream of pseudo-intellectual, grandiose gibberish. Needs a brutal edit, and then what's left needs rewriting by an English-speakin
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by scrumper 11y ago
Agreed. Lack of native client is a hard deal breaker for me. (There isn't a native client; it talks about 'made with mobile in mind' as well as the comment you called out above. Screenshots are web-ish as well. Otherwise the
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by scrumper 11y ago
This is exactly the car I want: a six seat electric car with enough space for my wife and me, our two kids, a brace of grandparents, a stroller, pack & play, whatever crap we buy from the county fair we visit, and enough range for a wee
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by scrumper 11y ago
See for example Paris's recent (yesterday?) "no car day" in the center. The city's usual blanket of smog is gone. France of course having the highest %age of diesel cars in its passenger fleet of any country.

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