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by sizzzzlerz 6mo ago
GCNP is my absolute favorite park but it is definitely hard to get to know. Much of its charm is below the rims. I've done 4 multiday hikes from different trailheads on each rim as well as a 15 day dory trip on the Colorado. There a nu
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by sizzzzlerz 6mo ago
even though the concepts are straightforward, the implementation requires great care in order to maintain and extract the required precision. Throw that tech into space takes everything to an even higher level requiring radiation hardening,
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by sizzzzlerz 6mo ago
At my very first professional EE position, in 1978, there was an older staff member, PhD, kind of a professor type, who was programming in APL. Naturally curious, I asked him about it and what the strange symbols on the keyboard meant. His
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by sizzzzlerz 6mo ago
That has been the methodology of businesses since the mid 20th century. And you know what? It works! Really well!
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by sizzzzlerz 6mo ago
I think you could apply this to most, if not all, billionaires in the world today.
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by sizzzzlerz 7mo ago
Chapter 3 - United States of America b. July 4, 1776, d. January 20, 2024. It was good while it lasted.
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by sizzzzlerz 7mo ago
Imagine that.
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by sizzzzlerz 7mo ago
Somebidy convinced ol' bonespurs this would be a good idea, win him accolations, maybe a peace prize as well. Being the dunce he is with no analytical ability, sense of historical precedence, nor a fucking clue how to organize, plan, c
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by sizzzzlerz 7mo ago
Or in airplanes, nuclear power plants, spacecraft, CAT scanners, ECGs, traffic control systems, navigation devices, warehouse management systems, banking. Feel free to add your own.
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by sizzzzlerz 7mo ago
Who fixes code that gets rejected? Do you simply try again and hope or does someone go into this computer-generated code that they didn't write and do the equivalent of battlefield triage? And what are they going to do when they'v
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by sizzzzlerz 8mo ago
They should fit in well as MS has no quality.
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by sizzzzlerz 8mo ago
The year was 1978. A young engineer, just out of school with a still-warm BSEE degree, is working at his new job where programming was performed using punch cards or over the phone line with a acoustically coupled modem. After 3 or so month
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by sizzzzlerz 9mo ago
I was wondering the same thing. I would have thought every possible combination of parameters would have been tried by now. I guess it just goes to show you that your code is never really complete.
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by sizzzzlerz 9mo ago
Knowing that some classified program exists is one thing. Knowing technical details, capabilities, missions, targeting, is a whole nother. One can read about such black programs from a number of sources, Bamford's Puzzle Palace is one.
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by sizzzzlerz 9mo ago
Not to worry. Unlike trump, I didn't remove classified info from the SCIF and store it in my bathroom or share it with Russian dinner guests. I hold my oaths seriously.
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by sizzzzlerz 9mo ago
This blows me away. I worked on systems that processed the signals from these satellites at the ground sites. At the time, these were highly classified, requiring background investigations and a polygraph to be granted access to know about
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by sizzzzlerz 9mo ago
We have definitive proof of that viz a vis, trump and his idiot magats.
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by sizzzzlerz 9mo ago
You mean those memes stating "The beatings will continue until morale improves" aren't effective?
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by sizzzzlerz 9mo ago
I started running SETI back in 1999 when it first came out. I ran it on both my personal machines and even had it running on several servers I controlled at work. I probably ran it for several years before losing interest, pulling it off of
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by sizzzzlerz 9mo ago
In 1978, I was at my first engineering job after getting my BSEE. The company had set up a small lab that had variety of small computers, including a KIM-1. It also had an Apple II, a CROMEMCO computer, and a Pet, plus one or two others. A
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by sizzzzlerz 9mo ago
When Keith goes, science, like the Universe itself, will be dead, cold, and gone.
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by sizzzzlerz 9mo ago
Jimmi Hendrix, Janice Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Kobain, and Bon Scott would all fit the profile. All died young of substance abuse. But then we have Keith Richards which no one can explain.
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by sizzzzlerz 10mo ago
He lives in the same home in Omaha that he had in the 60's. BH does not own any corporate jets but they do own NetJets that sells/leases fractional shares of their jet fleet of which Buffet uses for his travel.
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by sizzzzlerz 10mo ago
BH share holder here. Thanks, Warren. You made me a ton of money. Forever grateful.
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by sizzzzlerz 10mo ago
Because American drivers have a sense of entitlement that precludes them having to obey yield signs, believing that their excursion out is vastly more important than yours, allowing them to blast through without slowing or stopping and then
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by sizzzzlerz 10mo ago
I'd just begun my first professional engineering job after college. The company I was working for had a mainframe computer on which there was a copy of Adventure. When I discovered the game, there were a number of late nights playing i
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by sizzzzlerz 10mo ago
My chain had slipped off the rear sprocket, wedged itself between the gear and the frame. I forgot my toolkit and I was unable to free it. I was miles out of town so a walk back was going to take hours. A guy on a motorcycle rode by, looked
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by sizzzzlerz 10mo ago
FAFO next up, small pox and polio, brought to you by the those medical pros, kennedy and trump. enjoy!
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by sizzzzlerz 11mo ago
I had never heard of this before I saw something announcing this years adventure. It looked interesting so I gave it a try, doing 2024. I had a blast. In concept, its very similar to the Euler Project but oriented more towards programming r
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by sizzzzlerz 11mo ago
What are the police to do when some insane sovcit refuses to exit the car over a speeding ticket? Those windows aren’t going to break themselves.

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