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by stergios 5y ago
I have a never used clear Enron coffee mug, and a nice Overture (previously goto.net) gym bag.
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by stergios 5y ago
A day later, and after I received an email from Duck telling me the feature was now operational, it now works as intended. Seems like there was a light delay in rolling out, or perhaps a bit too early PR.
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by stergios 5y ago
It is not working for me either. I have gmail as the hidden address behind duck. When I replied to a test message, the email did not "route" through duck.com. It went directly to the originator, where my gmail address was revea
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by stergios 6y ago
My guess is they used something akin to a laser level to identify the high and low spots. Then you grade down the highs and fill in the lows with the machines.
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by stergios 6y ago
I read that in the voice of Cecil B. DeMille narrating in The Ten Commandments. Well done.
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by stergios 6y ago
My kids loved reading the graphic novel version of The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds. They continue to read it once a month or so.
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by stergios 6y ago
Did anyone notice how little green space Siena has? The Houston interchange appears to have 100x the amount of green space as the entire city of Siena! Quite ironic! How was a city allowed to develop with almost no green space?
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by stergios 6y ago
The intersection of Greek and Korean names was the empty set! We went with Greek first name, Korean middle name, and Greek last name. For the first names, we made sure there are reasonable English renderings of the Greek, which unfortunate
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by stergios 7y ago
I think the original Quicken is in good hands. Eric Dunn, the CEO of the new company maintaining and enhancing the original version of Quicken, has a long and successful history with Quicken. His involvement with Quicken goes back to 1985
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by stergios 7y ago
A friend once told me "Python is the Visual Basic of the Internet". That still brings a smile to my face.
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by stergios 7y ago
Gary was also one of the first and primary authors of CLIPS. If I recall correctly, a summer intern in the AI section under the Mission Planning Directorate, whose name I have forgotten, developed a prototype or a proof-of-concept of CLIPS.
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by stergios 8y ago
Column arrays have been in postgreSQL since 9.1 at least. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/arrays.html
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by stergios 8y ago
This may not be a canonical application of a data model, but expressing graph queries using "Cypher", the graph query language invented by Neo4j, is very intuitive to my mind. I find the use of ASCII art to help visualize the rel
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by stergios 8y ago
"Design Thinking" is a semi-recent moniker for design methodology centered around product design. Its real value is for younger and inexperienced designers. It is easily accessible even by high-school students. [1] If you are a
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by stergios 8y ago
Even after Yahoo missed the chance to buy Google, they missed other significant chances to control Google. Yahoo bought Overture (previously goto.net) which had the patents on internet advertising. I recall Google paying $300M to Yahoo fo
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by stergios 8y ago
Mig welders are used as temporary power supplies all the time. They allow for variable DC voltage (some offer AC), current, wave forms, and the bigger one have close to 100% duty cycle. Here's a guy using a mig welder to power a 15 ton
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by stergios 8y ago
I have built a house and a garage. For the garage, I was the GC, but for the house, I hired a GC. The garage was 500 sq ft and easy enough to manage all the subcontractors. The house was a much bigger project; an infill development, 3500
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by stergios 8y ago
The justice system is concerned with how I feel. That's why every three years I file a victim impact statement when the killer applies for parole. The review board expressly cites these statements as one of their reasons for non-rele
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by stergios 8y ago
Nonsense. The SOB who shot and killed my twin brother 31 years ago in the back of his head with a shotgun three times at point-blank range can rot in prison until he dies as far as I am concerned. Compassion like yours is for the lucky.
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by stergios 8y ago
There's an easier way to hack waze if you live on a small residential street. All one has to do is buy a $500 dollar car. Then have it "break down" in the middle of the road, essentially blocking the road. Suddenly your ca
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by stergios 9y ago
Areva Solar sells thermal power plants where the working fluids are oil and water. A challenge with solar thermal is the lower working temperature and pressure, and the inability to drive traditional size power turbines efficiently.
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by stergios 9y ago
Nice oneiric! Here's a screen grab from 1990 when we were breaking in the supercharger. http://www.marinopoulos.net/gallery2/d/15735-2/DUMP0000.gif It was a DOS program, written in C. Fritz asked me t
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by stergios 9y ago
Hey jgable, nice to meet you. We must have missed paths in Fritz's lab. I wrote the control software for that LS1!
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by stergios 9y ago
Here's Ron's company: http://ecm-co.com/ He makes state of the art ECM systems used primarily by the big auto makers.
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by stergios 9y ago
Ron is an old friend. He's a very sharp and funny guy too. Ron was on the David Letterman show and Dave was cracking up while interviewing Ron right before he ran his bug down the track at the old Altamont Dragstip https:/&#x2
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by stergios 9y ago
In the case of East Palo Alto, the disparity can be traced back to at least the prohibition era (1919). EPA was the openly "wet" town during prohibition (after the now forgotten city of Mayview's speakeasies were shutdown),
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by stergios 9y ago
Redis streams will allow for direct modeling of time series data. For example, redis-cli>XADD AAPL 1516899637000.0 open 221.25 high 222.1 low 220.90 close 221.50 volume 1121223234234 (All data is imaginary.)
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by stergios 9y ago
Yes, you are right; Germany should be included, as today Airbus is a consolidation of the European aerospace industry. My memory was clouded by the highly publicized initial wiring harness problems. The England and France teams were using
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by stergios 9y ago
Boeing most likely has already delivered the last passenger 747 ever to be built [1]. Cargo demand will keep the line alive, but at greatly reduced numbers, which in total have been 1536 units since it's commercial introduction in 197
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by stergios 11y ago
An oscillation builds up in the wing span to the point where the wing self destructs. Here's an video example from the development of the 747: http://www.airspacemag.com/videos/category/flight-today/wing

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