technothrasher

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by technothrasher 3mo ago
> But if you're not desperate and you took money from someone else and can't pay it back? Theft. Bankruptcy is a civil matter, not a criminal matter. Charging somebody with theft, whether appropriate or not, does not resolve t
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by technothrasher 3mo ago
Hard to be unexpected for the many of us who lived it. It wasn't that long ago. I remember first seeing a ColecoVison, which shipped with Donkey Kong, and being amazed that, unlike on the Atari 2600, the home version of Donkey Kong ac
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by technothrasher 3mo ago
What kind of timekeeping do you consider "junk"? I'm currently wearing a $50 Chinese watch with a knock-off Seiko automatic movement in it, and I just now timed it out of curiosity at -5s/day.
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by technothrasher 3mo ago
Wikipedia has an entry that lists a few court cases, mostly showing that this strategy, as you surmise, fails to stand up in court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
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by technothrasher 3mo ago
I noticed that when I used one of these OSM based nagivation apps (I forget which one now), it suggested I leave my house by heading over my retaining wall, driving down a wooded hill, through a swamp, and then onto a nearby road. But bec
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by technothrasher 3mo ago
The title doesn't match the paper though. People had already decoded the bird calls. What the paper was giving evidence to was that the birds themselves are cognitively decoding the calls.
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by technothrasher 3mo ago
It means exactly what I expected. The wireless connectivity has been removed (for regulatory compliance in situations where wireless isn't allowed), but wired connectivity is still there.
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by technothrasher 3mo ago
My 2025 Audi A3 is pretty good with buttons and knobs. The only time I need to touch the screen (other than for CarPlay) is to tell it, "no, you still cannot steal my data" every time I turn the car on.
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by technothrasher 3mo ago
> we don't end up having 12 children a day die from gun violence Note that this definition of "children" includes ages up 24 years old. Not that the US doesn't have a gun violence problem, but pretending 24 year olds
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by technothrasher 3mo ago
The scanner manufacturers proudly advertise that their systems dump the scanned IDs to a back-end database for storage and later use.
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by technothrasher 3mo ago
I believe it was 1997 when I saw a URL on a can of Pepsi and thought, "yep, that was nice, but it's all over now."
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by technothrasher 3mo ago
Well, heck, why not? The more typical modern usage of the word henge means an earthwork consisting of a ring-shaped bank with a ditch in the middle. It was taken from Stonehenge, and note that Stonehenge does not fit that definition of heng
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by technothrasher 3mo ago
> These kids entire futures are impacted by these scores. Has that changed since I was in school? After I got my degree, not a single person or entity in the workforce ever asked for my grades. They just wanted to see the degree.
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by technothrasher 3mo ago
> DRM-free classics that are out of copyright. I started down this road with a few books about two years ago, and I have so many now on my list to read that I hardly ever get to reading a modern book. I read a lot from Standard Ebooks.
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by technothrasher 3mo ago
> Upper deck, perhaps a different story. I only ever flew on the upper deck in coach configuration, and the last time I did that was about twenty five years ago on SAA. It wasn't anything special, but it was a little quieter.
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
Somewhat apropos today, the solstices/equinoxes are by their nature celebrated at the same time of year universally. Granted, not everyone celebrates them, but you couldn't ever get everybody to celebrate anything.
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
I also have a gay porn doppelganger who didn't show up. Must be a conspiracy against gay porn.
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
I was told I had a roll on "The Walking Dead". Interesting that it decided I was an actor, but didn't list the one adult film that somebody with my name was actually in.
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
> what you in the USA would call an LLC "Inc" is probably closer than "LLC". While an LLC is a type of joint stock company, it is a specific form with a pass-through tax structure and restrictions on foreign owners
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
I believe the only Audi car made in Mexico is the Q5. My US model 2025 A3, btw, is dead on (+/- 1 mph).
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
> Wrong answer. The ice cream and chocolate store was in competition with every other store in the mall. Time or money spent at the GAP can't be time or money spent here. I would have argued that this is also the wrong answer, as wi
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
It all dates back to the Andrew Messaging System at CMU, developed in the 1980's. Originally the format was "<username>+<keyword>+<args>@example.net" where the mail server would interpret the keyword and ar
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
I was at my desk here at work (yes, believe it or not, I still work at the same place I did 25 years ago) and as soon as it happened, all the major newspaper websites got overwhelmed and became unreachable. I ended up getting news from the
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
Wear whatever makes you happy without apology. Rolex, Timex, Apple Watch. Whatever. I find a large inverse relation between people who care about the cost of the watch you wear and people who are actually interested in the mechanical func
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
Related I guess, but these celebrity "bling" watches are entirely the least interesting part of horology.
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
I find there is something indescribably fascinating with mechanical timepieces. I'm more of a clock guy than a watch guy, though I've had plenty of watches apart, and the two disciplines merge in many places. I've learned s
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
This reads so much like an urban legend, that I had to poke around a bit. It appears that it was a piece of fiction written by a Williston Fisk for Harper's Weekly in 1898, and has been given various backstories as time went on.
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
I'm reminded of when my son, who was six at the time, came into the house and announced that he and the neighbor's boy, nine, were building a bomb, and that he needed to get some stuff from the pantry. When I investigated what ex
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
I ended up with an interest, since I was a toddler my parents tell me, that I cannot stay local for- wild cats. Unfortunately, I have to travel the entire globe to be able to see them in their natural habitats. But no matter where I go, t
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
I don't think I really push it, but I find it just right for self-hosting my calendar, contacts, photos, and files.

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