technothrasher

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by technothrasher 4mo ago
> a gazelle doesn’t look up at the lion that killed it by outrunning it and the snapping its neck I know this is tangential to your point, but lions don't really hunt that way. They ambush, as they could never outrun a gazelle, and
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
I don't think you've thought through what you're trying to assert. A god could make you believe anything they wanted to about the earth. So if you cannot disprove a god, then you cannot disprove the theory that the earth is
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
Even when I was teen back in the 1980s while payphones were still going strong, they weren't everywhere you wanted them to be. My mother had a standing rule that if I was going to be out past 10pm, I had to call her to let her know.
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
I had a great time at UR in the early 90’s because they had the most computing hardware per interested student in the country. I was able to relatively quickly work my way up to access to pretty much any system the school owned that I want
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
My son just finished his first year in college, and had no trouble getting decent grades without using AI while many of the kids around him were using it. At least in his humanities track, class participation is a lot of his grade, and he
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
> the framers of the Constitution believed the American people would never elect someone so criminal and unfit The framers of the Constitution were looking at a different world, where there was not the instant communication and sense of
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
Federal inheritance taxes. There are also state inheritance taxes in many states. NY, for example, kicks in at ~$7M. MA kicks in at $2M.
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
Huh, different than my experience. In the early 90's when I was in college, I was flying back and forth between Rochester and Boston several times a year because it was only slightly more expensive than driving the six hours.
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
You have to set it to lite.duckduckgo.com (or noai.duckduckgo.com) or you still get AI crap from DDG too.
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
I was in rural Northeast Spain one time and a French lady tried to get me to help her communicate with a Spanish storekeeper. Given that I only speak bits of Spanish and basically no French, and I seemed to have to the most bilingual skill
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
Real estate tax is also somewhat unpredictable year to year (except that it rarely goes down), and can be a large part of your monthly payment. We got hit with a 21% increase in taxes this year because the town voted to rebuild the high sc
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
> This Ferrari will be colossally better in terms of build quality Will it? I've owned a few Ferraris and I've driven quite a few others. They're lots of fun, but I would never describe Ferrari as a company with high bui
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
Either you were still day dreaming, or your school history class was pretty bad. That Taj Mahal story is a myth.
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by technothrasher 4mo ago
Well, it's just like this except that... oh, you said no spoilers :)
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
I went and visited the Trinity site a bunch of years back during the open house day in October. They gave us a little pamphlet at the gate that said there was no radiation danger to worry about. Then we passed signs along the way to the s
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
Avon and Servalan was the combo I liked seeing the most on screen. They had such great intellectual tension as they constantly tried to sniff each other out. But, as you say, Vila was definitely the most relatable.
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
Sad news. I just last month watched all the way through Blake's 7, which I hadn't seen since I was a kid. Vila was always my favorite as a kid, and Keating still held up.
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
And yet the pirate bay has stayed up and easy accessible to this day.
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
If you don't define your domain, "better" is vacuous of meaning, as nothing and everything is "better" than gold.
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
I've found the same thing. I'm quite left handed for most things, including writing and throwing. But when I learned to shoot rifles, I learned right handed because 1) otherwise the ejected brass can hit you, and 2) I'm right
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
Have you watched the movie, "Local Hero" that the show was inspired by? And Doc Martin is another more recent show in the same genre, and also fantastic.
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
I was a pre-teen when it came out and I loved it. We all used to watch it as a family.
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
I was always going to name my daughter Bailey after Bailey Quarters. But I never had a daughter, and my wife wouldn't let me name our son that. So the dog got the name.
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
Scarecrowbob misused a colon, which I think is why you interpreted their post the way you did. But from the other context of the post, they clearly think the opposite.
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
Clearly not all of them want to do so. My son just finished up his freshman year at college. A couple months ago he called me and told me about an interaction he had with his English composition professor. She asked the class how they we
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
It's always seemed crazy to me when people talk about "the cause" of dyslexia. There are so many brain processes involved in reading, that any number of issues could be a cause of someone's dyslexia. It's like say
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
I've heard people use that a lot, but the original metaphor was sonar not table tennis. So it is more appropriately an echo reply (which is what the ICMP return packet is called in the RFC).
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
This is not true in Illinois. Field sobriety tests before you are arrested are entirely voluntary and you can refuse them without triggering implied consent penalties.
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
One of my favorite possessions is an 18th century Japanese Sahku Dokei from the Tokugawa shogunate. It's a clock that tells time using twelve temporal hours, six for day, six for night. All the hour markers are movable, so you can ad
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
> The first was in college. I remember my friend coming home from his first year in college and telling me about how he passed a counterfeit $30 he'd found to a clueless clerk and they actually made the correct change. My wise-ass

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