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by thrill 4y ago
I flew about 14 years out of my career and I had 2800 hours flying fighters, and was anywhere from surface to 50,000+ feet. This is low-time compared to the people who flew heavies (tankers and transport). My cancer was not diagnosed unti
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by thrill 4y ago
There doesn't seem to be any compensation for the vastly greater spending on administration in colleges. Yale's non-instructional spending has grown 3 times faster than the cost of tuition in the last two decades. Is that sort o
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by thrill 4y ago
"However, the moon will not be properly recognized by the camera and Scene Optimizer technology if it is obscured by clouds, or if the moon object itself is the side that is not visible from the Earth." Do not choose the Samsung f
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by thrill 4y ago
Finally, we have hit on how to teach AIs patience.
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by thrill 4y ago
Scheissefreude.
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by thrill 4y ago
It'll be worse. Present law requires EVs to also make artificial irritating noise in either direction.
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by thrill 4y ago
Estimates are 3 million Uyghurs are involuntarily in camps right now - but I guess some would call that not being homeless.
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by thrill 4y ago
No "stablecoin" is ever going to actually be stable and fully liquid when there's multiple middlemen with their own agendas between the coin and the eponymous backing.
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by thrill 4y ago
IME, business "leaders" follow the crowd even more than venture capitalists. If AWS gets frequent glowing praise in CFO Magazine, then by golly, we're going to move to the cloud and "save a bundle". Make enough si
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by thrill 4y ago
A tip of the hat to those with special medical letters for airport security scans.
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by thrill 4y ago
"Think you need to separate between Russia and the Putin regime." Once the Russian people can do that, the rest of us can too.
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by thrill 4y ago
Ahem.
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by thrill 4y ago
Yeah, I'd replaced the cord with one that could reach anywhere in the room or outside into the hall.
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by thrill 4y ago
Same. I was standing outside my dorm room on the phone with my shirt off (back when that would garner more than a few long glances from some), and my future wife was breaking school regs and shortcutting unescorted through the males-only d
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by thrill 4y ago
Long ago, I lived in Alamogordo, NM. My wife and I got a Christmas card from my mother, never one for details, addressed simply to "my last name, Alamo, Mexico" - no zip, nothing. Somehow, it got to us. I always guessed it was
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by thrill 4y ago
5000 year old fish would probably be excellent fish sauce by now
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by thrill 4y ago
The reader should educate themselves if they find material differing from their preconceptions.
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by thrill 4y ago
Saying "the corn will be grown anyway" is not done in good faith. The corn is grown because it is profitable to do so. Remove subsidies and the corn will not be grown - something else that is profitable will be grown.
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by thrill 4y ago
Well played.
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by thrill 4y ago
The judge missed an opportunity to apply a reasonable punitive damage and rectify the man's apparent willingness to cause inconvenience and risk to others due to his own unpreparedness. A sentence ordering the man to pay for and compl
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by thrill 4y ago
"If I ever go back to PC-land, it'll be to an underpowered device from a business-oriented line." If I ever need a PC again, it'll be by running Parallels on a Mac Air.
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by thrill 4y ago
it's not safe.
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Recovery at California's most beleaguered reservoir(cnn.com)
44 points by thrill 4y ago|34 comments
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by thrill 4y ago
You have to clock the "slideshow" to get to the TikTok videos. The first, and only, one I watched was some young person yell-mumbling her corrections to the system (and phone camera) without us ever seeing if she was at all cohere
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by thrill 4y ago
I sure have heard a lot about how I haven't heard about it.
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by thrill 4y ago
No, they don't. I did this for a career.
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by thrill 4y ago
No, they don't. Most peacetime pilots would likely fire one missile during their entire careers if they were lucky.
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by thrill 4y ago
Even if you do tell people the "truth", they'll cheerfully make anything up that gets more clicks.
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by thrill 4y ago
Yeah, but they travel in pods of 42.
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by thrill 4y ago
"Your company suffers more harm when you take away something dear to a user than you gain in benefit by providing something equally valuable to them or others." Google Reader.

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