vmh1928

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by vmh1928 4y ago
Plenty of it in big companies but you won't see a new release. The existing 8.5.5 and 9 will be supported through 2030 but customers are being encouraged to migrate their existing WAS apps to Liberty on OpenShift. There are several mi
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by vmh1928 4y ago
Given how suggestible people are one would expect the power of suggestion to show up elsewhere. For instance, the area of gender identity. Just like the "false memory" craze in psychology back in the 80's and 90's, toda
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by vmh1928 4y ago
Assuming the data is accurate it can be used to show disparities between groups for a variety of situations - traffic stops, arrests, jail vs. diversion programs, charge stacking, etc..
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by vmh1928 4y ago
When I was going to school in the late 70's we toured the archeology lab at Cal State Northridge. The guide pointed out a section of pre-45 steel ship's propeller shaft (about 1.5 - 2' in diameter, hole through the center) th
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by vmh1928 4y ago
In 2012 it was so low barge traffic came to a halt. https://nation.time.com/2012/08/23/the-big-dry-up-where-the-... and https://stateclimatologist.web.illinois.edu/2012/11/27/wh
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by vmh1928 4y ago
That's how the Third Reich operated.
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by vmh1928 4y ago
Thanks for citing a Washington Examiner opinion piece as evidence of your assertion. Sometimes teaching kids about sexuality is meant to educate them so they don't grow up ignorant an can make informed decisions. Some people are agai
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by vmh1928 4y ago
bullet 2 is at odds with your initial statement. The data collected are from interactions with the smart speaker. Here is the opening sentence of the abstract: "Abstract—Smart speakers collect voice input that can be used to infer se
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by vmh1928 5y ago
Perhaps Orwell couldn't envision the technological capability that would allow monitoring of the entire population. Plus he hadn't seen the soft revolutions that occurred in the former Soviet Block, driven by masses of common peo
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by vmh1928 5y ago
To the conspiratorial mind-set the world is orchestrated. Nothing happens by chance or due to the chaotic nature of life. All is planned and controlled. Putin is orchestrating everything, starting a war just to have sanctions enacted to d
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by vmh1928 5y ago
How many btu? How many sq feet or meters are you trying to heat or cool? Are you in the U.S.? What brand? $2500 seems low or for a small living space. copied from the web (so you know it's true.) "30 BTU of heating output per 1
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by vmh1928 5y ago
back before legalized grow operations: https://www.postandcourier.com/news/marijuana-bust-shines-li...
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by vmh1928 5y ago
Why post a link to an Ottawa Police tweet about looking for people actively involved in the civil unrest there? If there was an organized conspiracy by right-wing US crisis actors to create chaos and bring downtown Ottawa to a stop, is it
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by vmh1928 5y ago
Yes. Of course you probably wrote this because people are saying that deaths with Covid are not the same as deaths from Covid.
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by vmh1928 5y ago
This is a good paper on the theory and history of compiler development. (from 1997) https://keybase.theophile.me/info/morgan-optimizing-compiler...
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by vmh1928 5y ago
Always good to have a copy of this along: https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/bustcard_eng_20100630.pdf
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by vmh1928 5y ago
sorry, meant to say 1200 B.C. - 1100 B.C., not 2000 B.C. (or B.C.E. if you like.)
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by vmh1928 5y ago
"1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed" by Cline is also good. Focusing on the "sea peoples" is almost a distraction. The real story is about the world of city-states and trading relationships in 2000 B.C. and the s
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by vmh1928 5y ago
My bad, apparently argon is also used as a fire suppressant.
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by vmh1928 5y ago
I'm suspicious of any "mood" discussion that isn't based on brain chemicals and the different receptor sites in the brain. Concepts like "consciousness" are unscientific, subjective and open to such a wide ran
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by vmh1928 5y ago
I'm going with Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce as giants who's shoulders we stand on. A particular generation of chip is just one stepping stone of the many along the way. https://www.keranews.org/health-science-tech&
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by vmh1928 5y ago
Another aspect of this, they had to listen for their whole shift to try and catch a transmission. They didn't have recorders or scanners, just sit on a known frequency and wait for the Japanese to transmit something. And when the tran
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by vmh1928 5y ago
That's pretty much what Morse Code is, listening for the sound unique to the combination of dots and dashes. You don't count the dots and dashes you listen for the sound that combination makes.
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by vmh1928 5y ago
She didn't decrypt the messages, just listen to the Morse Code and write down (or use the special typewriter,) to record the message. That document was then forwarded to the actual code breakers. The women listeners would have no ide
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by vmh1928 5y ago
A good book that describes the information provided to allied leaders via the intercepts and decryption of the Japanese diplomatic Purple codes is given in the book "Marching Orders" by Bruce Lee. ISBN 0-517-57576-0 (c.1995) Lee
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by vmh1928 5y ago
In the US, with a Roth, if you start withdrawing at 59 1/2 the earnings are not taxed. If you contribute $100,000 (after tax) the Roth and it grows to $300,000 you can withdraw the $200,000 earning tax free. (you can also withdraw you
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by vmh1928 5y ago
Pre-internet people subscribed to specialized periodicals. Home Power and Mother Earth News were two. Both were filled with case studies and DIY projects and the back pages had "send $5 for plans to build your own low-head hydro.&quo
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by vmh1928 5y ago
I've always thought if you paid people in large orgs a bonus for every task completed early you'd get a whole different sort of behavior.
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by vmh1928 5y ago
Some statistics about Arizona's water sources and where it goes. 72% of the water is used by agriculture. 6% to industry 22% to municipal use http://www.arizonawaterfacts.com/water-your-facts But yes, water usage i
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by vmh1928 5y ago
It's complicated but yes, Islamic scholars had a role to play in preserving Greek philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-greek/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/4357727

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