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by wantoncl 5y ago
I have very little proprioceptive sense of my tongue, and when I'm at the dentist I have to consciously move it to know where it is. I basically pick a corner away from the dental instrument and touch the tip to that corner. After a mi
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by wantoncl 5y ago
I can't find it now, but there was previous discussion on HN, about the amount of atmospheric drag a balloon-launched rocket would save as not being worthwhile. Most of the orbital velocity is spent going horizontally, the vertical par
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by wantoncl 5y ago
FROSTBURG is on display at the National Cryptologic Museum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FROSTBURG Whatever your feelings about the NSA, it's an extremely cool museum, and free admission (at least when I went). T
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by wantoncl 5y ago
> Weren't Woodward and Bernstein or Daniel ellsberg conspiracy theorists? Not theorists. They researched and published actual conspiracies, based on government documentation.
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by wantoncl 5y ago
Wonder if it's for the same reasons as this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl
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by wantoncl 6y ago
Sale: Baby shoes, unworn.
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by wantoncl 6y ago
Coincidentally, Computerphile just posted this today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ7lOus1FzQ
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by wantoncl 6y ago
Considering the efforts they made to classify it, that's not surprising. Remote, possibly jungle, not particularly hospitable in any event, doesn't help people to document it.
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by wantoncl 6y ago
> Am I in the minority in thinking that if someone wants to go out into the wilderness with little or no preparation for months at a time, that it's no one else's business? You are in the minority, and it is absolutely someone
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by wantoncl 7y ago
It isn't just Unicode, Excel has been like this for every version I can remember, and I've used v5.0, possibly earlier versions (1992/93). Whenever you have the option, use tab-delimited if it ever has to go into Excel reliab
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by wantoncl 7y ago
Some of these deceptions are mentioned in Ken Follett's novel "Eye of the Needle", which was made into a movie in 1981.
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by wantoncl 8y ago
Entity Framework
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by wantoncl 8y ago
Or, just spitballing here, "fall(ing) out of the sky" perhaps.
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by wantoncl 8y ago
FWIW I had a 2001 Mazda MX-5 for 16 years/268K miles. Wrecked it unfortunately, but got a 2017 model to replace it. It was getting more expensive to keep up year after year, but parts were available and never had any major issues with
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by wantoncl 9y ago
James Cameron Presents... The Abyss Part 2 Coming Summer 2029
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by wantoncl 9y ago
Sorry this is so long, I didn't have time to write a shorter version. > Why? Credit cards are faster No. There's no electronic lookup to verify cash is valid. No swipe, no chip with cash. > safer Nope. Thanks to Target and H
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by wantoncl 10y ago
Developing code is like having an orgasm. They are primarily mental processes that require focus and concentration on specific things. Any distraction, no matter how small, will derail the entire process. Once interrupted, the person cannot
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by wantoncl 10y ago
My 2 cents: there are sites like Rentacoder.com. Are there any RentaManager or RentaCxO.com sites? Does anyone discuss off-shoring management or executive positions to save money?
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by wantoncl 10y ago
Kinda long setup but background is needed... We're a Microsoft shop, .Net application with SQL Server RDBMS on Azure Virtual Machines. We use Availability Groups (AG) for failover/redundancy and read-only copies. AG uses Windows c
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by wantoncl 10y ago
DeWitt made incredible contributions to database architectures. He's a great guy and I'm a huge fan. But that was 30 years ago. Where are today's DeWitts? He just left Microsoft's Jim Gray Labs 1-2 years ago and is now
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by wantoncl 10y ago
"Tangentially, I've always wondered why databases today still aren't capable of being self-tuning." It's still quite hard to optimize queries especially if there are numerous JOINs involved. For reference, please ch