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by wnissen 6y ago
I hope there's a bit more detail than that. I have seen numbers in the past that the US and Europe together represent only a relatively small amount of plastic, but perhaps not if you account for transfers of recycled material. I thoug
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by wnissen 6y ago
They definitely block all of AWS, are you using a VPN or similar aggregated connection?
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by wnissen 6y ago
Forget the boards, the LA Times has one (1) black reporter out of 90 covering local news. LA is 8% black. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/15/874530954/rancor-erupts-in-la...
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by wnissen 6y ago
Which is exactly why McDonalds menus list "cones" and "sundaes". Not "ice cream cones". It's a frozen dairy dessert that is not legally ice cream. To be fair, McDonald's version is superior to any oth
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by wnissen 6y ago
Fruit flies eat fruit and are harmless (if gross) to ingest. Black flies eat feces and rotting flesh and transmit all manner of diseases.
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by wnissen 6y ago
Just a note, the machines are not broken, they have shut themselves down for sanitary reasons. Ice cream, as a food that is very close to neutral in pH and without much in the way of preservatives, is a common source of listeria bacteria. T
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by wnissen 6y ago
I can hear pitch, but barely. 23/32, and some of those were random guesses. I'm in the 16th percentile! I know that I can't hear pitch very well, and my musically oriented partner says that I always sing "weird" har
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by wnissen 6y ago
Yeah, I wonder that, too. Best ISP in the world sonic.net is still reselling Fiber To The Node (FTTN) AT&T 50Mbps DSL in my area. It's still really unfortunate, we only have one option (Comcast) for truly fast Internet. I will say
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by wnissen 6y ago
The classic example is wheels on a car. You model one wheel with tire, rim, bolts, etc., then create 4 "instances", at different locations, that are references to the wheel. A tremendous boon for correctness and productivity. Imag
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by wnissen 6y ago
I spent the entire month of September 2016 flagging every single political post, whether it was a news article, friend's status, shared post, whatever, as "See less like this". It was completely ineffective. At the end of the
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by wnissen 6y ago
Yep. Predictions are obviously hard, but there's no wind to blow the smoke away, so I don't know why it is routinely predicted to do so 48 hours in the future. There is enough smoke piled up over the ocean (at least to judge from
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by wnissen 6y ago
I had almost the same thing happen. Turned on my Mac Mini one day and it just could not see the SSD. Not even in Recovery mode. Took it in and the “Genius” tested it and said that the drive wasn’t working. They offered to replace my 1TB SSD
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by wnissen 6y ago
When I do that, I can't get directions, though. It refers me to Bing, GMaps, HERE (the Nokia one), and OpenStreetMap.
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by wnissen 6y ago
People don't realize that antitrust did not originally apply only to the largest few companies in a market. Sure, it was used to break up Standard Oil and Ma Bell, notorious monopolies that openly used their monopoly powers to charge s
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by wnissen 6y ago
Yep. The kelp forests in California have been devastated in the last few years, due to "sea star wasting disease". The sea-star population crashes, sea stars are a no longer a major predator of purple sea urchins, sea urchins like
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by wnissen 6y ago
Sample pictures are on Github. https://github.com/xyzzy/qrpicture/tree/master/www.qrpicture...
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by wnissen 6y ago
Postal officials in Brooklyn testified that ballots had only a 40% chance of getting the postmark from the day they were mailed. That's a big deal to me. The whole thing was made much worse by the fact that election officials only orde
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by wnissen 6y ago
This is the only sensible solution. I don't know of a single thing that I could buy with a nickel, let alone a penny. I think there is some candy that's still sold for a dime, so having a penny worth that much would have at least
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by wnissen 6y ago
Linpack is pretty lightweight as far as benchmarks go. You need some memory bandwidth but not much network at all, just reduces which are pretty efficient. It's not a good proxy for the most challenging applications, but lives on becau
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by wnissen 6y ago
The weird thing is that even with Cisco $$$ Webex still isn't as good as Zoom at streaming. I wanted to watch a Youtube stream simultaneously with friends and tried it out with Webex, Hangouts, and Zoom. Hangouts was unwatchable, maybe
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by wnissen 6y ago
Pointers are super hard if you've not dealt with indirection before. Especially in C/C++ when you can dereference pretty much anything and you get a runtime segfault with no other diagnostic. Do you not remember when that was myst
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by wnissen 6y ago
Yep! I think Microsoft lulled people into a false sense that they weren't doing anything with Office, while the Google suite gradually gained features (and to be fair, does 90% of what a normal person would ever do with documents). But
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by wnissen 6y ago
I know what you're saying. That is a very respectful way of honoring a wreck. And the treasure hunting that goes on in shipwrecks usually seems like well-financed looting. At the same time, in 50 years when most of Titanic has been con
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by wnissen 6y ago
I just had a package from Amazon that literally weighed less than the product that was supposed to be in it. I peeled off the shipping label and found another one underneath that was labeled "weight error". Someone had apparently
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by wnissen 6y ago
Pretty sure the value is negative. You couldn't just throw them in the trash, you'd have to pay someone to take them. 350 nm process, which has gone down almost a factor of 100 by now (apparently 3nm is in prototype), and that&#x2
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by wnissen 6y ago
Mini-Mainframe? Isn't that a minicomputer? Am I missing something?
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by wnissen 7y ago
Interesting! I have had St. Clair's and would put it in the middle as a very good butter but not one that I'd go to the ends of the earth for. I like Clover a lot but my wife finds it, like Kerrygold, verging on fishy. My favorite
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by wnissen 7y ago
You have to add $75 a year to the operating cost of these phones, for AirPods, which appear to have a design life of about 18 months, max. I am very frustrated as the SE is really getting to end of life. I have bought 3 of them in the past
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by wnissen 7y ago
As it notes in the article, wearing a mask can be bad if it causes you to touch your face more. Though at the moment there has not been a single documented case of "smear" (person to object to person) transmission. And there was a
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by wnissen 7y ago
Serious question, have you ever used AirBnB's customer service? It's so spare as to be nonexistent. They make Google look high-touch. The host is providing 95% of the service. AirBnB is only there if the host won't answer mes

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