wombatpm

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by wombatpm 10mo ago
CEO’s always say they are not planning to leave up until the moment they leave.
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by wombatpm 10mo ago
Especially if Norwegians are shooting at it from a helicopter.
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
They should be doing that somewhere inhospitable to prove out the technology and concept. Set up in the arctic and work only with loads of materials that correspond to a starship load. But then again no one is really serious about Mars.
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
Nothing like the wasted time while Clippie loads animations from disk because someone in the workgroup turned it back on while searching for help in Word. Word 6 was already bringing out Macs to their knees, Clippie just added extra pain.
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
* Are you sure you don’t want to name any friends? Only a communist traitor wants to die
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
I worked for a fortune 300 company that engaged in a Business Process Redesign initiative. After spending 90 million on the project they pulled the plug. My takeaway was that the project was doomed because it was named wrong. Should have be
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
Chicago police and fire had a lot of problems with their entrance exams and promotion exams. Don’t know if they were strictly IQ tests.
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
I don’t know. I have the same background. But I would think lack of falls and pressure on your heart would be a positive. My mother-in-law went down hill quickly after 80 when she fell and broke her leg. I would assume it was a one way trip
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
Our pediatrician didn’t want us to give Tylenol unless the fever was over 99.5 and not to bring them in unless it was over 101 with Tylenol.
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
Congress will notice when old politburo members start living on the moon base healthy for another 20 years
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
Companies and governments use to do testing all the time. A number of lawsuits about those practices being discriminatory resulted in them going away.
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
Just announced,He is not completing his class.
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
Only if you developed a method to give people the disease that you can cure. Then you have a built in market with patent protection.
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
Animal models have flaws. They have doubled the lifespan of the naked mole rat, which has done bupkis for humans.
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
RPN is great. Start at the deepest level and work your way up. I used to load my HP15c with common formula for engineering and a basic polynomial root finder.
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
> They won't actively support a feature that little people use because they don't have the people to support it. Companies always cut too deep. If only they were making enough money to properly support Chrome. /sarcasm
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
If I could find a way to turn LLM training into some sort of proof of work crypto mining I could cut the energy use in half!
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
AI seems like a rerun of the Eternal September problem that eventually killed internet news groups and a lot of email discussion lists.
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
Empire was a blast. Top players instinctively knew how ships would move and would key in commands much much faster than the display would update. One second you are in orbit, the next refresh you are dead and the planet has been taken. Empi
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
So no warrant, no probable cause beyond looking Latino. So it seems we have replaced stopping people for driving while black with stopping people for working while brown.
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
Next generation. You saw that Harvard cut grad admissions by 75% - even in STEM
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
ISP enjoys support from the white rascisty southern part of IL as a bulwark against the Chicago Police and all of the brown people there.
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
That’s cool. I have one of the big wheel iPods with the 60 GB drive and the 30pin connector. Still going strong on its radio speaker doc. I also had a zune that has been lost to time.
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
The children might be citizens, but ICE seizes them so that the immigrant parents have to show up and claim them. Chicago schools are reporting lower attendance as a result. We just had a case where a daycare provider was hauled out despite
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by wombatpm 11mo ago
True masters of security realize all software is flawed, and therefore write none.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
And it had nothing to do with her being a vacuous idiot.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Sorry you bought a Zune instead of an iPod.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
New refrigerant rules went into place in January of this year. That alone tipped the scales on my AC compressor repair becoming an AC replacement.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Prevent false claims, educate people on the foolishness of parleys?
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by wombatpm 1y ago
I remember doing image maps, splitting large images up into pieces, placing them in table cells and adding links to each cell as a poor man's GUI

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