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by wrycoder 4y ago
When the UK electrified 50 years ago, how was the electricity generated? I'm thinking, mostly from coal (67% in 1991). Currently, electricity generation in the UK is 43% renewable (I'm including hydro and "bio-energy"),
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Tractor/trailers, locomotives, heavy construction equipment, ships, and boilers for residential heat don’t run on gasoline. Without diesel, the economy stops.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33424607
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Spoof on https://www.openbsd.org/
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Never heard of rap, I guess. And the world lionizes its leaders.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Even protected accounts?
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Pshaw. tomsrtbt runs great off a floppy [0] [0] http://www.toms.net/rb/tomsrtbt.FAQ
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by wrycoder 4y ago
You use two semi-stiff snake tapes with hooks on the ends. The idea is to snag the hooks. The biggest skill is you have to hold your jaw just right when you do it. Then, it’s a piece of cake.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Do it like the real high class cable installers do: run the wires on the outside of the house and just drill through the walls where you want the drops. Looks fine from the inside!
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by wrycoder 4y ago
You would want to think very carefully about giving Twitodon these rights to your Twitter account: Things this App can view... People who follow you and people who you follow. All the Tweets you can view, including Tweets from protected ac
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by wrycoder 4y ago
How about closing Twitter for three days, starting two days before the election. Twiliday for the staff!
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by wrycoder 4y ago
But they can’t necessarily email you, given Google’s procedures regarding “spam”, i.e. anything from a small email server.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Shades of Freenode.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
That is not groveling. It's an excellent message to his advertisers.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Open circuit, they merely generate a small voltage that blocks carrier drift, and thereby, useful current.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
> It is the town square for the elite (politicians, celebrities, experts) Only for a subset of those elites who conform to certain ideological views. The rest have been actively censored or banned from Twitter. > There isn't
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by wrycoder 4y ago
When I frequented Portola Valley, we called it six months of mud, six months of dust. Those golden hills are actually brown.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Thanks for the good wishes! I hate to miss Fall in New Hampshire.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Above the law. This monetary penalty is trivial to Meta.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
I just had it for a month. Then I caught something else in my weakened state, and I’m not back to normal yet.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Sure. If you looked like a student or a professor, i.e. you looked like you belonged there. But, I never noticed anyone who didn’t. As an engineer employed on Route 128, I often went in to MIT to access the libraries and seminars. I’ve neve
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by wrycoder 4y ago
It will revert very quickly. In two hundred years (outside of the dead cities and major highways), you'll have to look hard to find traces of the old civilization.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Seymour Cray dug a tunnel to nowhere from his basement out into his backyard. He claimed that’s where he got his best ideas.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Well, email is used by some, and there's no search or big directories. Isolated communities that hear about each other by diffusion is not a bad idea.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
After you leave, and later the accountant leaves, that business is going to be in a world of hurt trying to find an accountant who understands APL (or an APL programmer plus an accountant who together can understand the previous accountant&
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Maybe I missed it, but I don't see anything about discoverability. That's a big problem for servers on residential IP ranges.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
I think we are all getting there.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
That's one endpoint. Another is Detroit.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
In the old days, Grandma took care of the kids. Later, the kids took care of Grandma. And everyone worked the family property together. After the (skimmed) pensions promised by governments go insolvent (due to lack of young people who had
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by wrycoder 4y ago
LOL that was a Procmail flashback from twenty years ago! What happened to Bayesian detection and AI?

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