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by zwieback 4y ago
For a long time there was a perception that Europeans are real drivers with their stick shifts and "didn’t everyone in the world think that American people were babies—with their innocence, their Disney, their inability to drive a sti
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by zwieback 4y ago
The ferries are great for bike rides, only $1 for Buena Vista and Wheatland and $3 for Canby. You can easily do all three in a day and it's beautiful countryside. Best to check before you go, they do break down from time to time.
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by zwieback 4y ago
There's "no sign of any weeds/zero biodiversity" and then there's "target the weeds that would crowd out your crop", which is definitely a problem in my raised beds.
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by zwieback 4y ago
We have 3 electrical ferries in Oregon crossing the Willamette but they use 3 overhead wires to deliver 3phase AC. Works great for short hops.
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by zwieback 4y ago
I remember coming across that - we mostly used MASM back in the day but when I found the object-oriented TASM stuff I was very tempted. Didn't really make a whole lot of sense since C++ is already pretty low-level, especially back in t
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by zwieback 4y ago
I remember Atomic Cafe, when it came out it was pretty popular in Germany, where I grew up. At the time we were assuming we'd be the first to go, being right between the two big atomic powers. Everyone I knew back then assumed there&#x
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by zwieback 4y ago
I have a Kona Sutra, really like it. I see a lot of Surly, like the one in the post, they seem to have a good track record.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Two Medieval Monks were also very interested in this topic: https://the-toast.net/2015/04/01/two-medieval-monks-invent-b...
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by zwieback 4y ago
The weird style - was it on purpose or were they really bad at drawing stuff?
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Brian Eno Has Some Actual Good News(theatlantic.com)
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by zwieback 4y ago
Oh, thanks for that tip! I was a 6502/Z80 and occasional Forth guy back in my youth so this feels both nostalgic and futuristic.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Some of the problems are real, the article mentions that sometimes having conflicting portfolios of products can be a real problem. Before the HPE split, for example, hp was forced to use HPE cloud, which was garbage, over AWS. Conversely,
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by zwieback 4y ago
I lived through all those splits as an hp employee and I think this is a very good analysis. A few more anecdotes: - When we got the news that Fiorina left you could hear "ding dong the witch is dead" being sung across the entire
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by zwieback 4y ago
Sometimes I imagine what a post-apocalyptic Mad-Max style internet would be like, I would like to see gopher, archie, ftp, irc to come back, maybe over packet radio or something.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Wow, 4 comments on this post and two are about cracked Bechstein soundboards!
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by zwieback 4y ago
Nice story, he looks proud and a little scared in the final picture, probably some interesting times ahead. My uncle had a Bechstein concert grand. When he passed away the family expected it would fetch a nice sum but were told that it was
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by zwieback 4y ago
There are a lot of non-ultra-rich people close to retirement with maybe 300 or 400K they want to move away from more volatile instruments. That's what we did a few years ago and with the housing market now favoring cash buyers even mor
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by zwieback 4y ago
Yeah, I want to try that now. I doubt this guy's preparation was very sophisticated, though, he also ate rotten meat.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Also Soylent, although this Iranian guy lives on porcupine.
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by zwieback 4y ago
I jumped companies every few years early in my career but have been at a megacorp for over 20 years now. In that time I've done vastly different types of projects so that also needs to be a consideration. At a large company with a vari
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by zwieback 4y ago
true words, but mentioning the move from a tropical island to SV is its own kind of virtue signaling
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by zwieback 4y ago
Hmm, I recently switched from TJ Greek Kalamata to a super-market brand because the former didn't taste good to me anymore. Now I learn that that particular TJ stuff is "authentic" (or "orthentic" as Paulie Senior l
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by zwieback 4y ago
so, the 2020s appear to be shaping up as the "truffles on everything" decade and I hate it. Maybe I'd enjoy a real truffle here and there but the truffle flavoring I usually encounter is offensive to my tongue.
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by zwieback 4y ago
The other thing to keep in mind is that German universities and US universities are very different. In Germany sports team, high-end cafeterias, student experience centers, and all the other things wealthy Americans appreciate are unknown i
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by zwieback 4y ago
Yay, my Alma Mater - the city of Mercedes, Bosch and Porsche. You'd expect some cool car stuff coming from there.
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by zwieback 4y ago
More specifically: stoners and graduates with student loan debt. Those populations might already skew pro-Biden.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Maybe he's right about his editors being a bit controlling but he also sounds like a douche.
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by zwieback 4y ago
That's definitely the stereotype and I wouldn't say it's wrong. There's both a puritanical streak and an out-of-controlness in US culture. Also, Americans are less comfortable with their bodies, sex or no: public nudity,
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by zwieback 4y ago
Point taken. I wonder if the one we came up with is enough.
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by zwieback 4y ago
I'm a bit surprised about the enthusiasm for legalizing hallucinogenic drugs. My homestate of Oregon has legalized them (in certain settings) now but if hallucinogenic drugs are as powerful and life-changing as advocates claim I would

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