DaveInTucson

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by DaveInTucson 2y ago
Remember the whole "how many r's in strawberry" thing? Yeah, not really fixed: https://imgur.com/a/counting-letters-with-chatgpt-7cQAbu0
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by DaveInTucson 2y ago
I remember in the early 90s seeing 8 GB hard drives being advertised for sale, and thinking "who on earth would need 8 gigs of hard drive storage?" (Me, that's who. I now have 63+ GB just under my Music folder)
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by DaveInTucson 4y ago
I have wallpapers on my desktop and phone, but honestly hardly ever look at them. Even on the desktop, I pretty much always have various programs maximized or nearly so. If I feel the need to take a break, I either just browse the web (awkw
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by DaveInTucson 4y ago
hopefully not too dumb a question, but why put this on html instead of body?
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by DaveInTucson 4y ago
Brian Eno's got some great ambient stuff (although Ambient 4 is not one of my favorites). Some I'd recommend: * Ambient 1: Music for Airports * Ambient 2: Plateaux of Mirror * The Pearl * Thursday Afternoon * Discreet Music If you
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by DaveInTucson 5y ago
Yeah, I played around with this a little bit. It seems like Notepad knows the document has been changed, the bug is purely that the title bar isn't updated in this one case. Which actually seems all the more odd because it does get upd
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by DaveInTucson 7y ago
Many of these are on YouTube as well, just search for "James Burke Connections"
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by DaveInTucson 7y ago
I think the problem is that "payment required" is an issue that's better dealt with in a layer higher up the protocol stack. One can simply respond with the appropriate redirection code to a login/signup page (or whateve
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by DaveInTucson 7y ago
The only time I ever watch broadcast TV anymore is for (NFL) football. And in that case, I'm usually also , participating in chats and discussion forums, following box scores, and the like. On the other hand, I've also noticed whe
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by DaveInTucson 7y ago
Not sure if the site is meant to be strictly Linux/Unix or not, but on Windows, cd without any path just prints the current directory and doesn't do anything else. (Although "cd ~" produces the response "The system
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by DaveInTucson 7y ago
> Just a series of unconnected errors at big companies Except that "at big companies" is basically selection bias, problems at little companies don't get noticed because they're, well, small companies. And the underly
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by DaveInTucson 7y ago
Here's another way to look at it. This link ( https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/ ) says "traffic crashes [...] account for 2.2% of all deaths globally." Which means that out of your
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by DaveInTucson 7y ago
According to Wikipedia [0], the number of MV-related deaths has been right about 10 or 11 per 100,000 per year for the last ten years. Which makes the opening claim "Americans are condemned to lose friends and relatives to traffic viol
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by DaveInTucson 7y ago
The linked article discusses this in the first point: * Changing the visibility of a variable requires changing its name, everywhere it's used. * It also cuts contrary to some very long-standing traditions, like using all caps for gl
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by DaveInTucson 7y ago
I thought one of the basic lessons we learned from the last 70 years of programming language design is that it's a bad idea to make semantics depend on lexical structure. I'm really surprised people like Rob Pike and Ken Thompson
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by DaveInTucson 7y ago
To add on to zaroth's remarks, here's a list of records set or tied in the most recent (and IMO not very remarkable) 53rd Super Bowl: https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/02/03/patriots-rams-super-bowl-2
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by DaveInTucson 7y ago
* Your time is worth something, even if your employer isn't making the best use of it * I'm surprised he waited 7 weeks before submitting a bill (especially given the hurry up and wait circumstances).
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by DaveInTucson 8y ago
The sequence beginning at 1:58 is (I think) a still from the Hard Day's Night movie. The sequence beginning at 4:29 uses the Help! album cover
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by DaveInTucson 8y ago
Or you could alter the recipe. I've made baking powder biscuits any number of times (flour, salt, baking powder, milk, and butter) with very serviceable results.
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by DaveInTucson 8y ago
An annular lake is a circular lake caused by the impact of a meteor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annular_lake
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by DaveInTucson 8y ago
For me, the problem with the Fermi paradox is that we only have one poorly understood and incompletely documented example of a planet with intelligent life from which to draw conclusions. Beyond that: * How many habitable planets are out th
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by DaveInTucson 8y ago
I feel like the actual moral of the story should be "don't underestimate how trying to scrimp on a vital resource can result in horrible logistical complexities and a nightmare UX".
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by DaveInTucson 8y ago
I have it pretty much for the no limit two day shipping feature. It'd be great to have a "shipping only" version at a lower price.
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by DaveInTucson 9y ago
Back in those days I wrote my own assembler for the C64 (and later the C128). Probably my single greatest moment of joy as a programmer was when it successfully assembled its own source code.
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by DaveInTucson 9y ago
I wondered if I would be accused of victim blaming. I'm just suggesting better education is probably a useful avenue to improve the situation.
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by DaveInTucson 9y ago
I'm not sure if I would describe a 94 degree angle as "behind them", but I would also observe it's a good idea to exercise caution in navigating a blind intersection whether you're on a bike or in a car.
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by DaveInTucson 9y ago
Basic rule of the road: if you haven't made eye contact with someone, you should assume they haven't seen you and don't know you're there. I mean, they could improve the intersection by making it a full stop, but educati
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by DaveInTucson 10y ago
Perhaps OP was referring to the pre-cooked chicken available at the deli counter? That's typically a lot more expensive than buying it raw.
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by DaveInTucson 14y ago
Here's a bookmarklet I keep handy. I call it "Sane Margins": javascript:var style=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].style;style.marginLeft=style.marginRight='1in';style.maxWidth='7in';void(0) Ninja update: oops, reply fail :-
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by DaveInTucson 14y ago
If you also find little or no use for .bash_history, you can do this: rm ~/.bash_history ln -s ~/.bash_history /dev/null (There's probably some .bashrc setting that turns off history, but I'm making it a goal in my life to know as

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