MikeTLive

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by MikeTLive 8y ago
Years ago the (obvious to me) revelation that all these different services and tools are showing slices and summaries of the same larger article. Twitter is a headline publisher. Slashdot/HN/lobsters/Facebook are publishing
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by MikeTLive 9y ago
more like finding that McDonalds and BurgerKing use SEXTON to source their burgers and that HAYMARKET sources to Wendy's.
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by MikeTLive 9y ago
Facebook stopped being about friends and has become groups. Sharing is not between friends but between interest-groups. the worst is when your friends share garbage, and you view it, you start to see more garbage suggested to you. you can&#
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by MikeTLive 9y ago
doesn't say it must not accept anything other than a letter or a digit and so, to cover future leniency changes, i would not be surprised to see poetic-license taken such that they allow damn near anything in an unreliable way.
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by MikeTLive 9y ago
they screwed up my award winning office design. common section down the middle with individual offices on opposite walls, large enough for pair programming, one end of the alcove has windows above shelves, other end has multimedia. offices
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by MikeTLive 9y ago
Generic neurological drugs are not reliably consistent. The allowed variations and additives can and do play havoc in some people. Even something so simple as coloring can be a problem.
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by MikeTLive 9y ago
would be amazing to see the Rubic'sCube and Chess speed solvers burn this algorithm into their heads and start a competition to replicate a provided item.
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by MikeTLive 9y ago
[TL;DR] you should read before assuming
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by MikeTLive 9y ago
pick the statistic that fits your personal narrative and political party leanings. then proclaim all the rest as bogus. change stats as required when required to suit your narrative.
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by MikeTLive 9y ago
I really like your style, that you communicate directly and in detail to issues that come up. Do you also record these posts with the software for others to find in the future - who don't follow [HN] or twitter? If this blog goes away
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by MikeTLive 10y ago
If you have money you should be able to buy your way to the front of the line? Poor people should just die anyway. They are a burden on the rest of us. Send them to the work houses or let them die and decrease the surplus population. ...
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by MikeTLive 10y ago
reading these comments has me convinced that more than one commenter is a consumer of child porn.
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by MikeTLive 10y ago
While I agree to some extent, I find it funny that I've somehow been around long enough to not realize people needed your example acronyms and names to be defined. Including the reference in the BBN definition to the other bbn :) I gue
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by MikeTLive 10y ago
the first thing that impacts your future success is the luck of the conditions of your birth. you have no control over this. hard work MAY make up for this, however having a "better" birth condition plus this same hard work does n
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by MikeTLive 10y ago
Rt.53 in Hingham,MA has a suicide lane. This is the appropriate name for a single track bidirectional lane for turning left. It is not used for passing. Great fun when people enter the lane too soon and facing cars must pass before each tur
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by MikeTLive 10y ago
Appelbaum: So the people blocking adoption of the metric system weren't backward-looking traditionalists, but cutting-edge industrialists? Mihm: That's correct. While the anti-metric forces included outright cranks, including peop
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by MikeTLive 10y ago
The English system of measure is based on offsets to make retooling factories easily done in house. It's very similar to metric paper sizes. Look into the history it's actually quite logical.
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by MikeTLive 10y ago
This sounds very much like occupational burnout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_burnout The eroding self confidence and inability to perform mundane tasks. If not addressed, which can take years, you risk m
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by MikeTLive 10y ago
plaid?
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by MikeTLive 10y ago
microsoft publisher - licensed from the authors, rebranded, then given away killing the entire windows market for the original product on windows or any other platform
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by MikeTLive 10y ago
The same questions a human will ask can be encoded into your admin automation. It is only as powerful or accurate as the process allows. If you don't already have a procedural flowchart build one. Have the human document the questions
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by MikeTLive 10y ago
Google for "external PCI card cage" these have been around for over 15 years.
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by MikeTLive 10y ago
if you really want to go nuts - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Util-linux read all the pages, explore all the man pages, then experiment and learn.
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by MikeTLive 10y ago
take a walk through /usr/share/doc or go to the source: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux
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by MikeTLive 10y ago
you have a very strange format to your communication. many times you stick the tail end of one sentence into parenthesis, only to close them after entering another sentence. where did you learn this? It is quite intriguing ( and a unique th
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by MikeTLive 11y ago
go to cache, copy cache $ mkdir jarvis; cd jarvis $ vi jarvis.py paste, then cleanup and read closely for badness $ chmod +x jarvis.py $ brew doctor $ brew update $ brew install python3 $ pip install --upgrade pip
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by MikeTLive 11y ago
I used the cached script and after installing the various Python libs as it complained got it working. A neat little kit. Now I need to make it always running and listening for my command. "Jarvis?" "yes, sir?" "Jar
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by MikeTLive 11y ago
listening to XM radio, they frequently have station identification announcements. "Siri us xm..." with the iphone plugged in to charge while driving to work hilarity ensues as it cuts out the audio to speak of whatever it thinks w
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by MikeTLive 11y ago
trumps appeal is many faceted. He draws those with the bully mentality - people who would attempt to make themselves better by beating down those who might be above them. he promises things he knows he can not deliver, but that fit the need
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by MikeTLive 11y ago
Ive been told my eyes show eventual macular degeneration. I will not be able to use this computer. I don't know when it will happen. I will be blind before I die. I might have 10years, 20, 30... we don't know.

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