TimK65

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by TimK65 3mo ago
"Vad himla pratar du om?"? I in my turn have never heard that expression before, so who's zoomin' who, baby?
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by TimK65 3mo ago
"Friday 3 July 2026" (yes, I elected to spell out the month) also has the advantage of not requiring commas for legibility ("Friday, July 3, 2026" being common in the US).
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by TimK65 3mo ago
So thankful that we use the correct date format (yyyy-mm-dd) in Sweden.
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by TimK65 3mo ago
Road and car design are an important part of the problem, but so is car culture, which is all in the head.
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by TimK65 3mo ago
Um. I got 18 Unc / 82 Youth. I'm about to turn 61. What is happening? (I guess that's a pretty unc question. Oh well.)
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by TimK65 4mo ago
This doesn't fully accord with my intuition, but I absolutely believe that the best course of action is listed: USE A CALENDAR DATE!
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by TimK65 5mo ago
https://www.lawdork.com/p/splc-indictment-united-klans-of-am...
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by TimK65 6mo ago
Back in 1997 I was assigned to convert a legacy SAS 5 application to SAS 6. Let's just say that the original programmer had adopted MANY of the techniques in the linked post. The first thing I did was to go through all the code and con
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by TimK65 6mo ago
That would imply that their annual budget was £1.8e14, which I seriously doubt. Even if I assume that you meant 0.02%, which is equal to 0.0002, that would put their budget at £1.8e12, which I am also strongly inclined to doubt.
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by TimK65 6mo ago
Very nice! I think we're confusing route length and track length, though.
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by TimK65 6mo ago
Motorists are incredibly fragile. I'm glad Paris has had a mayor who could stand up to their entitled whinging.
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by TimK65 1y ago
I use a search engine if I can more or less precisely describe what I want in a few words. If I find that I really need to be more extensively descriptive, or to actually ask a question, I'll use an LLM, but that's pretty rare. He
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by TimK65 1y ago
Yep, I learned the terms IPL and IML ("Initial Microprogram Load," more akin to a cold boot) when I worked on an IBM midrange system running DOS/VSE back in the 1980s.
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by TimK65 1y ago
It's a diagram, not a map. The old "map" isn't geographically accurate, either.
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by TimK65 1y ago
This was Vignelli's original plan, which the MTA never followed through on.
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by TimK65 1y ago
What is this "metrocard" of which you speak? (It's going away at the end of this year.)
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by TimK65 2y ago
From the linked article: "Additionally, a reference to your post is 'fanned out' to your followers so they can see it in their Timelines." So not the content, just a sort of link to it.
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by TimK65 2y ago
The complete polish is the author's very point, alongside the fact that most software products never get that complete polish.
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by TimK65 2y ago
I believe that historically, the primary group of people who are "not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States" are diplomatic personnel from other countries. Those people actually are not subject to U.S. jurisdiction.
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by TimK65 2y ago
I live in Stockholm. Dwells on the commuter rail system here -- formerly at Stockholm Central, now at the new (2017) Stockholm City underground commuter station -- are scheduled for 3 minutes and have been for decades. The commuter rail ser
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by TimK65 2y ago
Many times I've stood in front of the displays in the Exit Concourse at Penn. As soon as they post the track for your train, you can just go downstairs to the platform.
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by TimK65 2y ago
More than once I've stood in the line at Washington Union and said loudly, "If I wanted to fly, I'd fly." I'm 100% with you on this. It's idiotic.
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by TimK65 2y ago
There are three uses of the word "drop," all of which are correct. The latter-day meaning of "drop" is an abomination.
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by TimK65 2y ago
Or the assumption that these people are traveling by car? That's by no means necessarily true; DC has pretty good public transportation, and there is even a Metro station in Deanwood.
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by TimK65 2y ago
I live similarly (in the Stockholm suburbs), but I live near a metro station, and there is a reasonably good, not too expensive chain grocery next to the metro station. I get lots of things there, but there are a few things I need that they
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by TimK65 2y ago
No, but only because it illegally coerces its suppliers into giving it sweetheart deals with lower wholesale prices, and nobody is enforcing the law to stop it from doing so. As the article explains, the reason for most of the price differe
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by TimK65 2y ago
Way to spit in the faces of disabled people!
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by TimK65 2y ago
It's worth noting that San Francisco has a long tradition of public nudity, so the naked guy probably shouldn't necessarily be included here, unless there was another reason to do so.
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by TimK65 2y ago
I have a somewhat related theory about English in Europe: The smaller countries are better at English partly because they subtitle rather than dubbing. That means that when they see English-language movies or watch English-language televisi
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by TimK65 2y ago
In much of the Waffle House footprint, public transit is nonexistent or minimal and would not serve as a good indicator. There are certainly exceptions (Atlanta comes to mind), but in general, no.

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