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by __x0x__ 8y ago
In grad school I called mine "snot on a doorknob" - it was that "slick" / fast. The internal HD felt almost magic after slamming so many floppies.
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by __x0x__ 8y ago
Tools like Exact Audio Copy and cdparanoia have made it possible to do bit perfect DAE since the last millenuium.
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by __x0x__ 8y ago
To add to the anecdata: My most recent SSD failure happened when I did the firmware upgrade . It worked before the upgrade, the upgrade binary said 'upgrade failed' and the disk vanished and never returned after the 'upgrade
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by __x0x__ 8y ago
I can sort of see the point in the down payment thing but PMI can eat a bag of d*cks.
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by __x0x__ 8y ago
I sold my first house FSBO in a hot market and the appraisal came in below what the buyer had agreed to. I had to lower the price since banks were involved. That sucked.
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by __x0x__ 8y ago
As far as I can tell the solution he offers is merely to put the Discussion section of the paper first, and go logically from there. I don't see how this really helps. I write lots of scientific papers. You don't read scientific p
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by __x0x__ 8y ago
You have it backwards; the cirriform clouds are mostly transparent to visible but absorb and re-emit IR effectively (cloud greenhouse effect). Low clouds tend to have a very high albedo, hence effectively reflect incoming solar radiation, l
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by __x0x__ 8y ago
GOES 16 and 17 are identical.
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by __x0x__ 9y ago
Looks like a crap article in a crap journal. In the abstract they refer to cannabis as a stimulant, which seems quite incorrect. Also the results are unsurprising and not very exciting.
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by __x0x__ 9y ago
<chimes in> Same here. I still have all my physical CDs from the past 25-odd years but they are in sitting in boxes after being ripped. 99% my "TV watching" is time-shifted using the Shield, with a combination of streaming a
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by __x0x__ 9y ago
And let's not forget the battery of the month club! Oh yes RS was Wonkaland for me when I was a kid. I also lusted after the CB radios they sold.
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by __x0x__ 9y ago
From a Reuters article: "In 2013, Foxconn said it would invest $30 million and hire 500 workers for a new factory in Pennsylvania, but that facility was never completed." So I wouldn't hold my breath.
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by __x0x__ 9y ago
That is tremendous, thanks for sharing. Congratulations to all the New Horizons folks! I look forward to our upcoming fly-by of the object that caused the occultation. With five different observations of the occultation I would imagine that
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by __x0x__ 9y ago
I'm a self-described audioweenie who has a dedicated listening room with a decent setup. It does make me sad that much new music is mastered so loud because information is lost when you "brickwall master". For older music, a
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by __x0x__ 9y ago
I've been both a "toiling in relative obscurity" and "rockstar" scientist. I really didn't mind being the first one, and I don't think my earlier research was necessarily bad, but I was at an undergraduate
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by __x0x__ 9y ago
This is a good thing. Vaporizing/eating cannabis appears to provide little to no long-term harm to users, whereas alcoholism and alcohol related accidents cause terrible harm. And I know it's just an anecdote, but I'm a succe

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