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by bandy 7y ago
> Nobody uses anything but meters and seconds with metric in science. Sure, now. It took the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter to end the Imperial madness at NASA.
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by bandy 7y ago
Comparison shopping is difficult because the stores are allowed to get away with marking interchangeable items with wildly dissimilar units (type and/or magnitude), quoting per item, per ounce, per pound, per gram, per quart, etc., all
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by bandy 7y ago
(Hi Chuck!) I find myself to be in the mathematician camp ("A materials scientist, a Physicist, and a Mathematician were sharing a hotel room when a fire broke out, waking the materials scientist...") when it comes to things kind
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by bandy 7y ago
It was their "cheaper than gasoline" milk that got us in there. The overall quality of their offerings kept us going there. There are some specialty items that we have to go to our local grocery for. From what I remember of my f
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by bandy 7y ago
People here in Kansas City will gift their paid-for cart to someone else rather than leaving it in the parking lot. From what I've seen on YT, cart rental is a Euro in Europe.
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by bandy 10y ago
That takes me back 33 years...
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by bandy 13y ago
If they're actually local and speak English well enough to be understood over a crummy cell phone connection, I'll keep in touch. If not, I whack the Spam button.
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by bandy 13y ago
Really. Identical error and debugging messages that might as well have all said "Foo!" across a 300,000+ LOC subsystem.
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by bandy 13y ago
Really? I give location and context and the Why of the message. I make sure that every message is unique (unlike the code I changed in a certain once-prominent US firm's three-letter operating system) as well. I clearly know nothing
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by bandy 13y ago
"Great engineers do everything I do."
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by bandy 13y ago
Failing to list the #1 reason: Your VC could decide that they want their money back at any moment. (#2 would be bad employees/decisions foisted on you by those handing you money)
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by bandy 13y ago
I like how he rode in a friend's care.
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by bandy 13y ago
Given that physicians average about US$225k, I'd say that this information is suspect.
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by bandy 13y ago
It's loads of fun, especially when you have dedicated chillers and sufficient power for everything. However, as you come to the realization that your C-level execs negotiated forever contracts for keeping data and servers spinning wit
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by bandy 13y ago
Followed by Breadless Sandwiches of the Future?
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by bandy 13y ago
"Froth" as in lots of bubbles? One little bubble collapsing wouldn't necessarily blow out the rest, unlike a singular bubble. Or "Froth" as in "frothing at the mouth" (from insanity and/or rabies)?
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by bandy 13y ago
She needs to analyze the sayings of Lord John Whorfin: * History is-a made at night. * Character is what you are in the dark. * Laugh while you can, monkey-boy! * Home... home is where you wear your hat. I'm sure it would be as
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by bandy 13y ago
Or if you're suddenly going from your walking pace to 20-30-65-75MPH, you probably aren't the fastest human on the planet. You got on a bus and forgot to turn the darn thing off when you reached your bus stop. Just like most of
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by bandy 13y ago
The glaring omission I see in the article is any mention of BMORG's photography policy, which is much stricter than US law. Some of the FPV ROVs may be up there just to fly around…but it seems as if most of them exist for photography&
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by bandy 13y ago
Although it was nice to see, the Society of Women Engineers http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/ was in full advocacy swing at that point, with strong chapters at the major engineering universities, encouraging women to
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by bandy 13y ago
And this seems to hand out a wealth of information as to why they haven't gotten there yet: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1nxtyb/nuclear_f...
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by bandy 13y ago
You're right. In my head "ignition"=fusion, so I was auto-translating as I was skimming. They're looking for something slightly different, and probably using energy output (among other things) as indications of self-su
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by bandy 13y ago
While they have had problems in the recent past: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ignition-failed ~~ They've since had ignition: http://www.independentnews.com/news/article_792110c0-2c5b-1
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by bandy 13y ago
> It's hard to find good music in the Bay Area, especially live blues. Surely you've missed finding out about JJ's…or you live on the opposite side of the bay from them. Long, long ago, in a valley far, far away, people wo
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by bandy 13y ago
Yes, it is. However, they will probably lie to you about the cash they have on-hand, their burn rate, and when they'll hit break-even.
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by bandy 13y ago
And we know that he wasn't taken out by another faction within Iran because…? I'm reminded of the purges that Stalin was so fond of.
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by bandy 13y ago
Nothing to do with the presenter, as I indicated up front. To the presenter - I thought I'd seen/heard this talk before, and I was right - she gave this talk as a TedX talk about a year ago and has since published a successful boo
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by bandy 13y ago
Well, you see, first you get some really good pot and a few tabs of acid, and then…
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by bandy 13y ago
I was speaking of women looking to date men. In Silicon Valley, the guy they usually want is a hunky fireman of an appropriate age who possesses the build of a 20-something who works out constantly and has a portfolio that would give an Eas
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by bandy 13y ago
I'm not OP, but trust me when I say this: people hate fat men too.

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