cardiffspaceman

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by cardiffspaceman 20d ago
Can we put Bezos on a PIP?
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by cardiffspaceman 1mo ago
I used to fantasize about using computers to print stuff. I ended up at a little company that made desktop publishing software. While I was employed there, I went on vacation in Chicago and found myself in the basement of the former Donnell
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by cardiffspaceman 2mo ago
From USA, one mainly needs WhatsApp to chat with Latin Americans. Judging from the billboards I have seen in Argentina and Uruguay, there are a lot of Latin Americans getting WA free. So of course, why pay more?
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by cardiffspaceman 3mo ago
The video of the assassination of the UHC executive revealed to one viewer that the assassin had practiced thoroughly, because when the gun jammed the assassin recovered deftly. I wonder how a would-be striker could do this work while facto
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by cardiffspaceman 3mo ago
I kept thinking of the sketch in which contestants in a quiz contest attempt to summarize Proust. IYKYK.
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by cardiffspaceman 3mo ago
The question marks are because it’s practically a trope that the most interesting subjects disguise their importance by driving Civics and such.
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by cardiffspaceman 3mo ago
West Asia is a less Eurocentric than “Orient” or “Middle East.” I like it.
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by cardiffspaceman 3mo ago
I told someone about UBI and they hadn’t heard of it, 4 or 5 years ago, despite being an executive at a charity that is supposed to help people with food money.
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by cardiffspaceman 3mo ago
I saw that Virginia and Maine have a little bit of momentum towards balcony solar. This is the video I saw that in: https://youtu.be/2RqhK2w8rrA
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by cardiffspaceman 4mo ago
On the other hand, sometimes the naive approach does work. I bought something from a Ukrainian via Kickstarter, and expected that some sort of difficulty would emerge, but no, it did not. From the tracking information, it appears that from
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by cardiffspaceman 4mo ago
The capitalists who own them shut them down.
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by cardiffspaceman 4mo ago
If your NASCAR car had a sticker, you’d have ad money from STP/Pennzoil/RainX/whatever.
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by cardiffspaceman 5mo ago
Those folks can FRO. The teacher my wife would have had for a Pascal class in high school refused to let her apply, saying it was not for girls. Her father said, you can take it at community college.
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by cardiffspaceman 5mo ago
And well known to fans of Dr Demento. This is the Wikipedia about “Hancock Park” the city park that contains the tar pits and museum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Park There is also a district of the city tha
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by cardiffspaceman 5mo ago
When news was transmitted by flaky telegraph systems, the first paragraph evolved to be a concise version. The ensuing paragraphs provided layers of detail. If the connection was lost, whatever got through would stand as enough. That is mor
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by cardiffspaceman 5mo ago
If the app is meant to defeat counterfeits or reselling the Dodgers won’t be willing to accept printed tickets.
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by cardiffspaceman 6mo ago
What’s the value of having a civilian SecDef if he blathers on like this?
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by cardiffspaceman 6mo ago
Yep! I own both a pair of AirPods and a pair of Beats. The Beats were designed for a lower price point, without noise cancellation, than the AirPods so I can’t offer a head-head comparison.
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by cardiffspaceman 6mo ago
Yes to get really seasick, you need stabilizers and seven wine pairings.
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by cardiffspaceman 6mo ago
>> "I now have to spend the entire day talking about Hitler." … ironic result
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by cardiffspaceman 7mo ago
Starting in the CompuServe era, and ending in about 2001, I was a voluntary member of the MVPs for Windows programming. You would get swag, including a full MSDN subscription. My reason for joining this and for otherwise posting hopefully h
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by cardiffspaceman 7mo ago
I have been happy with the serendipity of YouTube’s algorithm generally. I followed an external link to a YouTube video about an exotic piano, and played a few related videos afterwards. These were videos about other unusual musical instrum
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by cardiffspaceman 7mo ago
I worked with CFG80211/MAC80211 on an old Linux kernel years ago. I don’t think time of day is in any packet.
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by cardiffspaceman 8mo ago
As an aside, because it would not be germane to automotive safety… In the Coast Guard Auxiliary “Sailing and Seamanship” class that I attended, targeting would-be sailboat skippers, we were told the USS Ranger nuclear-powered aircraft carri
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by cardiffspaceman 8mo ago
In Encinitas, California, that sign would have no more than 20 MPH. In adjacent Carlsbad, I believe 25 is normal.
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by cardiffspaceman 8mo ago
I vividly recall a shot within a commercial, in which a driver was shown in slow motion, chucking his coffee into the passenger foot well in order to have two hands on the wheel for an emergency. I don’t remember what was about to happen to
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by cardiffspaceman 8mo ago
40 and over is a “protected group” in US employment law. 30 year old people are not protected.
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by cardiffspaceman 8mo ago
If the right type of mate uses those traits to find their type of mate there’s no downside.
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by cardiffspaceman 9mo ago
To me it implies abstraction such as a constructor, but with no overhead compared to the same steps done in some other way.
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by cardiffspaceman 9mo ago
Body modification?

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