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by craz8 11mo ago
An interesting psychology of restaurant menus is when they use the term ‘house made’ for an item. My assumption then is that all the other items came from the Sysco truck and will be suitably generic.
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by craz8 1y ago
I think it’s the distance by boat to the nearest dock, not as the seagull flies
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by craz8 1y ago
I grew up in that area and went to school with a member of the family that owned Thorne Island at the time. There are times of the year that access is not possible at all due to weather which does limit the usefulness of the location. The A
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by craz8 1y ago
Ah, JANET - so many default passwords, so little time to log into them all!
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by craz8 1y ago
I have 2 measurable ones on Zepbound. My lowest sleeping heart rate is now at least 10 beats higher than before starting (it comes down during the week to about 10 over) The night after taking the injection my sleep is crap, and the heart r
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by craz8 2y ago
The real story of the whole of the MIT blackjack team is quite something. When you ask someone if they’re still allowed to play in this casino and they reply with “if I use my real name, then yes”. The 80s were a wild time, kids!
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MIT Blackjack Team(en.wikipedia.org)
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by craz8 2y ago
The MIT blackjack team from 1979 onwards played with many, many players to make real money in Vegas. Not everything was in the movie!
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by craz8 2y ago
If I could have got a steady hand with tweezers, I could easily have been a surgeon. Real patients probably don’t have noses that light up, which reduces distractions too!
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by craz8 2y ago
In the 80s, Sam Smith pubs had a ‘25 pubs in London’ challenge. Get a drink in each of the 25 and get a T-shirt. It took me and a friend several weeks. There was a story of some guys doing it in a weekend. Hard because of travel AND openin
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by craz8 2y ago
Ha! I went to a British polytechnic. There wasn’t a lot of very practical degrees ( there were some though), but there was a lot of hands on computer work in my Computer and Communications degree It is strange on a resume listing a univer
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by craz8 2y ago
I have a $4500 LG OLED thin TV that is 2 years old and broken The screen has had lines for a while, annoying, but not critical. Now there’s a power issue where it powers off in a few minutes Now, this is out of warranty, and, it turns out,
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by craz8 2y ago
I used Btrieve a lot in several jobs in the UK in the late 80s and early 90s. It was fast and easy to work with, mostly I used the stand alone version, not the later NLM on the server
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by craz8 2y ago
To be fair, I work in software, so I too am familiar with the whoosh of a deadline as it passes by, unmet. Although I don’t find it as hard as Douglas did with his writing, but then that level isn’t needed for most software projects. I was
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by craz8 2y ago
The chargers they showed at their first Mercedes location in Atlanta are 400kw split between 2 units. So 200kw each for 2 cars that can handle it, and balanced between the 2. Eg if one car only needs 100kw, the other can pull up to 300kw
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by craz8 2y ago
I grew up in this area a long time ago - not quite 40,000 years. This is my local Norman castle! The obvious history you could see were the castles and walled towns. More recently, lots of ship building in the last 200 or so years, and pl
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by craz8 3y ago
I have that exact setup for control, and there’s 1 thing I want to control, and that’s the start time of warming up in the morning depending on outside temp. It’s less efficient at lower temps so takes longer to provide enough heat, and my
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by craz8 3y ago
There’s a room on the left and another on the right
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by craz8 3y ago
When I first heard this used, my immediate thought was that it was a reference to the Uk brand of cigarette paper, Rizla, and clearly something to do with smoking pot Sadly, it’s a more mundane contraction
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by craz8 3y ago
Appearing at a science fiction convention as a Steampunk character allows them to blend right in. I’ve seen hundreds of these travelers go by. Some with lighter dress have passed as artisanal bartenders too
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by craz8 3y ago
My least favorite Sinclair computer game was Ram Pack Roulette for the ZX81. If you jiggle the 16k Ram pack, do you crash the computer and get to reload your work? It came free with all ram pack purchases too!
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by craz8 3y ago
Twitter: -100; Mastodon: zero; Bluesky: 5,000 Yup, this could work
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by craz8 4y ago
I think Azure has an internal a service just to generate 429 http response codes - they send us so many of them!
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by craz8 4y ago
I worked at a bank in London over 30 years ago using Netware and Btrieve for database and MHS for email It may be the same bank! Although they were clearly heading towards a Microsoft stack in the early 90s
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by craz8 4y ago
William Woollard and I worked on a TV commercial in the early 80s. Him as the main talent and me as a very much in the background extra Met a hero, got a day off school and earned 20 pounds of cold, hard cash
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by craz8 4y ago
I saw a movie in a theater for the first time in forever last weekend. At one point I was distracted by lines in the screen where the sky was projected - it was the actual screen, not part of the projection. This was an iPic, so not cheap
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by craz8 4y ago
I remember visiting an area of the UK where they were testing those new Wispa bars in the late 70s-early 80s. So those don’t have a huge history yet, but certainly the others are great The Hershey licensed versions of the same favorites in
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by craz8 4y ago
But you could jump off at any speed - or get jostled and fall off accidentally if hanging on to the pole that was provided in the doorway. Falling into traffic at 30mph isn’t a bundle of laughs either My guess is the door requirement was t
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by craz8 4y ago
The mention of safety due to lack of doors does not add up, as none of the Routemaster busses at the time had a door at the bottom of the stairs. Jumping on and off was the normal thing. The many tunnels under the Thames are awesome though
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by craz8 4y ago
Our supermarket usually has pre-roasted inside. On Saturday we were disappointed to not find any. As we left the store, the aroma of roasting peppers came our way and we found the loot we were in search of. The smell sucks people in. Can’

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