dbdoug

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by dbdoug 11d ago
From the Economist website: "ALL writers at The Economist are anonymous."
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by dbdoug 17d ago
Shelf life? I have items from Ikea that I have had for over 40 years, like Ivar shelving and Poang chairs. And they'll be handed down to my kids....
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by dbdoug 3mo ago
> you just drop everything you picked up into the box, it scans all the RFID tags and makes sure the weight is correct, and it's all done. Well, not exactly. I saved a bundle of money inadvertently in a Decathlon in São Paulo. I rea
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by dbdoug 6mo ago
Hey, I'm nearly 80 years old. I haven't written a line of code in over 10 years. But I'm coding now, with the help of Claude & Gemini, and having a great time. Each block of Python or Applescript that they generate for me
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by dbdoug 7mo ago
From Gemini:When you take those two shapes and combine them, the resulting image looks like an umbrella.
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by dbdoug 8mo ago
Houses have 4 sides....
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by dbdoug 1y ago
>We _already_ live in a world where most of us spend much of our time reading and trying to comprehend code written by others from the past. In 1969 as a newly hired graduate working for the largest construction company in the country, o
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by dbdoug 2y ago
And a month's supply of generic tadafila 5mg in Brasil costs less than USD$7.00
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by dbdoug 2y ago
I can (at the ripe old age of 78) confirm this completely. Without stimulation, nothing except facial flushing. With stimulation, and only with stimulation, a functioning erection.
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by dbdoug 3y ago
Strange. I live in Canada, and visit Brazil often. I have never had any trouble using my only Amazon account to log in to Amazon USA, Amazon Brazil, or Amazon Canada. I have both Brazilian and Canadian addresses set up as shipping options o
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by dbdoug 3y ago
How about 'Fatal car crash renews debate over how many cars are too many'
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by dbdoug 4y ago
Paperlike is pretty pricey. I bought a similar screen cover on Amazon Canada by Bellmond for CAD$20. Works great!
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by dbdoug 8y ago
I have the same problem in Chrome
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by dbdoug 8y ago
I have blue blocking glasses (by Cyxus) and Face ID works fine with them on or off.
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by dbdoug 8y ago
'Looking like an interplanetary traveler, with choppy silver bangs that taper to a point between piercing blue eyes' WTF? for a few minutes, I thought this was a serious article by a serious journalist. Apparently not.
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by dbdoug 8y ago
I pay and, as I mentioned before, when I open the Guardian main site, Ghostery only picks up 4 trackers.
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by dbdoug 8y ago
I just tried opening the Guardian site and Ghostery reports only 4 trackers. One of which is Facebook.
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by dbdoug 10y ago
VBA/MS Access - active databases for several clients.
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by dbdoug 10y ago
FWIW, I just turned 70 and I'm still being offered more coding work than I want. It is VBA, though :)
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by dbdoug 10y ago
I'm a daily user of the marinetraffic site, and it's pretty fragile at any time.
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by dbdoug 14y ago
I would be interested in seeing an age profile. I, for one, removed my birth date after being flamed about my age. I've been programming since 1962 :)
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by dbdoug 15y ago
A couple of points. First: In the paper, Aptiquant claims that over 100,000 took a Weschler (IV) test in 4 weeks. According to wikipedia, a Weschler test takes about 15 minutes. That's an awful lot of people looking for free IQ tests, an
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by dbdoug 16y ago
Can you give some examples?