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by dded 10y ago
Commercial EDA tools almost all use Tcl. (Cadence's Skill is a notable exception.)
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by dded 10y ago
Except this time Clippy's serving ads. And my documents/presentations/spreadsheets are going to be cross-referenced with Linked-In? Sounds like a mechanism to put me one click away from accidentally sending sensitive info to
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by dded 11y ago
Or even other things in granular form, like salt. (As in "corned beef".)
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by dded 11y ago
It was part of DEC culture, not US culture.
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Danny Meyer is eliminating all tipping at his restaurants(ny.eater.com)
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by dded 12y ago
> Great news unless you are living in a village near the tigers. This fear that people have of nearby predators is, in fact, a real problem with conservation efforts to preserve those predators. David Quammen addresses this aspect of c
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by dded 12y ago
How close to full-spectrum are those new "daylight" LED bulbs?
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by dded 12y ago
It certainly is the trend here in New England, where winters are reasonably harsh. And the new outdoor malls aren't very walkable, either. They're separate stores, or sometimes chunks of stores, that you almost have to drive betw
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by dded 12y ago
> and, strangely, a Sears that just hasn't moved yet I believe Sears owns most of its real estate, so maybe moving isn't so easy.
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by dded 12y ago
Going by wikipedia stats (us population of 131 million, 420000 wwii deaths), and assuming 3 years for heavy US troop involvement in the war (say mid-1942 to mid-1945), it looks like war would have accounted for about 107 deaths per 100,000
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by dded 12y ago
I don't know why this is so hard nowadays. I administered a large VMS system in the 80s, and we regularly changed usernames (and email names, which were the same thing in those days) for women who requested it. Contrary to another repl
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by dded 12y ago
How often do these machines need spare parts? And how much power do they consume to operate?
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by dded 12y ago
To your point (3), perhaps it is reasonable to bring a lifetime's supply of vitamin supplements for four people. But with an artificial lamp you would have to worry about bulbs burning out (how many would you need?), and the lamps wou
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by dded 12y ago
iWork only runs on Apple's hw, but I didn't think you needed to buy _new_ hw. I believe you only need to update to Mavericks (or Yosemite).
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by dded 12y ago
Similar to how we Americans put foreign words in italics, no? Does that look aesthetically irritating to others?
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by dded 12y ago
> It's not like after calling Dell and not getting an answer [...], you say "Oh, fuck it - I'm going to do gardening instead". Perhaps not, but it influences the answer to your next question: > Instead the major de
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by dded 12y ago
There were (quite capable) desktop calculators, but just barely (1968): http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp9100.htm But color TV had been widely available for about a decade. In fact, I watched the 1969 moon landings on my parents 1
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by dded 12y ago
> We had rain throughout the winter Snow would have been better. Rain fill the reservoirs, and then the excess must be spilled off. Snow sits in the mountains forming a huge natural reservoir, and the more gradual melt can be used more
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by dded 12y ago
The latest issue of National Geographic has a map showing meat calories consumed per-capita for various countries and regions around the world. The US is high, but more-or-less right on par (or a little under) with many other places: Brazi
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by dded 12y ago
> ssh and tmux won't work? big effin deal So when I want to ssh into a remote machine, I don't use your new program, unless you've also written an ssh replacement. If I want virtual screens, I don't use your new progr
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by dded 12y ago
Is this a hard problem for kernel devs to solve? Or could it be as simple as using a timeout when the kernel's OOM killer is disabled? That is, when a cgroup is at the limit, the kernel waits for some finite amount of time and then s
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by dded 12y ago
> (I understand that this is not very common these days but I still do work on remote X on a daily basis) It's probably more common than you think. We also use it.
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by dded 12y ago
No doubt immersion is the way to go. But it still seems to me that countries where students learn foreign languages successfully at a high rate start those students before they're 12. My two years of high school was a waste, as you sa
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by dded 12y ago
"if you start at a young enough age" My understanding is that less than 12 is a good definition of young enough. (Although, ironically in the context of this discussion, my google-fu is too weak this morning to find the reference
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by dded 13y ago
I'm not part of the Ada world, so I don't actually know, but I thought the important Ada compiler(s) were also proprietary.
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by dded 13y ago
I have no reason to doubt that you're there. But trust me, we're not all there. There's no way an office of our size could go through the paper we do without printers and copiers (unless we were all flat-out copy typists).
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by dded 13y ago
IANAL, etc., but I believe there's lot's of good legal precedent around the legitimacy of FAX, and a lot of doubt and uncertainty about other electronic transfers of documents. So FAX is the safe choice.
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by dded 13y ago
Does the default PDF reader allow you to print yet?
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by dded 13y ago
Is "RCD" British for what we call "GFI" (Ground Fault Interrupt) in the US?
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by dded 13y ago
> 10% of American households [...] buy electric tea kettles No way. I've never seen an electric tea kettle. Tea kettles, sure; but not electric ones. I don't believe anywhere near 10% of US households have one. We've

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