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by downut 4d ago
It's perhaps not intuitive but it turns out organized anglers have been a big part of rescuing various fish populations. For instance, as a member of the "Backcountry Hunters & Anglers" group me and about 20 other member
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by downut 6d ago
The concepts TT describes are very patiently and pleasantly explained in the recent book "The Score", by C. Thi Nguyen.
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by downut 8d ago
Ok, debian forky, 155.0.1, successfully logged into vultr.com after a year inactive, added a credit card and a little credit. I do, however, still stupidly use google authenticator for 2FA. The captcha was just a checkbox. That said I hav
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by downut 9d ago
It's possible that I'm in your grandparent's generation, or maybe your parents. I'm 65. I don't want to derail the conversation, but I do want to correct the bit about "exercise as a hobby was viewed as extre
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by downut 11d ago
Suppose "Reflections on Trusting Trust" is not the naive rantings of some obsolete dinosaur. Why does it not apply?
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by downut 17d ago
My wife and I retired to Tucson last year, and intentionally went through this first summer just to get the full experience. Never again! We've been under flash flood warnings the last several days and have only had a few sprinkles t
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by downut 24d ago
LOL. We could all be Greek! I have 2, 50lb bags of Western Miracle Type S Lime that I moved across the country to a new house and don't have a current use for. It made really awesome pavers with the gazebo excavation dirt on the pre
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by downut 24d ago
Phoenix and Tucson are in the main swath of the Sonoran Desert, which to the unaccustomed eye (as mine was, initially) is all just burning hell dirt and rocks. The undisturbed state of the Sonoran Desert is actually pretty amazingly green.
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by downut 24d ago
You're welcome. Here's a link to a pro-alfalfa explainer: https://www.azfb.org/Article/Understanding-the-Economics-of-... It gets hilarious when it talks about water. I'll summarize: who cares about h
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by downut 24d ago
Phoenix actually has plenty of water because of the Salt River. Tucson gets CAP water which just got whacked pretty hard in the Colorado River negotiations (20% CAP cut I think?) and I was surprised to learn that the City of Tucson has man
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by downut 24d ago
We moved to Tempe back around June 1987 and I had the summer off while the better half went to work. We moved from Gainesville, FL. One of us was raised in S. FL and the other GA. In Gainesville, we lived through the summers with an apar
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by downut 26d ago
Suppose I accede to every claim you make here. Where may I see the advantage in the long run, in any dimension? I'm willing to go with hearsay. The word "dimension" is chosen to be so vague that you can surely do it. I wou
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by downut 26d ago
Stand on Zanzibar was so prescient it gave me goosebumps when I read it 5 years ago.
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by downut 1mo ago
Ok, common-lisp newbie here. Could you explain why Paul Graham's book "On Lisp" is wrong? Or misguided? Or misunderstood by newbies like me? 30 years of c++ with a lot of dealing with templates and I'm not feeling the
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by downut 3mo ago
I am fascinated that I got down voted. I mean, isn't what I'm doing here nearly ideal? Or maybe not: why? My solar panels shade my roof under the incessant sun of the Sonoran Desert and turn a fraction of the insolation into el
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by downut 3mo ago
I have rooftop solar and I have been building credit with my electric utility even though the daily high temperature is well over 100F outside and a comfortable 75F inside. That includes running three AMD 12 thread 128GB systems with obsol
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by downut 3mo ago
Have you ever paid attention to what's on the road in Mexico? I've driven there for 30 years and I've seen it all. Then, there's the idea that Mexicans might not be able to manufacture a quality vehicle. My 2001 Toyota
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by downut 3mo ago
For the people who don't believe this, spend some time watching urban traffic in a place like Oaxaca. 4 is a bit of a stretch unless it's a couple of small kids (that happens) and the moto is not really a moped, but not much more
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by downut 4mo ago
My wife and I were mid '80s chemical engineers. She liked her 15c, but I went on afterward into fundamental numerical analysis and was extremely happy with my 32S. I recently asked qwen3.6:35b|qwen3.6:27b|gemma4:31b (can't remem
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by downut 5mo ago
I'll take your word for it (Man Ray's) because... Picasso. It's interesting to contemplate though because those studies/sketches/whatever are Picasso, they're great, better than just about anybody who ever pai
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by downut 5mo ago
"The difference is that you don't own your EV, it is a computer on wheel. Any firmware update like Tesla has done in the past and features are no longer available." Yeah, I think that's right. I only thought in one dimen
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by downut 5mo ago
When we visited that room in 2012 or so the walls on the other 3 sides had Picasso's studies for the final painting. The combination of those in proper size context to the astounding thing on that wall was... I dunno, very hard to bear
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by downut 5mo ago
1988. On a math TA salary I paid $600 for an 80MB (That's megabytes) hard drive. I had dialup. I also had Turbo Pascal and an 8087 coprocessor. I was a MS student in computational math AKA numerical analysis. It was goddam glorious
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by downut 5mo ago
The protocol we have always implicitly used in this case is 'no news is good news'. I.e., participants in the meetup understand that they only have to communicate 'I won't/can't be there.' The reason is
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by downut 5mo ago
In 1989 I wrote and posted a paper letter to a college friend of ours in Northern England, asking, hey, around [June date I forget] we will be in London, want to meetup? A while later I get a reply letter saying sure, how about we meet at
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by downut 6mo ago
Might be a translation issue here with the commenter, maybe? Handwritten notes help to remind yourself when studying about what the instructor thought important. You write down the emphasis. I sure made it clear to my classes that my emph
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by downut 6mo ago
This is hilarious. This comment would imply that the people who got multiple degrees and were very successful through their careers (that would be everybody in my generation: we started in 1980) learning from lecturers scribbling with
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by downut 6mo ago
Best to kill anything that moves; it's the only way to survive.
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by downut 7mo ago
I figure if Seymore Cray thought digging was useful for mental hygiene it's probably ok: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling
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by downut 7mo ago
LC 200: 381HP V8 lol! Holy shit they are expensive used. It kinda looks like the updated version of the FJ-80 public "Mall Cruiser" actual knower "Land Crusher" concept, where the thing that looks like yer regular subu

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