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by jet_32951 2y ago
"It's one thing to burn down the outhouse and quite another to install indoor plumbing." - P.J. O'Rourke
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by jet_32951 2y ago
A good example, especially if you are interested in any facet of video imaging, is [0] and here is why: 1) it provides standards references, 2) it provides usable first approximations you can execute right away to verify them, 3) its exampl
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by jet_32951 3y ago
mostly straightforward, but a question: should you use 'Antigua and Barbuda' as the country question would you have it as V__V_VV/V__/_V__V_V ? The rules are easy to get used to through the intro but edge cases may get o
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by jet_32951 3y ago
That's my metric. A VF display is OK but an LCD, especially on kitchen appliances or white goods, is just about a guarantee of a short life span - never mind a touchscreen.
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by jet_32951 3y ago
so long as a man rides his HOBBY-HORSE peaceably and quietly along the king's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him,--pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?" - Laurence Sterne
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by jet_32951 3y ago
Reminds me of 'countdown roulette': system managers have buttons to slap if they want a launch hold. About the time batteries are initiated ("squibbed") a number of those buttons get pushed but the earliest of the bunch
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by jet_32951 3y ago
It's hard to know what to mourn more here: the subsumption of NSU into Volkswagenwerke AG, or the demise of Citroën in the USA. Both manufacturers had genuinely fresh ideas; both provided truly mold-breaking machinery.
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by jet_32951 3y ago
Guardian is behind the times. Languedoc, Roussillon, and Midi-Pyrénées have been subsumed into a region now called Occitanie. Bordeaux lies in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. And the statistics [0] show it isn't even close: Occitanie raises 2.5 li
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by jet_32951 3y ago
Have a look at Derek Lowe's excellent blog [0] to view the depths of malfeasance, if not outright fraud, in which "studies" are created. [0] https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/fakin-it-modern-
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by jet_32951 3y ago
The article says Ive's consultancy contributed the power/ speed control button and the hinges. It isn't as though they let him play with anything important.
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by jet_32951 3y ago
GrapheneOS has implemented storage and contact scopes. Users can set a program's permitted storage environment. Similarly, contact scopes allows users to limit access to contacts that are tagged with a keyword. On my phone the 'sp
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by jet_32951 3y ago
In the US the calculus for cheap tools is "cheap Chinese chainsaw, $120; ER (emergency room) visit, $3750."
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by jet_32951 3y ago
Daniel, I am sorry your efforts caused you pain. I hold you in my utmost respect and hope you will master the pain your efforts have cost you.
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by jet_32951 3y ago
nothing remains to be said. Thanks.
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by jet_32951 3y ago
Could be but my understanding is the D stands for débrouiller (se débrouiller = take oneself out of the fog). Kind of like the American "National Awareness Day" where people are encouraged to extract their heads and take note of t
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by jet_32951 3y ago
Brilliant. Apart from Freeling's "The Kitchen Book / The Cook Book" système D appears throughout French culture including the record "Système D" by Les Rita Mitsouko. It stands there encouraging those who get i
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by jet_32951 4y ago
Reminiscent of '1984' is this tendency to bowdlerize art some people find offensive. It is literally editing the past, and it is a danger because someone is deciding what is to be edited, and it is probably not you or I.
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by jet_32951 4y ago
Yup. I lost any respect for Vero Beach, Florida police when they used a pretextual stop - dim, not missing, license plate light - to ask that they search my car. I'm a dull SOB but that pushed the wrong button and I declined. With all
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by jet_32951 4y ago
And an ANSI standard (ANSI K100.1-1974) for dry martinis.
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by jet_32951 4y ago
That is due to a species of yeast called Brettanomyces, usually shortened to brett. Judicious use of brett can impart smoky or leathery characteristics - lumped together politely as "barnyard" or "horse blanket" notes in
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by jet_32951 4y ago
That's been thoroughly debunked by Derek Lowe: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/fainting-fentanyl-...
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by jet_32951 4y ago
Amazon's losing it, here and there, on price as well. Their price for my cat's l-lysine supplement is 3/2 what it is from a well-known pet stuff supply. The price for my new sunglasses was matched by the manufacturer which al
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by jet_32951 4y ago
That sound from the Citromatic used to be called 'boinking' and it is inescapable unless the fluids and seals are up to snuff. Citroën hydraulics are detailed but not that complex, patience + Viton aftermarket seals (green fluid =
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by jet_32951 4y ago
An expert will, left to themself, set the stage by explaining the conditions under which their conclusions apply, and the assumptions made. That is completely antithetical to the sound-bite-oriented media environment. Expertise doesn't
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by jet_32951 4y ago
Met this phenomenon today. The interviewer could not elucidate what 'it' was except with buzzwords that have been overworked into meaninglessness.
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by jet_32951 4y ago
Why is it that Marriott seems to be over-represented in this kind of issue? One doesn't see Hilton or Intercontinental involved in shafting their guests.
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by jet_32951 4y ago
That's probably right, though I wonder whether facts impacting Florida's tax burden wouldn't be exposed by e.g. the Miami Herald - and whether it would matter.
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by jet_32951 4y ago
This is how Desantis' habit of coming in fast, loud and stupid will carry him out of politics. It will be a hell of a show when six million Florida households find themselves liable for 1.0e9 worth of bonds and Desantis says "oops
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by jet_32951 4y ago
There is an Australian version of this link: http://gutenberg.net.au . There are quite a few books there that are not in gutenberg.org because the Aus. version observes Australian copyright law. You won't find much R.A. Fre
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by jet_32951 4y ago
Unlike eucalypts in Australia, in California and Hawai'i nothing eats them. Tasmanian bluegum is the most common eucalypt in that range [0]. Therefore a) they grow very rapidly, and b) are useless as structural or furniture woods. The

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