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by jorgen123 24d ago
I'm sorry I only gave you 4 stars on Goodreads. I mostly only ever give 4 stars. But I second the out of the blue e-mail. For those wondering what book. Here is the trilogy. Free for download: https://rodyne.com/?p=1252
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by jorgen123 1mo ago
It depends what you use them for. I use one as my commuter. Most days I ride it with the motor set to just overcoming the added weight of the system plus my heavy backpack. That is uphill, against the wind both ways, of course. I only use m
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The Dreamers and I, a lovely film about a hacker house(pbs.org)
2 points by jorgen123 1mo ago|1 comments
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by jorgen123 1mo ago
A lovely film about a hacker house (Hacker Embassy). Released this summer and now streaming free on PBS. From the description: Follow 3 immigrant entrepreneurs as they navigate the cutthroat world of the American startup. Over a 10-year per
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by jorgen123 2mo ago
The railroad going up Mt. Tamalpais employed Shay locomotives as well as Heisler. I used to think they were all Shay but learned that the No. 9 that is being restored is a Heisler. "The most significant design difference between Shays
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by jorgen123 2mo ago
Is that true, though? When my parents got married in the 60's in the Netherlands, they had to move in with my grandparents because there was no housing available and eligibility was restricted. It took a few years and a 2nd child befor
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by jorgen123 3mo ago
For those not reading the linked article, it was not about tech (although valid discussions here). I had not expected this (this is about rural Alaska): > “In some rural districts, visa teachers make up 50% to nearly 80% of the teaching
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by jorgen123 4mo ago
That is literally the entire short story. The second last from "Fifty-One Tales". See here at Gutenberg: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/7838
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by jorgen123 4mo ago
This one caught my eye because yesterday there was a contribution directly opposite to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257532 I looked up the author and he seems to be peddling alternative medicine theories: htt
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by jorgen123 6mo ago
There are probably high risks of damaging the retina, and there is an increased risk of cataracts, if I remember correctly. Both my eyes had a vitrectomy during retinal surgery and it is really great to live without floaters. But I can imag
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by jorgen123 6mo ago
Interesting to see this statement at the top of the article. Long live the web fighting back. Not sure I have seen many (any?) sites with this. Calls for some sort of acronym or logo that others can adopt without having a long sentence at t
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by jorgen123 8mo ago
It is an interesting idea. For me, somewhat older with iffy eyesight it is hard to use. The fonts are really small. The map could use more real estate on the screen. Right now it sits inside a container that only uses a portion of the scree
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by jorgen123 11mo ago
Title should mention this was in 1950. We are not talking about new work. Like others have mentioned, you don't need to prove this today. But back then was different. It still took till 1973 to get the diagnosis removed from the offic
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by jorgen123 1y ago
If I understand the example correctly, it seems a misinterpretation of the Golden Rule? The rule says to treat others the way you wish to be treated by them. It does not say do onto others as they did to you or to others. I.e. if verbing
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by jorgen123 1y ago
I think you are downvoted because your first sentence is misinterpreted, or the rest of your argument is not being read? You are giving an example of a position and later on discussing the people who have this position as their first and ma
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by jorgen123 1y ago
No need to go anonymous. I fondly remember my achievement of taking apart my washing machine to replace the drum bearing. Thanks to the interweb gods for making blogs and videos that helped me.
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by jorgen123 1y ago
And remember that you all are part of the market. In my area you can choose what power generation your electricity comes from. Most customers do not bother, unfortunately (less than 10% of Marin Clean Energy customers). I know, not real-tim
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by jorgen123 1y ago
My (American) brother in law calls me cheap. Which is what frugal sounds like to me. As a native Dutch I call myself cheaper than the Scottish. When I go out shopping, I will spend hours looking and not buying anything. I don't think s
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by jorgen123 1y ago
According to [1], the cost of one train from this manufacturer is over 10 Million Euros. Why would they play these shenanigans in a competitive market at the risk of pissing off their customers? Are other train vendors doing the same? Or is
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Data centers could bring alternative battery types into the mainstream(utilitydive.com)
2 points by jorgen123 1y ago|0 comments
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by jorgen123 1y ago
> Semi-related anecdote: The first time I went to the Rodin museum I was struck by how badly one of the busts had been lighted. Whilst the guards were not looking, I moved it to a more agreeable position. I came back one year later to fi
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by jorgen123 1y ago
The wikipedia page about the Mali Empire [1] has a few books in the Further Reading section. This one looks promising: African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by jorgen123 1y ago
Missed that "traffic was mostly flowing freely". Thanks.
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by jorgen123 1y ago
Was the chaos on the Autobahn? The article say it was on alternate routes. Was the Autobahn blessed with light traffic as a result?
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by jorgen123 1y ago
Or MS-Word autocorrect. I recently read a self-published book where the daughter of the author was the editor. While the book was nicely done and well written, what to me seemed obvious auto-corrects were painful for being the wrong word in
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by jorgen123 1y ago
If you were a rogue AI you would start with having developers invite you into their code base by promising to lower their AWS bills in some magic (rogue) way.
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by jorgen123 1y ago
You may be thinking about a short term need only. Longer term (annual and more) if you are in a state that is susceptible to drought and wildfires, you would worry about the lack of rain during a period when it is supposed to rain. The rain
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by jorgen123 2y ago
Would you be able to avoid leaking back into the grid? During a recent major weather event outage, a neighbor up the street was running a generator, that I think was not properly islanded. I experienced it by having some devices making weir
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by jorgen123 2y ago
When you have a pair of programmers sitting around the same tree. Could also be a pear tree.
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by jorgen123 2y ago
Not to forget a stat about the number of "airline account name-change" e-mails sent to some (hopefully) junk e-mail account for each "name change". Ideally in relation to destination web-page design and amount of junk ja

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