raldi

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by raldi 3d ago
The floppies got A and B because hard drives were expensive and for a time a lot of people got by without them, though everybody had at least one floppy. Even if you only had one floppy, it was both A and B, so you could say "copy a:DO
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by raldi 18d ago
“Burning Man is supposed to be about anarchy!” “Cool, I’m going to fly in on a private plane” “No not like that”
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by raldi 1mo ago
I don’t understand your edit; can you quote an example switch?
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by raldi 1mo ago
“These are the worst ads I’ve ever seen.” “But you have seen them.”
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by raldi 2mo ago
I don't actually see that change, unless I misunderstand the meaning of toptext.
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by raldi 2mo ago
This post would be improved by adding a sentence explaining what ScrollPods are. I don't mean the technical details that you promise in an upcoming post, but rather anything whatsoever about what it's like to use them.
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by raldi 3mo ago
Why is the wind-up gear needed? Couldn't the axle be connected directly to the spring gear?
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by raldi 3mo ago
Yeah, I don't understand this. What broken tool is turning newlines into j?
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by raldi 3mo ago
Taking a knee to lock in an American football victory used to be considered unsportsmanlike, but then the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_at_the_Meadowlands happened, where the Giants were up 17-12 with 30 second
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by raldi 3mo ago
Because if the one falling 20ft lands on a seesaw, the other side of it will toss two balls each of the same mass 10ft up.
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by raldi 3mo ago
To me this sounds more like the Icarus Fallacy: "The lesson of isn't don't fly close to the sun, it's make better fucking wings."
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by raldi 3mo ago
I've never heard of a big red L but I've known about the Japanese new-driver icon for decades.
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by raldi 3mo ago
Do you think it’s dangerous to be in a car going at freeway speed? Do you ever do that anyway, even though you could be walking instead?
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by raldi 3mo ago
People were definitely addicted to IRC.
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by raldi 4mo ago
Priests will read it and then talk to their congregations about it on Sundays throughout the year, if not explicitly, then in how it shapes their homilies.
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by raldi 4mo ago
Yeah, every US sixth-grader can instantly tell you 12x12=144 but will have to puzzle out 2x13 the long way.
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by raldi 4mo ago
I agree. She’ll never get to 20 because kids only do the times table up to 12.
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by raldi 4mo ago
Looks like something that would pop a tire if you drive over one
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by raldi 4mo ago
The Org should make a deal with a manufacturer to produce some huge bulk quantity of these and just sell them pre-cut to camps.
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by raldi 4mo ago
The best solution I know of is to get three-link segments of chain and put one on each screw as it goes into the ground. That not only marks the spot, it also gives you a flexible attachment point which is useful in all sorts of situations.
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by raldi 5mo ago
When I click the actual link I get a paywall.
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by raldi 5mo ago
Can't blame unions, considering how easily Europe gets it done. Most likely issue is that in the US, every landowner and minor municipality is empowered to delay and obstruct these projects and thus milk them.
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by raldi 5mo ago
Passing clouds?
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An oral history of the Harvard Lampoon(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by raldi 5mo ago|0 comments
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by raldi 5mo ago
Oh wow, no wonder I never found it; I was always zoomed way too far in.
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by raldi 5mo ago
I’m aware of the map but I’m unclear on where the peak/ridge is.
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by raldi 5mo ago
Could you transcribe the emoji? HN strips them out.
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by raldi 5mo ago
I find it so hard to figure out how close Curiosity is to the peak/ridge of Mt Sharp and whether/when it seems likely to cross over to the other side.
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by raldi 5mo ago
In what ways is Anthropic different from a hypothetical frontier lab that you would characterize as legitimately safe and ethical?
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by raldi 5mo ago
To me it feels more like learning to cook versus learning how to repair ovens and run a farm. Software engineering isn’t about writing code any more than it’s about writing machine code or designing CPUs. It’s about bringing great software

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