retroafroman

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by retroafroman 4y ago
Just want to agree, the film Crumb is a wild documentary,and totally worth watching for adults who have any interest in counter culture.
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by retroafroman 7y ago
The buckets in the Brat were strictly to get around the "Chicken Tax": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax A protectionist law that favored small trucks built in America. Australia has a long history of
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by retroafroman 7y ago
I remember they pitched Mongolia as a place this would be used, but I fail to see how it actually would be. I haven't been back to Mongolia since this came out, but I would bet good money that no one (besides whatever government entity
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by retroafroman 8y ago
So you're saying it's "'Nextdoor' for work"?
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by retroafroman 8y ago
"Desus and Mero" on Viceland.com. Infectious level laughter from commentary.
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by retroafroman 9y ago
If you're in the USA, Home Depot also rents them by the hour/day if you don't want to spend the whole amount for something you won't use too often.
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by retroafroman 9y ago
I'm definitely an amateur at understanding biology, but having studied engineering; the inputs and outputs of the human body vary so widely that I have a hard time narrowing down one input to corresponding to one result. When you think
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by retroafroman 9y ago
A hammer drill (even a Harbor Freight one will do fine for a one time project) and masonry bit will drill through brick just fine. Put the line through, use raintight fittings, and then seal the hole with caulk. It's definitely not bey
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by retroafroman 9y ago
Roadkill did it with both multiple leaf blowers ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U81_0waqEWA ) and a full small block Chevy engine on a trailer supercharging another one in the car ( https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by retroafroman 9y ago
https://soundcloud.com/bodega-sushi/ Only podcast I listen to, the Bodega Boys, to guys from the Bronx that started out as amateur comedians on Twitter and ended up with a TV show: https://www.viceland.com&#
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by retroafroman 9y ago
50 Cent is another guy who himself has made lots of money [0], and been technically bankrupt [1], but somehow did fine [2]. [0] http://www.businessinsider.com/50-cent-tweeting-about-hnhi-2... [1] http://nypost.co
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by retroafroman 10y ago
The subreddit[0] for this is not even remotely veiled cannabis farmers. Every once in a while someone posts tomatoes. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceBuckets/
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by retroafroman 10y ago
Chuck Yeager is surprisingly active on Twitter, answers lots of questions. His replies can be pretty funny, too. https://twitter.com/GenChuckYeager
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by retroafroman 10y ago
They're cheaper than that, if you're willing to deal with shady(ish) companies: lowendbox.com
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by retroafroman 10y ago
You're talking about the 'Mansfield bar'[0], or 'underride bumper' named after a famous case of a celebrity killed by rear-ending a truck. [0] http://www.sparebumper.com/index.php?act=viewProd&pr
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by retroafroman 10y ago
Isn't that what Blue Apron is for? https://www.blueapron.com/ Still kind of pricey at $10/meal.
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by retroafroman 10y ago
It's a well known phenomenon called the "UNIX beard" [0] [0] "The length, bushiness, and unkemptness of the Unix beard are all directly proportional to the owner's expertise." Source: urban dictionary
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by retroafroman 10y ago
As someone pretty close to this camp, it comes down to your last bullet point - needing to do it, in my opinion. A smaller subset of those people will also learn VBA for the same reason-it helps them get their job done. The benefit those tw
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Samy Kamkar describes his famous MySpace worm hack(motherboard.vice.com)
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by retroafroman 10y ago
This is the best way to describe just about any diet or exercise ideas floated on HN.
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by retroafroman 11y ago
lowendbox.com has been reviewing cheap VPS providers for years, and has background on providers as well as current deals.
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by retroafroman 11y ago
True, but again, that assumes they have a picture of the data. If the product was sold online through target.com, a picture may exist somewhere. Otherwise, most company's item master data tables (that I've seen) don't include
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by retroafroman 11y ago
There's no real way a turker would know if the data is bad. Really only the merchandiser at HQ who was checking with the supplier would have had the source data (dimensions, units for those dimensions, case quantities, and so on) or wa
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by retroafroman 11y ago
This IIRC is essentially the story reported by investigative journalist Sy Hersh, relying on unnamed sources. See here for the full read: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-...
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by retroafroman 11y ago
For some reason, Coursera doesn't seem to have the page up any more, but there was a great MOOC about programming for musicians[0] that featured ChucK as the main language. They even featured the creator of ChucK in some of the videos.
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by retroafroman 11y ago
All of the grugq's writings/links are helpful in this respect: http://grugq.tumblr.com/ He posts interesting things on twitter, too.
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by retroafroman 11y ago
Asking people isn't likely to get you an answer, based on my experience. If you want to find a problem to solve, you'll have to actually see what they're doing that can be easily automated. They have blind spots and just do
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by retroafroman 11y ago
So, anecdotally, low end Porsche models have sold well, like the Boxster and Cayman, and high end VW models have often not sold well, like the Phaeton.
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by retroafroman 11y ago
You can still run Lisp commands on the commandline interface in AutoCAD. Or even as you type out command inputs. So for example, if you know that you just put in 187 for length, but the next line needs to be double that, you can type (* 2 1
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by retroafroman 11y ago
That's strange. Maybe they do that for the big providers, but I've run roughly 80% of my browsing activity through a SOCKS proxy on a VPS running in multiple different datacenters and never really had a problem that I noticed. I u

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