technothrasher

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by technothrasher 4d ago
I don't know what the heck map data Uber uses, but it always sends cars to a road behind my house which would require them to drive through a swamp and then up a heavily wooded hill to get here. OSM had the exact same issue, but I fix
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by technothrasher 7d ago
> Its the reality distortion field. (this term comes from the register) It actually comes right from Apple. Andy Hertzfeld, an early Apple employee, has claimed it was originally said in 1981 by another employee, Bud Tribble, to describ
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by technothrasher 8d ago
Why do you claim it is an Americanism? The term 'scare-quotes' was coined by a British philosopher, Elizabeth Anscombe, who references her use of them in a 1956 essay. This would imply that they were in use in British English at
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by technothrasher 11d ago
The biggest camera store in NYC, B&H Photo, similarly closes their website checkout on Saturdays and on all the major Jewish holidays. It's mildly inconvenient, but it has never really stopped me from ordering from them. I think
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by technothrasher 12d ago
I've never understood why I should join a political party. I mean, yes, I lean pretty heavily toward one of the two major parties in my voting, but what advantage does it get me to declare loyalty? Perhaps if I lived in a state withou
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by technothrasher 13d ago
Because your PlayStation couldn't possibly be spying on you?
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by technothrasher 15d ago
Thank you!! And I guess I'm still there at #2 :)
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by technothrasher 15d ago
Anybody know what happened to the C64 serial number registry? Last I had checked it, which was a long while ago, I had the second oldest serial numbered machine on it (excluding prototypes). But I just went to look and the registry seems
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by technothrasher 25d ago
I found the movie and the book so different in pacing and tone that they are hardly comparable. The book really has the ethical and sociological questions as the meat, and uses the plot simply as a backbone. The movie does the exact opposi
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by technothrasher 26d ago
They cannot (lawfully) deny entry. But they can admit you and then immediately detain and/or arrest you.
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by technothrasher 27d ago
> These incidents are literally called "fume events" Your first FAA link says that these 'fume events' are rare: "The report found that the rate of cabin air quality events is less than 33 events per million airc
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by technothrasher 29d ago
You are talking about the Paris Convention. The parent poster was talking about the Patent Law Treaty. The Paris Convention made it easier to file in other member countries after filing in your home country, but you still have to file in
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by technothrasher 29d ago
Yes, that is, and was, also the case in the US. Back when the finger command was in common use, the double entendre was not lost on anybody.
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by technothrasher 1mo ago
How are you confused? Given your US example, the only smart play for the Dems would be exactly what happened here. Sure, you could field a candidate and maybe win, but probably not and then you've lent legitimacy to his stunt. Or yo
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by technothrasher 1mo ago
Like any lease, it's only a discount if the actual residual value at the end is lower than the agreed residual value at the beginning, something that the leasing company will try hard to make sure isn't the case. In the case here
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by technothrasher 1mo ago
Oh, trust me, he knows its meaningless in the end. It's really an excuse to spend his life engaged with and promoting conservation of the wild cats he loves.
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by technothrasher 1mo ago
Back when I went to University of Rochester in the early 90's, the entire first year was not included in your GPA. So we still got grades, but they didn't count for anything. But in my junior year, the state of NY told the schoo
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by technothrasher 1mo ago
My buddy is on a quest to be the first to photograph all forty species of wild cats. He's at 38 of 40 (I'm at 7, so I don't think I've got any chance of winning.) He's trying to finish up within the next six month
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by technothrasher 2mo ago
I assume the reference was to the Jevons paradox, as described in Jevons' 1865 book, "The Coal Question". Watt's steam engine massively increased the efficiency of coal in steam engines, which increased the use of coal
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by technothrasher 2mo ago
I loved my Amiga 2000, but AmigaOS was pretty late to the party with their trashcan. It came from the Xerox Star software in 1981, was ripped off by Apple in 1983, and by 1985 Commodore was just following the trend.
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by technothrasher 2mo ago
Your Miles Davis comment triggered a memory of college radio. In school in the early 90's, I had a 3-6am show Wednesday mornings, and mostly said and played whatever I wanted, as nobody was really listening anyway. One week, the guy
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by technothrasher 2mo ago
Hmm, really? That's interesting.... [time passes] ... I found more information than I really needed on how to kill one's self with helium, and I saw some places making suggestions that helium be cut with oxygen, seemingly startin
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by technothrasher 2mo ago
Working in process control, this is an everyday thing for me. But I prefer to use pulse frequency modulation, which is what a lot of dedicated DACs use.
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by technothrasher 2mo ago
> Take Europe for example: nobody dies of hunger in Europe. Nobody? France, as the most extreme example, has a rate of 1.52 per 100K. That's about a thousand people a year. That is certainly a small percentage of the population,
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by technothrasher 2mo ago
I cannot ever manage audiobooks, because I tend to wander while I'm reading, thinking about what I just read, processing it, mulling it over, or exploring it in some other way. With a book, I just go back to where I stopped reading w
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by technothrasher 2mo ago
> But if you're not desperate and you took money from someone else and can't pay it back? Theft. Bankruptcy is a civil matter, not a criminal matter. Charging somebody with theft, whether appropriate or not, does not resolve t
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by technothrasher 2mo ago
Hard to be unexpected for the many of us who lived it. It wasn't that long ago. I remember first seeing a ColecoVison, which shipped with Donkey Kong, and being amazed that, unlike on the Atari 2600, the home version of Donkey Kong ac
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by technothrasher 2mo ago
What kind of timekeeping do you consider "junk"? I'm currently wearing a $50 Chinese watch with a knock-off Seiko automatic movement in it, and I just now timed it out of curiosity at -5s/day.
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by technothrasher 2mo ago
Wikipedia has an entry that lists a few court cases, mostly showing that this strategy, as you surmise, fails to stand up in court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
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by technothrasher 2mo ago
I noticed that when I used one of these OSM based nagivation apps (I forget which one now), it suggested I leave my house by heading over my retaining wall, driving down a wooded hill, through a swamp, and then onto a nearby road. But bec

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