utexaspunk

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by utexaspunk 3y ago
I'd say it's kind of like room temperature. Lukewarm may be a little above room temp. The antonym would be any other temperature
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by utexaspunk 3y ago
It's sort of like the PC User Groups that were more or less rendered redundant by the internet. I remember going to the HAL-PC (Houston Area League of PC Users) monthly general meetings as a kid and there could easily be over a thousan
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by utexaspunk 3y ago
Knobs on a mouse UI suck
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by utexaspunk 3y ago
I mean, I can sing or whistle any song I can think of -surely thousands of tunes- without thinking about what I need to do with my lips. That same mechanism that connected tune in head to lips and mouth can also connect tune in head to fing
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by utexaspunk 3y ago
What about just trying the doorknob to see if it's locked. Is that illegal?
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by utexaspunk 3y ago
Loved me some Frac!
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by utexaspunk 3y ago
It is a common thing among those who grow up being praised for their intelligence. If one comes to base their self-worth on their intelligence and believe it is a static quality they were born with, struggling and/or failing could demo
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by utexaspunk 3y ago
No read performance? Other than being solid state, that's the real advantage of SSDs, especially non-sequential ones. I typically use an SSD for the OS and applications, and then use a regular hard drive for the actual content that I w
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by utexaspunk 4y ago
Maintaining the value of commercial real estate?
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by utexaspunk 4y ago
My company mandated everyone back in the office but everyone still meets via Teams, even when we have offices next door to each other. Making people come is just dumb. Imagine the environmental benefits, traffic reduction and inflation hedg
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by utexaspunk 4y ago
IDK, all the NBs are a bit distracting
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by utexaspunk 4y ago
SQL is pretty darn perfect for its purpose. As long as databases exist, SQL will exist. It is also super easy and intuitive to learn- I taught myself and it has been my bread and butter for the ~17 years since .
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by utexaspunk 4y ago
Why not just use air pressure for the whole thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit
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by utexaspunk 4y ago
Played way too much Pickaxe Pete as a kid. I can still hear that sound when he goes through the doors to another level. K.C. Munchkin was pretty cool, too- even had a level editor!
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by utexaspunk 4y ago
"What's that? I couldn't hear you over my keyboard clacking!"
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by utexaspunk 5y ago
The Sistine Chapel?
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by utexaspunk 5y ago
I just wanted to add salient to sentience and sapience ;)
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by utexaspunk 5y ago
I'm not sure that's salient to this conversation
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by utexaspunk 5y ago
I think the primary goal here is to create an exercise for exploring different graph theory concepts, not to actually be useful. You're thinking too much :)
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by utexaspunk 5y ago
Sadly, the most profitable use for the CO2 might be piping it to an aging oil field and using it for a [CO2 flood]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_flooding ) to recover more oil. So even when you're do
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by utexaspunk 5y ago
We need fusion yesterday
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by utexaspunk 5y ago
Mine's been solid black back since 1986 :)
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by utexaspunk 5y ago
You mean Froot
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by utexaspunk 5y ago
I'm all for being gender-neutral for the sake of neutrality, but the idea that the use of "he" somehow hurts people's safety or well-being sounds a bit absurd to me.
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by utexaspunk 5y ago
Does that reverse the brain damage?
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by utexaspunk 5y ago
>We cannot tell the difference between a color which is a mixture of two (or more) frequencies of light, and a pure color, whereas we can tell chords from notes. (In spite of notes having harmonics). Wouldn't we have to be able to d
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by utexaspunk 5y ago
Exactly! Furtwängler is just Beethoven chopped and screwed
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by utexaspunk 5y ago
I love the recording I have of Academy of St Martin in the Fields that has The Art of Fugue and Musical Offering (Philips, 1994). Both works are beautiful explorations of counterpoint. Especially MO if you read the story behind it. And the
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by utexaspunk 5y ago
I have [this CD]( https://www.allmusic.com/album/vivaldi-the-four-seasons-conc... ) from 1990 of Vladimir Spivakov and the Moscow Virtuosi playing Vivaldi's Four Seasons. I have never heard a version of the Four Sea
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by utexaspunk 5y ago
That might be the sort of message that, while it seems poignant and clever to thinking people, will be lost on the masses and actually end up backfiring and making things worse

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