vidanay

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by vidanay 2y ago
Between AP and dual credit, my kid should graduate HS with somewhere around 30 hours of college credit.
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by vidanay 2y ago
I was promised hologram cubes!
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by vidanay 2y ago
> Old tools with brushed motors arc during normal operation! I have all of my grandfathers old Craftsman steel-shell electric power tools with brushed motors. I put a new cord on one of the hand drills a few years ago (the old cloth cove
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by vidanay 2y ago
The entire point of the article is about underprovisioned infrastructure.
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by vidanay 2y ago
Not commercial RE
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by vidanay 2y ago
I've got ten bucks that says you've shopped for groceries at "Jewels"
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by vidanay 2y ago
Speak for your dense population area self. 418m gets me to the end of my rural driveway. Kids school is 8.3 miles (13.4km).
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by vidanay 2y ago
> haul them to school 300 meters away ?
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by vidanay 2y ago
I can vouch for this first hand. Music has absolutely zero meaning in my 16 year olds life. They don't listen to music - new or old. They don't know who current artists are, and they certainly don't have an opinion about who
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by vidanay 2y ago
My first experience with 3D was with AutoCAD 10 or 11 when they had "2 1/2"D. I've used ProE, Catia, Unigraphics, SolidEdge, Solidworks, Inventor, etc. The workflows in FreeCAD are completely irregular and alien compared
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by vidanay 2y ago
Surprisingly few companies (or people) care about paying for good security.
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by vidanay 2y ago
It's worked for 45+ years for cable companies.
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by vidanay 2y ago
Headed out to where the down boys go
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by vidanay 2y ago
> Pandora had decent algorithms for recommending things, but it had such a small library that it would frequently repeat the same handful of albums for anything I searched for. This irks me, as I hate wearing out good music. I've be
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by vidanay 2y ago
I see two possible paths: * As the population ages, the elderly will pass laws and policies that favor themselves at the expense of the younger. Social services will become more and more of a burden on wage earners - even to the point of un
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by vidanay 2y ago
Holy shit...I hadn't realized credit card rates have become that high!
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by vidanay 2y ago
> historically high APRs Interest rates are NOT historically high. In fact they are basically right at "average". The rates for the last five years were historically LOW.
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by vidanay 2y ago
> Would be nice to see people start tinkering again - really go crazy on protocols, experimental PHYs, etc. that’s the only way it’s ever going to be exciting again. I was hoping to see some innovation after the FCC lifted the baud rate
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by vidanay 2y ago
I honestly picked up a calculator and converted my annual salary to daily (based on 45 weeks per year) just to verify the absurdity of what I just read.
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by vidanay 2y ago
I got the impression that OP was referring to total deferred maintenance of transmission lines in the entire Texas grid. If it is only storm related, that that seems more ballpark-accurate.
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by vidanay 2y ago
250,000 feet of wires isn't very much (480 miles). Are you sure that isn't a quarter million miles ?
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by vidanay 2y ago
Dr Freud would be proud.
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by vidanay 2y ago
> The money must be going somewhere. > with the appropriate kickbacks to the local politicians
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by vidanay 2y ago
Accumulate and bill once per month. Or pre-pay.
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by vidanay 2y ago
I'd consider paying for news if they considered offering any. The shovel-fulls of shit that is proffered these days is a far cry from news.
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by vidanay 2y ago
My 60 year old Oliver tractor sometimes gets fuel vapor-lock on hot days too.
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by vidanay 2y ago
We've noticed in the last few weeks that the Google Home that we have in the living room is "responding" a lot more frequently to random phrases from either real family members, or on TV shows and movies. It use to reliable r
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by vidanay 2y ago
I have a problem, so I used AI. Now I have two problems.
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by vidanay 2y ago
The Why Files made a video on the subject a couple years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlR9fCXfWyM
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by vidanay 2y ago
> imagine a company that purchases space shuttles and lights them on fire in a field You mean like SLS throwing all of the remaining Shuttle engines into the ocean, and then making more of them for $100 million each, and then throwing TH

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