wantoncl

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by wantoncl 7d ago
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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by wantoncl 1mo ago
I first tried "Getting your ass rimmed" without knowing that was appended to all the generated texts. Got an extra chuckle before I figured that out.
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by wantoncl 5mo ago
> Also: it's a one lane road and "over taking" is not possible. I've eaten some hamburgers at Krystal's that definitely overtook whatever else was in front. Some folks have had the same or similar effect from Whi
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by wantoncl 1y ago
FizzBuzz will become an especially relevant interview question.
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by wantoncl 1y ago
This reminds me of driving home after seeing The Matrix in the theater in 1999. I was on the parkway wondering why everything was moving so slowly, not quite bullet time but definitely slow. I look at the speedometer and I'm doing 95-1
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by wantoncl 1y ago
> The laws of thermodynamics pretty much guarantees this anyways does it not? Yes, but: http://www.thelastquestion.net/
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by wantoncl 2y ago
> And now you've just got lots of different complications, like that seawater is very corrosive. Is it as corrosive as lightning? All space elevators will encounter that problem pretty regularly. We've been running cables under
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by wantoncl 2y ago
By Grabthar's hammer, I hope so.
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by wantoncl 2y ago
https://lithub.com/the-time-terry-pratchetts-german-publishe...
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by wantoncl 2y ago
https://www.haiku-os.org/
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by wantoncl 2y ago
> How does the fusion splice process take place deep under water? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter
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by wantoncl 2y ago
Pffft, run Crysis in 8K
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by wantoncl 2y ago
> You are either speaking hyperbolicly or lying. Bluetooth is very stable these days. Bluetooth as a network protocol, that might be stable. Bluetooth interactivity is not stable or even usable in many cases. It's not just in cars a
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by wantoncl 2y ago
No, we are more modern these days, I shall send a sternly worded telegram!
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by wantoncl 3y ago
> Do you have any examples of companies building Hadoop clusters for amounts of data that fit on a single machine? I was a SQL Server DBA at Cox Automotive. Some director/VP caught the Hadoop around 2015 and hired a consultant to se
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by wantoncl 3y ago
Just don't use solarflare, it completely garbles your traffic. Even fucks up the error correction.
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by wantoncl 3y ago
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112/quotes/ DS Andy Wainwright: You do know there are more guns in the country than there are in the city. DS Andy Cartwright: Everyone and their mums is packin' round he
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by wantoncl 3y ago
The Far Side. THAT ought to make the results more interesting.
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by wantoncl 3y ago
Or just watch his TED Talks, back when they were actually good: https://youtu.be/hVimVzgtD6w https://www.ted.com/playlists/474/the_best_hans_rosling_talk...
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by wantoncl 3y ago
Not if your pan of boiling water automatically shuts off when it's done cooking.
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by wantoncl 3y ago
https://youtu.be/8QWne13R_j0 There's an additional prediction in there that's eerily accurate/Simpsons did it.
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by wantoncl 3y ago
> update some of the CGI There was no CGI used in Space: 1999, it's all practical model and optical effects. And as far as I can tell, it was all done on film, even though it was a TV show, so all of the effects shots could be resca
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by wantoncl 3y ago
To offer a counterpoint: https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosyn... Around the 3:30 mark, while discussing Notre Dame Cathedral, consider how useful all those photos (and however many taken since)
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by wantoncl 3y ago
No, just some black monoliths on the surface ;)
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by wantoncl 3y ago
And contains a grammatical error even before the introduction. ;)
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by wantoncl 3y ago
As I recall, when Seymour Cray would buy a new car, he'd pick the first car on the left as he entered the dealership. After 2 or 3 purchases, the dealer habitually put the most expensive car in that spot.
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by wantoncl 3y ago
NYC bike messengers. And rollerbladers. Not sure how it is now, but in the late 90's they were exactly as the other poster described. Fail to yield, swerving in front of buses and flipping off the drivers if they honked. Utter contempt
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by wantoncl 3y ago
> Regarding film development, I'm not familiar with 8mm specific requirements, but if the author is able to develop color 35mm film, which is not that easy in my experience, he should be more than able to develop at least B&W 8m
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by wantoncl 3y ago
And Charles Messier.
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by wantoncl 4y ago
Review of the keyboard: https://youtu.be/gziZnhxcFrk And same reviewer on an original Space Cadet: https://youtu.be/oDozftThFMw NSFW language here and there.

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