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Am I missing something? Indirectly, yes. In order to play nice with GeoPlace you have to follow a superseding set of GeoPlace DEC-Addresses rules. In section 2.5.3 you'll find an extra rule for BS7666 addresses: Abbreviations or… [more]
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Sanity prevails at last. Not that it wouldn’t be preferable to keep the apostrophes, but after 60 years of this crap it’s time to recognize reality. [more]
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Nice of North Yorkshire to advertise that their DB admins and IT staff are dangerously incompetent. If by “dangerously incompetent” you mean “comply with standards” then yes. [more]
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I lived out of a backpack for a year and it was the height of declutteredness. It felt excellent and relieved me of keeping track of hundreds of items in my head. Before you could ask me where "that rubber ball the kid in the blue shirt… [more]
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The trouble with that is that Kamala is consistently less popular than Biden. That's why you only do it after the election. Then she's got 4 years as an incumbent going into the next election. It would be nice to see the Democrats play… [more]
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Biden's post-nomination incapacity The average person of Biden’s age will die at 89. Don’t hold your breath. [more]
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I have to say as I’ve gotten older travel has become less of an adventure and more of a pain in the ass. I like to actually be places, but the process of getting there is really tiresome. I think the excitement used to offset the annoyances. The… [more]
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I suppose it makes sense, but it's still interesting to me that neither side has taken "A vote for Biden is a vote for Harris" as a slogan. I mean, Biden could easily live well past the length of his presidency, but how cool would it be if… [more]
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But remember: most things, you can buy a replacement for. I have almost never had to do that, but it comforts me to know I could if I had to. My basic travel kit is a passport and a credit card. Those are the only absolute musts, and the… [more]
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I've mentioned it before: a law professor once told our class that the answer to any question beginning "why don't they" is usually "money." I've found that is often a good first order approximation. However, even in… [more]
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Not to oversell the point, but this needs a “barf“ tag. [more]
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edgelord That is an excellent description of something he pioneered, that was greatly imitated in the fan community, and has spread virulently over the years. It is as distinctively his legacy as much as anything he wrote. [more]
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supposed tempting GOP vice-presidential pick Kristi Noem I don’t think she was ever all that interesting to begin with. Her appeal is to rural voters, a demographic that Trump already owns. Raising the suburban numbers or even trying to… [more]
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It’s so weird that it may be a trap. If you agreed to have a stranger come into your class to observe — particularly without the knowledge of the administration — I would question your judgment. [more]
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Democrats HATE Harris. And Republicans, particularly the ones in DC, really HATE Trump. So? An incumbent president is as incumbent president, no matter how you personally feel about them. A 2028 election between an 82 year old Trump… [more]
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The media definitely seems to forget she exists. The first female Vice President and its like she's a ghost. She's been boring, which isn't a bad strategy for a V.P. Being a boring Vice President was part of Biden's path to the oval… [more]
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That article covers a lot about political parties having a fire drill, but ignores the simple answer: write ins. [more]
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(One reason I mention that is that if you want early unfiltered accounts of Japanese history, you should probably look to the Dutch.) [more]
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This is one of the uses the military currently has in mind. Of course, arming the drones and dogs is probably the next step. MCOE Experimental Company, 1st Battalion, 29th Infantry Regiment, 316th conducted an urban assault. But instead of human… [more]
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I don't think software is in a recession, but talking to friends who are still working it sounds like the pendulum has swung towards offshoring again. A number of years from now someone will realize that the problems of managing all of these… [more]
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I don’t know that this is directly on target, but you may be interested in the history of Dejima, which formed a very early chapter in Japan’s relationship with the West. For 220 years it was the only official contact point between Japan and Europe… [more]
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The thing is, I don't want to hear about it if he fools around with someone else, If you don't want to be told about it, but it is okay with you if you accidentally find out then you're probably doing okay. If it's something you expect… [more]
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Since you say you bathe them, I am assuming the kid is small. A short clip of Sindhu Vee talking about small children being boring. I’ve enjoyed playing with the small kids in my life, but I have never become attached to one until they… [more]
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I can't wait to GOSUB a POKE. [more]
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And yet setjmp() and longjmp() remain. [more]
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(But "syntactic whitespace"? Who thought THAT was a good idea. And before you ask, spaces forever, not tabs.) I think syntactic white space is a brilliant idea. But yeah, whoever thought it should go beyond spaces was not… [more]
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(the mousse version) [more]
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Having it be obvious that he is being recorded will likely be enough, but if it continues after that he almost certainly has a parole officer that you can get in direct contact with. I have sympathy with regards to the excessive limitations on… [more]
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I think the fact that you didn’t ask for the money upfront has left you exposed here. I would file it under lessons learned. [more]
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they're not going to replace cops, they'll be driven around by cops, so they can main and kill people without the cops being on site. that is the cop wet dream. lethal force projection with zero personal risk. That ship sailed a while ago… [more]
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Nothing like a cop you can light on fire with a clean conscience. [more]
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remember the Terminator movies were not about ai driven robots treating people like trash, You remember the first Terminator movie very differently than I do. [more]
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the idea of canid killbots doing hyperpop fortnite dances over my corpse [runs off to patent truck-nuts for robots] [more]
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As far as I know, there is 0 market globally for search and rescue. Nobody is paying for it on a recurring basis. My sister-in-law and quite a few other people have made entire careers out of doing search and rescue for the military. [more]
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Let’s say you were a normal unarmed human civilian person. How would you stop one of these? At the moment? Quite easily. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. In the long run, there’s probably… [more]
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Practical Engineering is a wonderful set of videos about infrastructure by a civil engineer. It’s also done in a quiet and direct style that is very relaxing to watch. [more]
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Heh. Given that “Kiwi” is often used as a slang term for New Zealander the headline evoked a very different image for me than what it was. [more]
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i would, i guess, reserve that for having become complicit in someone's misbehavior (even if only to the extent of contributing 30¢ in royalties to some shithead by way of buying their books) For me that's a separate issue, and honestly not… [more]
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Also, i don't think you ever have to "scrub the slime off of yourself" when you're reading work by someone who's safely dead A point on which, I think, reasonable people can disagree. I’ve found that learning new things about… [more]
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He reveled in being an asshole Great writer, but his legendary reputation for challenging the status quo is greatly oversold. The guy was just an asshole, and his antics hewed far closer to the WWE than social activism. He did pioneer… [more]
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We used to use hair mousse for the same effect, leading to evenings where we exhaustively searched the mousse brands in the supermarket for the highest alcohol content. [more]
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Oh god, how small do you want? The machines that lay out the inside of a CPU draw thousands of traces (small conducting lines) 0.004 inches wide. [more]
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The best people can make the worst art. The worst people can make the best art. Ignore the artist; pay attention to the art. Just remember to scrub the slime off of yourself afterwards. [more]
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I’m really unclear on the concept that the OP been working with someone for four years with no problems, then one day they say some awkward and annoying and that’s it, time to run. This isn’t a work of fiction. The villain doesn’t hide their… [more]
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Just a quick note from the other side. While my older brothers and sister were growing up they dealt with an angry, judgmental, rigid man who left quite a bit of scarring. At the same time, like your father, he was widely admired in the… [more]
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Male, 54. I've been a fan of two of her albums for years now. Her early country stuff isn't that interesting to me, but "1989" and "Reputation" hit the spot for me in two very different ways. I think one key is that she… [more]
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"hold up, you know there are a lot of people out there who can create great art and who aren't assholes" and/or "why do we have to accept the asshole along with the art?" Or as I sometimes put it: "How can get the… [more]
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I wouldn’t be cool with it as a pull quote. In the larger context of describing what your experience of Taylor Swift so far is it doesn’t seem like an unreasonable observation. The public image that she and her managers have decided on is… [more]
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What would make a long commute worth it to you? A job I would enjoy for a few years. I have to say that my best long commute was with a carpool. Being able to use the HOV lanes didn't save all that much time, but zipping along with my… [more]
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