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MontgomeryPy

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    Comment #48854124

    Did not know! Before my time I guess.

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    Comment #48845043

    A big driver of cassettes then was the write ability, unlike 8 tracks. You could borrow your friend's new vinyl album, pop in a new cassette tape on your hi-fi, and record a copy o…

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    Comment #48804618

    Same with the 'doing AI right' Netflix example for me. Showing me the same exact recommendations in each tray but in a different order isn't helping.

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    Comment #48785203

    Yes. There is an Iberian connection that explains Irish folks with dark features, but that would be from Neolithic farmers migrating there 5000 years earlier.

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    Comment #48785018

    Aka Black Irish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Irish_(folklore)

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    Comment #48760023

    Agreed that was a good one. They used so much Kahlua that it caused the price of Kahlua liqueur to rise at liquor stores because they were buying so much of it. So they stopped the…

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    Comment #48681564

    DLR tells the story at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_IxqdAgNJck

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    Comment #48383403

    Fortunately the gas pump is a primary news source for a lot of people and it doesn't lie!

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    Comment #48315502

    Yes, back when Brador beer was available! That was the main draw for me and friends when we were that age :)

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    Comment #48315443

    Also in greater Boston and had the fortune to do a family trip to Bermuda in that era. One more possibility not mentioned in the article is that Bermuda could have also 'lost its c…

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    Comment #48223700

    You could just put your website content behind its own chat interface. The crawler would just see a form input for a prompt.

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    Comment #48124502

    What a blast from the past. I completely forgot that I was a The World customer way back when.

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    Comment #48061933

    2001 affected tech mainly, so a lot of folks went to other industries still hiring. And 2008 affected other industries more than tech, so the inverse.

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    Comment #47151797

    Ha, resonates for me. I wonder if a solution is to pitch the APIs (or an MCP) to customers at the same cost as cloud solution and tell them to vibecode away on top of it. I guess t…

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    Comment #46681317

    Just another 80s trekker passing along a hello. I had the same experience as you describe nearing the top of Kala Patthar. Trekked outside of Pokhara too but did not do the circuit…

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    Comment #46541880

    The comments on early Google circulating value resonate. As a web developer then it was great to add free Google services that enhanced my site/shared revenue (e.g site search, ads…

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    Comment #46034942

    RIP Jimmy. ...one of the rare cases of a cover song being better than original imo. I Can See Clearly Now at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MrHxhQPOO2c

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    Comment #45835718

    Along these lines I wonder how many people have been able to do triathlons for multiple decades (started in their 20s and still doing in 60s). This impressive woman started late an…

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    Comment #45735062

    Relevant: The End of the Rip-Off Economy https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/10/27/t...

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    Comment #45225095

    I'm here. The Front Page doesn't seem to change much intraday (to me) and feels heavily moderated.

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    Comment #45108637

    This seems like a big shift for OpenAI into an enterprise applications vendor to me.

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    Comment #45101848

    It's optimized for the seller. The sales person that can actually determine good fit/bad fit can't also be making 100 calls a day. The BDR making 100 calls a day cannot determine g…

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    Comment #44875215

    It all started with Evel K. in the 70s I think. We'd see him on Wide World of Sports, get his cycle jumping toy as presents, etc. Everyone started building wooden ramps to emulate …

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    Comment #44823834

    I'd say it most certainly killed the sort of dedicated small print classified ad publications you'd find at store checkout counters. But maybe those small pubs like The Want Advert…

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    Comment #44797678

    Yes. It was the only time and place to see cartoons as a kid then. Missed Saturday AM TV? Gotta wait until next Saturday AM. As for ad effectiveness, wow, every single kid in your …