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baldfat

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About baldfat

Just an old bald man who has loved computers since 1976. Loved my Amiga and C-64 and find the same spirit in Linux community. Also playing PC Games so I dual boot. All of this is second to my family of 7 :)

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    I tell myself and other people if you have it saved in your browser are you okay if bad people know that password. Also it makes it easy for people in authority to get to that pass…

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    Comment #38806659

    These fear-mongers that make everyone hate needs to stop. Multi-millionaires that give their own agenda and anything else is anti-this or stupid needs to stop. You also probably sa…

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    Comment #38785106

    I like R and used it two ways. 1) Scheme-like functionalish 2) Tiddyverse and found Julia to be a lot of talk but seemed clunky to me.

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    Comment #34025060

    It's the financial piece. The poor again get screwed with higher prices because they will never have solar panels. So electric company was charging more to the poor to pay for this…

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    Comment #34001397

    I was a research librarian in an academic setting. So, I can do research and have an informed opinion. Now if I was to dispute the information then sure I need to have a masters or…

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    Comment #33969906

    It's a big deal but its decades away. To do this they need to repeatably do it every few seconds. Right now they can do it once per week. BIG CAVIET: The energy to power the laser …

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    Comment #33294370

    Everything you stated is based on emotional stances and conclusions. Medicine doesn't work that way. This was a pretty good study with a very large sample size. The cohort included…

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    Comment #33294339

    People have switched to Resolve due to it having a BETER workflow then FCP or Premier. Personally I jumped on the bandwagon due to Linux. The big difference maker for Resolve was w…

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    Comment #32915666

    You contact a contractor

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    Comment #32509143

    I use a 84 keyboard. It is basically a laptop keyboard layout and it works great for me. It has del, backspace, esc and 4 arrows. It shares the function keys with media keys but I …

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    Comment #32433372

    I am the exact opposite :) I started learning languages with Basic, Assembly and Fortran and ended up loving all things Lisp.

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    Comment #32402818

    I personally use Racket (Lispish) just because it is so much fun to build whatever I want and customize it. It just feels good to have my small projects just fit me perfectly.

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    Comment #31836388

    Why ruin a good meme with FACTS! People

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    Comment #31648339

    I would say nothing but also everything. Racket is Schema and Lisp mashed up. Though Common Lisp is very easy to read once you have Racket down. Personally, I prefer Racket for my …

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    Comment #31635460

    Not if you discount hydro electric. We have to store the wind and solar and then be able to use it. We have the water pump idea where they pump the energy into water that is releas…

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    Comment #30574963

    You can know most things do to chemistry and then there are places you can test the theory. For example night-shade vegetables contain solanine which people believed caused inflamm…

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    Comment #30574950

    I have an inflammatory disorder. Night-Shades cause inflammation is what every doctor told me. If I eat an old soft potato or one with spouts I do not get worse. After looking into…

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    Comment #30574941

    Green color is blight. It is the part of a potato exposed to the sun.

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    Comment #30409476

    mRNA for Covid was built on what was learned from trying to use mRNA for Cancer. I personally think mRNA is going to really help a lot of people in the future. My kid passed away a…

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    Comment #30407185

    Skills over specifics. When you use the popular your average skills are lower. Also teaches you bad habits. Learning programming is different than learning a language. Once you lea…

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    I still say Racket is the best because it was designed from the ground up to teach great programming skills. Realm of Racket and How to Design Programs are best in class in my opin…

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    Comment #30342352

    There are so many ways to write R that can actually be very fast. R is a very different language as a whole and it has addressed a lot of problems these last 10 years. I might be b…

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    Comment #30188249

    That is customer that are currently being covered. It is 40k to 80k at both West Coast, Midwest and Northeast so that is Times 3 plus the rural area of the West and how many that i…

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    Comment #30188158

    Cyber Truck is a style I don't think that will be an issue with meeting Federal Standards and EU Standards