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    Comment #49175472

    That was a style then. It may not be your thing or mine, but it's not puzzling that someone was caught up in a fashion style of the times.

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    Comment #48905748

    What's the difference between the two usages?

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    Comment #48874192

    What design trends can be attributed to people's desire to pick up and move at a moment notice?

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    Comment #48863169

    Fluke has made an acoustic imager for a while now. It is used for detecting leaks: https://www.fluke.com/en-us/product/industrial-imaging/fluke...

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    Comment #48837399

    I think that is the "challenge" with dnsmasq. In addition to caching DNS it also does, dhcp, authoritative DNS, BOOTP and TFTP.

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    Comment #48625338

    A shot of tequila? Or my team having a shot at winning world series? There are lots of shots.

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    Comment #48610166

    I never heard anyone say "October Missile Crisis." Did you grow up in Cuba or a Cuban American community?

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    Comment #48608954

    If this article is interesting to you I highly recommend War of the Whales . It is an interesting look at Cold war science+politics and the environment. A decent part of the book i…

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    Comment #48455636

    I can't find one /8 that is assigned to boeing. I think your idea of IP allocation is very outdated.

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    Comment #48455540

    You just listed companies that have one /8 not multiple /8s.

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    Comment #48438422

    Do you have any examples of large companies that have multiple /8s but can get away with a /21?

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    Comment #48339927

    One of my favorite readings from undergrad and grad school was "The Problem of Social Costs" by R. Coase. I'm sorry you think externalities are glossed over by economics, but Im ex…

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    Comment #47875407

    I get a 404 when I try and view the CitizenLab report: https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exp...

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    Comment #47863388

    There is a "How to opt out" section in TFA.

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    Comment #47729985

    The three months difference must be based on a wild corner case. What cities are you basing that statement on? I played around with weatherspark and all the places I tried looked l…

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    Comment #47496401

    It looks like it probably won't matter. The site says you can preorder a DevKit "Shipping between June and September 2025." The fact that they haven't updated that webpage with new…

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    Comment #47347803

    What is a WITCH or AFS?

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    Comment #47308435

    If you think Hollywood content is worthless why bother pirating it at all? It seems like you would just not consume it.

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    Comment #47293403

    If you like this there has been a interesting discussion on the tzdb mailing list about how to handle the Vancouver change and the next releases of the tzdb and the Unicode Common …

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    Comment #47206560

    I was with you until you said California. You think that Californians are understand Southern or Midwestern culture?

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    Comment #47165319

    What is toast? I have not heard of it. I thought you wrote pandoc at first.

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    Comment #47015725

    How many games did you have to throw away because stockfish wanted to castle? Or did you force stockfish to not castle? Castling seems like such a frequent move it is hard to draw …

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    Comment #46852252

    You have worked for the same company for >55 years? That's wild. Can you share the industry?

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    Comment #46842517

    At first I thought "desktop shell" was supposed to be compositor, but that's not the case, a wayland compositor like sway is a requirement. I've been using sway for years I have no…