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I am fascinated that I got down voted. I mean, isn't what I'm doing here nearly ideal? Or maybe not: why? My solar panels shade my roof under the incessant sun of the Sonoran Deser…

I have rooftop solar and I have been building credit with my electric utility even though the daily high temperature is well over 100F outside and a comfortable 75F inside. That in…

Have you ever paid attention to what's on the road in Mexico? I've driven there for 30 years and I've seen it all. Then, there's the idea that Mexicans might not be able to manufac…

For the people who don't believe this, spend some time watching urban traffic in a place like Oaxaca. 4 is a bit of a stretch unless it's a couple of small kids (that happens) and …

My wife and I were mid '80s chemical engineers. She liked her 15c, but I went on afterward into fundamental numerical analysis and was extremely happy with my 32S. I recently asked…

I'll take your word for it (Man Ray's) because... Picasso. It's interesting to contemplate though because those studies/sketches/whatever are Picasso, they're great, better than ju…

"The difference is that you don't own your EV, it is a computer on wheel. Any firmware update like Tesla has done in the past and features are no longer available." Yeah, I think t…

When we visited that room in 2012 or so the walls on the other 3 sides had Picasso's studies for the final painting. The combination of those in proper size context to the astoundi…

1988. On a math TA salary I paid $600 for an 80MB (That's megabytes) hard drive. I had dialup. I also had Turbo Pascal and an 8087 coprocessor. I was a MS student in computational …

The protocol we have always implicitly used in this case is 'no news is good news'. I.e., participants in the meetup understand that they only have to communicate 'I won't/can't be…

In 1989 I wrote and posted a paper letter to a college friend of ours in Northern England, asking, hey, around [June date I forget] we will be in London, want to meetup? A while la…

Might be a translation issue here with the commenter, maybe? Handwritten notes help to remind yourself when studying about what the instructor thought important. You write down the…

This is hilarious. This comment would imply that the people who got multiple degrees and were very successful through their careers (that would be everybody in my generation: we st…

Best to kill anything that moves; it's the only way to survive.

I figure if Seymore Cray thought digging was useful for mental hygiene it's probably ok: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling

LC 200: 381HP V8 lol! Holy shit they are expensive used. It kinda looks like the updated version of the FJ-80 public "Mall Cruiser" actual knower "Land Crusher" concept, where the …

So is mine (2001TRD bought new). Searched all over AZ looking for manual everything and I got it, except for the trans. It replaced an fj60 Landcruiser. Beautiful machine I worked …

> quickget windows 10 Downloading Windows 10 (English International) - Parsing download page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I... - Getting Product edit…

I hardly want to run windows apps at all, but I have a garmin etrex 32x and I can't for the life of me get garmin windows software to run on wine or linux crossover (something to d…

"Shop"? Ok, well, have you ever been in there? Because it might be the best market in Atlanta, right now. We just spent a 3 year sojourn in the Atlanta metro area and the Dekalb Fa…

Back in the early '80s we ate a lot of English nettle cheese that we bought in the Dekalb Farmers Market in Atlanta. It was delicious. I've watched but never found it in the US sin…

I used all of the plants discussed, interesting meats like various types of game, lamb, offal, turtles, frogs, raw oysters, all shellfish in general, and a whole bunch of fermented…

I do not think that a 12' gator is going to appreciate you patting it on the head. And for short distances, they can outrun a human. That said I am a 3rd generation S. Floridian wh…

"Which one do you think Harvard picks?" Do you not understand what the point of legacy preference admissions is? I will supply it here: Legacies take the place of the higher perfor…

Now fit legacies into this theory. The wikipedia page on Legacy Preferences is illuminating. Note the Larry Summers quote: Former Harvard University president Lawrence Summers has …