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losalamosal

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About losalamosal

Retired computer scientist. Prepping for the killer app.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46037153

    Better yet, publish your own application specific notifications in step 2 since (I believe) billing alerts are delayed. Effectively, build an app specific sidecar that monitors the…

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    Comment #41071546

    Your assigned seat won’t be worth squat when a parent with two screaming, seat kicking, kids sit behind you. The flexibility of Southwest’s seating model allowed the 20% of us who …

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    Comment #41071504

    Your assigned seat won’t be worth squat when a parent with two screaming, seat kicking, kids sit behind you. The flexibility of Southwest’s seating model allowed the 20% of us who …

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    Comment #40877176

    I suspect that the largest producer of fireworks, China, also is the largest consumer of fireworks—by far. It’s surprisingly hard to find the numbers though. Try Googling “firework…

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    Comment #39660537

    Three passengers with airsickness. Fourth Boeing incident in a week. Hype machine at work.

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    Comment #34560103

    Canonical example for non-trivial project please. Tweet’s a bit cryptic. Not sure I know how to do source links vs. embedded code. Example illustrating all points would be helpful.…

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    Comment #34314280

    Always helpful to quantify phrases like “drop in the bucket”. Lake Superior, by most estimates, holds 3-4 quadrillion gallons of fresh water. A 1T gallon loss is indeed a drop in t…

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    Comment #30662894

    As others have mentioned, you really can’t shake and shuttle the pan along the surface of the cooktop—it’ll scratch. That ruins the neat & clean look if that’s important to you. Yo…

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    Comment #28960379

    I like the project but must comment on New Mexico. Saguaro are generally associate with Arizona (where they grow in large numbers), not New Mexico (where there are few, if any). I …

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    Comment #13629499

    Or 40 years ago! I'm no fan of "process", but if you don't at least write down what you're trying to do (requirements) and some metrics for judging success, you open yourself up to…