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mrexroad

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    Comment #49199707

    My city has a contract with Flock, but the rest of their tech “stack” is Axon based. I’ll be surprised if they don’t change ALPR to Axon at first chance.

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    Comment #49199651

    Been a minute since I’ve commuted daily in DC, but I always found the waffle stations rather lovely as well as iconic; they’re among my favorites from my travels.

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    Comment #49119204

    I always cut diagonal and lean the halves against each other, balanced on edge, with the diagonal facing up. No soggy side, center cools faster, and contents don’t leak as much bef…

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    Comment #49112871

    > folding laundry robot This is my dream for a house chore robot. If I could dump hampers of clothes into a receptacle and get stacks of folded clothes out, I’d happily pay $1k. Ho…

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    Comment #49043391

    … says a post from a 25min old bot account? Snark aside, I’m curious: what about the comment you replied to is a “Reddit lie?” Pretty much everything act mentioned is well document…

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    Comment #49009537

    I was visiting a friend’s lab at NASA Ames the other day. I smiled seeing this on the wall there. I sometimes daydream about what it’d be like if our primary education system devot…

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    Comment #48907862

    Better make sure the pizza gets delivered on time, else you’ll have to pull your sword.

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    Comment #48906258

    Re-reading it atm, for first time in ~25years, and I’m struck with how much of historical context my kids don’t have that I’d want them to before recommending it to them. I feel I …

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    Comment #48755022

    And the Bay Area as well :)

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    Comment #48689952

    Fr. There was that small window back in the early ‘10s where data was slow and expensive in India and 4g wasn’t yet pervasive in China. Execs were still receptive to my pitches tha…

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    Comment #48668945

    Similar, read Crime and Punishment earlier this year and it took me a few pages to realize two different names were the same character. Felt silly when I realized lol. Also just st…

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    Comment #48667780

    Just picked up an x3 from prime day sale (yeah, Amazon, sigh, I know). Super stoked to see how it is in practice. I’ve always espoused to my kids to be mindful about what they do d…

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    Comment #48626502

    Sometimes more, sometimes less. Either way, those days are the most precious time you will have. If you’re lucky, sometimes you get a few bonus days sprinkled in later on as well. …

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    Comment #48575390

    > Something has to give. Just so I’m not misunderstanding, you felt that science funding should be the first thing to give? And that other recent controversial expenditures should …

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    Comment #48471219

    Huh? DARPA created something to help retain communication and coordination capabilities for our government in event of nuclear attack.

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    Comment #48449287

    > Curse of money Sure, but I think it’s also b/c the target audience for these keynotes has shifted. Given their immense market cap, now there’s an increased fiduciary responsibili…

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    Comment #48449180

    lol, I have a few other memories of Steve for when there were technical issues during the keynote. WiFi congestion and dead digital camera still pop up in my memory every now and t…

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    Comment #48387565

    You don’t have to but in hotter climates, especially those with higher energy costs (ca), it’s a lot cheaper to cool evaporatively.

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    Comment #48387524

    > Creating false narratives like they use huge amounts of water, when in fact the cooling is a closed loop system and use less water than a single busy restaurant My understanding …

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    Comment #48341308

    Do you have a link to your paid content that will put me ahead of the curve so my career will be bulletproof? /s

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    Comment #48339181

    > I remember figuring all this out as a self-taught teenager (pre-internet) with some books, a whole lot of time […] but man did it make me feel like I accomplished something magic…

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    Comment #48315246

    Heh. I’m not in the trades, but ~15 years ago I decided to rock/tape/mud ~800sqft of my house myself… to top it off, my lighting design included wall grazing lights and a satin she…

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    Comment #48175053

    Due South… now there’s a name I have not heard in many years. Youth in the 90’s had all sorts of quirky content available and we had enough free time to consume it all while doing …

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    Comment #48119465

    Revenge is a typeface best served with Serifs Keeeeerrrrrrrrrrrnnn!!