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needSomeCoffee
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Comment #48963495
Clicked the link. Selected "Literary". First sample was quite good. Vaguely caught the name of the author. Closed page. Then decided to go back. Could not find the first sample whi…
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Comment #48959546
Very interesting and well written article. This sentence in particular: "Linn Products is the Glasgow company Ivor Tiefenbrun founded in 1972, and if you know it at all you know it…
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Comment #48939949
Buy. Rip. Own forever. Compensate artists fairly. My prefered method.
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Comment #48812829
My pet peeve = authors who start using an acronym without ever "introducing" it. Suddenly there is an acronym used throughout an article, and one has to carefully go back and find …
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Comment #48776930
Thanks to the author. That was a great read imho. Loved the early parts about the guys who -- despite the ridicule and lack of resources -- achieved eradication. Again, great read.…
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Comment #48638124
I also did many miles commuting and riding in the city. A key, absolute rule after too many close calls was to never cross in front of a car about to enter or cross-over the road I…
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Comment #48637033
I read in another thread on another site that the Snapchat SPECs were targeted at developers. If not are they going to market with what Evan is attempting to wear at over $2K ?? In…
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Comment #48601933
JAWBONE == Justice Against Weaponized Bureaucratic Overreach to Networked Expression. Max Kudos. Ron and Ted owe a staffer (or staffers) a few drinks.
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Comment #48506851
Jennifer Doudna again. What an amazing scientist. Wow.
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Comment #47355093
Wow. Beautiful engineering. Please, please Apple use this ethos for all future major laptop re-designs e.g. MBA & MBP.
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Comment #47344297
"...handily...". Apple set the power limit for the A19 at 4 watts. The M1 does not have this limit. So in all tests using processes that tax the CPU, the M1 wins. Apple ignored the…
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Comment #47340170
I do not really understand why the Walmart $599 M1 MBA comparison is so lost in the MSM. The Neo is the same price (without edu discount). The Neo CPU benchmarks slightly better un…
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Comment #46755264
Just a comment to the author. Very much appreciate how you go about explaining this, and your writing style. Thanks for taking the time. NSC... ...an ex-Arpeture user.
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Comment #44402686
Agree completely. Writing was brilliant. Kudos to the author.
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Comment #43337821
Puget Sound Electric here in Western WA has a very nice feature showing usage by hour by day (using their smart meters). We live in a relatively small home, and do not use electric…
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Comment #42268835
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes. Probably the best expose about the vileness of politicians and command ladder climbers within the service as they related to Vietnam.
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Comment #31315124
I wrote an app for my daughters years ago using Adobe Air and it was quite successful in the early days of the app store when it was easy to load such apps. Was really useful for m…
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Comment #30233061
Makita Brushless 5amp drill combo set. I have used a wide variety of battery powered drills and drivers for decades. If you do a lot of home projects building things, you will use …
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Comment #29685363
Actually there is. When my daughters were on the Airgun 10 meter team (recent national champs), I spent some time investigating how to create a low-cost SCATT system using a relati…
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Comment #15589060
I have a proven, novel means to gain insight about System1 response. Issued a patent for it (which I think is reasonably well written). Worked great applying it improve response to…
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Comment #15589008
I have a proven, novel means to gain insight about System1 response. Issued a patent for it (which I think is reasonably well written). Applied it working with P&G to improve respo…