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Comment #49123616
Birds Nest soup with Chinese tomatoes? Or Cinese noodles with Chinese tomatoes? It sounds likw 2 domestic markets that China should use to rid themseves of their over-abundance of …
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Comment #49048164
The first thing I noticed: do people like wet books? The way a lot of those libraries are designed, all the books are going to be ruined at the first rainstorm. The Library of Cong…
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Comment #48908859
It was a dark and stormy night.
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Comment #48883330
Where isn't there traffic congestion?
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Comment #48787149
what money?
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Comment #48786998
Uninterrupted time? Is there such a thing? Let me explain: Having retired from a tech world that didn't provide me with very many gigs, I have found myself being the roommate of my…
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Comment #48778934
Simply change the pricing so that the datacenters pay a higher rate to subsidize everyone else. The handwriting was on the wall with this issue since the O'Bama administration: he …
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Comment #48778366
He should have started his own pizza restaurants with his own ovens. Maybe then he'd learn more about baking. Especially pizza. Restaurants wouldn't even need dish washers if they …
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Comment #48766459
RE: I promise I wrote this (and all the words in this post) with my meat fingers! I'm a vegetarian, so I don't eat meat with my fingers, or anything else.
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Comment #48691635
I'm waiting for that government subcommittee hearing where they are supposed to decide if my new cpu design is big endian or little endian. And they can't seem to decide if it shou…
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Comment #48065557
> Put them in work programs. If they can’t be productive, put them in > mental institutions. That was how NAZI-Germany and USSR (communist) governments 'solved' their problems. In …
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Comment #48065472
Show me a single law that was not given by a politician? I don't think there are any. Aside from maybe F = MA or Pie are squared LOL.
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Comment #48036206
Aside from the disheartening forced-reading of this deeply-personal journal, I've gleaned from it that Musk wanted to bring OpenAI into Tesla, and OpenAI leaders did not. My though…
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Comment #47965119
There is at least on class of voice modems the article didn't mention: The type 407 modem. In the 1980-1984 time period, I was part of a project to build a system for approving-dis…
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Comment #47876278
There's also Clue, Combat, stratego, Life, Parcheesi
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Comment #47824547
How? I had a set of letterhead/envelopes/business cards printed up. I had already been "hanging-out" in the local electronics surplus stores, where they also sold used computer par…
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Comment #47616064
I'm certain that if LinkedIn were confronted, that they could produce a response that says they are covered by the TOS you had to agree to in order to use the site. I don't have ti…
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Comment #47505770
I am having trouble understaning. First, which routers are actually made in the USA? ASAIK, none of them are.
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Comment #47468252
I don't know anything about React. I used to do everything in C++, and I was really happy when I could do embedded projects in C instead of assembler. With that said, I really like…
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Comment #47467760
So now there's a few additional steps when I install a new distribution to make certain that classic sudo is the one installed, rather than sudo-rs I'm sure someone things this is …
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Comment #47439308
If I understand this, the owner of the text is the tool? If I used a pencil, the writing was authored by the pencil. If I used a typewriter, the writing was authored by the typewri…
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Comment #47365951
Perrhaps they can add ID-checking to the gnu compilers, too? lol
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Comment #47365645
Here's a memory: My old Fido-net system, running on a 386, with a single phone line. Connected to a Microcom 34Kbaud modem. Everything is chugging on, and connects to another syste…
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Comment #47313853
This is like a previous administration trying you re-unite children with their families.
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Comment #47138919
How about including a course in touch-typing that emphasizes the computer keyboard rather than the typewrite keyboard?