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Between AP and dual credit, my kid should graduate HS with somewhere around 30 hours of college credit.

I was promised hologram cubes!

> Old tools with brushed motors arc during normal operation! I have all of my grandfathers old Craftsman steel-shell electric power tools with brushed motors. I put a new cord on o…

The entire point of the article is about underprovisioned infrastructure.

Not commercial RE

I've got ten bucks that says you've shopped for groceries at "Jewels"

Speak for your dense population area self. 418m gets me to the end of my rural driveway. Kids school is 8.3 miles (13.4km).

> haul them to school 300 meters away ?

I can vouch for this first hand. Music has absolutely zero meaning in my 16 year olds life. They don't listen to music - new or old. They don't know who current artists are, and th…

My first experience with 3D was with AutoCAD 10 or 11 when they had "2 1/2"D. I've used ProE, Catia, Unigraphics, SolidEdge, Solidworks, Inventor, etc. The workflows in FreeCAD are…

Surprisingly few companies (or people) care about paying for good security.

It's worked for 45+ years for cable companies.

Headed out to where the down boys go

> Pandora had decent algorithms for recommending things, but it had such a small library that it would frequently repeat the same handful of albums for anything I searched for. Thi…

I see two possible paths: * As the population ages, the elderly will pass laws and policies that favor themselves at the expense of the younger. Social services will become more an…

Holy shit...I hadn't realized credit card rates have become that high!

> historically high APRs Interest rates are NOT historically high. In fact they are basically right at "average". The rates for the last five years were historically LOW.

> Would be nice to see people start tinkering again - really go crazy on protocols, experimental PHYs, etc. that’s the only way it’s ever going to be exciting again. I was hoping t…

I honestly picked up a calculator and converted my annual salary to daily (based on 45 weeks per year) just to verify the absurdity of what I just read.

I got the impression that OP was referring to total deferred maintenance of transmission lines in the entire Texas grid. If it is only storm related, that that seems more ballpark-…

250,000 feet of wires isn't very much (480 miles). Are you sure that isn't a quarter million miles ?

Dr Freud would be proud.

> The money must be going somewhere. > with the appropriate kickbacks to the local politicians

Accumulate and bill once per month. Or pre-pay.