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> wonton destruction

Just as I was wondering what to have for lunch.

A 16-minute video describing the new vehicle and launch pad.

I found that if I search Google Maps for a specific restaurant, it assumes I must just be hungry in general. Just now, I looked for A&W and also got results for Tim Hortons, Popeyes and McDonald's.

Apple Maps never does that. Still, I usually use Google as I want an accurate idea of whether a business is actually open and what its hours are.

I worked at a tech company in the early 2010s that had its own travel agency.

And now, the thing people are most likely to bring up is him partying with Epstein and attempting to slip Melinda some antibiotics after he got an STD.

> For months my windows 10 install would take nearly 5 minutes to start up after a full shutdown sequence.

I know you're not asking for tech support here, but I wanted to share that a friend's laptop was doing this, and the problem turned out to be a massive amount of files in %TEMP%. So many that I had to write a little PowerShell script to remove them all.

I thought it was just an overdramatic term for the unelected bureaucrats that make up the majority of the government, and who have their own institutional momentum.

CGO exists.

There are plenty of law grads unable to find work in their field.

50k lines per day, or at least 1 million lines a month, per team member. How many months can you keep that up, and keep calling it "non bloat"?

Canada is currently at 31%, and I call BS. Some of us have this self-image of a country where people trust each other, but that doesn't make it true.

On one hand, I dropped my brand new iPhone 4 (whatever year that was) at a concert, and it was waiting for me at the bar. Multiple people did the right thing in that particular case.

On the other hand, I've had a backpack and camera stolen. I've even had toilet paper stolen while I was loading my car (during COVID). I've worked in offices where laptops have been stolen. Everyone has a story like this.

I feel like Amazon isn't a FAANG anymore. (What's the new A? Anthropic?)

That's massive

> US refinery capacity is oriented towards heavy crude from the gulf or Venezuela.

Or from Alberta.

Sounds like my kid's friends talking about betas, alphas and sigmas. I think they aim to be sigmas.

Romanes eunt domus

But then some people recognize that technical excellence is not the most important thing, and extend that to assuming that technique does not matter at all. And so we get this constant drip feed of absolutely terrible conceptual art (with an AI-generated artist statement, can't leave that out!) in every single local art scene.

If nothing else, it signals to people approaching your door that there is a dog they may not want to have to deal with.

Interesting that the prices were at their highest level a month ago and not today. Here in Calgary the prices seemed to be C$1.829/L (US$5.09/gal or £0.99/L) this weekend, and I don't think I've ever seen them that high before in Alberta.

libpthread is fine with static linking. Where you run into issues is libraries like libresolv that use configuration files in a specific path.

IIRC there was a way to connect the TI-85 to your serial port and use some Windows or DOS software to copy files onto it. (Everyone's PC still had at least one serial port on it back then).

(Edit: I am assuming you were asking how it's possible I didn't use it, not how it's possible that people were copying programs onto their calculators.)

I don't know. It's been too long. We must have done graphing on paper.

I don't remember a lot of coursework in math that required me to produce a decimal value. For example, we wanted √2 instead of 1.414.

In physics, I think we used regular calculators.

I used to be bewildered at my parents not remembering certain things from high school. But, now I'm living it :).

30 years ago, we had the option of the TI-82 Or (83?) and the 85. A bunch of the kids with the 85 were playing Tetris and some were writing little programs. I got the cheaper 82/83, and I don't actually remember using it for anything, even once, even though I did the IB track (stats, trig, algebra, calculus, etc).

There are data centre projects underway that use their own natural gas generators: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/olds-mihta-askiy-data...

Air pollution, GHG and water use are concerns, but these projects will not dramatically increase the load on the electric grid.

Natural gas is cheap and abundant in Alberta, and the province (actually the whole country, via transfer payments) benefits financially from resource revenues from extracting the gas. So, these projects are generally an easy sell to the public.

Probably a German or French speaker forgetting that , is never a valid decimal separator in English.

It's shorthand for a Joule (unit of energy) per second (unit of time). Watt is the problem with that?

In the English language, "America" refers to a country. It is synonymous with "The United States of America". I say this as someone who lives in the same continent as that country, but not in the country itself.

Maybe you're thinking of "North America", "South America", or "the Americas".

I haven't been to Portland for years, but I remember it as being a transit-forward city, with several streetcar lines (one connected to an aerial tram), and decent light rail service covering much of the metro area.

It sounds like they're going to leave that behind, at least for the foreseeable future. A $300 million cut will probably lead to a death spiral in ridership.

He could be an uptalker?

I like that the site offers your choice of two fonts, but they're both ugly and hard to read. Mono is too narrow, and OpenDyslexic is cartoonish and o v e r k e r n e d.