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I bought canvas bags at a local food coop back in 1994. I use them at least 2-4 times per week. I wash them every other year. 25 years later they are still going strong, some 4000+ uses. Plus they are biodegradable compare to plastic bags.

They are way sturdier then the ones sold now. To replicate them I’d have to make them myself or look on etsy.

Depends on what you spend. Good studio monitors should have fairly flat response across the audio spectrum and most tend to be Near-field monitors which sound absolutely great when you are positioned in front of them as you would for mixing, but don’t sound quite as good when used as a general room speaker. Mind you they are often still better than many peoples setups just the same. The ones that are not Near field can work even better for a general audio situation but tend to cost even more.

Some studio monitors like the popular KRK series are not flat response and are a bit bass heavy.

It moves 3 days forward versus the Gregorian calendar every 400 years. So about 24,000 years (a little less) to hit July

That isn't what I said. I said I found the contrast amusing at face value, which doesn't mean I assumed anything about the person.

My dictionary includes that, as well as "a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result." which would be the definition pertaining to my comment, as I didn't expect that name as it was contrary to the authors comments, and I found it amusing as a result.

Ironically, the name of the person reporting the issue is "Christian".

InnoDB was owned by Oracle since 2005. I don't recall seeing any complaints about that at the time. In 2010, when Oracle bought Sun, then there were complaints from the MySQL team. But not complaints when Sun bought MySQL. Honestly, most people had been using InnoDB as their main MySQL engine for the previous 5 years already but there was no whinging from the MySQL team about that (that I recall).

It's all pretty arbitrary in my opinion -- if Monty and company hadn't whined so much when Oracle bought Sun, I doubt there would have been a fork.

Anyway... it never bothered me one way or the other.

In terms of relative purchase power, in 1987 you could build a "newest processor" 80386 with a then-huge 80Mb drive in a tower case with you basic setup and pay about $3,000 when building it yourself. According to my inflation calculator, that's $6,182.61 in today's dollars.

In 1987, PC's Limited (later renamed Dell) 386-16 included a 16MHz Intel 80386 CPU, 1MB RAM, a 1.2MB floppy drive, a 40MB hard drive, and a monochrome video card for $4,799.

We just tend forget how powerful and cheap Moore's law made things. In terms of relative inflation-adjusted dollars, many of us old-timers back in the day have already spent as much or more than Apple is asking multiple times on 'prosumer' machines when you factor in inflation.

(That said I don’t need that much machine right now and am running on a Dell laptop at the moment...)

Where the people live (I assume you mean front range area) is a mix of Far West and Left Coast -- the newcomers are more the latter, and they seem to influence the previous population. You'll know that is is no longer Far West when TABOR is repealed.

the default valgrind engine, memcheck, is a heap checker and doesn't find stack overruns.

In valgrind 3.7.0, you can use the experimental engine exp-sgcheck to look for stack and global overruns. ( valgrind command line parameter --tool=exp-sgcheck ). It is experimental and doesn't always work, but might have in this case.

The last guy I worked with who often would call people 'idiots' and far, far, worse (Ironically, he was over 60) was fired for his crap attitude.

There is value in correcting bad code. There is only toxicity in insulting those who went before you.

I loved being there at the time, my sorely aging interpreter Jzip was used to bundle the Inform winners of the first IF competition on the Lost Treasures of Infocom CD back in the day.

The competition was started by G. Kevin Wilson, who has since gone on to tabletop boardgaming fame as one of the designers behind the boardgames "Descent: Journey in the Dark", "Sid Meier's Civilization: The Boardgame", "Arkham Horror", "Elder Sign", and many others. ( ref: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/2336/kevin-wilso... )

Not quite that simple. It depends on what country you’re talking about. For example, in Greece it happened in 1923. If I recall by then it was 13 days.

1752 is when Great Britain and its colonies adopted the Gregorian Calendar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Adoption

I’m blaming the landlord. Wonder if he’s violating city housing laws by selling the space.

I second this. I have Keratoconus and was going crazy for a year due to extreme vision problems about a decade ago until I was properly diagnosed and treated.

It isn’t Safari, I’ve done this from Chrome on Windows pcs as well. It seems many networks that use a page you have to read to accept terms before getting wifi enablement use 1.1.1.1, perhaps others too dunno, as a capture page. Once you’ve accepted terms the address passes thru like normal.

One example from Cisco: https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless-mobility-documents/w...

When this happens, in safari go to web address 1.1.1.1 - this almost always triggers the connect page. Used to be a problem at my office for the open-guest network til we got updated wifi network hardware.

Regardless of the issues, a job at a company in the USA is at the discretion of the employer. I can’t understand actively taking part in anything that makes oneself as an employee marked as a pain in upper management’s ass and getting on the list “most likely to be riffed first in the next economic downturn.”

A lot of places sell em, look up “DJ Stems” to get the idea.

It is great, same system exists in my Mini with a pre-touchscreen and I use it with Spotify all the time. I love it to pieces. (edit: Yes, I know Mini is owned by BMW and that is why the same (literally) tech is in my car.)

I also do one-pedal highway driving... and that is my other use case problem with Tesla (that I originally chose not to bring up as it takes me out of the category of potential buyers).

I live in Colorado; my highway driving includes driving 400-500 miles over mountain passes sometimes in the winter down to parts of New Mexico. I have all-wheel and an 8-speed sport transmission; so the Mini eats mountains for breakfast, doesn't drink its fuel supply extra fast when it's 0F in the snow over mountain passes, and doesn't need me to spend time recharging somewhere in the unpleasant cold. Highway speeds (85mph), I can go 400+ miles before refueling.

I can't disagree, most of the other touchscreen UIs in cars are worse. I fear I'm going to start sounding like the cranky old man when it's time for the next car after this one whining for a more tactile UI. :)

To be honest, the Tesla interior leaves me cold. It feels corporate, like being in a nice chair driving a 17" laptop to work. Feels soulless to me.

I really hate touch screens and have opted personally for a similarly expensive car with lots of switches and dials that I don't have to look at to make sure I'm on the right one. (Mini Clubman, with basically every option, literally months before they added a touchscreen entertainment system)

Bass Guitar standard tuning goes to E1...

Took me a few tries to find "Hungarian Folk or Byzantine Major Gypsy" scale as I first tried the other aliases:

1. Double Harmonic (main English language theoretical name) [1]

2. Byzantine (finds it, but in my experience is known as "Byzatine scale" and "Major Gypsy" is another scale name -- it is weird to see them glued together.

3. Mayamalavagowla

4. Bhairav Raga

5. Arabic (Hijaz Kar)

It would be nice if a given scale had all its known names attached to it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_harmonic_scale

I’m having a hard time with that math. I recently bought a two yr old Mini Clubman and with my payments, insurance, and estimated maintenance and gas for my 22 miles per day total commute it runs me about $18/day. In five years (or less if I choose to pay it off early) it’ll be way less than that. And then there is the convenience and fun factor which isn’t even in the math I provided. Basically I’m not sure two Ubers a day at 11 miles each in rush hour in a top 20 US metro area are gonna be less than that.

Had I bought a used Toyota (done that a few times now) it’d be even less. (I’ve always bought used - let some other sucker pay the initial depreciation) I drive my cars until they are about dead or look to be too expensive to maintain.

Jeff knew she needed to drive the boat, to symbolically steer her own life, rather than being railroaded and being convinced to like it like her asshole ex did to her. And among normal caring people, guys like Jeff are the norm.

Not buying it. I’m on the backend. My house is paid off in 18 months. Even with my average 5-7k per year of maintenance I’m paying a lot less than a crappy two bedroom rental in my top20 metro area on the US and my property is already worth triple+ my initial cost for a reasonable 1800 sq ft plus basement. I did get a place that was waaaay less than banks wanted to qualify me for because I understand the cost of maintenance. A pool would be an albatross around my neck for instance - never would buy a place with one bc of the maintenance.

And the electors of a congressional district are elected by popular vote of their state already. Kind of like an MP.

Conceded, and removed that wording.