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dmitrygr
13,817karma·4,954submissions·March 28, 2012
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I make things and I break things for fun.
me@dmitry.gr
https://dmitry.gr/ long ago: http://palmpowerups.com/
Places we might have crossed paths: VMWare, Google, Apple
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> Given that school budgets are absolutely gutted What now? https://edsource.org/2026/how-california-compares-to-other-s... https://educationdata.org/public-ed…
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Those people are the public buying the phones. Companies make phones that more people will buy. Turns out your desire for a bulky phone with a replaceable battery is less common than their desire for …
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Minors aren’t allowed to open bank accounts without their parents being on the account. Unless their parents are also in that age bracket, but that’s biologically unlikely
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> Any policy that suddenly pulls the rug on them is notable precisely because we created the problem Are you saying that it is wrong to ever solve a problem quickly, if you are the one who created …
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> any number of citizens do not have ready access to any document proving citizenship.
Do you have a citation for "any number" being high?
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Cirrus salesmen often reference this when talking about the built-in parachute system in the SR20/22. They credit it for the reason that SR22 outsold the cessna TTx by far.
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YOU would not mind, many others would.
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> Who cares though? a lot of normal people who daily-use their phones near water and even jump into pools with them. I would bet you $100 that if you asked people "replaceable battery of water…
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> but he should do better given his visibility in public discourse. Why? He presented real verified science. Anyone who is offended or does not like it ... well, too bad... the world does not care.…
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> race intersect with genetics in a very complicated way Please explain the complications. Use scientific terms only.
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It’s complicated. When you design with modern PDKs, you consider the expected duty cycle of the device, expected temps, and the wear and tear on the silicon all together. That affects the layout of th…
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For the curious, that 50m cable is $500 MSRP. https://1sourcevideo.com/shop/corning-50-meter-thunderbolt-3... …
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> Existing machine is no cost for you to run this. That is not at all how modern chips work. Idle chips are mostly powered down, non-idle ones are working and that causes real measurable wear and t…
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Well, the AGs need "wins" for their campaigns for governors (a common path). Who cares about right and wrong? I totally get it.
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> they place substantial costs onto everyone else Me choosing to NOT download something places NO burden on anyone else. There is no logic by which you'll convince me otherwise.
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> The jury determined that Ticketmaster had overcharged consumers by $1.72 for each ticket. I think the decimal point is a few digits too many to the left here... The various "fees" routi…
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Most pasture is land that cannot support human-edible crops. Cows eat low quality grass that needs no fertilizer or pesticides. Stuff that lives in very alkaline soils, etc. Cows and us, we do not com…
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> "needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal" The calories cows eat are ... useless to humans. We cannot digest cullulose (grass) and most of the rest of the things we feed to cows. Anyone throwin…
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Very nice. There was an older similar app I had used for a while, but it broke on latest OS update. this one looks good. will give it a few days and then buy. thanks. two requests: 1. some windows do …
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so all those foreign students could become "not foreign" by merely coming here for a tourist visit and overstaying? Quite the idea. I will suggest to a few college-age friends to claim to be…
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>> Are you ok with ciggarete smoke then if you are ok with marijuana smoke? > Yep. Why wouldn't I be? I'm not a brainwashed Karen. https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/s…
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babies -> needed for civilization to continue weed -> possibly negative effect on civilization ( https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2424288/ ) , certainly not a r…
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> with global students who pay full freight Some do, some pay nothing: https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2023/05/31/minnesota... …
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You’re probably right, though I dread the possibility. I cannot stand the smell, and one of the best things about moving from California to Texas was avoiding that pervasive smell being everywhere. Ne…
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What is this, a movie theater for ants?
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> At our CORE, our instinct is to only email folks when we actually have something fun to share. A big release, something we’re excited about, news worth your time. That’d probably be every couple …
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The last sentence of this submission makes no sense. You are in Spain. Allegedly, the country has a representative government. That means that you should have a way to influence the government to fix …
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> Fully automated and human free air traffic control would save lives. I now know 100% that you are not a pilot. No thanks! 100% no thanks.
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> There was an incendiary article about me a few days ago [...] That is a lot of words, none of which state or claim the article was in any way inaccurate. Curious, that
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I can suggest some good statistics books, which will happily explain why questions are purposefully worded this way.