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Yeah, I don't know. I recall very few hurricanes making it to Boston, MA while growing up there in the 70s and 80s.
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I think it's really nothing new.
Almost all rainy / stormy weather we get is following the gulf stream.
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From the other side of the planet, Cairns seems to be getting less hurricanes as they seem to be moving further south. So probably the reverse to what you are seeing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Ah, how cute. You miss matt_munchies.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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No - I was looking at the NHC's map for that storm and saw it where I'm not used to seeing them.
You may wish to look up "strange attractor" - no, not a veiled reference to you and M-M, but a really good description of how weather works.
From Wikipedia
Quote: Strange attractor
A plot of Lorenz's strange attractor for values ρ = 28, σ = 10, β = 8/3
An attractor is called strange if it has a fractal structure.[1] This is often the case when the dynamics on it are chaotic, but strange nonchaotic attractors also exist. If a strange attractor is chaotic, exhibiting sensitive dependence on initial conditions, then any two arbitrarily close alternative initial points on the attractor, after any of various numbers of iterations, will lead to points that are arbitrarily far apart (subject to the confines of the attractor), and after any of various other numbers of iterations will lead to points that are arbitrarily close together. Thus a dynamic system with a chaotic attractor is locally unstable yet globally stable: once some sequences have entered the attractor, nearby points diverge from one another but never depart from the attractor.[5]
The term strange attractor was coined by David Ruelle and Floris Takens to describe the attractor resulting from a series of bifurcations of a system describing fluid flow.[6] Strange attractors are often differentiable in a few directions, but some are like a Cantor dust, and therefore not differentiable. Strange attractors may also be found in the presence of noise, where they may be shown to support invariant random probability measures of Sinai–Ruelle–Bowen type.[7]
Examples of strange attractors include the double-scroll attractor, Hénon attractor, Rössler attractor, and Lorenz attractor.
Although the content is different in different climates, the weather for any region fits into a fuzzy toroidal description. A meteorologist (amongst other expertise)[^] gave much to fractal science.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Talking about Chaos Theory makes me nostalgic for the 90's.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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ZurdoDev wrote: You miss matt_munchies.
I was thinking the same thing.
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Me. It rarely leaves my side.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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What Ron said.
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What all of the above said!
Buckaroo Banzai!
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I thought you'd switched to the implant years ago.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Same. Lenovo ideaPad i7-4700MQ 2.6Ghz /16 GB ram.
My home machine is an absolute powerhouse beast Clevo i7-6700 Skylqke 4.00Ghz with 64GB Corsair Aveneger 1333Mhz RAM along with nVidia GTX 1070. All that power!!
I use it solely to connect to my Bell PVR, watch movies, and listen to some podcasts. The cooling system rarely comes on LOL.
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All the time, but I'm a consultant - I can work from home more than I can work at the customer site.
Funny, even if I lock up my laptop and leave it at the customer site (long term debug thing going on), it just feels wrong to leave it there....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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They do not pay me for that...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Me. And also on vacations.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It always lives at home - or on special vacations where I might need to work (I don't ask for Paid Time Off if it comes along with me - it means I'm still working).
More likely, however, if I carry any laptop anywhere, it's my "dirty" machine which never connects to anything of the least importance.
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I don't. I wrote a little backup utility I use extensively and everything of any importance lives on a 32GB flashdrive that I keep with me. USB v3 of course. I found a deal at newegg and got three of them for four bucks each. I have everything I wrote at my previous three employers on there too and that's rather handy since it covers over twenty years of work. Surprisingly, much of it is still relevant for me since I still use MFC to write desktop apps but that will change when we choose a suitable successor and clear up enough time for the rewrite(s). BTW - these aren't really desktop apps. They are actually automation systems that control machines and/or talk to other stuff.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I take my home laptop to work!
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I'm self-employed working from home so yeah, I take my laptop dev machine home. In fact my 4 y/o laptop travels when I travel, usually one day a week. I actually despise working on the smaller keyboard/single screen and gave up long ago on the crappy trackpad with invisible buttons. It'll work in a pinch but is no substitute for a real workstation with all the goodies.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Mine has a port replicator at home, so I connect to dual monitors (portrait and landscape) and proper keyboard and mouse. Even last week when I 'took my show on the road' I brought along the keyboard and mouse.
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