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841.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Let me guess, the dog is chained to a metal post, the metal post happened to splice the telephone line buried in the garden, and the dog was getting 100V of ring voltage every time.
842.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I despair at the state of CS these days.
843.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Calculators don't use floating point for a reason.
844.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Type E earthing is optional on the socket, which is a bad idea.
845.
by NikkiA 3y ago
CEE 7/7 is where it's at. Couple that with some future CEE socket standard to make all the best engineering in type-E and type-F standard (polarised connectors from E, and earth tabs on the outer rim from F, plus protective shutte
846.
by NikkiA 3y ago
That, surprisingly for raymond, doesn't actually answer the question, since you cannot request opening stdin/stdout/stderr via this API, the values 0..2 are also invalid return values. (/dev/stdin, /dev/st
847.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Still magnitudes less efficient than just building gravity batteries.
848.
by NikkiA 3y ago
About 20 iterative engine designs from the Rocketdyne A-1 to the F-1, building experience and skills along the way. It's probably a myth anyway, Rocketdyne's expertise continues with the RS-68 and there are probably still employee
849.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I have a distinct memory of being about 4 and getting a magazine/book that had physical nonograms using little coloured stickers that you had to place in the grid pursuant to the numerical rules; I recall the memory mostly because it w
850.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Probably one of those 'I LIVE in thailand, but I work in SF via remote' ex-pats
851.
by NikkiA 3y ago
> an Air Force pilot in 1947 Nope, he was a private pilot.
852.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Probably Ernő Goldfinger is the most obvious person to blame, along with the smithsons, Basil Spence and Leslie Martin. People think of brutalism as some weird 'means to an end' from the communist countries, but brutalism was an e
853.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Plus the whole website primes you to think that you're about to be presented serial killers. You could do a 'serial killer or ...' about anyone whose prime was between 1950 and 1970-some and has a lot of mostly B&W photos
854.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Probably stuck in a shed, barn or other outbuilding that is infrequently used by the owner. Cat goes in while door is open, sleeps, resident leaves and closes door, cat is now stuck. The cat however will hear an approaching human and rush t
855.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I too used the "disks by post" service (in the UK) that the article describes, I've mentioned it before on HN too, but my investigation hasn't turned up the name of the company/catalog either, but I am fairly sure
856.
by NikkiA 3y ago
As evidenced by the number of comments bemoaning the censorship of LLMs every time there is a LLM post.
857.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Copyright does not cover plot, it is perfectly legal to make a TV show about an aging school teacher that decides to become a drug kingpin to finance his cancer treatment.
858.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Sounds like an ESL writer, 'It is not so bad' is a common phrase I see written by native slavic speakers, it's probably a direct translation of a language idiom.
859.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I think my first HDD, a 130MB drive, had automatic parking. It was a feature from so early on, that I never really though much about it except on university XTs, which were almost always just left on and walked away from, anyway
860.
by NikkiA 3y ago
That trend is called 'monetization' if you look at historical videos you can even tell where youtube keeps changing the minimum length for monetization.
861.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I do, but I don't really have stereo vision (amblyopic strabismus), which makes it even stranger.
862.
by NikkiA 3y ago
which is why my .config/emacs/init.el has this in it: (cond ((eq system-type 'darwin) (macos-config)) ((eq system-type 'gnu/linux) (linux-config)) ((eq system-type &#x
863.
by NikkiA 3y ago
No, you'd need to go back to ice-age temperatures again
864.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Wow, that's the least appetizing set of pizzas I've ever seen, bravo bloomberg on ruining pizza.
865.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Would never happen today - by the time you've convinced the cabin crew to talk to the captain, and they've got past the cockpit door security protocol, the long/lat of the plane would be so far off that there'd be nothin
866.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Burning man was always the 'somewhat wealthy' at very least. The people I worked with that went to it in 95 and 96 certainly had multiple millions to their names. Maybe it was more grassroots in the 80s, but I bet you have to go b
867.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Same reason as Mike Lindell is.
868.
by NikkiA 3y ago
UK Peak yesterday was 7GW
869.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Oh, it can be done. The simple solution is to implement an encryption algorithm with a back door, and only allow that method of E2E encryption. Presto, problem solved. I suggest 'clipper' as a name for this new encryption.
870.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Downtime is not observable from within the observable universe.

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