RobGR

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by RobGR 1y ago
My gut feeling is that is what is going on. But, the creation of new plasma donation centers is not a random process, so we've identified a correlation, not a definitive cause and effect. What if areas that are on an upward economic
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by RobGR 1y ago
You can call any self-interested decision "greed" if you need to just turn off your brain and emote. But they were making high profits for decades, and being greedy for decades. Then there were a lot of layoffs. What changed ?
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by RobGR 2y ago
There was a thread here recently about OCR4All ( I haven't used any of these tools recently, but I'm keeping track because I might be doing that soon ). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43043671 https:/&
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by RobGR 2y ago
I think he switched to this tool and wire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRc7ZDRcgrQ , but he made the PET strip material popular in the bushcraft community, and from there I think it crossed over to the 3D Printing /
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by RobGR 2y ago
Yes, that is who I was thinking of.
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by RobGR 2y ago
I have followed various open source projects to produce filament this way for a few years, starting from a facebook group. It is called "pultrusion". A key property of PET plastic is that it is not infinitely re-meltable, it gets
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by RobGR 2y ago
To add another link, I think this is the same issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/421396
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by RobGR 2y ago
I think this is the same issue as is being discussed here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/421396 It sometimes blocks me on fairly major browsers, such as google chrome ( but on an older U
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by RobGR 2y ago
If it was caused by a bug they wouldn't have told him "you have no future with oracle" and that he couldn't create a new account -- they would have just created a new account, apologized, and given him a few months credi
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by RobGR 2y ago
Ever since seeing this talk https://archive.org/details/youtube-eXe-rvXVL-g , whenever I see these stories of kafkaesque incidents, I am reminded that there is a common way to describe all of them -- the lack of due pr
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by RobGR 2y ago
Yes. I visited that site and examined some of the partially constructed buildings, and talked to a couple of the workers. They have videos discussing how you would add a light switch or remove one -- basically a mansonry hole saw, and matc
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by RobGR 2y ago
I have toured the Icon houses at Wolf Ranch. I went through their show house, but I also went to some of the houses under construction and examined them and talked to the workers a bit. You couldn't approach them them while the print
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by RobGR 2y ago
This company seems to be publically traded -- should we all buy it's stock and take it over ?
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by RobGR 3y ago
No, it's better than installing artificial snow to reflect energy. The snow doesn't change the energy budget of the earth at night, because there is nothing for it to reflect, and the infrared energy it emits is pretty much like t
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by RobGR 3y ago
I followed NightHawkInLight's recipe from youtube, and I've made several batches so far. I tested the results with an insulated box with an open top covered with glad wrap, and confirmed 11 F less than ambient temp at night, at a
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by RobGR 5y ago
I'd like to second your recommendation of Deep C Secrets. I originally bought it purely for the title pun, but it is actually one of the better programming books I own ( and I have a lot ).
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by RobGR 5y ago
This is wonderfully documented. I created something similar many years ago, documenting the tool chain and build process was tedious: http://rgr.freeshell.org/flinux/ This is of course much better because the tools an
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by RobGR 6y ago
Reminds me of this presentation by Jason Scott, examples around the 24:00 min mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCAL_YgYiP0 Jason has a similar ( maybe the same ? ) Defcon talk, in which the goons apparently mis-schedul
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by RobGR 6y ago
Not sure if this is a great project if you are recovering and don't have some type of CNC mill to test it on -- but the state of open source "CAM" software is clunky. "CAM" is computer aided machineing and it is sof
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by RobGR 6y ago
I attended a talk at Defcon in 2007 or 2006 which was given by Chris Tarnovsky, in which he alluded to some of details covered in this article. It was definitely one of my formative tech career experiences, I don't remember much of th
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by RobGR 7y ago
Thanks for linking to that . . . it was fascinating to search through it for some of the small rural places I've lived or had connections to and see familiar names pop up, and think "of course he would have run FidoNet node".
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by RobGR 7y ago
The co-ops seem to do OK. Dallas, Houston, and Austin all have large and thriving hackerspaces.
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by RobGR 9y ago
Look at the Cache-Control header and see if the site is telling the browser not to cache the JS. Also, look at the time-to-first-byte . . . if that is high, maybe further tweaks to the cache plugin settings may help you. If you are not usi
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by RobGR 9y ago
There's no reason a PHP based site should take that long to load. It would seem that you are missing some caching settings, regenerating something every page load, or have something wrong with your server setup. Make sure you are usin
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by RobGR 9y ago
I can confirm, I know a teacher who used DRDOS 7, WP 5.1, and Harvard Graphics to make all their classroom handouts. They use more modern Linux / Debian stuff for actually browsing the web and other computing tasks, but keep several re
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by RobGR 9y ago
There is an image processing script, that will take a picture of the key and deduce the key number, or bitting code, or "key cut code", which is an expression of the heights for each pin. [1] [2] Then you can plug that bitting cod
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by RobGR 10y ago
But, if Dijsktra wrote it, it is right, where as if seanwilson wrote it and cited 100 papers in Datamation it might still be wrong.
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by RobGR 10y ago
Between the time AOL was "the Internet" and the time Google was "The Internet", it was Yahoo. They introduced webmail to the masses, they pushed user-generated content into the masses via their purchase of geocities. Ya
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by RobGR 11y ago
Because the combustion products must transfer their heat to water before the energy can be used, I think there is an inherent limitation on the efficiency of a steam engine as compared to internal combustion. I was interested in steam cars
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by RobGR 11y ago
Looking over this and revisr and gitium, and being already familiar with Drupal's "Features" and new CMI, I feel there is a general pattern here. The pattern is that we build a tool that allows non-programmers to build more a

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