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by allenrb 1y ago
Does the Texas National Guard have many plumbers?
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by allenrb 1y ago
If I could make roughly the same comp, I would jump on an all-RE job without a parachute. Sounds like heaven.
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by allenrb 1y ago
Not much to say beyond a hearty “well done, you!” That, and looking forward to see what’s next.
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by allenrb 1y ago
And then what? SLS is a many billion dollar dead end.
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by allenrb 1y ago
To clarify, I was making two independent points and didn’t do a good job of separating them. These being: 1. It frequently makes sense to buy older cars for several reasons (cost, common problems being recognized and understood). 2. I’m not
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by allenrb 1y ago
Are you sure? It’s a small screen, controlled by a stalk on the right side of the steering column. It has never occurred to me that touching it might do something, but now I’ll have to be sure. Also, note that this is a base model, with var
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by allenrb 1y ago
New cars are a fool’s game for most people, imho. Unless you just insist on having the newest thing, they rarely make sense. Couple that with the relentless electronic gadgetry and phone-home surveillance and I may never own a car produced
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by allenrb 1y ago
This is no set of lawn darts!
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by allenrb 1y ago
They sure don’t make ‘em like they used to.
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by allenrb 1y ago
So, this aged well: Maybe we’re at that moment in a pendulum's arc where it pauses and starts to begin its trajectory back in the other direction. I hope we're there because we need to reset.
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by allenrb 1y ago
Indeed, I might have done the same. At least that will be a challenge, lacking smart phones.
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by allenrb 1y ago
As a young person, I was in the “own an old beater” category for many years. That said, I knew how to maintain and repair most of what could go wrong. That stick shift 1995 Accord had over 300,000 miles when a school bus finally totaled it
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by allenrb 1y ago
Learning how to stand on your own in school is good practice for doing the same thing in life. By which I’m absolutely not saying “don’t have friends” but rather, you don’t have to be like everyone else. My kids won’t be on social media unt
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by allenrb 1y ago
This confirms something I’ve occasionally wondered about. As an adult with a job, a side business, a family, and an ancient house, I can still remember the incredible focus of youth. No responsibilities. I’m not saying that I envy anyone in
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by allenrb 1y ago
Specifics of this hack aside, I wish I could solder like that!
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by allenrb 1y ago
Would measuring motor current be a better way to determine torque? Not an expert but seems like you could sense voltage across a fairly small shunt to do it.
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by allenrb 1y ago
POE+=4 is a clear win at this level. ;-)
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by allenrb 1y ago
Love this, thanks! Sadly haven’t found time to go shooting in years. And am always careful not to point either of these things (cars, guns) at other drivers. Fyi, this is being written from public transit. You didn’t think I would actually
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by allenrb 1y ago
You’re not American, are you? The number of roads marked 55 mph on which nearly every vehicle is moving 75 mph is very high. Driving under the speed limit would be hazardous to yourself and everyone else.
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by allenrb 1y ago
Speed limiters built into cars. Anti-infringement technology built into general-purpose computers. And yet, guns and ammo freely available and unrestricted outside of automatic weapons and the like? Yeah. Can’t wait to move off-grid someday
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by allenrb 1y ago
I’ve worked in trading for some time now (on the tech nerd side) and can still remember my jaw dropping when I learned that FCOJ is actually traded and wasn’t made up for the movie.
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by allenrb 2y ago
I’ve told people at work, including my boss and his boss, that it will be time for me to go if and when my job ever becomes “translating business problems into something AI can work with.” Right now I’m curious to see how long I can keep up
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by allenrb 2y ago
The best line: “There were no immediate details on whether the monkey survived the incident.” Going way out on a limb here, but perhaps the monkey who disrupted equipment carrying enough power to mess up the entire country was most likely c
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by allenrb 2y ago
Sometimes things just happen. I mean, nobody could have foreseen this!
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by allenrb 2y ago
That sounds like a great sequence! Offhand, I don’t think there were any OOO microprocessors when I did computer architecture at Tech (Go Jackets!)
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by allenrb 2y ago
It’s interesting that they’re doing so many tile tests. Clearly some combination of not being satisfied with what they’ve got, and wanting to find something even better. This is the kind of experimentation that’s been missing from spaceflig
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by allenrb 2y ago
Undersea satellites? You know, like after a launch failure.
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by allenrb 2y ago
As a fellow cat person, I feel pretty confident interpreting what’s being implied here. :-) Beautiful home and contents, btw! It seems expensive but more than a few folks would have spent the same money on “nicer marble” or something.
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by allenrb 2y ago
Just an aside, but “parish priest” must surely be the opposite of “software developer” on the Hacker News Table of Occupational Frequency. Neat!
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by allenrb 2y ago
And these CPUs will be available in… max!

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