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by asdefghyk 5mo ago
This website, thru one link and another lead me to (The rabit hole of ) "mechanical calculators". A mechanical marvel for me.
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by asdefghyk 5mo ago
As someone whoose first calculator was a basic Sharp (I think) 4 function model in 1975 - I admired the scientific calculators that others could afford, at that time. This site bought back memories of the early era calculators.
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by asdefghyk 5mo ago
Another related nostalgic site For Electronic project Kits - like X in 1 Electronic Projecy kits, where X is some number from about 10 to a few 100 ..... https://web.archive.org/web/20260221183623/http://
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by asdefghyk 5mo ago
RE .... company tracks you ..... [ somewhat off topis ] Did you know ... in many countries government tracks car number plates and the data is stored for many years.
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by asdefghyk 5mo ago
About removing the modem. .... I always though ...just need to remove the ... the antenna .. modem would always get no signal and transmissons would always fail.... Same for the GPS. To verify- no other hiddwen transmitters could use some R
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by asdefghyk 5mo ago
Hundreds of 1,000s of students affected by this hack in Australia ( and no doubt other countries around the world ...) Its more than the 10,000s Australian students mentioned in article below ... https://www.abc.net.au/ne
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
I expect , data such as ... would be illuminating here ... Electric cars registered in countries with large land mass? "..Electric car adoption , ranked by value of government incentives.."? Eventually I just searched for &q
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
To get around this problem , I personally use a ON/Off extension and only load images if article "...is interesting enough ..." But yes, lots of images only have a very weak usefulness ....
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
RE ".... the Wall Street Journal famously had no photos long into...." Made me think of how I dislike articles, " often from newspapers " that seem to add (often several) photos only weekly related to article content whe
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
My first immediate thought when I saw the title "...first photo published in a newspaper..." was to image a newspaper photo with obvious dots or their proper name "Halftones" A few googles reveal much detail about the pr
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
Multiday renewable droughts ( solar and wind ) are a significant challenge. ( A further problem would be if a renewables drought occurred at a (multiday) peak demand period ) Appropriate (often new) wide area, power transmission networks ca
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
What happens when there is wide bad weather for renewables? ( for a range of days from 1 - several) Where would the power needed come from? If, it was to be from some kind of storage, Extra capacity would be needed to allow recharging of
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
From a pay walled article - Judge blasts Facebook owner for ‘wilful ignorance’ in court battle Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta faces >>significant sanctions<< after a judge found the tech giant may have deliberately destroyed evidence th
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Mining magnate Andrew Forrest takes Meta 2 court over scam ads using his likenes(abc.net.au)
5 points by asdefghyk 6mo ago|2 comments
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
In short: Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest is taking social media giant Meta to a US federal court over scam ads using his likeness without permission. The mining magnate says he "has been plagued for years by paid ads and sponsor
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
Must be used all around the world. My parents had one on our farm in the 70s. Maybe it is still there- as a "back up" tractor. I remember it well.
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
Maybe growing kits , for sale will grow? ie seeds , and other useful / needed growing accessories .... reply
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
Maybe growing kits , for sale will grow. ie seeds , and other useful / needed growing accessories ....
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
[offtopic] Ive always wondered why a conversion has not been offered ( by someone ) for apple phones to make, it so the battery can be replaced by end user? It would be a case modification somehow. Some kind of new "back"
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
EDN - Voice of the Engineer https://www.edn.com Electronic Design News (EDN) is an electronics community for engineers, by engineers. Find the latest articles, magazines, tools, and blogs in the industry. I like their tear downs
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
RE ".... It's a massive book like magazine....." NO Internet back then. People still had a massive thirst for information. Even the ads where interesting and read by many to learn more ....
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
Resistance to - Using pirated copyright material to train their models ? Is there a authors guild or group running a law suite? Sure to be somewhere , that would welcome financial? support ....
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
RE "....If you simply disable OneDrive without correctly uninstalling, the system will blast notifications at you with an ominous warning "You could lose data your system isn't backed up!"....." The implication here
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
My Suspicion - Microsoft would have put lots effort into their cloud storage trickery - it would be an enormous revenue item . ....
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
I'm surprised their has not been a class action here, about how ( unskilled , mainly ) people are tricked? / Forced ? into using cloud storage.
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
RE Uninstalling Edge. There will likely be some unintended side effect - is my experience
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
RE "...Cloud Storage not enabled by Default ..." The issue is that Microsoft is moving users files to its cloud with out explaining to people CLEARLY what is happening. And getting their customers agreement. And this deception,
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by asdefghyk 6mo ago
Lots of the old magazines have not been collected and or scanned yet ……
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Rescue team in Iran face 'harrowing and dangerous' search for US crew member(bbc.com)
9 points by asdefghyk 7mo ago|2 comments
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by asdefghyk 7mo ago
The search operation is ongoing deep inside Iran for a second crew member, according to CBS, the BBC's US partner. Combat search and rescue (CSAR) missions are considered among the most complex, time-sensitive operations that US and al

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