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by avuserow 9y ago
The Archive Team (not affiliated with the Internet Archive) is working on it (and you can help): http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK
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by avuserow 10y ago
> I'd be interested to know if any US cities have deeper tunnels The downtown portions of Chicago's Blue Line[1] and Red Line[2] were primarily dug using tunnel boring machines in the 1940s. Here's a better view of the tun
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by avuserow 10y ago
It does if you click on one of the graphs at that point.
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by avuserow 10y ago
I used to do this and then stopped once I switched to Linux where selecting text put it on a clipboard automatically. I suspect it's related to some patterns when reading books, like putting a bookmark below your current line and movin
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by avuserow 11y ago
Nice find. From some other quick research, if there is a violation, you have to report it to Visa via phone or mail. Looks like they used to have an online form a several years ago, but it went missing. Various blog/forum posts indicat
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by avuserow 11y ago
Got a citation on this? I'd love for it to be true, since it'll save me a lot of effort. But WSJ, for instance, requires you to cancel via phone even if you sign up online.
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by avuserow 11y ago
It's there now (with a timestamp of 2 hours ago), but /r/google isn't what I would consider a good barometer of what's important or popular news. It's larger than I expected at ~77k subscribers, but contrast wi
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by avuserow 11y ago
Vehicle and person hits cause exceptional delays, but not significantly more so than the string of breakdowns in February. They apologized for this, and seem to have fewer rush hour problems, so maybe this has improved. They could do more t
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by avuserow 11y ago
Faster acceleration. Each stop will cost less time, and Caltrain has a surprising amount of stops between SF-SJ (22 weekday) for its length (47 miles). You can see this effect already with the amount of express schedules that Caltrain has a
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by avuserow 11y ago
What I perceive as the good bits of BART could be replicated on Caltrain with much less effort than replacing Caltrain with BART: the off-peak timetable. Caltrain does better for longer trips in my (limited to South Bay) experience, which m
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by avuserow 11y ago
Some don't, and it can make sense. If you rent it out, then you have to be a landlord, which puts you on the hook for repairs, finding tenants, and collecting rent or evicting them. There's always the possibility of tenants trashi
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by avuserow 11y ago
Previously on his blog: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/03/usb_combinati... I thought it was interesting how the tone changed on Schneier's blog.
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by avuserow 11y ago
Many of the "baby bullet" trains are slowed down by other trains on a daily basis. Some stations only get one stop per hour, even during rush hour, so those trains are overcrowded and can take minutes to make those stops. It'
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by avuserow 11y ago
Burlingame and Menlo Park are both restricted by street crossings on both sides of the station, not to mention that many stops are limited by platform length. I'm not sure if it would make sense to make just a subset of the stops. An u
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by avuserow 11y ago
We did use it for various mechmania sessions as the game communication port. During my time, we also had a running joke that in our "spare time", we would implement a telnet server so you could do maintenance to the soda machine.
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by avuserow 11y ago
It does, and feeds into the same stats database. Unfortunately I can't seem to get to caffeine.acm. I'm unsure how that works these days, since a lot of things were redesigned after I left (including retiring AFS). When I left in
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by avuserow 11y ago
The only time we exploded cans was by freezing or loading incorrectly. Occasionally we had the solenoids fail to fire, but that was solved easily by sshing into the soda machine and asking it to vend again. When I was there, the machine con
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by avuserow 11y ago
Sadly, the old Dr. Pepper machine bit the dust around Spring 2010. It decided to freeze sodas more often than we liked, so we replaced it with a Coke machine in Fall 2010. It was a pain in the ass to get into Siebel, but it provided a nice