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by cagey 4y ago
A very nice Ford Transit-based build based on Al extrusions from 3 years ago: "Retired engineer builds transforming, off-grid, stealth campervan" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5L6TZdy_y0 https://www
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by cagey 4y ago
I moved from San Jose, CA (lived there for 30 years purely for work) to the outskirts of a relatively small town of approx 40K people in an adjacent state not quite 2 years ago (and retired not quite 1 year ago). I couldn't be happier
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by cagey 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Wehrmacht_myth#End_of_th... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism_and_the_Wehrmacht
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by cagey 4y ago
Reminds me of the HP 110 (circa 1984). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_110 http://oldcomputers.net/hp110.html
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by cagey 4y ago
Well, the tires were purchased (and mounted) at Costco, and rotated at least once previously by Costco (since the path of least resistance for warranty maintenance is for them to have the records of doing the (free rotations) themselves; th
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by cagey 4y ago
DW took our car to Costco for a free scheduled tire rotation (mandatory to maintain the tire warranty) about a month ago. She called saying "they're saying 'the lug nut broke'"; I was thinking (and asking) "how
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by cagey 4y ago
Ditto. Our Brother laser printer gets used primarily to print package labels for e-commerce returns. Secondarily, for forms required to interact with certain bureaucratic entities (paper is either required or easier than dealing with a cr
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by cagey 4y ago
HP11C calculator (1981) might be the oldest. I occasionally use it for a quick calc just because. HP16C of similar vintage also. edit: And an HP71B (1984) which is definitely programmable (assembly and BASIC; I don't have the FORTH mo
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by cagey 4y ago
I bought a ASUS CXB170CKA-212.BCLN6 Chromebook in March 2022 (for USD150; it's not a high-end model). According to ASUS, "The Chrome OS AUE(Auto Update Expiration) date [for this model] is June 2029."[0] I consider 7 years t
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by cagey 4y ago
> I was only drinking 2 cups, and I was throwing away 2 cups. I make enough for 2 days and microwave the leftovers for 2nd days' coffee.
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by cagey 4y ago
I'm trying to figure out what the likely outcome of this proposal will if enacted be, mapping to my tenuous but sufficient home internet service. Is my current best-choice provider (TMO 5g Home internet) going to boost my speeds from c
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by cagey 4y ago
Your solution proposal appears to be: If BNSF is not already today 100% responsible for installing & maintaining maximal protection equipment at all RR/road crossings that were installed by government over its preexisting tracks,
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by cagey 4y ago
The RR line on which the collision near Mendon, MO occurred is the furthest thing from "infrequently-used tracks"; these tracks are part of the "BNSF Southern Transcon[tinental]" line[0] between Los Angeles, CA and Chica
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by cagey 4y ago
The situation is quite confusing. Restricting the discussion to the vast numbers of existing RR/road crossings (not new crossings), then to what degree does the state control the installation of automated crossing protection (upgrades)
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by cagey 4y ago
I believe that this is incorrectly simplistic, if only because these sorts of situations by definition exist at the interface between a railroad and either a private or government road. Having the line operator (which I'm taking to me
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by cagey 4y ago
"The project to build a desalination plant in San Diego County, California commenced in 1993 after five years of drought."[1] "Before 2008, San Diego County historically had been a Republican stronghold."[2] [1] first se
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by cagey 4y ago
Yes, I do. I opened this link right from my RSS reader.
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by cagey 4y ago
> Well one difference is that the people who work in the government bureaucracies are still citizens, and are able to vote for or against the leaders that manage them. While technically true, this seems laughably inaccurate in practice.
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Europe, in Panic over Energy, Is Suddenly Cozying Up to Israel(nysun.com)
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Meta Is Investigating Ex-Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg(pcmag.com)
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by cagey 4y ago
Spurred me to dig out an anecdote: 2005 Toyota Solara, 3.3l V6, vacation trip from CA to UT and back, Sept 2016, moderate A/C use: 6 days, 2550 miles, 28.9 mpg (100% lowest-octane "regular" gas used). As others have noted, d
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by cagey 4y ago
It seems like "Russians in Israel" comprise a sizable voting bloc therein[A]. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Israel "Russians in Israel or Russian Israelis are post-Soviet Russian citize
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by cagey 4y ago
I too did embedded code (firmware) work, in the 199x's with only an ICE (basically, hardware debugger). I only dreamed of having printf-capable logging facilities on the HW target; almost all of the firmware "game" comes dow
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by cagey 4y ago
Nope. Asm, then later Pascal quickly followed by C. Later I had to take a "Numerical Methods" course that required FORTRAN, but my only gleaning from that torture was "never again".
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by cagey 4y ago
99.9% of the time (long-term personal C++ project) I use printf-based logging to root-cause unexpected behavior. I use gdb only to root-cause segfaults (which are thankfully quite rare). I use GCC exclusively, and its type-checking of para
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by cagey 4y ago
Southeastern AZ (USA) semi-rural 50USD/month, T-Mobile Home Internet (5G-based). max speed: 130/40 down/up (Mbps) performance definitely varies (both by time of day, and past 3 weeks as T-Mobile seems to be running an aggress
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by cagey 4y ago
I did something very similar to enable true working from home while recovering (slowly) from a herniated disc about 18 years ago: given a work laptop that opened 180 degrees, using scrap and bits from my garage I hacked together a 1 x 12 pi
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by cagey 4y ago
Ditto: I'm in the southwest (SE AZ) at 4700': Tomorrow 58°F low / 90°F high (32°F delta); Saturday 61°F low / 94°F high (33°F delta). An approximate 30°F diurnal swing is pretty much the norm year-round here. Your comm
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by cagey 4y ago
Reading this > But ... they won't know the libraries let alone their intricacies and idiosyncrasies etc triggered a related thought (also closely related to recent "how do you learn effectively?" and "I'm exhaust
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by cagey 4y ago
Same for me; I've used Philips/Norelco rotary shavers for almost[1] all of my 45+ shaving years. As the battery technology has gotten better (NiCd: awful!; NiMh: decent; Li-Ion: wow!), the shavers last longer and longer; I bought

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