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A Glass Nightmare: Cleaning Up the Cold War's Nuclear Legacy at Hanford (2020)(spectrum.ieee.org)
6 points by camtarn 2y ago|1 comments
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by camtarn 2y ago
I'm guessing you're not a glasses wearer? Glasses shape is intensely personal for many people who wear them a lot. It's effectively modifying the shape of your face, for better or for worse, and that ties into a whole host of
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by camtarn 2y ago
Honda has 'Magic Seats' as a feature in a few of their cars, most notably the Fit/Jazz. These rear seats fold completely flat so you can treat the car as a very small van - my Jazz spends almost all its time with the seats fo
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by camtarn 2y ago
Over here in the UK, our grocery delivery service (Sainsburys) just comes to your door with flat crates full of unbagged shopping. You meet them at the door and transfer the shopping into your own bags. It's a lot slower than just grab
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The First RISC: John Cocke and the IBM 801(thechipletter.substack.com)
1 points by camtarn 2y ago|1 comments
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by camtarn 2y ago
The colour silk screening is gorgeous! Such a cool looking bit of hardware.
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by camtarn 2y ago
"The West" usually includes Europe. Since you're in Austria I'm guessing you're using it solely to mean "the US", but that is not the usual usage.
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by camtarn 2y ago
The follow-up comment about the Marines' "hot washes" retrospective meetings is interesting. I would love to browse through the Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned library that's referenced.
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by camtarn 2y ago
The article doesn't mention why versioning was used instead of just storing the cookie string in shared memory. Something about atomicity, perhaps? i.e. you can't guarantee that a string is updated atomically without synchronisati
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by camtarn 2y ago
For those of us who live in places where 'students' usually means people at university or college, this article is about schoolchildren.
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by camtarn 2y ago
This is excellent. "Like all engineering endeavors, high speed circuits can only work if negotiated compromises with nature are arranged. Ignorance of, or contempt for, physical law is a direct route to frustration. Mother Nature laugh
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by camtarn 2y ago
I suspect that microprocessors might be the sticking point. It's possible to manufacture small integrated circuits in a home lab setting, albeit it's certainly not easy, and you're still reliant on an industrial chemical supp
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by camtarn 2y ago
Eh, not really. Even before source control was widely used by non-professionals, there was still the habit of copying all your stuff over whenever you upgraded to a newer hard disk. I've got random stuff sitting on my hard drive that p
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by camtarn 3y ago
Alt-space, N to minimise the window. The system window was handy for retrieving windows that had somehow ended up offscreen. Alt-space, M for move, hit an arrow key once, and then the window follows your cursor and ends up on screen by defa
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by camtarn 3y ago
Huh, those are neat! The largest ones seem to use Macronix HybridFlash technology, and: "HybridFlash provides a very stable medium to contents and OS, enabling storage as long as 20 years at 85 degrees centigrade and it also works norm
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by camtarn 3y ago
They have a limited lifetime. It's a fairly long limited lifetime, sure, but unless you're reading and rewriting the data on the cards regularly, you can't rely on them to all still be intact a decade down the line. Which is
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by camtarn 3y ago
Sort of. It was a different world, but not quite that different! Geocities was really dying by 2002. It had been bought by Yahoo! a few years previously, and they were intent on driving it into the ground. Video distribution was indeed fair
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by camtarn 3y ago
Ha, nice! For those who don't get the references, "Hello, citizen!" and "Remember, the computer is your friend" are quotes from the tabletop RPG Paranoia, which of course features an all-controlling computer which i
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Windows Console and Terminal Ecosystem Roadmap (2022)(learn.microsoft.com)
1 points by camtarn 3y ago|0 comments
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by camtarn 3y ago
Have a listen to Hidden Orchestra. They do (did?) a great live show with sequenced tracks plus live cello and twin drumkits. Night Walks is a wonderful album.
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by camtarn 3y ago
Heh, small world. They were briefly a client of ours back when I joined my current company in 2015. We were hired to develop a prototype PLC-based energy monitoring system for a cafe, based on the idea of profiling various devices' ene
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by camtarn 3y ago
Haha, yes, this is very true. I was the guy who gave a lunchtime lightning presentation on why to use Vim (TL;DR: automating repetitive actions using the . key, macros, :global, :normal etc etc) :) I use jk to get out of Insert mode on my l
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by camtarn 3y ago
You could easily build something that could repeatedly call the tc command and feed it different levels of impairment. Doing so to simulate weather is a great idea. If you had a wave-rider buoy measuring wave height every half-second or so,
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by camtarn 3y ago
Yeah, tc/netem/tbf is amazing. I built a simple Python GUI over the top of it and ran it on a Pi in a touchscreen case - just a little black box with "Drop packets: [0%] [1%] [10%] [50%] / Corrupt packets: ..." etc.
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by camtarn 3y ago
> Remap the Escape key to CapsLock else you will never like vim (provided you are a normal person) I guess I'm not a normal person then? Never bothered doing the remapping and I've been an enthusiastic Vim user for a decade.
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by camtarn 3y ago
The building was built on the proposed site of a London Tube station, and thus couldn't be built on a pile foundation as it would normally have been. Instead, all the weight is borne on four large pillars. To facilitate this, instead o
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A building with an exoskeleton filled with water for fire resistance [video](youtube.com)
4 points by camtarn 3y ago|1 comments
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Manufacturing of Surgical Instruments [video](youtube.com)
2 points by camtarn 3y ago|0 comments
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"High" and "low" pitch are not universal; sometimes there are crocodiles(cdm.link)
1 points by camtarn 3y ago|0 comments
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by camtarn 3y ago
Yeah, having read the article linked above [1] I see his point - it definitely looks like he's put in an enormous amount of work for the project, and I can see where his frustration comes from! To me, Darktable has a 'feel' o

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