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by chiph 3y ago
Well, ideally the road has been prepared in advance. But fighter aircraft are much easier on runways than heavier planes (bombers/cargo) because there's typically only one or two engines producing thrust. The F135-100 engine used
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by chiph 3y ago
I noticed it after I upgraded to a 3900X. Not sure if it's an AMD thing, a USB hub thing, or a many-core thing. But it had never happened before. (Microsoft Pro Intellimouse)
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How many didn't they find?
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Following the link to the whitehouse.gov cybersecurity policy doc, it looks like this is for Strategic Objective 3.4 - USE FEDERAL GRANTS AND OTHER INCENTIVES TO BUILD IN SECURITY. (pdf warning): https://www.whitehouse.gov/w
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by chiph 3y ago
The low speed wouldn't work for me - I'd get run over. The range is so-so, and would only be good if it's light enough to be picked up and carried into the office for charging. What I'd like is an electric version of the
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by chiph 3y ago
A former coworker got hired as a young company's DBA. They were more-or-less in the manufacturing space but with an internet sales channel. They had set up cubicles on the factory floor, with a "break room" on the floor consi
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by chiph 3y ago
The local used-media store (2nd & Charles) isn't buying right now because they have cartons of DVDs/Blurays in their back room and no more space for more. So they ought to be willing to discount. I've never gotten a bad d
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by chiph 3y ago
Netflix trimmed my queue shortly after announcing their closure, removing the entire "Saved" portion of titles they knew about, but didn't have. I re-prioritized my list as well, removing titles I knew I didn't want badl
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by chiph 3y ago
My thoughts were that neither of them should have been surprised by the rating. When a rating comes in substantially different than expected, it's usually because A) They aren't talking during the week B) The manager is weak and d
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by chiph 3y ago
I've done that a couple of times buying televisions from Best Buy. Take the 12 month no-interest offer, then pay it off in 11 months - it's free money. However, they have changed the details in recent years. Prior to this it was a
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by chiph 3y ago
Does it have HDMI support? I have a spare small 1080P monitor and was thinking about creating a dashboard. Or weather station, or photo frame... A Raspberry Pi would be overkill, and their availability is still iffy.
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by chiph 3y ago
Jeff - did you look into constructing the front & rear walls so they wouldn't be parallel to each other? This reduces standing waves. Radio studios do a similar thing where a window into the production booth will be dual-pane glas
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by chiph 3y ago
The Deskjet 500 was a tank. Built to industrial standards, like all HP gear of the time. Later, their printers became flimsy, driven by marketing whims not engineering. I gave up on them when I looked at the small mountain of dried ink that
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by chiph 3y ago
This is a big deal. It should significantly reduce the friction experienced by new developers starting on writing for Haiku OS.
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by chiph 3y ago
Is the 8089 Intel's equivalent to Motorola's 6820 PIA? (I've never seen a 8089 in the wild - 6820s are often used in pinball machines)
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Tim also operates the Novelty Automation arcade in London. When I return to the UK, it's at the top of my list of things to see. His machines have his amazing sense of satire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ort-VEOZ0iI
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by chiph 3y ago
I switched to 4K discs earlier this year, for the same reasons - no dropouts, no blockiness, no sudden resolution changes. Precaching would solve a lot of these problems (it's how movie theaters get their films now - via encrypted down
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by chiph 3y ago
Or they are holding the details of their process close to their chest, in anticipation of a lucrative spin-off.
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by chiph 3y ago
Story time: A former coworker's brother got hired in Colorado as a dispensary's first CFO. He soon discovered that employees were making cash pickups every day from their locations using their personal cars - which isn't good
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Steve Wozniak had 888-8888 for a while. Which is a très cool number to have, but he was getting hundreds of calls with nothing but random sounds in the background. Eventually he figured out that babies were pushing the buttons on their pare
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by chiph 3y ago
I had a classmate who did her assignments in Ada. The compiler & linker would bring the school's Data General MV/8000 to it's knees, as it swapped out other processes to make room for it. Every 30-40 minutes we would ha
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by chiph 3y ago
Toyota is building a new battery factory in Liberty North Carolina (about 20 miles southeast of Greensboro). Their press site for it only says "Lithium-ion Batteries" and that they will be used for BEV vehicles, so it doesn't
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by chiph 3y ago
About ten years ago there was an Agile conference that published a hashtag where anything that used that tag would automatically get shown on the monitors around the building. 4chan found out, and well, things went predictably. Automatic p
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by chiph 3y ago
You'll want an RFID blocking wallet or sleeve to supplement this plan. Thieves will use an RFID skimmer and just wave it near your pocket to grab the info off the card when it responds.
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by chiph 3y ago
A local Chevy dealer once got a Silverado pickup with the 454 (7.5 liters) V8 in it. As an anti-theft measure, they disconnected four of the spark plug wires when they parked it on the lot. It got stolen anyway - it turns out that a 454 wi
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by chiph 3y ago
Not an expert on Oregonian law, but my theory is that Oregon's motor vehicle law references the federal NHTSA regulations, and Kei vehicles laughably don't meet them (exterior lighting, crash performance, theft resistance, emissio
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by chiph 3y ago
A common technique these days is to attach the pull string to the handles of a plastic grocery bag, and then use a vacuum (shop-vac) on the other end to suck it through the conduit.
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It's a daily puzzle. So everyone gets the same one today.
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I just finished reading Robert Townsend's book "Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IK9U1S He falls in
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I looked for the Heinz Dip & Squeeze packets there but didn't see them. Maybe they don't meet the site owner's selection criteria since they're a plastic tray not a foil/plastic pouch? I rate them a solid 8 - yo

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