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by chiph 3y ago
Usually, yes. Albums have the RIAA curve applied. CDs typically do not, except for many of those produced in the mid-1980's when the studios were producing CDs as fast as they could and didn't want to spend the time to remaster a
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by chiph 3y ago
I am running on an ancient GTX 1070 and would like to upgrade to an RTX capable card, but there's no way I'm paying the current prices. I'm not sure why the prices remain high, after the crypto crash and pandemic shortages ha
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by chiph 3y ago
I'm sure I don't know, but why doesn't two-phase commit work across a distributed system?
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by chiph 3y ago
Is there a Discogs for video media? Is that what Murfie is/was?
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by chiph 3y ago
I've been watching the progress of this Australian, who with his Japanese wife bought an abandoned farmhouse. His work ethic is way better than mine - in the past four years he's made tremendous progress in getting the place fixed
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by chiph 3y ago
> But when things aren’t exactly the same, do it three times before trying to infer an abstraction. I think of it as "You don't really know if it's duplicate functionality until you've done it a few times and it becom
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by chiph 4y ago
With recent foreign military sales (Switzerland, Norway, Czech Republic, maybe Greece), the R&D costs of the F-35 are now being spread over a much larger fleet. It's still not a cheap plane .. but the price is dropping by building
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by chiph 4y ago
It wasn't hidden in any real way, but the Atari ST had a easter-egg of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs in their 8x16 font in the box-drawing section. U+250C, U+2510, U+2514 and U+2518. Computing was more fun in the 80's... https:&#x2
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by chiph 4y ago
Tip to help you get through Rand's works: When the characters start making speeches, skip ahead about 50 pages. She tended to beat subjects into the ground, with her characters repeating the same concepts again and again, until it was
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by chiph 4y ago
Could this be fallout from losing the chicken sandwich war? Because the Spicy McCrispy was a big disappointment, being not especially spicy nor crispy.
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by chiph 4y ago
My father lost $300 to those assholes. And I'm glad that was all it was. What I determined was that he was getting frustrated by the browser popups, and would click on anything that looked like it would make them go away so he could ge
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by chiph 4y ago
> fertile ground for architecture astronauts building Ivory Towers and Pristine Jewels I have run into that. :) I was on the HR-XML standards committee for a brief period, and we had an XSD submission that was truly amazing. The author h
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by chiph 4y ago
Prior to XML the way a lot of data got transferred was via comma-separated-value files. They have a number of limitations (to put it mildly), like how to store strings (single quotes? double quotes? no quotes at all?), what character to us
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by chiph 4y ago
Certain aspects were better, yes. That's because the Soviets made different trade-offs in the design -- variously because of doctrine, time constraints, availability of exotic materials (and the ability to use them in manufacturing), a
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by chiph 4y ago
There's a lot more to this than I thought would be. One of those things that is simple in theory but complex in practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJvMQTQB-BI
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by chiph 4y ago
The Israelis have released footage of shooting down two drones, so they have the first kills with the F-35. Obviously this was not against a maneuvering human pilot, but still important. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdSFE
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by chiph 4y ago
For those of you using CA Harvest Software Change Manager, it has it's origins with Hughes Aircraft and the software written for the F-15. It was sold commercially as CCC/Harvest by Softool Corp starting in the late 1970's. L
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by chiph 4y ago
Check out the video below from Marc where he works on his Model 19 Teletype. Teletypes used a serial to parallel converter comprised of a solenoid and a multi-lobe camshaft that converted an incoming electrical signal (serial) into 5 indiv
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by chiph 4y ago
Wait until you stop by a Buc-ees station. Absolutely enormous, with up to 120 gas pumps and 80 spotless toilets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buc-ee%27s
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by chiph 4y ago
Stay. What you will bring to the table is the ability to reason about the problem that needs solving, and crafting a solution. Whether that's through directing a LLM or writing it yourself - it's not something your typical "s
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by chiph 4y ago
Apple got strong-armed into making this available. As to why they didn't create a hobbyist-grade tool for the self-repair program - all it would take is a couple of $900 phones damaged (followed by the outrage social media posts) by no
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by chiph 4y ago
It's not head-on. The MQ-9 is a pusher-prop design (the prop is in the rear), so both aircraft were flying in the same direction. If there had been a direct collision, the impact velocity would have been the difference between them, n
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by chiph 4y ago
Fuel is less dense than water (.8025 g/ml vs. 1.0) and the MQ-9 is designed to fly in all weather conditions. So it's highly unlikely the fuel bent the tip of the prop. Given that just one blade is bent, the contact had to be very
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by chiph 4y ago
Apple had $51bn in cash at the end of 2022. They could easily raise whatever additional funds needed to submit a winning bid. But I don't see them wanting to own a bank. They already have financing options for people to buy their hard
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by chiph 4y ago
There may be coalitions of smaller banks being formed, where they agree to submit a single bid, and then internally split up the carcass into the parts they each want should they win. I haven't seen the terms of the FDIC auction but I
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by chiph 4y ago
Quicken. In recent years under new ownership they have fixed a lot of the bugs and it now does math correctly :) It has two features that I love - the projected balance chart that uses all your memorized payments to show you if you'r
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by chiph 4y ago
I gave ChatGPT a try - it just tells you to use lsmod and modinfo
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by chiph 4y ago
I understand that some landlords have it written into their leases that all network wiring will be removed when the lease ends because of this very reason. One building we were in had Twinax above the drop-ceiling (used for System-36 and AS
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by chiph 4y ago
If you try and pull a bundle of wires out (like through an opening in a floor tile), Velcro loops will snag on anything with a edge to it. Zip-ties will definitely snag on the head and sometimes on the body. Lacing cord is continuous and f
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by chiph 4y ago
Corporate security often insist that CEOs fly in a company jet. If you recall the auto industry execs testifying before Congress in 2008 (the TARP hearings), they came under a lot of criticism for flying to DC. So on their second visit they

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