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by chiph 4y ago
My Apple ][+ had a tape interface. It mostly worked - if the tape stretched or if the tape speed changed for some reason (dirty capstan, power supply fluctuations, low volume, high volume, evil pixies) then you wouldn't be able to read
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by chiph 4y ago
Sites been hugged to death anyway.
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by chiph 4y ago
Blacksmithing for architectural preservation is being taught at the American College of the Building Arts in Charleston SC. The school was created in the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo when it was discovered that there were few artisans in th
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by chiph 4y ago
These were not proximity fuses, but fuses with clockwork timers designed to delay hours or days until they exploded. This turns them into area denial weapons. Militaries use them to this day (but with modern electronics) on targets like air
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by chiph 4y ago
After I clicked reply and went to do a chore I thought to myself "I didn't talk about how it's been almost 80 years and it's unlikely to have been a timer." Doh.
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by chiph 4y ago
The Germans would sometimes use a timed detonator on their bombs, intended to kill emergency services personnel who moved in after the raid and were fighting fires, aiding the wounded, etc. If you haven't seen it, the show "Danger
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by chiph 4y ago
The secret platform that FDR and other presidents have used is presently empty-ish (the railcar he used to carry his limo is abandoned there). But if you do this hotel, it will no longer be a secret.. https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by chiph 4y ago
Two summers ago it took me 3 months to recover from a poison ivy "attack". I had washed it off with Dawn detergent but obviously didn't do a good enough job. Once I realized it had got me, I used large bandages to keep mysel
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by chiph 4y ago
They are not profitable. Like the US Postal Service, Amtrak has a mandate to serve smaller towns. Which means they have to maintain a station and local staff in each to service the typical 2-4 trains a day. Also, since Amtrak doesn't o
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by chiph 4y ago
My 1040ST was an earlier one. Not sure if it was a Rev D motherboard but it did have the 1mb of RAM along the front, under the keyboard. Atari wanted quite a lot of money for their external 3.5" floppy drive (so that you'd have tw
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by chiph 4y ago
> Defiance Operations in Ohio – GM will invest $55 million in the Defiance facility. $47 million will be invested to prepare the facility to build a variety of block castings to support future V-8 engine programs. In addition, the invest
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by chiph 4y ago
Knowing the area, I would put "Drunk rednecks" as the most likely cause. Followed by "So they'd have an excuse for not going to work or have to make a court date." Domestic terrorism or a "Die Hard" scena
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by chiph 4y ago
Prophylactics made of plastic. i.e. Condoms made from latex rubber or long-chain polymers. Not sheepskin[0] or other natural materials. [0] Condoms made from sheepskin (really, sheep intestine) help prevent pregnancy but absolutely do not
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by chiph 4y ago
If you like any of the covers, you can get album-sized frames for them. Instant art for the house, and makes you look like a Man of Culture.
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by chiph 4y ago
It's v2020: Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies HQ Project v2020
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by chiph 4y ago
Schoolhouse Rock is probably next to vanish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgVKvqTItto
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by chiph 4y ago
Here's an example of splicing being done in the field: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zN20ZVInfU A friend lives in a rural area served by a cooperative not unlike this one, and he's got symmetric gigabit fiber.
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by chiph 4y ago
Just wait. The same people are hard at working implementing them for JSON. (There is already a JSON Schema definition at https://json-schema.org/ ) Like you said - standard XML isn't terrible. Adding on an XSD isn&#x27
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by chiph 4y ago
As someone who routinely deals with hurricanes in the South - make your decision right now whether to go spent a few days with friends or to stay at home. If you wait too long the roads get clogged with traffic [0], the gas stations run o
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by chiph 4y ago
There is a Part 2: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/12/16/bird/
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by chiph 4y ago
To make your power go further, we'd want some impressive insulation in our structures. Aerogel comes to mind, but it's low density and fragility means shipping it by rocket from Earth wouldn't work. However it may be possibl
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by chiph 4y ago
This is probably the second-most-proud-of thing I worked on in my career, based on an off-hand comment from one of our salespeople: "Why can't our customers use Excel to view their data?" Another developer and I wrote the fi
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by chiph 4y ago
> "non functional product" More accounting fun! This time around revenue recognition. It used to be that you had to ship a physical item to a customer in order to recognize the revenue from the sale. So the place I worked at
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by chiph 4y ago
As a suggested alternative - I've been very happy with pwSafe. www.pwsafe.info It's not nearly as convenient as LastPass, but likely more secure. It uses TwoFish with a 256 bit key length, which was one of the finalists for the
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by chiph 4y ago
Yep. Amtrak runs the longest passenger train in the world in the Auto Train, traveling the Virginia to Orlando route. It's usually about 45 cars long, while a UP freight train can be 100 cars or more. https://www.youtube.co
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by chiph 4y ago
It wasn't exactly common knowledge when I was in the USAF about what would happen if you washed out of your tech school. If there was another class starting relatively soon you might be placed on casual status[0] until it starts. But i
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by chiph 4y ago
It was a model rocket engine that was ignited by the film crew just before impact to ensure that any spilled fuel caught fire. Which it did because they overfilled the tank and used the wrong gas cap for that model year truck. Apology start
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by chiph 4y ago
Probably nothing more than a requirement for resiliency. With thousands of restaurants, chances of a couple of them losing connectivity each day are going to be pretty good, through traditional interruptions like backhoes digging up cables
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by chiph 4y ago
> private safe deposit boxes owned by a criminal who advertised his safe deposit boxes as a way to store the proceeds of crimes That is what is alleged, but has yet to be proven. I doubt that the owners put up billboards or bought ads s
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by chiph 4y ago
They're certainly owed something for the horrendous lack of effective response by the police agencies. But .. $27 billion? Even in aggregate it's highly unlikely the agencies are insured to that level. They'll never collect,

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