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by chiph 4y ago
There is at least one horror film about it. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ooshnu/2647762012 A high school classmate tried to ferment it as a science-fair project. The idea was to have a cheap source of alcohol for
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by chiph 4y ago
The problem is that NK has thousands of traditional artillery pieces stationed along the DMZ that are capable of hitting Seoul and other large population centers [0]. They also have short range ballistic missiles [1] which can reach much of
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by chiph 4y ago
I would suggest that the enormous size of today's pages have taken us back to the behavior seen in the dial-up days. Then: Page was slow because the delivery was via a 56k analog modem. Today: Page is slow because the average page size
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by chiph 4y ago
The WECX reporting mark on the prototype garrison railcar (for the MX dispersed deployment plan) indicates it belongs to the Western Electric Corporation Railroad. So I guess they were prime contractor for that part of the project. https:&
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by chiph 4y ago
For systems running in finance, the problem should have already shown up when calculating dates for 30 year bonds and mortgages. But as another poster said, there's a ton of embedded systems out there running Linux that likely aren&#x
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by chiph 4y ago
No, for two reasons. 1) I have almost 30TB of data so the monthly cost would be more than I want to pay. 2) I don't trust them to keep my data secure.
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by chiph 4y ago
Local versions are on a Synology NAS. Which gets backed up more-or-less monthly to external hard drives using Truecrypt. One set of drives is saved at the house in a fire safe, and the older set is stored offsite at the office (which if I g
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by chiph 4y ago
Poor Chuck, got a trope named after him after disappearing upstairs at the end of season 2 of Happy Days https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChuckCunninghamS...
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by chiph 4y ago
> non-photography 2 MP distance-measurement sensor It's distance-measurement sensor has more pixels than my first digital camera did. Other than the squarey-roundy corners on the front, it looks like an attractive camera. And I th
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by chiph 4y ago
Too late to add this to my original post, but a video popped up where an AAPRCO member and car owner allowed a Youtuber to travel on his private car while it and several other cars were being positioned from Chicago to West Virginia for a c
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by chiph 4y ago
It's not always that the internal process is broken - it's that sometimes it takes a very long time to get a new release approved for use (even if it's an upgrade to one that the customer has already been using). Sometimes it
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by chiph 4y ago
It took me a moment - the LGP-30 is a computer that uses magnetic drum memory and is not a musical instrument from the 1980's. I'm curious if the ferrous oxide is still attached to the drum. I would suspect the heads need cleaning
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by chiph 4y ago
Cool that you made that connection - the Ferdinand Magellan is an armored rail car that was used by various presidents since FDR, and is on display at a museum near Miami. It's name when the president was on board was "U.S. Car No
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by chiph 4y ago
I shall have to acquire a smoking jacket, a monocle, and a brandy snifter for those occasions. ;)
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by chiph 4y ago
You have more room, mostly. A Prevost bus conversion is 45 feet long while a railcar is 80-ish feet long (less a few feet for the vestibule and/or rear platform). The rail car is wider, except when you park your bus and put the slide-
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by chiph 4y ago
They've been running the Siemens Charger locomotives for a little while, and are phasing out the GE Genesis locomotives (which are at end-of-life) as new Chargers are delivered. The new trainsets are the Siemens Venture cars. Brightlin
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by chiph 4y ago
Trains are actually pretty safe, but I wouldn't leave a pricey item out where someone could take it. So far as locking your stateroom door - I'd do that at night just to keep curious teens who are exploring the train out.
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by chiph 4y ago
With Starlinks new in-motion service you could have really great connectivity on those trips.
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by chiph 4y ago
I like trains. And I wouldn't have to be the one driving - I'd be the one sitting at my dining room table enjoying my postprandial bliss. Downside is you're limited to where Amtrak goes (or having to hire a locomotive and get
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by chiph 4y ago
Yes that's true. They try to put private cars at the front or rear of a train, but sometimes they aren't able to. So you may have the public walking through as you eat dinner. Comes with the territory {shrug}. Train crew (conducto
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by chiph 4y ago
This is my "if I won the lottery" dream. Which it would have to be, since everything about it isn't cheap. Purchasing a Pullman car then upgrading it to Amtrak standards will cost at least $300k. Any interior upgrades are on
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by chiph 4y ago
If you want to see an example of cellphone latency, watch your local news. When they send a reporter to cover a remote story these days, they nearly always use a cellphone as a camera (cheap, ubiquitous, good image quality, and they don&#x
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by chiph 4y ago
Why pay for a 1gb fiber connection when your WiFi is just going to throttle it?
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by chiph 4y ago
Here's a photo I took of an F-14 that had stopped over at Sheppard AFB in the early 80's. https://imgur.com/Ji55Vgv And another one next to an A-10. Notice how substantial the landing gear is on the F-14 compared
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by chiph 4y ago
It's not like they didn't know about it - it was a tradeoff that allowed them to carry more ordnance and drop-tanks on the center-line. They weren't able to put ordnance stations on the wings, so the centerline and the sides
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The important part is to know that Copy II Plus v8 source code was lost, and this guy Tony found it on an external hard drive that was in a scrap bin. He got the drive spinning working through some percussive maintenance (a common repair t
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by chiph 4y ago
> reserve the right to shutoff power back into the grid for their own reasons. That's not unreasonable. They might shut off your PV panels as a safety measure to prevent backfeeding into the local lines when utility crews are worki
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by chiph 4y ago
I am dealing with a problem with UPS MyChoice at the moment. I signed up with them about 3 years ago, and used a long randomly generated password (as you should), which had several punctuation characters in it. Today I am unable to log in
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by chiph 4y ago
They did, in summer 2007. They priced it for a dollar less than Netflix. They stuck with it almost 6 years, ending it when they left the retail business (except for the one franchise store remaining in Bend, Oregon). https://ww
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by chiph 4y ago
I downloaded the databases earlier this year via torrent and attached them to a local SQL Server instance. Some notes: - The files are big. The data files were 486 GB and the log file (I haven't tried shrinking it yet) is 1.4 TB - Ther

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