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by chiph 4y ago
I think the straw that broke the camel's back was the city's demand that they relocate the electrical panels. This means that all the interior wiring in the house now has to run to the new panel location - a huge expense. I&#x27
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by chiph 4y ago
Check out NC State student radio out of Raleigh. They got a transmitter upgrade a few years ago so now you can hear them beyond the city limits (FM 88.1). And of course they stream. It's a really well run station and you'd be har
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by chiph 4y ago
Not too bad. Most of the east coast is 65 or 70 mph. Out west and middle states you'll find roads marked for 80 mph. No idea about the west coast (California to Washington). For about a year or two after the 55 limit was repealed, Mon
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by chiph 4y ago
I've driven coast-to-coast three times, and from the East coast to Texas many times. In the 1980's we still had the 55mph (88 kph) national speed limit, so driving from San Antonio to El Paso was excruciatingly boring. The only
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by chiph 4y ago
Both. Reagan was a staunch anti-Communist, and worked towards their downfall. But also, all presidents need public support for their policies so they can get Congress to send them the bills they want[0]. So speeches are usually written so
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by chiph 4y ago
I will still occasionally buy CDs (I bought my first player in 1984 - the Sony CDP-101), but I'm a lot more critical about what I buy now. For the past 10-ish years, the studios have been eliminating dynamic range and cranking the kno
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by chiph 4y ago
I arrived at my base in Germany about 3 weeks after Able Archer 83. By that time the US had realized that the Soviets had had a knee-jerk reaction to the exercise and we were gently winding things down. We still had armored vehicles cove
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by chiph 4y ago
Running a jammer as you approach the home would prevent it from uploading video to the cloud of your vehicle (perhaps the license plate can be seen), and your appearance/gait/etc. as you walk up to the house. The baseball bat is
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by chiph 4y ago
That was the alarming part I saw at the beginning of the pandemic. I had no idea that medical mask/PPE manufacturing had been moved offshore to the extent that it had. It would seem to me to be a capability that any country should hav
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by chiph 4y ago
Then the criminals start off with a jammer and follow up with a baseball bat to the camera (or they steal the camera too). It's always been a cat & mouse game between someone with valuables to protect, and people wanting to take th
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by chiph 4y ago
I see comparisons with David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen selling the rights to their back catalogs. While this firm seems a little sketchy to me and probably didn't really own the rights to his likeness, I think it's something he
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by chiph 4y ago
I was on ISDN for about a year, using a 3Com modem. Compared to dial-up, it was amazing as the connect time was only 3-4 seconds. No more listening to the buzzy connect sequence trying to guess what rate it would negotiate. But something
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by chiph 4y ago
I was using a 300 baud acoustic-coupled modem in the late 1970's to connect to Compuserve via Tymnet. If you were a fast reader you had no problems keeping up with incoming text.
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by chiph 4y ago
In most of the photos, the boiler failed at the front of the engine. The steam behind the pipes could not make it's way out fast enough, so the pipes and their supporting frame were forced out the front. In the photos where the boiler
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by chiph 4y ago
National law enforcement agencies often have reciprocity with foreign countries. For example, the FBI has offices in many countries to facilitate things like investigations and extraditions. The common name is "Legat" and they ope
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by chiph 4y ago
Some back-of-the-envelope math shows that YouTube would have to populate and rack a minimum of four 4U storage chassis (60 20TB drives each) per 8 hour shift to store that much. Roughly a little less than half a 42U rack. And that's b
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by chiph 4y ago
I believe that Brazzy meant that the news report I linked to was lying. And that might be true. But I don't believe so because the incentives are there for EDF to get those reactors running as quickly as they can - while a reactor is i
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by chiph 4y ago
An unscheduled outage does have a spectrum to it - on the low/bad end there's a reactor scram. No one wants that. But there's also this case, where corrosion was found that needed to be repaired sometime "soon". Sch
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by chiph 4y ago
The French reactors were taken offline for scheduled maintenance and repairs. Those hours don't count against reliability metrics because the plants weren't expected to be operating. The argument is lazy because it's false eq
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by chiph 4y ago
The shape/design was copied by the Westworld designers for the quantum supercomputer "Rehoboam" in season 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgBtBkW0u8Y Also - given the large motion of the damper in today&
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by chiph 4y ago
Make the cultural changes needed, and the technical changes will flow through afterwards. If you can't change the culture and get your boss(es) on board, then you will fail. Right now, the business is likely "mostly happy" wi
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by chiph 4y ago
My pneumatic tube story about things that can go wrong with them: A customer pulls up to the drive-thru, puts their money and deposit slip in the carrier and sends it off into the building. The teller receives it but it's empty and te
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by chiph 4y ago
Seems extreme, but if you aren't making a profit, or enough profit to fund future operations, and there isn't any sign of that changing in the future - then yes you should close that part of the business. Which is certainly rough
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by chiph 4y ago
Shemya Air Force Base (now Eareckson Air Station) in the Aleutian Islands had a policy that weight limits were waived for entertainment media. So you weren't going to be charged any penalties for bringing in movies, comics, CDs, or boo
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by chiph 4y ago
As someone who grew up with leaded gas and carburated cars, I don't really miss them. I pull up in traffic these days behind an old restored muscle car (which are awesome, don't get me wrong), and the smell of unburned gas makes
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by chiph 4y ago
A lot of them are 2-stroke engines, which burn a mixture of gasoline and oil. Usually badly tuned with poor fuel/air metering. They pollute like crazy. The US EPA has not yet banned 2-strokes, but emissions on them have been tightened,
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by chiph 4y ago
I had the opportunity to pick up one of their "cluster-in-a-box" servers (two servers and a shared RAID array in a single 10U chassis) super cheaply one time, and ultimately passed on it because I would have had to run a dedicated
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by chiph 4y ago
I had a Kodak DC260 - not quite 2 megapixels resolution, but had optical zoom with autofocus, used a compact flash card for storage, and ate AA batteries like they were candy. Connectivity was USB, IrDA (infrared), and analog video (NTSC&#
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by chiph 4y ago
Also "Operation Jackpot" which was a bust of more than 100 pot smugglers in the early 80's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Jackpot_(drug_invest... The book on the "Gentlemen Smugglers"
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by chiph 4y ago
I seem to recall that back in the early days of USB, the organization would hold a conference where all the vendors brought their devices, and everyone would go around testing compatibility with everyone else's devices. Often by making

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