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by chiph 5mo ago
"Runs and Drives" for $4300 is a bargain. All the other features were a bonus.
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by chiph 5mo ago
There will be torque multiplication by the transmission in 1st through 2nd so it won't be as much of a dog as you think. Race car, no. But it'll hold it's own in modern traffic unlike a lot of older cars. Out of curiosity I l
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by chiph 5mo ago
A few months ago I finished building a new media server based on UnRaid. I populated it with WD 26TB drives. At the time they were about $400 (steep, but a decent capacity/dollar buy). Now they are nearly $1000 on Amazon, a 250% increa
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by chiph 5mo ago
Do these user-configurable laptops come with a mesh bag to hold their parts? Like the camera on the StarFighter, and the modules on a Framework. Would be a cool branding opportunity.
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by chiph 5mo ago
Also a hairy man. I got a small amount done about 20 years ago because I didn't want to end up with "old man ear hair" like my relatives (TMI, sorry). At the time, a visit was $60. It wasn't painful but I did feel a twin
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by chiph 5mo ago
So perhaps you need to present them with a more complete solution. Develop or source a faster laser cutter. And find a small factory in an area with skilled labor (central North Carolina still has people who can cut & sew). And develop
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by chiph 5mo ago
Not just oversized - undersized also happens. Most cloth is still cut by hand using large electric saws and it's just not that accurate. (caution: loud music) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jvQHvz4GlPQ Notice that
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by chiph 5mo ago
Twenty or so years ago, Levis had a program called Personal Pair (they paired with a firm/product called Intellifit) where you would step into a millimeter wave 3D scanner and get your precise measurements. https://www.youtu
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by chiph 5mo ago
I've never had a bad meal there. My favorites are the pancakes and the chicken-fried steak.
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by chiph 5mo ago
I took a visitor from Finland to a Jim's location in Austin, and they were in awe. "It's just like from the movies!" (because it was - it has been used several times as a filming location). If you have a classic diner in
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by chiph 6mo ago
That's something that would have to be addressed at the trial by the defense attorney raising challenges. If the DNA is present, it's present - barring any procedural mistakes by the forensics technicians (mislabeled sample, dirty
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by chiph 6mo ago
Depends on how they're using it. To find an unknown person and prove they were at a scene - yeah you'll have the 100 person's worth of DNA to sort through and then match against a (presently) incomplete DNA database. But if y
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by chiph 6mo ago
Once in the Southern Hemisphere, they'll need to pick a new set of stars. So their declination would still be expressed negatively? Or is it that they considered the need to navigate below the lower fourth of Argentina a distant possib
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by chiph 6mo ago
> The Atro Tracker also has declination limits of +90° and -47° and a lower altitude limit of -6°. The latitude is limited to the range between -2° and +90°; the system automatically switches hemispheres so both the North and South latit
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by chiph 6mo ago
It took a while to reach full production rate for the F-35. Partly because the supply chain (mostly US based because of the Buy American Act) had to come up to speed[0]. But also because there were running-changes being made to the plane, n
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by chiph 6mo ago
The PS/2 also used configuration disks for their Microchannel machines - not sure about the lower tier machines that were ISA - I don't recall if you still played "jumper madness" with them. The local IBM tech had consol
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by chiph 6mo ago
In college I worked at a record store that had a Ticketmaster machine. At the time, it was a custom ticket printer with CRT terminal and modem that took up a lot of counter space. When you camped out and bought a ticket the moment they went
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by chiph 6mo ago
If you haven't read Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story you should. The system was operational, but Motorola's dysfunction and impossible sales goals leading to disillusionment meant that Dan Colussy & team was able to pick
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by chiph 6mo ago
State actor, yes. But not a Tier-1 state actor anymore.
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by chiph 6mo ago
I think the point was that those stocks are causing the S&P to be overweight towards those firms that are highly invested in AI. It's like comparing personal wealth when Warren Buffet and Bill Gates are included in the list - the a
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by chiph 6mo ago
The S-Line project is underway in NC and VA. It will rehabilitate an abandoned line (the former Seaboard Coast Line) to allow faster travel between Raleigh and Richmond. It won't be electrified but will allow trains to run at up to 110
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by chiph 6mo ago
I love the book. We had an Eclipse MV/8000 at college. And abused the hell out of it - when one of my classmates compiled their ADA programs we knew to take a coffee break. But I can't help but think that the book helped normalize
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by chiph 7mo ago
Sadly no. They were found unconscious, then taken to the hospital where the doctors determined that brain death had occurred. While I don't have diabetes, I will be getting an advance directive made. This was horrifying. https:/&
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by chiph 7mo ago
I think it's unlikely that Apple is paying the spot price for memory. They almost certainly negotiate delivery/price contracts in advance. Maybe the contract for the chips used in the 512GB model will expire soon?
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by chiph 7mo ago
A friend's coworker had their pump lock on, and inject the entire reservoir of insulin into them. They were discovered in their home by the police after family members lost contact. No idea if it was an Omnipod, but I would hope that a
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by chiph 7mo ago
Many years ago, I worked on a project in Tennessee where the bank was installing computers in their branches (previously the tellers were using mainframe terminals). At the same time, they were consolidating the leased data lines to the bra
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by chiph 8mo ago
IBM terminals were the original stateless clients. :) I had a PS/2 Portable 70 for a while. It was a luggable Microchannel PC with a orange plasma display. Going through airports with it was a hassle as it didn't have batteries -
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by chiph 9mo ago
It's about a 12 minute walk in Austin, from Hobbiton Trail to Mordor Cove. https://maps.app.goo.gl/EgUb7EXTaHguiPKJ7
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by chiph 10mo ago
I finished treatment for prostate cancer this summer. Most of my time in the x-ray machine was spent getting the alignment right. They'd take a CT scan, do some image analysis and other computations, then adjust the table some small am
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by chiph 10mo ago
24 of the cases originated at a church where the congregation is primarily eastern European. But to your point - as long as the local population is below 95% fully vaccinated, it's going to spread. Regardless of national origin or reli

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