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by chiph 4y ago
TBF, the cops don't know if the driver is an innocent office worker, falsely fingered by Hertz, or really is a criminal who has stolen the car. The cops at this point ought to be pushing back against Hertz, telling them to get their sh
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by chiph 4y ago
They've taken a hit to their revenue by losing those sales. There's also the reputation damage of losing a prestige customer like Apple.
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by chiph 4y ago
It's been illegally used as a study aid for at least 2 decades. I had a coworker in the early 2000's say they took it at college and they "were so into Art History" for the 4 hours before the tests.
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by chiph 4y ago
My Cold War trash story - One of my roommates in college served on the USS Peterson (DD-969, a Spruance class destroyer), and in the middle of the Atlantic they decided to have some fun with the Soviet "fishing trawler"[0] that wa
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by chiph 4y ago
They did that for years, just not as much these days. Visual Basic was an outside product/demo developed by Alan Cooper. The infamous Visual Source Safe [0] was originally sold by One Tree Software in Raleigh (the word "Visual&quo
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by chiph 4y ago
Delta Airlines has their DASH service. Under 16 ounces, anyone can ship with them. Under 100 pounds, you will need to be a known shipper with the TSA. It's available on basically any regularly scheduled flight of theirs. We used it on
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by chiph 4y ago
When I heard that the crypto millionaires were buying Tungsten cubes for fun, I checked into the prices. Amazon lists a 1.5" cube (weighs 1 kg) at $199 and a 4" cube (that weighs 18.9 kg [0]) at $3499. There's no way I'
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by chiph 4y ago
I bought a couple of those and got them framed as a gift. The owner of the frame shop was concerned about me leaving them with him, until I pointed out that I was going to pay him more for the frame than they were worth.
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by chiph 4y ago
At least one state wants their tax money from illegal income. North Carolina has an Unauthorized Substances Tax, where you buy a tax stamp covering your possession of the items (various drugs and/or moonshine). https://www.n
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by chiph 5y ago
I'm pretty impressed with India opening dedicated freight corridors. It's double-track that is optimized for longer, heavier freight trains. It seems obvious that the different operational patterns of freight and passenger rail m
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by chiph 5y ago
Until recently, visiting a family member's beach house meant I didn't have cell service (at least for my carrier). They seem to have added a new tower to the island, or maybe adjusted their beam spread and now I can get a signal
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by chiph 5y ago
I've been watching Billi off and on. And her vocabulary has increased over the years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_ChDCS_z2o Her favorite word? Mad.
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by chiph 5y ago
I used them with a set of Shure SE315 earbuds. I mentioned the Apple ones because that's what many people have today and are similar in price. The fit on mine from custom insert to the Shures was pretty tight (good for air sealing). I
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by chiph 5y ago
I had this done a few years ago [0] and the article is pretty much spot-on. Especially about the process - the audiologist will insert a tiny cotton ball allll the way down in your ear, then squirt the polymer in (which is creepy feeling).
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by chiph 5y ago
That was one of the reasons I joined the USAF. Dad was in the 99th ID at the Battle of the Bulge (Purple Heart, Bronze Star) and later crossing the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen. Granddad was a Sergeant Major in the Cheshire Regiment[1] for
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by chiph 5y ago
They're even more rare in the military than in the general population. Firstly for the obvious reason - they don't need any of the benefits so they don't join. Secondly - someone that becomes that wealthy while serving (via
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by chiph 5y ago
Not about the board, Ken. But I am curious about how you have the time to work on projects with the Computer History Museum and with Marc on his projects. Seems like you're a very busy man. :)
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by chiph 5y ago
The first digital audio laserdiscs I bought were in/around 1986. They used AC-3 encoding (later known as Dolby Digital 5.1) but were recorded as an RF signal onto the discs, because the format was analog. You needed a decoder to turn
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by chiph 5y ago
There's nothing wrong with WiFi technology. The problem is the traffic is passing over someone else's network (the shared building WiFi). If I were a corporation looking to hire a law firm, this would be a serious down-check for
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by chiph 5y ago
Mention "bus factor" to their boss. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
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by chiph 5y ago
I used to work with a guy that was very visually impaired and he used a 40" monitor set to VGA resolution. He would still have to crane his head to the left & right sometimes to follow the mouse on screen. Going to something like a
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by chiph 5y ago
I'm assuming it attenuates the signal so that someone parked nearby has a more difficult time capturing the code. Downside is you can't use your remote start from inside the house anymore - you'll have to be very close before
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by chiph 5y ago
I used to work with someone who was a former Enron employee. The day they let everyone go, he went and cleaned out the swag closet and made a bunch of money reselling it all on eBay.
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by chiph 5y ago
> Instead of thinking of this like a missile, instead think of it like a submarine I'm former Air Force, so that sort of comes with the territory. Sorry. :)
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by chiph 5y ago
How would it navigate? GLONASS signals won't penetrate the water to the depths mentioned. The 1.6 and 1.2 Ghz bands it uses won't even go through 1 meter of seawater [0] A star tracker would also be worthless. An inertial referen
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by chiph 5y ago
pdf417 barcodes are commonly used on US driver's licenses, and contain private information like the person's address, height, eye color, full name, etc. For the API to do its work in detecting a valid barcode, it needs to be able
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by chiph 5y ago
The AWACS flights by NATO aircraft over southern Poland are real. What is not known is if that intel is being given to Ukrainian forces. And anyone who does know won't be talking because of operational security and need-to-know. https
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by chiph 5y ago
You can only establish a no-fly zone once you have control of the airspace. Which would require using NATO aircraft to shoot down all Russian aircraft over what is a non-NATO member. It goes without saying that that would seriously escalate
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by chiph 5y ago
The Russians have traditionally been very good at radio direction finding. They could then send in land forces or one of three model "Wild Weasel" aircraft they had - the Yak28N, the Mig-25BM in small numbers, then the Su-24M. The
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by chiph 5y ago
> they are doing either multiple part time jobs or a full time job + part time job Have you considered older workers that are nearing retirement? They're probably looking to lean-out, and a part-time job could give them activity in

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