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by chiph 5y ago
The mechanism varies with the warhead. The PG-7 uses the acceleration from launch to set off a primer. This starts a slow fuse that will cause self-destruct if the grenade doesn't hit a target within a few seconds (so you don't ha
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by chiph 5y ago
Clippy's problem was his suggestions were hardly ever helpful or relevant. Today, we could power his suggestions with a fleet of AIs running in over 200 Azure data centers around the globe. Rumors that he would become self-aware are un
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by chiph 5y ago
> Fourteen- and 15-year-olds may perform only that cooking which involves the use of (1) electric or gas grilles that do not entail cooking over an open flame, and (2) deep fat fryers that are equipped with and utilize devices that autom
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by chiph 5y ago
> Bad comments are like kudzu: they take over rapidly. The kudzu comparison is excellent. If you've never been to the US South, kudzu is a vine that was brought in from Japan by the Works Progress Administration in 1935 to help cont
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by chiph 5y ago
They're wanting a QA role to be able to answer leetcode style questions? Why?
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by chiph 5y ago
Why are there two store-and-hold circuits? Is it for smoothing the output waveform? I was thinking it could be to produce a stereo output using a single chip by alternating between left/right [0]. But the output is summed and as far as
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by chiph 5y ago
About a year ago, the EA chargers were a crapshoot as to whether the rate negotiation with the vehicle would work. Looks like they either solved that problem, or had technical support from EA to ensure they wouldn't be delayed on thei
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by chiph 5y ago
I've done this. I won second place at the county level, behind someone who built a dot-matrix printer, and also got a medal from the US Army. Was it safe? No. But it was the late 1970s when things were "looser". I was able t
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by chiph 5y ago
I thought the design of the isolator with it's angled ramps was clever (watch the video at the bottom of the article). But as you say, there's no protection in the vertical direction. My time in California has been limited, so I
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by chiph 5y ago
That's supposedly a criteria for British subs to launch their missiles. If the BBC is off the air (and a bunch of other things have happened), the captain is authorized to launch in retaliation as the assumption is that the UK no long
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by chiph 5y ago
Ken - Dad got to see the S/360 assembly line one time (Kemet was a supplier for the 360), and he told me they had a machine built to probe & verify all the wiring in a cabinet. Pneumatic pistons pushed the test connectors (all of
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by chiph 5y ago
They are reliable through exhaustive testing of components, plus error-checking, plus redundancy (on some models). What channels get you is high I/O throughput. Especially in 80 character long records The machines (were and maybe stil
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by chiph 5y ago
90's anti-drug PSA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGAVTwhsyOs
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by chiph 5y ago
The few times I have had this happen to me, I have apologized to the interviewer for it. I knew it made their job harder to figure out what the recruiting firm had done to a relative standard resume layout. I would then hand them a paper c
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by chiph 5y ago
I used to be on the HR-XML standards committee which created XSD schemas for resumes (and other job-related data, like background checks). They seem to have morphed into the HR Open Standards Consortium: https://www.hropenstanda
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by chiph 5y ago
We moved into a building where the drop-ceiling had pretty much every generation of cable, going back to Twinax used by IBM 5250 terminals. Previous tenants had cut the connectors off and just shoved them up there when they moved out. Netw
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by chiph 5y ago
Perhaps not to back-door them, but to ensure when they (the government agencies) buy from Dell that the supply chain is intact and the BIOS hasn't been tampered with during shipping by a foreign agency. Like the NSA did to Cisco router
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by chiph 5y ago
> or potentially another model from the same manufacturer This would allow an OEM/ODM to segment their offerings by having two or more sets of signing keys. "Oh sorry, that CPU only works in our entry-level offerings. You will
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by chiph 5y ago
If SG-1 production gets restarted, would they stay with the Air Force, or become Space Force?
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by chiph 5y ago
It was Flavor-Aid. One of my supervisors in the USAF helped with the bodies when they arrived in the US.
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by chiph 5y ago
Point 2 is important for a bank if they hold the loan on their books. Normally, you as an individual don't worry about something being worth less unless you know you're going to sell it in the near future. You won't have a lo
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by chiph 5y ago
The salutation is not encrypted because it's designed to attract the attention of the radio operators on the plane. They need a few moments to grab their pens to write down the message that follows so they aren't going to miss any
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by chiph 5y ago
Turning it into a short-term rental may not be dignified, but it will ensure that more people get to see and enjoy it. I mean, some of the most popular rentals are treehouses . This, designed by a sculptor, made of a unique material, over
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by chiph 5y ago
> do you think google's making the world a better place? Silicon Valley, season 1 episode 1: "But most importantly we're making the world a better place. Through constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and
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by chiph 5y ago
For my car, the pump assembly is $900. And then there's the labor charge to put it on a lift, drain out whatever fuel is in there (saving it for later), dropping the tank, and then to remove/replace the bad pump. I would guess an
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by chiph 5y ago
If you want to see if a pair of cities are net gainers or net losers of population, you can use their site to compare them since U-Haul uses dynamic pricing based on demand and availability. Oakland CA to Dallas TX is $7013 for a 26' t
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by chiph 5y ago
An in-tank pump is typically cooled by being immersed in the liquid gasoline. When the gas level drops too low the pump gets less cooling.
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by chiph 5y ago
IMO the problem with these is that you're not a landowner, you're a sharecropper, living on the "land" at someone else's tolerance and server budget. I'd like to see self-hosted digital housing. You have your h
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by chiph 5y ago
Agree. The web material being searched is bad at the source. So there's little that a search engine can do to improve it. As the adage says - garbage in, garbage out.
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by chiph 5y ago
Even in North America, you shouldn't treat ZIP/postal codes as numbers. The US added 4 digits 30-ish years ago (ZIP+4) and they're separated with a dash. You could store them as separate numbers [0] and rely on the present

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