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by chiph 5y ago
I can't find it at the moment, but there was a Reddit post from a claims adjuster that said when filing a claim, be as specific as possible. So don't just put down "55-inch flatscreen television", it's a "Samsu
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by chiph 5y ago
Dad was there, in the 99th Infantry Division. They were a green unit (never fought before), yet were one of the few that did not give up any ground to the Germans. He was wounded and received his Purple Heart there [0] Just to piggyback o
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by chiph 5y ago
"Loosen everything up first" is a pretty good way to start. I use it with Christmas lights every year.
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by chiph 5y ago
I haven't tasted the delights of the veggie omelet yet. But the dried pork patty we had in the mid 1980's was horrific. This was before the flameless ration heaters, so your choice was to hydrate it with cold water, or break piece
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by chiph 5y ago
I'm looking forward to a modern remake of 1954's classic film Them! featuring these car-sized millipede's sudden & mysterious appearance in the tranquil English countryside, and how flamethrowers along with high voltage
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by chiph 5y ago
Depends on the drive technology. For SSDs you want to avoid extra writes as those wear down the cells. For traditional hard drives you can consolidate empty space to reduce cluster waste, or go for broke and just place everything in order
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by chiph 5y ago
Not just Apples and veggies - check out Jimmy Red corn. It used to be a favorite of bootleggers, making illicit corn whiskey (aka moonshine), but was nearly lost. It's now available for sale again, both as seed corn and as a whiskey.
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by chiph 5y ago
See the capacitor in this closeup that kens took of a power supply module in the Apollo Guidance Computer? My dad's company made it. You are telling the wrong person that the landing was faked. https://static.righto.com&#
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by chiph 5y ago
I remember when he made that post ("Evidence Based Scheduling"), and was also appalled. Yet, here we are today and programmer velocity is a now a measured metric in Agile. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/1
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by chiph 5y ago
As someone who was born before the moon landing and saw one of the last IMPs get installed on the ARPANET, yeah that was offensive. You should apologize. Knowing to silence your phone in meetings is a matter of having manners, not age.
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by chiph 5y ago
I for one, am not going to blame it on an actual wealth gap. Shows like "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" and "MTV Cribs" were around long ago and didn't cause financial angst. Probably because watching a weekly t
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by chiph 5y ago
Tides & currents moving the bottom (sand, etc.) around, mostly. But it's also possible for a coral reef to have grown taller. Or a volcano, I suppose. :) NOAA's Chart No. 1 explains the symbols used on charts. https:/&#x
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by chiph 5y ago
> I'm also surprised there's no contour lines between the depths (although perhaps this is done to not infer a knowledge of depths in the intermediate points where perhaps there is no such knowledge). Yes, contour lines would i
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by chiph 5y ago
I'm wondering why they did this themselves, and didn't license IKEA to produce & sell it.
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by chiph 5y ago
Exactly. When the pavement is covered in snow the cameras & image software are going to freak out. 1. Not enough contrast to determine where the lane is. Or the curb. 2. A previous car might have wheel-spun a trough down to the pavement
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by chiph 5y ago
It's good looking. But I need a grid control because my users want everything on one screen. (joking, not-joking)
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by chiph 5y ago
> Two years from now it is entirely possible that MOMA's NFTs are entirely worthless I was trying to think of a good way to include this thought. The scenario I had in mind was that Bob turned out to be really good at keeping his se
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by chiph 5y ago
The problem with NFTs is that they often don't have good provenance, and so are ripe for fraud. Suppose we have a well-known photo of the Brooklyn Bridge. It was scanned twice and separate NFTs were created and sold. The data & has
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by chiph 5y ago
My understanding is that Australia can be pretty picky. Dick & Pip Smith drove an Earthroamer (a $500k offroading RV) around the world and when he got to his native Australia there were several things he had to alter, even though it was
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by chiph 5y ago
If you do, blog about it. One of the challenges in getting an old mainframe (System 360, 3090, etc) running is getting a license for the operating system from IBM. Hopefully acquiring one for the AS/400 is easier. https://
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by chiph 5y ago
Upgrades on the AS/400 are super easy. You basically cart in the new model, and restore from the backup you made from the old machine. It then works for a while updating all the objects & references, and then you're ready to g
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by chiph 5y ago
That was one of the interesting things about BeOS - that you could turn off CPUs while it was running via the desktop. Just make sure to leave one running.
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by chiph 5y ago
TBF, ransomware existed before crypto. Crypto just made it easier for the criminals to get paid, and is somewhat anonymous.
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by chiph 5y ago
There's three areas that I'm aware of. Certificates of Need, which some states require before you can offer certain services (like MRI/CT scanning). Supply contracts, where a hospital has a pre-set price for consumables like
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by chiph 5y ago
Some automakers used to recommend replacement at 10 or 15 years old (my 1999 Mercedes had that on a door-jamb sticker). But from what I've seen, none of them are saying that anymore. Perhaps there was additional operational-life testin
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by chiph 5y ago
2004 GX470 here. Horrendous gas mileage, but comes with ABS, stability control, full-time 4WD, and airbags. Of the modern safety systems, the one I'd really like to have is the blind-spot monitor. I have had rentals/loaners with
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by chiph 5y ago
Look up the plastic clip part numbers on a Honda parts site, then cross-reference them via eBay or Amazon to get a significantly cheaper knock-off. I've been able to get a bag of 20 for the price of 1 bought from the dealer parts count
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by chiph 5y ago
Yes. It uses a single-level store model. Everything gets mapped to a memory address.
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by chiph 5y ago
The stockpiles got reduced, post-Soviet Union but not eliminated. The bombs didn't go away. China is building at least 2 new ICBM fields. They are a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, but not any of the SALT treaties. https:&#
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by chiph 5y ago
Times have changed. My high school science class took a field trip to the local Civil Defense office where we received training as radiological monitors. A monitor's job was to advise the shelter manager what the radiation levels were

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