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by chiph 5y ago
There is so much to it that you have to pick where to start. If you have never done C#, definitely start there. But then you can branch off to web development, service development, back-end data access development, and much more. This YouTu
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by chiph 5y ago
It's on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/HARP+gun/@13.0774164,-59.4...
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by chiph 5y ago
A propane tank can have a useful life over 20 years, while a battery pack will wear out quicker than that. Or become obsolete because new technology is developed, or the vehicle manufacturer changes the design making older ones incompatible
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by chiph 5y ago
It does. But in practice you'd have people trading their 6+ year old battery for a nearly-new one (even if it took them a dozen tries) to avoid the $12k expense of replacing it. You'd have to build that scenario into your busines
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by chiph 5y ago
Not just their patents, but also their cellphone division. My understanding was that the Motorola phones were going to be Google's flagship devices for Android. So I bought one, and I really liked it - I got regular OS updates (unlike
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by chiph 5y ago
{x#x{x,+/-2#x}/0 1} I'm sure if you used K for a year or so, that would be obvious and understandable at a single glance. But all I can think of is that I used to see that in my terminal session right after my mode
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by chiph 5y ago
Yes, alcohol sales are set by the individual state (and sometimes county) in the US. Here in North Carolina, you can buy beer & wine in a restaurant, supermarket, movie theater, etc. (subject to licensing and state Blue Laws [0] govern
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by chiph 5y ago
You want your plane to be mostly white in color to reflect solar heat and reduce the load on the air conditioning packs.
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by chiph 5y ago
For those that grew up the 70's, the Land of Oz theme park still exists, but is only open once a year, coming up in mid-September: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSnco3K0K7o https://www.landofoznc.com/
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by chiph 5y ago
"Absent" landlord here. I pay a management firm to handle repairs. If I find out they aren't responding to tenant maintenance requests, I'm going to start looking to replace them with another firm. But I love my manageme
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by chiph 5y ago
I was more into Duran Duran and the Thompson Twins at the time, but it was a catchy song, and I would find myself humming along. I was amazed as everyone else when it got a second life via the internet.
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by chiph 5y ago
From having watched lots of dash-cam videos recently, I would guess traffic accidents are the riskiest things they regularly deal with. If the truck is still operating afterwards, I expect they don't stop - they let another vehicle tha
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by chiph 5y ago
OK, the colored acrylic cube looks like a fun desk toy. But not at $23.
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by chiph 5y ago
Back during the dot-com era we lost a production array to the infamous "DeathStar" drives. The system reported a failure, so we scheduled the drive to be replaced and brought up the hot spare and started the parity resync process.
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by chiph 5y ago
Yes, air-exchange heat pumps have been around forever. But they're usually of the all-the-way-on or all-the-way-off type in the US. Newer systems use variable refrigerant flow and variable fan speeds to save energy, so they run more pr
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by chiph 5y ago
Several years ago, I passed a man holding a sign and a basket out in front of a local car dealer. He was apparently having difficulties getting his car repaired, as the sign said "Why buy a car from [dealer], when I'll give you
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by chiph 5y ago
Color it with a Sharpie to reduce the brightness, or cover it with a piece of electrical/duct tape. I have applied auto window-tint film over too-bright LCD clock-radio displays so they don't light up the bedroom.
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by chiph 5y ago
> Robinhood’s BCP [Business Continuity Plan] was limited to events that physically prevented employees from working from the firm’s premises. As such, the firm did not consider applying its BCP to technology-related business disruptions,
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by chiph 5y ago
The big players won't invest in or buy Robinhood as the name is now tainted. They'll set up their own app-based retail broker [0] and market it to the same customer base. [0] Which ought to be super easy - pay some devs to write a
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by chiph 5y ago
I'm guilty of using On Error Resume Next. It seemed like the easy way to deliver code that (mostly) worked.
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by chiph 5y ago
My townhouse community just found out about a construction defect that was causing water damage to some homes (some flashing was never installed). The builder is long-gone, having merged a couple of times over the years into one of the big
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by chiph 5y ago
Cringely speculates that Starlink is getting funding from the FCC's rural broadband fund - which currently has $16bn available. Starlink is bidding on broadband auctions that the traditional ISPs won't because it'd be unprofi
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by chiph 5y ago
Thanks for that link. One related to this one just got me on DVD Netflix's payment settings site. https://grumpy.website/post/0VkVVuQ6t There is no button to remove your card info. It had my old ZIP code and upda
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by chiph 5y ago
Not just on phones/tablets. If you have an application running in dark mode, and your Windows desktop is dark, you can't see the edge of the window to resize it. Also - with Windows 10 you don't grab the edge of the window,
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by chiph 5y ago
Check your motherboard manual. Some are already on the board and just need enabling in the BIOS. Some are on a plug-in module (sold separately).
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by chiph 5y ago
The plug-in TPM module for my motherboard is already sold out.. This is going to be a real problem for upgraders.
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by chiph 5y ago
They're not "supposed" to do that (at least in the US) because the practice of Redlining was made illegal by the Fair Housing Act of 1968. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining https://web.a
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by chiph 5y ago
Want to double the value of your Yugo? Fill the tank.
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by chiph 5y ago
My DVD based navigation system is on the newest maps it will ever have .. from 2015. It'd be nice if the data & build tools became open-source after being abandoned for ten years, but it's not up to Toyota - it's up to G
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by chiph 5y ago
While they could, I don't think so in this case, as the drivers mentioned report back to C&C servers in China. While the NSA could obviously set up servers there, the simpler case would be that they have not. Don't forget that

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