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by chiph 6y ago
You say that today. Back then it was the great unknown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95-yZ-31j9A
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by chiph 6y ago
When I was buying my house, I used it to check out a neighborhood as a first-cut filter, prior to spending the time & gas to go drive around in person. If I'm driving somewhere new, I'll use it to identify landmarks for turns.
843.
by chiph 6y ago
How they sounded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP6Z86iDFjU
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by chiph 6y ago
Every little bit helps. There is a concern about auto emissions, but car registration tax[0] is proportional to displacement so there is an incentive to buy smaller engines. And of course, fuel is heavily taxed in Europe so there's a
845.
by chiph 6y ago
I now keep a copy of the photos of my retina on a USB stick. It never fails - either I move and get a new ophthalmologist or they change systems and my old photos are lost/inaccessible. Having a history can be a big help to them in tr
846.
by chiph 6y ago
The business model can be the overriding factor. If you're selling to Fortune 500 firms, they will require you to allocate them their own database and application servers. But if you're selling to small/medium business you&#
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by chiph 6y ago
Actually, hasn't happened all that often. I've had more of a problem with discs arriving broken.
848.
by chiph 6y ago
And this is why I still get discs by mail. No dropouts, no unexplained drops in resolution, and it has a deeper catalog.
849.
by chiph 6y ago
https://www.amazon.com/b?node=21289116011 You sign in by holding your phone with the Amazon app (QR code) up to a camera. Then scan every item as you place it in the cart. It has some load sensors so that it can weigh item
850.
by chiph 6y ago
As someone living in hurricane country, the joke around here is that FEMA stands for "Futilely Expecting Meaningful Aid". But really, their job is coordination, and usually will only contribute relief supplies if the state or cou
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by chiph 6y ago
> frame could flex at rate of 15-20G for up to 2 seconds? Current fighters wear out after so many flight hours. What puts the majority of these hours on is pilot training. With an AI commanded aircraft, there's little need to actua
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by chiph 6y ago
If I were building an AI commanded aircraft I would have it use every G the airframe could handle. No pilot means fewer maneuvering limitations and an increased chance of victory. An intermediate step could be an AI-assisted aircraft. It m
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by chiph 6y ago
All I can think is "top heavy" and "going to tip over" 10 tons for the chassis, 15 tons for the huge turret.
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by chiph 6y ago
It's not just the source code, it's also the tools to edit/build it, the directory structure, the operating environment (OS, network shares, servers) and more. Example: You can still buy a copy of Visual Basic 6 on eBay. Doe
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by chiph 6y ago
In 2012 the NRO turned over two satellites to NASA [0] for research purposes. The scientists who have examined them (they have not been launched yet) described them as being better than Hubble even though they are comparable in size (design
856.
by chiph 6y ago
Electronics typically follow a "bathtub" reliability curve. You'll have a large number of early failures (unflatteringly called "infant mortality") then the curve levels off for a long period of time, and then star
857.
by chiph 6y ago
External USB drives for me. One set of drives is stored in a fire safe at home, one set of drives is stored at the office, and one set is stored at a relative's house in another state. The ones at home get refreshed most often, the on
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by chiph 6y ago
The departure of people from the bay area was also discussed about seven months ago. At that time, I used the uhaul.com website to show the difference in renting a 26' truck from Mountain View to Dallas Texas, and the reverse. (U-Haul
859.
by chiph 6y ago
Wait - you don't even have dual-pane glass? That's like leaving a door ajar all day. You can fake a second pane by putting plastic film over the window frame and taping it securely around the edges so there's no leakage, cap
860.
by chiph 6y ago
If you get the chance, watch "Better Call Saul" sometime. Jimmy's brother Chuck feels he is sensitive to electromagnetism and goes to extreme lengths to protect himself from the waves. https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by chiph 6y ago
I followed a link from there to the FCC test reports. Pages 7 & 8 of this application doc appears to make it out to be standard POE: https://apps.fcc.gov/eas/GetApplicationAttachment.html?id=48... > Power Supply
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by chiph 6y ago
If someone knows - what kind of cable does the unit use out to the antenna? My COVID project is wiring the house with Cat6 and it might be worthwhile putting an enclosed drop out on the deck for the future.
863.
by chiph 6y ago
Or it's Germany. They prefer cash over plastic for privacy reasons. https://www.npr.org/2019/06/09/728323278/for-many-germans-ca...
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by chiph 6y ago
Don't forget the Banana Junior 6000 Self-Portable Personal Computer System! (this is from Bloom County)
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by chiph 6y ago
Back during the dot-com era, we hired someone (and paid for their relocation across the country!) who didn't know how to code. We were a VB6/COM shop at the time and they spent easily 3 days on a simple if..else statement before s
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by chiph 6y ago
The A/C in an apartment I was living in in Texas failed one summer, and the management firm put one like that in my bedroom temporarily. Noisy and inefficient is a good description. Granted, it had to run off a regular 15A outlet so it
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by chiph 6y ago
The worst resume I ever got was someone who had spent a lot of time cross-referencing their work history with the technologies used there. So under ConsultingCo, there was: 12, 13, 15, 21, 28, 34. You were expected to flip a couple of pages
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by chiph 6y ago
I still have some CDs from the early/mid 1980's that play, and I think this is because of two reasons: 1) Not many people owned players back then, so pressing plants weren't under much pressure from high demand, so pressing
869.
by chiph 6y ago
I compare his paintings to animation cels. They were produced quickly to meet a schedule. So not art in the classical sense, but they have a lot of interest & nostalgia from people who grew up watching the Disney and Warner Brothers car
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by chiph 6y ago
1865 - things were a lot more casual back then. No passenger manifests (or lifejackets..)

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