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by chiph 10mo ago
This is because the upstate (of South Carolina) has a large eastern European population, dating back to some of the churches there welcoming in ex-Soviets in the 1990's. The new families (Ukraine, Belarus, etc.) didn't get the MMR
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by chiph 10mo ago
I absolutely loved my Moto X with the walnut back. I switched to an iPhone when it stopped getting security patches. It was built back when Google owned Motorola, before they sold off everything but the patent suite. And was intended to be
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by chiph 11mo ago
25H2 is better than previous versions, where I used Beyond Compare to do file copies because explorer.exe would crash, corrupting the copy. Still needs a lot of work to improve reliability.
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by chiph 11mo ago
Some have position sensors built in (so the computer knows where things are). But yes - if you only have 2 pins it's self-explanatory.
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by chiph 11mo ago
If you have access to the wiring diagrams, I have seem people apply 12v to the correct pins to reverse the motor, moving the piston back from the rotor.
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by chiph 11mo ago
> They will also be asked to use their iPhone to read the chip embedded on the back of their passport to ensure the data’s authenticity. I installed an RFID app from the Apple app store (3rd party, not from Apple) and it couldn't re
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by chiph 11mo ago
Like many people, I throw my change into a jar when I get home. One time I only kept pennies and used an old apple cider jug. Turns out that a gallon of pennies is worth almost $55 [0]. And that carrying a heavy glass jug filled with pennie
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by chiph 11mo ago
> Design For Rapid Scale In a Crisis One of the things that I think Anduril (Palmer Luckey and other founders) is doing right is designing for manufacturability. The invasion of Ukraine has shown that future conflicts will use up weapons
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by chiph 11mo ago
This goes along with what I saw growing up. You had the retail mastering (with RIAA curve for LP, etc.) and then the separate radio edit which had the compression that the stations wanted - so they sounded louder and wouldn't have too
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by chiph 11mo ago
And now we have the Loudness War where the songs are so highly compressed that there is no dynamic range. Because of this, I have to reduce the volume so it isn't painful to listen to. And this makes what should have been a live record
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by chiph 11mo ago
3M was indeed a big player in those markets. I purchased both 5.25" and 3.5" 3M floppies and they were good quality and reliable. I expect they left the market because of declining use and the entrance of much cheaper foreign manu
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by chiph 11mo ago
In high school I had one of the mechanical "flip" clocks. Then later an LED clock which almost certainly used the LM8560 (a Sony, which lasted far longer than I expected. Back when products were built with quality in mind). And as
73.
by chiph 1y ago
I was thinking it could be blue ice - leakage from another jet's waste holding tank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_(aviation)
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by chiph 1y ago
Is there enough power in the nearby parishes to supply 2.2GW? Also - will there be enough skilled labor?
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by chiph 1y ago
Paying at Best Buy was torture - watching the cashier move their mouse around (on the slanted mousing surface they were given so they couldn't just let go) and click the buttons, going through 3 or 4 screens and waiting for them to loa
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by chiph 1y ago
There's nothing like getting your product problem exposed on a channel with 9+ million subscribers...
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by chiph 1y ago
In the days when you used custom printed forms that had a number printed on them by the printer - when you loaded a new box of paper into your printer you had to input the first form number into the system so they'd match. If you opene
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by chiph 1y ago
I'm starting to run into that and I'm not even retired yet. Mom uses a stylus with a conductive rubber tip to operate her Pixel. Which shouldn't be necessary. With regard to learning to use a new release - since Apple (and no
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by chiph 1y ago
None of the cards I have today have embossed numbers on them. Which I like as they don't leave an imprint on my wallet's leather. But to use one back in 1995 the clerk would have to hand-write all the numbers and expiration date[0
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by chiph 1y ago
It's only a matter of time before the LLMs start having paid product placement in their results. Even open-source - the money needed to train & operate these models is just too enormous. Could there be a distributed training system
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by chiph 1y ago
Also, shake the ABC fire extinguishers. The powder can clump in the bottom of the cylinder. Or replace them if they're 15+ years old - the local fire station will take them to use in their training classes.
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by chiph 1y ago
When I needed to dim the backlight on a new bedside clock, I asked a local window tint company for a couple of pieces of offcut film. I'm glad someone had the idea to turn that into a business.
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by chiph 1y ago
The State of North Carolina runs several trains a day between Charlotte and Raleigh (The Piedmont). It runs along the same tracks as Amtrak's Carolinian. The Crescent, Palmetto, Silver Meteor and Floridian aren't focused on North
84.
by chiph 1y ago
I was wondering why Cy's had so much whitespace. Perhaps it was cheaper to print? Room for the kids to use their crayons? The waitress wrote your order on it and it got used as your receipt? Or of course, they just liked it like that.
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by chiph 1y ago
For them, the risk of keeping cash on the premises is probably paramount. Of robbery, employee theft, of employees not being able to make change correctly (or getting taken advantage of by a quick-change artist). https://www.yout
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by chiph 1y ago
By treaty, both sides were limited in missile defense. The Soviets placed theirs around Moscow (to hell with the krest'yanin), while the US placed them around larger cities (also likely targets but this diffused the effectiveness of th
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by chiph 1y ago
Most of the cost of currency is up-front in it's production and initial distribution. The cost of handling it is also mostly up front (purchasing a wallet to hold it, buying a cash register with a drawer for the bills and coins). The t
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by chiph 1y ago
I think there are two factors that drive the purchase. Primarily - it's a status symbol. I am reminded of the scene with Paul Allen's business card... But also that it's useful when you want a larger display surface in a more
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by chiph 1y ago
Each turret had it's own analog computer. Here's an explanation by the curator at The Museum of Flight in Seattle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOX-2d9qLec The B-29 also had ECM detectors and transmitters, so t
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by chiph 1y ago
One of the Teletypes I used to work on had an eccentric-driven Wiffletree to position the typebox. This was necessary because of it's high speed[0] to decode the ASCII character set (it wasn't a Baudot machine). The selector cam a

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