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by chiph 6y ago
It sounds like a WW-II air-raid siren. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgaCNEQzL1Q
902.
by chiph 6y ago
I imagine there was a sticky-note somewhere that said "Use this IMEA when provisioning phones"
903.
by chiph 6y ago
I remember the days in the early 80's when Merrill Lynch would charge $70 for a trade. That's the equivalent to $190 today. And people paid it because the low-cost firms like Schwab weren't well-known and people thought &qu
904.
by chiph 6y ago
You can set them for detonating at a certain altitude which might clear some terrain, true. You could also set it for a ground detonation where terrain will have more of a protective effect from the initial blast, but then there will be ad
905.
by chiph 6y ago
One of the things the map doesn't take into effect is terrain. If the explosion is on the other side of a large hill, it will shield you from the initial radiation burst and thermal flash, and any pressure damage will be reduced &
906.
by chiph 6y ago
One reason is that the food supply system is comprised of retail and commercial sectors. The commercial demand collapsed as restaurants & institutions closed, while the demand at the retail level skyrocketed when people panic-shopped.
907.
by chiph 6y ago
I get the Apollo esthetic (I watched the Skylab missions as a kid on our black & white console TV). But two of the major differences between then and now is cheap computing and additive machining. Cheap computing means you don't n
908.
by chiph 6y ago
An order of magnitude is a stretch, I think. But a 25% savings is probably pretty doable, which drops the cost to $82.5M. Consider that Richard Garriott allegedly paid $30M for his trip to the ISS, so if you have three passengers and one c
909.
by chiph 6y ago
Soft power: Influence, prestige, money, persuasion. Hard power: planes, tanks, ships, spacecraft.
910.
by chiph 6y ago
I wasn't able to install the second fan. It hit the top of my ram sticks and stuck up too far to where the case wouldn't close. Even with just the one, temperatures are much improved.
911.
by chiph 6y ago
In the US, deducting home office expenses are often a trigger for an audit, and can cause problems when it's time to sell the house. If your employer is paying for some of it, things could get really messy with regards to ownership.
912.
by chiph 6y ago
How do you have HyperBackup setup? I want to use external USB drives (so I can store copies offsite) and from what I've read it won't span backups across multiple drives - my Synology capacity is 20TB and the external drives are
913.
by chiph 6y ago
Back during the dot-com era, we lost an array to the "Deathstar" drives. They were all from the same production batch (we bought them at the same time). So when one died the others were not far behind. It was actually comical, i
914.
by chiph 6y ago
I have come to accept that I will be replacing SSDs periodically. Either because they're worn out, or because a newer/faster/better technology is available. A RAM disk is an interesting alternative for sure. The last time I
915.
by chiph 6y ago
One of the interesting things about the Selectric is that it contains a mechanical digital-to-analog converter .. a Whiffletree mechanism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRCNenhcvpw
916.
by chiph 6y ago
Also make sure that the TEMP/TMP folders are on the SSD.
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by chiph 6y ago
I've been very happy with my 3900X so far. The only suggestion I would make would be to upgrade the cooler from the one that comes in the AMD retail box to something like a Noctua. Since I made that change, it's run much cooler a
918.
by chiph 6y ago
Means that it's somewhat surprising. A regular person would likely consider looking at a lock screen to be no big deal. In this case however, the word "Skeezy" displayed on the lock screen was apparently a link that connected
919.
by chiph 6y ago
VPN + VOIP + 802.1x might be one approach.
920.
by chiph 6y ago
It's a resupply mission for Hugo Drax and Drax Industries. /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Drax
921.
by chiph 6y ago
> you should see the bunkers congress built themselves with taxpayer money One of Congress' duties is to declare war. So they need to be alive to authorize the use of military force. Should they have built their former bunker at a
922.
by chiph 6y ago
Hennessey (with permission of the Texas Department of Public Safety) ran 203 mph (325 kph) on SH-130 outside of Austin to "test" the electronic toll collectors. The toll transponder was successfully read at 170 mph, and the radar
923.
by chiph 6y ago
At work we use Foodsby, and it's been difficult watching their offerings drop week over week. I think they have solved some of the major inefficiencies in the Grubhub/Doordash models [0], and I hope they make it. [0] Foodsby deli
924.
by chiph 6y ago
Tap water will be fine. The alcohol you're diluting will disinfect it. If you want to be ultra-sure, then use distilled. But be aware it's also bought by people who use it for their CPAP machines, so don't go nuts.
925.
by chiph 6y ago
I'm sad to see this happen. But even 15 years ago they were having problems - some stores had talented buyers and would stock good clothes, and others were not much better than a K-Mart. I haven't been in a "good" Penny
926.
by chiph 6y ago
As long as they don't make a machine that can make anything, provided it starts with the letter "N", I'm all for it.
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by chiph 6y ago
We had a similar debacle back during the dot-com boom. We were a Microsoft shop and we got a new CTO who despised our monoculture and demanded a shootout against Java. A large team of consultants and employees labored for almost 10 months
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May 1941 – The British capture their first Enigma machine(youtube.com)
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by chiph 6y ago
I took a shortcut through my local Neiman Marcus last year (I wanted a Five-Guys burger), and looking at what they had for sale and their prices, I couldn't help but think "Even if you're super rich, you'd be nuts to sho
930.
by chiph 6y ago
When I have my own financing, I will always offer to go with them if they can beat my rate. Unless it's a manufacturer-sponsored rate (0%, 0.9%, etc.) they typically can't. But I offer, so they feel a little better. You may have

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