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by chiph 6y ago
I helped Mom buy a new car last year. She was ready to buy a newer version of the CUV she had already owned for 7 years, but when we got to asking "What's the best price we can get on it?" they switched vehicles to a lower t
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by chiph 6y ago
Man. I miss Johnny Cash. His cover of NIИ's Hurt is so powerful. June Carter (his wife) died a few months after filming the video, and that just broke his heart. Johnny followed her less than six months later. https://www.
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by chiph 6y ago
A bank I did some contracting for had a problem where their Token-Ring network would crash at random intervals during the day in one of their branches. It would also crash at night, but the times when it would happen were more predicable. A
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by chiph 6y ago
"Quick fix" by a sysadmin at a previous job: https://imgur.com/a/REwK1HP Yes, that's a Walmart window A/C sitting on a filing cabinet with a box fan teetering on top. No, it's not vented to t
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by chiph 6y ago
Putting just my house number and ZIP code into Google maps just got me the outline of the ZIP code area. Using just the ZIP and ZIP+4 didn't improve the results. Google doesn't quite know everything yet. ;)
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by chiph 6y ago
Even on a freshly formatted drive, you'd want your write rate to stay below what the SMR rewrite process can handle. If the drive fills up and it needs to delete something to make room before writing new video, its ability to keep up w
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by chiph 7y ago
You want weird? Austin's slogan "Keep Austin Weird" is not about the culture, but about supporting local business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Austin_Weird
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by chiph 7y ago
One of the reasons why the original OS/2 source wasn't made available by IBM was that there are a lot of 3rd party libraries in it. Many from companies that no longer exist, or firms that have been acquired several times, so it&#x
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by chiph 7y ago
I've shot a Manurhin MR73 (not the 8" model featured, but a 4" one) and it's a really nice revolver. The action is smoother than a S&W but not as good as a Python. However the Manurhin will likely last longer than ei
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by chiph 7y ago
Office buildings I've worked at in the past barely had any filtration. Within a few days, the untouched parts of your desk would have a layer of dust on it. I'm now (well, not now -now since everyone is WFH) in a LEED Gold build
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by chiph 7y ago
If you're doing furniture, you should be in good shape. What I'm hearing from friends & family is that since folks are spending lots more time at home these days, plans for replacing old and tatty furniture are being made.
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by chiph 7y ago
The WW-II era USS Clamagore is on display in Charleston South Carolina, and I went through it while I was talking to the local Navy recruiter about going Nuke. I hit my head on just about everything bolted to the overhead, and banged my sh
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by chiph 7y ago
Or they sink a truck? https://youtu.be/GpEcU0OEzhc?t=120
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by chiph 7y ago
I think you're they're ideal customer. :) I agree that most get driven like you said - from the airport to the hotel and back - i.e. sensibly. But I have known people to seriously abuse their rental car. One drove back to the rent
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by chiph 7y ago
It wasn't always this way. My college job in the early 90's was at a record store that had a Ticketmaster machine. This was a CRT terminal with custom impact (not dot-matrix!) ticket printer, talking to their central computer over
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by chiph 7y ago
Right-click and drag.
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by chiph 7y ago
The article is focused on the rental agencies dumping their older fleet cars onto the market in about 6 months. But there's no way I'd buy a former rental car - I know how people treat those cars. The buyers will be people who are
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by chiph 7y ago
It might actually have been the flu. At least for me (in North Carolina), this year's flu vaccine was a miss, so I ended up sick anyway.
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by chiph 7y ago
I'm not sure if Clint Eastwood's character "The Man With No Name" (Blondie) wore a serape or a poncho. From some angles it's wrapped like a serape would be, but from others it looks like there was a hole in the cent
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by chiph 7y ago
Most likely. But I don't have a phone with that service, so this is what I've got. ;)
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by chiph 7y ago
China is almost a superpower. They have the beginnings of a blue-water navy, which a primary requirement for projecting force beyond your borders. So far as economics, they are indeed very powerful because they became the low-cost manufa
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by chiph 7y ago
And if you're looking for Apollo-era photos, they have a gallery organized by mission: https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/index.htm...
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by chiph 7y ago
I use a micro/femto cell at home because of poor reception from the big towers. If they had access to those records, they could locate me to the street address (needed for E-911 service) now that I'm under a stay-home order.
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by chiph 7y ago
This is something that Zoom has, and was mentioned on a recent call. People were using random backgrounds (including a photo of a prison..) and the message from leadership was "We need to have a corporate background for everyone to use
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by chiph 7y ago
I moved back to North Carolina after 10 years in Austin, and I miss H-E-B as well. Harris Teeter used to be the "high end" store here (before Whole Foods arrived) and while I was gone they were bought by Kroger. The customer exp
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by chiph 7y ago
Once the liquid electrolyte was injected into the batteries and the missile powered up at launch time, it was only going to be operating for 30 to 40 minutes. So it didn't need a lot of cooling capacity.
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by chiph 7y ago
Or if you have dark skin. A coworker got pulled over while on a family trip. He was searched, the car was searched, and the only reason his wife wasn't searched was: "You're lucky I don't have a female officer availabl
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by chiph 7y ago
I'm on my second Roomba, and they've been great. What impressed me was how strong the suction was. My initial thoughts were "How can something that small ever pick up as much dirt as my regular vacuum?" But it actually
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by chiph 7y ago
Tom Scott went there a few years ago - and in the outer part of the zone, there really isn't a problem having your phone & WiFi turned on. I imagine if you're causing interference, their radio-direction-finding team will pay
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by chiph 7y ago
Would dimensional analysis have helped? Specifically the factor-label approach? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_analysis

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