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by chiph 1y ago
It's the difference between "should be" and "reality". (I blame precision scheduled railroading for creating freight trains so long that they can't use sidings)
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by chiph 1y ago
There's not a lot of electrified track in the US. The distances are just too great and our railroads are freight-first, passengers second (the opposite of Europe). Even so, the passenger trains don't make abrupt starts/stops
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by chiph 1y ago
I'm surprised there isn't already a west-coast Auto Train like was briefly mentioned. The east coast one (used to bypass I-95 traffic) is often sold-out. Drop off your car for loading, take your carry-on to your seat or cabin, arr
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by chiph 1y ago
I had that. Later renamed Laser C. Being a poor college student I used a Radio Shack floppy disk drive for a second 3.5", hand-soldering the DIN connector the ST used. Afterwards I could have my compiler tools on one and source/ob
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by chiph 1y ago
Part of the design esthetic is that nothing is labeled. How do people know that the 2nd switch from the right opens communications? I think that in the Empire you have to be a fast learner. Or else.
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by chiph 1y ago
What has impressed me is that in all the Imperial scenes - they have a lot of polished surfaces (floor, control panels, etc) and you never see a reflection of crew or film equipment. I'm sure most of this is the result of good planning
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by chiph 1y ago
Based on his video, I have given up eating microwave popcorn and have gone back to stove-top made. If his numbers are to be believed (and I do), the coating on the inside of a microwave popcorn bag that is used to keep the cooking oils from
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by chiph 1y ago
Looking at the temperature chart and the significant drop in 2020 during the pandemic, the source is certainly the trains and people themselves. (fewer trains moving, less heat added back then). At this point I expect the infrastructure is
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by chiph 1y ago
Dave Plummer went through this while at Microsoft. He had a product he was selling (a shell extension to handle ZIP files) and got a call out of the blue from a M&A person at Microsoft wanting to talk about purchasing it. It got strange
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by chiph 1y ago
They used to be Cree about 4 years ago. Cree was supposedly fab-less. But looks like that part of the business was sold in 2021 and is part of a joint-venture in China now. It's confusing.
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by chiph 1y ago
Meanwhile, Wolfspeed in North Carolina has their building nearly done (last time I drove past a few months ago) and is already growing silicon carbide crystals. They will be making 200mm wafers. https://maps.app.goo.gl/jQJ11
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by chiph 1y ago
My WP days were under DOS (I still remember the cardboard cheat-sheet you got with it that fit around the function keys). But I remember this DLL and wondering where they got the icons. Did they contact the vendors via official channels, or
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by chiph 1y ago
Didn't GM have a camera/software combo that would relax the MR dampener before bumps at one time? It didn't have active movement - just a regular shock but with fine control over fluid movement. I think you're saying you
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by chiph 1y ago
We ran into the same thing back in the dot-com era. The development group had a sample customer set up as "Master Bait & Tackle", which had an outdoor outfitter theme. With items like fishing reels, lures, backpacks, etc. Enti
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by chiph 1y ago
I was expecting Hyundai to have a higher domestic content, actually. Culturally, they seem to prefer to be vertically integrated. I would expect something like the Santa Fe (produced in Alabama) to draw nearly all their parts from local par
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by chiph 1y ago
You know those Danish butter cookie tins that everyone's mom uses for sewing supplies? They also make good Faraday cages.
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by chiph 1y ago
At least partially - the technical introduction for the Z17 says that several items can be concurrently maintained (IBM-speak for hot-swapped). So far as major items like the processing units - maybe (still reading). (3.4mb PDF) https:&#x2
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by chiph 1y ago
Rolex has an animation on their site (scroll about 1/3 down): https://www.rolex.com/en-us/watches/land-dweller They will really have to have good tolerances, because now there are two wheels connected via a
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by chiph 2y ago
Not an ad. Even if you aren't yet in your 30's, get your PSA levels checked at your annual physical. The sooner you know, the easier it is to cure.
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by chiph 2y ago
Looking at your privacy policy - it appears that your statements are about protecting the account info (the firm or person who has signed up for Signly) What about protecting the form data itself? If I were to use this in a medical scenario
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by chiph 2y ago
Yes - we make every effort to get them as close as humanly possible - spending lots of hours matching fonts, images/watermarks, layout and even spelling & grammar errors. We don't want someone at the state office to reject a s
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by chiph 2y ago
The current problems we're having are DS covering up adjacent text with their input box. You can specify a starting width, which helps sometimes. But they have a minimum font size of 9pt and minimum input box height of 22px and we ofte
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by chiph 2y ago
I'm sort of surprised that they haven't approached Bob Jones University. They have one of the largest collections of religious art in the US. Virtual tour: https://museumandgallery.org/tour/
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by chiph 2y ago
The problem as I see it is that the diopter system only has a limited number of different profiles. So if you fall in between a diopter (need more than a 2.5 but less than a 2.75, say) the lenses won't be perfect and you'll have e
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by chiph 2y ago
If you'd like to see a similar work by Jim Sanborn, Cyrillic Projector is at the University of North Carolina Charlotte behind the Fretwell Building. Way easier to see in person than CIA headquarters! It has a light inside and if you
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by chiph 2y ago
Doing the conversion - 20 milligrams is 0.308647 grains So you're correct. (had to use Google - I only know that there are 7000 grains to the pound)
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by chiph 2y ago
Those would be my first choice too but there might be trees that block the sunlight, or are taller than a wind turbine tower. They'd certainly be quieter than a microturbine and not need fuel brought in.
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by chiph 2y ago
Maybe for a remote cabin? One thing I think might be a problem when grid-connecting them is their lower rotational inertia might make it harder to match/keep frequency. Unless it has very good speed regulation.
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by chiph 2y ago
The NS Savannah (fission powered) was unable to enter some ports because the local governments did not allow nuclear powered vessels in their waters. Do you think that a fusion powered vessel will be allowed in?
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by chiph 2y ago
You may find this amusing then. I was at Travis for a day (from McClellan) and I had time to stop by their museum. They had a G model on display and there was an older gentleman with a child looking at it. "What kind of plane is this,

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