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by chiph 10y ago
It does. Just because the info is now in the public domain doesn't change it's classification level. Bizarre, I know. But it's because the classifying authority is the one responsible for changing it, and until they do it&#x
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by chiph 10y ago
Thanks - I do miss him. I think if someone were to come up and knock on their front door, most older people wouldn't hesitate to send them away (exceptions for Girl Scout cookies, of course). But when a fraudster arrives via computer s
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by chiph 10y ago
The better quality pre-fabs are modular homes. They're not strictly limited to "double-wide" dimensions, but being that they're still being trucked to the building site, it's an important consideration (to clear tel
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by chiph 10y ago
My father fell for this scam. As you get older, you lose patience with computers, so he developed a tendency to click on anything to get browser popups to just go away. One of them was a "Your computer is infected and we have the cur
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by chiph 10y ago
The ones I know about are coming up on 55 years in use and still look good. I expect as long as you keep them dry and insect-free they'll last a long time.
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by chiph 10y ago
Glulam beams are actually pretty ecologically sound. They're made from laminations of smaller pieces of wood, so there's less demand for old-growth trees. It can also be made of the smaller pieces left over from cutting larger p
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by chiph 10y ago
Only the GPS time value has never had any leap seconds applied to it. So it's almost 20 seconds ahead of UTC. Which is probably "good enough" for a clock in a car.
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by chiph 10y ago
Or to host it on a static .html page that gets rewritten every 60 seconds or so by an external process, running on physical servers. Minimal stack, so minimal attack surface.
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by chiph 10y ago
I'm seeing problems with Kindle downloads.
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by chiph 10y ago
The language/IDE of choice at college was Turbo Pascal. But then they introduced Turbo C and I just had to use it for my graphics class (because C was obviously going to be faster than that Pascal stuff, right?) Wrong. The Pascal compi
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by chiph 10y ago
Some people may be ex-military, and are able to say some general things about a topic like this and not get into trouble - as long as they cite a publication available to the public to provide a plausible explanation.
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by chiph 10y ago
If they had sold enough of them, there would be a market for Mac Pro-shaped graphic card upgrades. Swapping out the AMD FirePro D300 looks to only need a Torx screwdriver set, so certainly do-able by a user.
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by chiph 10y ago
Home planets of the puppeteers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierson%27s_Puppeteers
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by chiph 10y ago
Even in the US, cities are catching on that hosting an Olympics is likely a money-losing event, and they'll be saddled with poorly-built large facilities afterwards (why build well when you can build fast?). Permanent facilities, perha
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by chiph 10y ago
With North Korea testing weapons rather frequently, it still has a mission even today.
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by chiph 10y ago
Until they recently (and abruptly) closed, I had a house account at MyFitFoods. You put $500 on their house account and got a $25 bonus, and was able to make food purchases from it. When it ran low you could top it up. A similar comparison
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by chiph 10y ago
Or it's to protect nearby receivers. A Tesla Coil I built in middle school wiped out TV and radio reception for most of the block...
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by chiph 10y ago
I don't think tapes replaced LPs so much as supplemented them. With the exception of the car-mounted record player that was an option on some Chryslers[1], the advantages of 8-track and cassette were their ability to take your music w
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by chiph 10y ago
> CDs had a big problem with mastering. You are correct. Lots of the early releases once the goldrush started still had their RIAA equalization on them (aka "shovelware"). Even those that used original sources simply didn&#x27
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by chiph 10y ago
I bought my first CDs in 1984, and played them on the world's first CD player - the Sony CDP-101. Of the hundreds of discs in my collection, I had maybe 3-4 from that decade go bad. What worked for me was storing them in the jewel bo
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by chiph 10y ago
Like or hate the Cadillac Escalade, you have to admit the thin vertical taillights from the bumper almost to the roof certainly evoke their cars from the "tailfin" era, like the 1969 Eldorado.
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by chiph 10y ago
Texas Central is about 1/3 of the way through right of way acquisition on their Houston to Dallas route. http://www.texascentral.com/alignment-maps/ They're partnering with Japan National Railways and plannin
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by chiph 10y ago
The mechanics in /r/justrolledintotheshop complain about parts availability and the constant rolling changes. The door handles on the Model S are apparently up to revision "G".
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by chiph 10y ago
The Red Line is the new Metro system (which was destroyed in 1997's Volcano ). The electrified light-rail from the 1930's was the LA Railway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Railway GM, Firestone,
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by chiph 10y ago
The original designers of the interstates didn't want the roads to go through the downtown areas. The idea was for the high-speed roads to go near cities, and have spur roads (3-digit interstate numbers that start with an odd number)
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by chiph 10y ago
> almost no one would do the same for a video of dubious quality and content, certainly not in the 90s. Umm. Porn?
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by chiph 10y ago
Atom models affected: C2308, C2338, C2350, C2358, C2508, C2518, C2530, C2538, C2550, C2558, C2718, C2730, C2738, C2750, and C2758. How to tell what CPU your Synology NAS has: https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase
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by chiph 10y ago
Abuse of the switch statement? The firm bought a company and we found in their source code that they had created a 50,000 case-statement monster. We asked that they refactor it, and they agreed because the sheer size of it was giving the co
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by chiph 10y ago
> Probabilistic Programming Reminds me of myself, early in my career. "Well, it probably works..."
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by chiph 10y ago
The XBox mention was interesting. I wonder if there's a market for a machinima-style series, with distribution done via the Microsoft Store (if they have subscription pricing). Lots of Hollywood actors do voice-over work on the side.

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