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by chiph 2y ago
That's because BMW ECUs adapt to the lower voltage as the battery ages and instruct the alternator/charger to provide more current. Replace the battery and the ECU would cause it to be overcharged unless you notify it of the repla
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by chiph 2y ago
Perhaps it's an acronym, like gorp is? (Good Old Raisins and Peanuts - commonly called "Trail Mix" these days)
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by chiph 2y ago
This is part of the job of being a team lead or manager. You have a standard, you need to get people to follow it (or consequences..)
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by chiph 2y ago
Something I realized later was that gold is much denser than ducks. So Scrooge could not have dived into his silo of gold without injuries equivalent to diving onto a sidewalk. Ehh, it was still a great visual.
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by chiph 2y ago
Part of me thinks "Oh they're just cast from cheap pot-metal" But if he was talking about the machining needed to make the molds (in a pre-CNC environment), including multi-part molds to allow for parts of the car that curved
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by chiph 2y ago
I would have lost interest and wandered off by about step 3 of that process.
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by chiph 2y ago
I'm wondering if Chris McKinstry used this as an inspiration for his MindPixel project, which was a curated collection of short, validated true/false statements. Cyc uses a structured grammar while Mindpixels were in English. His
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by chiph 2y ago
No "supposedly" about it. FUBAR is still in common use. As is RHIP (Rank Hath Its Privileges) and BOHICA (Bend Over Here It Comes Again)
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by chiph 2y ago
What I find amusing is the "sovereign citizens" going to all the trouble to make their own plates, filled with their usual prevarications like "traveling, not driving". If they were truly sovereign, they wouldn't ha
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by chiph 2y ago
The same artist (Jim Sanborn) did Cyrillic Projector, which is much easier to go see than Kryptos is at the CIA. It is located at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, by the Fretwell Building. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by chiph 2y ago
The Russian soldiers occupying Chernobyl apparently ignored the warnings and dug trenches in the contaminated soil. And unsurprisingly came down with radiation sickness.
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by chiph 2y ago
My Synology uses two 120mm fans and you can barely hear them (it's on the desk next to me). I'm sold on the idea of moving more volume at less speed. (which I understand can't happen in a 1U or 2U chassis)
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by chiph 2y ago
Looks like the video is no longer available. I used to love watching the defragger back in the Windows 95 days, and later I bought copies of PerfectDisk for both home & work. Unfortunately Raxco closed up shop earlier this year, and the
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by chiph 2y ago
I had a dual Pentium II board (made by Tyan, with an Adaptec Raid Option slot) but I don't recall ever seeing a dual P54C board. Did a mainstream motherboard maker ever release one, to your knowledge?
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by chiph 2y ago
I think it depends. I had Dr. Bresenham as my graphics instructor (he taught for a while after he retired from IBM) and the class used Borland Turbo Pascal and for it's time it was fast. Not as fast as raw assembly. But faster than Bor
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by chiph 2y ago
MMC was a hidden star of Windows. You could write your own extensions for your application that it would host for you, and you'd get a standard look + feel that sysadmins would feel right at home with. I have given up a couple of times
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by chiph 2y ago
The clearances in Texas are taller than ones I've seen in other states. The national standard is 17 feet, but Texas often uses 18 feet (5.4 meters) or more. Bridges on the East coast interstates sometimes don't even make 17 feet (
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by chiph 2y ago
Material can vary based on the use. Something like the TGV will use a different alloy than a slower regional line. A quick search shows bronze and hard-drawn copper are frequently used. But I wouldn't rule out stainless steel. BTW - te
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by chiph 2y ago
Someone tell the Town of Atherton that electric trains don't pollute. I think they're now up to 3 lawsuits against California high speed rail, at least two of which are on environmental reasons.
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by chiph 2y ago
A common bit of advice is to build one less of your widgets than what your customers will buy. You then meet demand (nearly!) and your price gets supported. Chinese manufacturers on the other hand, seem to be following the "build it an
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by chiph 2y ago
From what I've observed, if the insurance company uses a mascot of any kind, you will have difficulties in getting them to pay a claim. This is consumer insurance, so your typical auto, home, renter's, etc. policies. If you need c
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by chiph 2y ago
I checked my policy and they use the "surface water" term. So it's probably something that varies by company and perhaps region. To get a flood policy you would have to speak to a broker about whether you qualify for the Nati
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by chiph 2y ago
20+ years ago, I had moved into a newly built home. And the first serious rain we got, I had water come into the living room (flooded the porch and seeped under the door). There was no insurance coverage since it was "surface water&quo
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by chiph 2y ago
Greetings Ken. Thanks to you and Marc for another great dive into obscure NASA hardware. They must have considered that the spinning drum had a gyroscopic effect on the shuttle. One of the reasons why the shuttle computers used tape drives
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by chiph 2y ago
Boeing has a new CEO - Kelly Ortberg who has a mechanical engineering background. He's starting with some big challenges - the company just posted a $1.4bn loss, has possibly stranded a pair of their test pilots in orbit, an airliner t
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by chiph 2y ago
My elderly cat has to be on a limited-protein diet because of food allergies. Rabbit is commonly used since none of the commercial foods have it as an ingredient (it's stupid expensive). I recently added a new kitten to the household a
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by chiph 2y ago
Look at the difference in Obama's hair from when he took office to when he left. Frankly, the job is a killer.
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by chiph 2y ago
We didn't have that, but they do. If you look at one of the photos the panel in the rack has a pressure alarm for the cables. So the crew would be alerted should the pressure change.
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by chiph 2y ago
To keep groundwater out. it's common to use nitrogen, but the LCC would be hard to resupply with tanks[0], so (based on the photos) they used air that had been dried. Story time: The airbase I was stationed at in Germany had been built
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by chiph 2y ago
I would have said Quakers. Because of persecution after the English civil war (Quaker Act of 1662, mostly), they couldn't hold public office. So they went into commerce & industry. "Charles II, 1662: An Act for preventing the

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