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by dn3500 11mo ago
Not only that, it's all jpeg images. Of email messages. I wonder if they printed these out from Lotus Notes on a dot-matrix printer then screenshotted them on their camera phones. There are various efforts (outside the government) to c
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by dn3500 11mo ago
An entire 1000 foot reel of 35 mm film only has about 15,000 frames on it, so one part in 30,000 would be good enough. When I worked in TV none of the sound equipment had ovens for their crystals. We did have a sync generator with a crystal
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by dn3500 11mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45719250
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by dn3500 1y ago
You might consider joining the Citizen Weather Observer Program. It's a great way to share your data with other station owners. http://www.wxqa.com/ I had a station for a few years. The receiver had a usb interface so
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by dn3500 1y ago
I had a TV once, can't remember the brand, that refused to stream from my dlna server unless it could contact its own corporate servers over the internet first.
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by dn3500 1y ago
In 1981 I wrote a tool that is still in use today. You can install the package on most major linux distros. This was before we paid much attention to software copyright, and I simply published it with my name on it and no license. About six
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by dn3500 1y ago
You're supposed to #define GIF_IMPLEMENTATION in only one of your .c files to prevent linker collisions. But yeah I don't get the point. How is this any better than the standard method of putting macros and data definitions in the
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by dn3500 1y ago
It's not just the headline. "... a single electrode that looks just like a strand of hair and is more reliable than the standard, multi-electrode version." "The researchers tested the device’s long-term adhesion and elec
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by dn3500 2y ago
I can't find it now but there is another news report that explains how it's physically impossible for this whale to swallow something that big. At most it could hold a person in its mouth before spitting it out.
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by dn3500 2y ago
Original headline: A Cemetery’s Immortal Residents and the Scientist Who Studies Them
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by dn3500 2y ago
One small correction, WWII rations included instant coffee, but it wasn't freeze-dried, which was invented after the war.
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by dn3500 2y ago
I am 70 and still have the bike my father bought me when I was 14. I ride it every day. The only original parts are the frame, the rear brake post, and the head bearing nut.
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by dn3500 2y ago
That's for one drive. For all 24 it's about 88.7%.
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by dn3500 2y ago
LR and CR cells don't contain mercury and never have. The original 12c battery was a MR44. 'L' is manganese alkaline, 'C' is lithium, 'M' is mercury.
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by dn3500 2y ago
If no character set is specified, plain text content is assumed to be 1252. This probably extends to application/javascript as well but I'd have to check to be sure. The web pre-dates utf-8, although not by much. Ken Thompson intr
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by dn3500 2y ago
It's not hard if you understand how cvs works. The email says the files are in the "src" module, so you select that from the cvsweb page. Then it's just a matter of drilling down to the individual files. Here is the diff
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by dn3500 2y ago
Seems like a less than useful comparison, given the very different utilization factors. For solar you'd need five times the capacity to get the same average power.
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by dn3500 2y ago
Also the http:// syntax in urls.
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by dn3500 2y ago
Separate error output was around for at least a decade before this. I know MTS had it in the 1960s, and I don't think it was their original idea. I used a CDC for a while and they had it too. So while this is the story of how standard
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by dn3500 2y ago
My family uses about 20 liters a week per person. That's for drinking and cooking.
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by dn3500 2y ago
Strange, I'm in Mexico and if anyone gets blocked it's usually me. But I can read this one. Anyway here you go: https://archive.ph/ru5Jm
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by dn3500 2y ago
Most of the system files from when I ran Unix v7 have a mod time of October 15, 1980. I have some files from v6 but the timestamps were not preserved. They would be from 1979.
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by dn3500 2y ago
I don't know if something got lost in translation, but there is pulse dialing, and there is tone dialing. There is no "pulse tone dialing".
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by dn3500 2y ago
I was in high school in 1969, knew some calculus, and was very interesting in programming. In a good size city with a major engineering university and a large high school the main barrier was access to computers. Our school had teletypes co
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by dn3500 2y ago
I was confused for a minute because I remember playing Spacewar on a PDP-1 in the 1960s and mis-remembered there also being a lander game. But there wasn't, Storer was the first. There is an interesting history here: https:/&#x2F
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by dn3500 3y ago
I used to have a 1948 Hallicrafters TV and it had yet another type of high voltage supply. There was a 100 kHz oscillator driving an air-core transformer in normal (not flyback) mode. The potting had gone bad on the transformer, and I could
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by dn3500 3y ago
72% is pretty impressive. I have only filed against Firefox, and my fix rate is less than 20%. Some of the rest are "won't fix" but many are still open, the oldest at 16 years.
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by dn3500 3y ago
Yeah this is obviously wrong. They meant just capacity, not "annual capacity". Annual output should be around 1500 GWh.
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by dn3500 3y ago
No idea. I was in high school then, and am retired now. The lady who owned the bindery where I worked closed the shop in the 1980s and has been dead for 15 years.
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by dn3500 3y ago
There is a registry of remaining Linotype machines here: http://www.linotyperegistry.org/machines/ Quite a few are listed as "in use" but I know that several of those are not. I used to operate a Ludlow, anot

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