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by dwyerm 9y ago
It isn't just a theory, it's a practice: 'This "district energy" system works by capturing heat generated at a non-Amazon data center in the neighboring Westin Building and recycling that heat through underground wa
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by dwyerm 9y ago
If this interests you, I've got to throw in a plug for the Museum of Communications in Seattle. They've got a bunch of old mechanical telephone switches running. There's something truly awesome -- in the correct sense of the
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by dwyerm 9y ago
You might also be thinking of a Knox Box. A key securely stored in a firetruck can be used to open a small box on your property, which contains a master key for the facility. As scary as that sounds, it isn't /completely/ st
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by dwyerm 10y ago
I did ask one of the great docents there to explain blue boxing to me. He pulled out an blue suitcase-like box and showed me how it all worked. For what it is worth, they can't do the 2600 line seize there, but they could patch direct
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by dwyerm 10y ago
I empathize with them, though. It is completely rational to limit the impact of lawsuits on your organization. If someone hands you a Get Out Of Jail Free card, you take it, no matter how good of a person you think you are.
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by dwyerm 10y ago
This is exactly why I'm fighting against Mandatory Binding Arbitration and Class Action Waivers. The system is slow, creaky, and arguably broken, but that's a _feature_ if it means that companies are afraid of it. I'm not hav
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by dwyerm 10y ago
Some commercial displays are tuned for bright, static, signage, which would naturally make poor video displays. However, I suspect that their actual display technology is usually identical to the consumer versions. Certainly the panels them
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by dwyerm 10y ago
Colorado fan, huh? I'll admit it was my desire to buy local that initially directed me towards Big Agnes. I've been very happy with their products, but "Buy Local" starts ringing a little bit hollow when every product I&
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by dwyerm 10y ago
It could have been, but I haven't read the book. I was doing race operations for the LT100 (FoxPro 2 and NetWare Lite), so I saw a lot of it personally. I used this RunnersWorld article to get my dates right: http://rw.runne
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by dwyerm 10y ago
> top ultrarunning athletes aren't winning the races actually running in their shoes. I recall 1993 when Rockport sponsored the Leadville Trail 100. They released a specialized trail-running shoe called the Leadville Racer. At the s
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by dwyerm 10y ago
I liked the story that the truck-mounted Snowball came from Glacier tech. Amazon has been putting data on a truck and then driving it around Virginia. The delay in reading it back is the time it takes for the truck to arrive at a datacenter
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by dwyerm 10y ago
I am super excited about this, but I'd be very cautious about expectations. I've already gotten torn up in social media for trying to explain how an ambient information display is a Good Thing (think a clock or a calendar or a th
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by dwyerm 10y ago
This has always reminded me of Ben Rubin's (EAR Studio) early work on notification tones. One of his projects was the ticket gates in the NYC subway system. Those high-pitched piezo speaker beepers are cheap and simple, but it is diffi
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by dwyerm 10y ago
In the trucking industry, our telematics kept failing to the tuna can problem: A tuna can is the perfect size, shape, and material to cover a GPS antenna.
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by dwyerm 10y ago
I started buying from Angry Robot a while back because they sent me free DRM-free epubs to get me hooked on their authors. I've been buying from them ever since, and that's the only reason I discovered that Chuck Wendig's boo
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by dwyerm 10y ago
The public switched telephone network is a huge, complicated, and arcane network that spans the entire globe. Its language is incantations of tones and pulses responded to with more tones and clicks. It feels magical! Someone who knows the
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by dwyerm 10y ago
This looks like thinly veiled marketing, preying on the unreasonable lengths that dog owners will go through and the expenses they will incur for their animals... ...and yet I see those little dog test-dummies and I want to shove money thro
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by dwyerm 10y ago
I can neither confirm nor deny that AWS is working on an API call for placing a fleet of satellites in orbit. On a more serious note, I'm excited to see what happens to the NTP pools in the area, since GPS is often a timing source for
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by dwyerm 10y ago
This is insanity-inducing. Qi chargers are finally beginning to show up in the wild -- in counter tops at Frankfort Airport and in bedside lamps at IKEA. At the same time Qi receivers are disappearing from phones. The feature is missing fro
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by dwyerm 10y ago
For me, camping usually meant being somewhere over 10,000ft AMSL. My altitude sickness manifests as insomnia. So, my first night was always a -- nearly literal -- nightmare.
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by dwyerm 11y ago
I haven't seen the specific study you mentioned, but it is referred to in the book, "Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)" by Tom Vanderbilt. If you are at all interested in traffic, this is a very
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by dwyerm 11y ago
Be careful googling for "Sway" and "Wayland" while at work... You might not get the screenshots you're expecting, although they will probably be shiny.
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by dwyerm 11y ago
Well, Evi is still available on the Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trueknowle...
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by dwyerm 11y ago
Meh... the problem with Bluetooth speakers is that many of them don't handle the always-on use-case. My soundbar would work well, but Alexa would get muzzled every time I turned on the TV to watch something. On the other hand, my port
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by dwyerm 11y ago
I had assumed it was mandated that cars in the USA have AM radios so that they could listen to TIS stations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers'_information_station I can't find anything that enforces th
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by dwyerm 11y ago
This is probably the wrong reaction to this article, but it is mostly making me nostalgic for the distinctive musical RF interference that comes from a C64 while it is in a FOR delay loop.