fotbr

9 ms·

31.
by fotbr 7y ago
If you can open it enough to cut the led, why not just wrap the led in tape while you've got it open? That should cut down on the light leakage through the usb ports.
32.
by fotbr 7y ago
Prosecutor gets to go trumpet a victory over those who would show such disresepect to the law as to try to break into the courthouse itself (or various press releases to similar effect). The "very people who have the authority to promo
33.
by fotbr 7y ago
I spent a bunch of allowance money on one of those. It used 110 film cartridges, and had a pretty cheap plastic lens. Quality wasn't really that good (and wasn't helped by the cheap film I had to use), but it didn't matter
34.
by fotbr 7y ago
Find your local makerspace, or community college with a machinist program, and ask if anyone would be interested in making you a custom handle. I turned a simple aluminum handle when I switched to a DE safety razor, because I had the same r
35.
by fotbr 7y ago
That's a good point about the glass cockpit's ability to emphasize any particular value/reading. I hadn't thought about that one, so thanks for bringing it up.
36.
by fotbr 7y ago
As a low-time (just shy of 250 total hours) private pilot, I much prefer all-analog, as I personally find it much easier to take in information in a quick scan. PP and IFR instruction was both done with "glass cockpit" aircraft,
37.
by fotbr 8y ago
80s BASIC (GW-Basic, to be specific) was, right up to his retirement two years ago, my fathers go-to language for anything work related. It was "good enough" for the job, cheaper and faster than trying to get their software depar
38.
by fotbr 8y ago
That was the key for me. I switched to smaller plates, and I quit gaining weight. It helped enforce portion control, which I am horribly bad at if left to my own devices.
39.
by fotbr 8y ago
I haven't followed the Google+ saga, so forgive me if this has already been answered: Does the shutdown of Google+ mean that Google Search users will get the + operator back?
40.
by fotbr 8y ago
Back in HS I worked at an amusement park for a summer. On a busy night, if I closed the booth, I'd be walking out the park's employee exit around 2am, through a somewhat busy and not-very-well-lit public area of the parking lot,
41.
by fotbr 8y ago
Great. That means that if you're after a specific piece of information, and you don't waste time clicking on "ooh shiney" stuff on your way to find that piece of information, you get flagged as a bot and treated as host
42.
by fotbr 8y ago
It's obviously fake, simply because anyone who was really going to do this would make their car look like an oversized carnival bumper car. Ok, maybe that's just what I'd do. Either way, good for a laugh as the afternoon star
43.
by fotbr 8y ago
I've also been there. I love camping in the U.P., and "discovered" the rocket range about 15 years ago. I didn't drive out there though, I walked. No one I talked to knew what condition the road "out to the very
44.
by fotbr 8y ago
If I run a restaurant near a theater, why would I want their data? I already know the clientele that visits the area, whether that's relatively high-end, working folks on their one-movie-night-escape a week, high school kids on date ni
45.
by fotbr 8y ago
I'm outside the VC arena, so take this with a grain of salt. It appears to me that part of the reason the Silicon-Valley-Tech-VC model involves explosive growth is because a large number of the businesses are chasing what really amount
46.
by fotbr 8y ago
Used to use MS OneNote, switched to using Outline (Mac) when I moved away from Windows. I'm still pretty happy with it, but I'm a one-device-at-a-time, laptops-are-as-mobile-as-I-go kind of guy who doesn't care about syncing
47.
by fotbr 8y ago
Looks like standard RTTY (Radioteletype) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioteletype
48.
by fotbr 8y ago
That request gets vague promises, with no proof that the entity is following through with them. Asking for the maximum shows you exactly how compliant an entity is.
49.
by fotbr 8y ago
On the other hand, the US used an early cruise missle to deliver mail as a publicity stunt, and it did require landing[1]. IIRC the regulus system was developed as a reusable airframe to keep development costs low. [1] https://pos
50.
by fotbr 8y ago
I love the vision of a fleet of riderless bikes taking themselves to where the system anticipates their need for the next day. However, I also suspect that there will be a lot of car/automated-bicycle accidents since bicycle visibility
51.
by fotbr 8y ago
Or you can see what it could have become, if Wandel had any real passion for it: Raphi Giangiulio's home-built pipe organ. http://www.rwgiangiulio.com/
52.
by fotbr 9y ago
Sun Tzu's The Art of War, O'Reilly's SQL Pocket Guide, Numerical Recipes in C++, an old GW-Basic manual, and a reprint of the first edition of Machinery's Handbook. Most of my work is boring old enterprise apps in java,
53.
by fotbr 9y ago
I know it's in "flyover country" for most of you, but if you ever find yourself in Kansas City, the National Toy and Miniature Museum [0] has exhibit after exhibit of miniature woodworking (and miniature ceramics, and miniatu
54.
by fotbr 9y ago
Two years ago (maybe three?), they closed one of the runways at the local international airport for the better part of a year for repairs (and partial replacement). That particular runway was poured in the late 50s or early 60s, and last ha
55.
by fotbr 9y ago
Take I-70 across Kansas. Or I-80 across Nebraska. If you're not doing 75, you'll be run off the road by traffic (including RVs) going much faster. You don't need sports-car maneuverability on big, fairly light-traffic inter
56.
by fotbr 9y ago
A bit of a correction: that article is talking about Wichita Falls, which is in Texas. This swatting/shooting is Wichita, Kansas.
57.
by fotbr 9y ago
No real difference? Six might mean I'm willing to give you another chance. Zero might mean I'm so disgusted I'm going to bad-mouth your company at every opportunity, and do everything I can to see you fail. For a big compan
58.
by fotbr 9y ago
It's not just manpower they're scrambling for this time of year. Around here, they're using Budget and Ryder rent-a-trucks for deliveries to (and pickups from) shipping stores (UPS stores, places that offer mailbox service,
59.
by fotbr 9y ago
Marshall doesn't currently allow visitors. However, there's one in Huntsville, at the US Space and Rocket Center (also home to space camp, for those of us who grew up with that). On it's side, on the ground, in pieces/
60.
by fotbr 9y ago
No, it won't be. Anything involving this will be handled by gov't lawyers, not by him, and you can bet if he does end up in front of the court, his responses will be 100% coached by those lawyers.

More ›