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by fsagx 7y ago
In my experience, the handshake-as-greeting between men in social situations is common in the Midwest US, at least.
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by fsagx 7y ago
The US Coast Guard had a test program that fitted a pigeon pod beneath helicopters to help find life rafts and bobbing people in the ocean. The pigeons were much more effective than the human crew. https://www.wearethemighty.com
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by fsagx 7y ago
Atlas booster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imkdz63agHY
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by fsagx 7y ago
Seems more like a case of: "Look -- We have editorial independence. We published this negative article about Amazon with information that literally everyone who uses Amazon already knows and takes into account."
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by fsagx 7y ago
(2013)
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by fsagx 7y ago
I humbly offer an alternate title: "Larry Has No Common Lived Experience with People Outside His Bubble" Comparing Arlington, VA or any of the top-earning metro areas to Flint, MI makes little sense to his argument. There are tho
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by fsagx 7y ago
I think the current best answer is: "it depends." A Kentuky man shot down a drone with a shotgun, was charged, but ultimately was acquitted. https://www.cnet.com/news/judge-rules-man-had-right-to-shoot...
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by fsagx 7y ago
In a moment of accidental candor on Maddow's show, Senator Schumer lets you know who he thinks really runs DC... "Let me tell you: You take on the intellegence community and they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you.&q
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by fsagx 7y ago
That a child would likely earn more than a parent, when the parent's earning window spans a great depression and two world wars doesn't seem that remarkable. The 50-50 odds are exactly what I would expect from a nation in some sor
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by fsagx 7y ago
"Really Big" pigs of the sort in the article are a common sight to anyone attending a county or state fair in many rural parts of the US: https://www.iowastatefair.org/participate/competition/result...
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by fsagx 7y ago
You could make multiple passes, if needed, gaining a + delta V each time by designing the orbit such that the spacecraft is on a transfer orbit back to PBH to make another pass. (If, as guelo mentioned, you did not at some point reach esca
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by fsagx 7y ago
If I am thinking of the same incident, it was actually Syria that shot down the Russian surveillance aircraft, not the Israelis. https://www.npr.org/2018/09/18/649064034/russian-surveillanc... Before tha
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by fsagx 7y ago
Big Boy has a live track available that shows its planned route. I've got my viewing location picked out for a close-up view of it underway. https://www.up.com/forms/steam-trace.cfm
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by fsagx 7y ago
I wonder if the editors at Yahoo Finance saw any irony in their publishing of this article.
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by fsagx 7y ago
Mayors will pay "cyber-security" consulting firm. The firm will pay the hackers. https://www.zdnet.com/article/georgia-county-pays-a-whopping...
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by fsagx 7y ago
I've been happy for a year or two (not even sure, now that I think about it...) with two Pi3s running openElec. Both run over wired ethernet to SMB media server. I'm generally stingy with my storage, so I usually opt for the 108
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by fsagx 7y ago
Did you do some work to run 100% from ramdisk after boot? Conventional wisdom says that the SD cards should fail eventually from log writes, etc.
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by fsagx 7y ago
Mazda (at least my Mazda6 from a few years ago) can do this because they have a great interface to the entertainment/info system. They have a joystick with a few mouse-like buttons on the center console just behind the gear shift. It
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by fsagx 7y ago
Fun! A way to add gravity assist and multiple gravity assists would be a great feature.
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by fsagx 7y ago
Thanks for the link. I was not aware of Norsk's work.
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by fsagx 7y ago
Metal 3D printing technology is maturing rapidly. Many of the aerospace standard materials are available (aluminums and stainless steels, though titaniums seem to not quite be there yet). You won't find it in production much across t
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by fsagx 7y ago
Really well done site for the course. The flow of the single page to the sign up is compelling.
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by fsagx 7y ago
I've also come to the same conclusion. Many people, if they are not attached to a traditional religion, will similarly attach to something else. The human mind may have a god-shaped or religion-shaped hole in it.
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by fsagx 7y ago
FORTRAN77 on a VAXCluster in 1986. Still have my copy of "FORTRAN 77 For Engineers and Scientists" just in case. It was very easy to pick up for someone who had only used AppleII or TRS-80 BASIC.
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by fsagx 7y ago
I was not aware of this project, but I have had a similar hardware setup half-completed on my workbench forever. I am using an old thinkpad T40 (love the keyboard, and it seems to be indestructible) with a serial connection to a RPi velcroe
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by fsagx 8y ago
Any D batteries in the house got snatched up fast. Any flashlights with good batteries usually got swapped for dead ones. Anyone else remember their bigtrak being a matte grey, instead of white like in the article? I remember skipping the
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by fsagx 8y ago
My brain has no trouble wrapping around the genderlessness of the voice Colossus from The Forbin Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRq7Muf6CKg
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by fsagx 8y ago
The first place I worked at out of college was on the cutting edge of technology when everyone, from the president to the janitor, got an email address. The 1200b UUCP connection for a staff of 30 sometimes caused some bottlenecks. I reme
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by fsagx 8y ago
I think the genesis of a lot of the cooling arguments goes back to just one article in National Geographic: http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/DSCN1557-nat-geog-1...
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by fsagx 8y ago
The OLPC gizmo from the mid 2000s was pretty close. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO A kind neighbor gave one to my kids. It had no games, so they were not really interested. I thought it was great! Super long

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