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by grendelt 6y ago
If you need to smash glass, why not use a rock and slingshot? Isn't that a whole, whole lot cheaper solution? Or a BB gun? Also if a drone comes flying in a room where you're barricaded, it's time to fire the shotgun at it or
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by grendelt 6y ago
I'm guessing ice is such a rare problem the turbines in Texas aren't equipped to handle it. Not that turbines can't de-ice themselves, right? Surely if they can operate in the North Sea, they can operate in West and South Tex
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by grendelt 6y ago
The website needs some help - at least on mobile. If you don't know what Krita is, the site isn't abundantly clear or explicit. At least it doesn't tell the uninformed users right at the top. Maybe the site isn't meant f
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by grendelt 6y ago
Likely wood, concrete would probably attenuate a fair amount but still penetrate. Modern glass-walled office buildings with metallic coating for UV and thermal insulation would probably reflect or attenuate the signal enough to be unusabl
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by grendelt 6y ago
Almost any depth. A big steel tube is going to displace water. Once you have some baseline measurements (of known underwater landforms), then small imperceptible variations would stick out.
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by grendelt 6y ago
So what do we do if it's everywhere?
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by grendelt 6y ago
I too wonder this. Sure we're consuming it, but how much is retained? Aren't we passing much of it along undigested? Plastic is mostly inert, right? So even if we consume and retain it, what harm is there?
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by grendelt 6y ago
"Let's see, my crystal radio only has this one diode but it can only receive AM. I bet if I cut it I can hear everything!"
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by grendelt 6y ago
> "...in theory." Amirite? Guys? Hello? Guy? Is this thing on?
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by grendelt 6y ago
Can confirm. I'm stuck in dissertation procrastination mode. This summer, boredom has moved me forward on writing but you're 100% correct that landing a slot is much easier than fulfilling all of the requirements (the key piece
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by grendelt 6y ago
Also interesting... https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/tear-gas-...
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by grendelt 6y ago
R.G. LeTourneau also built LeTourneau College to train his workforce. It's evolved into LeTourneau University, my alma mater. www.letu.edu
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by grendelt 6y ago
Right. "it is clearly malicious behavior and may fall on the wrong side of the law." It's not against the law. It might be _shady_ but it's not illegal. When I'm teaching cyber intro classes, I let folks know port
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Turning a Problem Around: The Whitney Cotton Gin(hackaday.com)
1 points by grendelt 7y ago|0 comments
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Wired: The Feds' Battle Against Huawei(wired.com)
1 points by grendelt 7y ago|0 comments
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by grendelt 7y ago
> he said they were told no This is what companies that are going out of business tell their employees in order to keep enough people around to help liquidate/pack up when it's time to shut down. Curious to know if employee pa
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by grendelt 7y ago
"Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst" https://www.amazon.com/Behave-Biology-Humans-Best-Worst/dp/0... "The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator" https:/&#x
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by grendelt 7y ago
Metacognition. Just think about it.
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by grendelt 7y ago
Syndicate. Now there was a damn good game. https://archive.org/details/msdos_Syndicate_Plus_1994
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by grendelt 7y ago
I'm a curriculum developer and lead teacher training workshops. We still teach BASIC because one of the robotics platforms still in existence is the BoeBot from Parallax. It uses the BASIC Stamp. When I started, the rest of the team
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by grendelt 7y ago
I laughed at her sitting cross-legged on the bulkhead row. Try that just one row back, sister.
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by grendelt 7y ago
TLDR; "Because I just asked for it."
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by grendelt 7y ago
This article leans heavily on NAEP tests which the US has never placed at the top on. Yet we still have the highest number of the world's best institutions of higher education. In education research, if the NAEP is the only metric you&
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by grendelt 7y ago
Average completion rate for MOOCs Is 4%
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by grendelt 7y ago
Great story but a little anticlimactic. It's like yadda-yadda-yadda, he gets arrested and goes to prison. That's it? The story is just an IT guy that tells US authorities before he takes on a job with scammers and is then a mole?
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by grendelt 7y ago
Those CueCat scanners were a great way to scan used textbooks when I was selling them in college. They just magically spit out a text string followed by a <CR> when scanning a barcode. They were going for dirt cheap on eBay for a numb
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by grendelt 7y ago
I'm partial to the avalanche http://holdenc.altervista.org/avalanche/
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by grendelt 7y ago
> They are using the money for grants and scholarships and perhaps an endowment to fund them perpetually But that's outside the scope of what most in the amateur radio community would expect from caretakers of AMPRnet.
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by grendelt 7y ago
Ok, but how are they gonna get their data back? Just sacrifice it and lose all digital public records?
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by grendelt 7y ago
Until just recently (wife's choice) I used an 8ft piece of Formica from Lowe's that someone had special ordered but never picked up. It cost me $40 in 2001. I used that desk for about 18 years. Somewhere along the way I got a hole

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