hilbert42

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   by hilbert42 5y ago

   "Rehab: Good short term, bad long term. Rehab failure rate is over %90." That's if you can even get the person into rehab at all! Just before last Christmas we buried a good longtime friend and colleague who'd died of
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   by hilbert42 5y ago

   "...it is my belief that the treatment is unconscionable and inhumane." Likewise. Fortunately, I'm not an alcoholic nor have I ever been one but it's always been my understanding that disulfiram was a pretty brutal way
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   by hilbert42 5y ago

   Fascinating indeed. As a comparison, it would be interesting to do the same for various other processors such as, 8008, 8048, 8080, 8085, 8051, Z80, V20, 8088/86, 8086/87 combo, etc. First we'd test these procs with a move&#x
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   by hilbert42 5y ago

   The question is did help actually come via this route or not. (If it did then I'm hardly surprised.)
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   by hilbert42 5y ago

   Wow, I'm impressed. I've used mechanical pencils for decades and I'd hate to go back to wooden pencils that one sharpens (although I make exceptions for carpenter's pencils in woodworking - but even then I'll use a
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   by hilbert42 5y ago

   "Anyone able to shed any light on why they're doing this?" Same question here, As usual, no reasons are given (must admit I'm getting sick of these corporations failing to explain their actions). Right, I'm old e
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   by hilbert42 5y ago

   "OK, to sum up, terrible in Italy:" No it isn't. As I said Italy's a lovely place. It's just that more can go wrong there than in other Western European countries unless one's adequately forewarned. "1)
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   by hilbert42 5y ago

   Thanks for that video reference. I was aware of much of the history from past interest but I'd not seen that video previously nor had I seen all of that film footage in other WWII docos. The more I read about US research developments d
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   by hilbert42 5y ago

   I've worked on broadcast transmitter masts. I recall on FM masts RF burns were commonplace (things were a little different on TV towers). To minimize RF burns, the idea was to grab metal surfaces quickly so as to not get an RF burn (do
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    Thanks for that info, I've already looked up the timetable and current fares and the prices are more reasonable than I thought they'd be. From a somewhat vague memory of Mozart's fares, I reckon these current prices are eve
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    ... 5. If you're visiting Rome or any other Italian city no doubt you'll want to visit its historical sites (as you know, they're everywhere and hard to avoid). First, here's a warning to be careful to avoid pickpockets
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    > even Italy (if you're forewarned what to expect). Out of curiosity, any example of the terrible things that may happen in Italy and that travelers should be forewarned about? Apologies for laboring the (mostly) bleeding obvious
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    "...but the food is as bad as ever," Right, I suppose the quality of food has always been one significant differentiator between the UK and Continental railways. As mentioned, I haven't been to the UK for some years now but
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    "I still have the yellow parallel cable and blue serial cables at my parents' house" I still have both cables and they reside in my miscellaneous computer cables box (as opposed to the box of regularly used cables). I still
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    "Belgrade to find 0 hotel rooms due to a football match." Once, I had the same problem due to a football match in Rome. In hindsight, how I got a bed for the night was hilarious but it wasn't at the time as I was dead tired
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    This has been previously covered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30951723 "Needless to say, if the show were set in the United States, the parents would be under investigation by Child Protective Services,
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    One wonders how practical this would be given the huge G forces involved, especially so for large complex satellites. However, electronics have been subjected to such high G forces as far back as WWII but on a much smaller scale when the pr
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    Sorry, Brexit is clouding my judgment. I should have said Continental Europe! ;-) That said, to be fair I found the UK track maintenance pretty good although trains weren't as punctual as they were in most of Europe. Likewise, the c
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    I can't help but feel much of this argument is relative. From my experience (I'm no longer a European resident) almost all of the European rail network that I've traveled on (and that's quite a lot) beats much of the inf
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    "The ever-rising investments seem to be only enough to keep the status quo of the crumbling infrastructure." It's quite a while since I've traveled by Deutsche Bahn but I found it very efficient and on time when I did.
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    New York has reasonably high (and realistic) parking pricing. Where I live it's outrageously high (deliberately so on political grounds—not because of restricted space (there's much more space available where I live). Introducing
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    I used to travel frequently between Vienna and Paris (to visit relatives in Paris) and I quickly stopped flying between the two cities when I discovered the city-to-city train then called the 'Mozart' (it ceased service in 2007)
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    "There are some things that a slide rule is superior for -- one item I can think of is visualizing an arbitrary range of fractional values." Exactly, similar to the way log scales make visualizing a range of results across the s
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    Thanks for the link. I've just seen my Sun Hemmi No. 130 System Darmstadt (which I'm looking at now and that I mentioned in my earlier post). It's still in excellent condition except the glass in the cursor has a crack in i
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    As I've said to several other posters, I reckon it's a font substitution problem - some fonts display much better than others in certain environments. BTW, an interesting observation, when I first posted the comment it was up-vot
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    Update: See my reply to dahardt . Reckon the problem's (mostly) solved. Thanks for your comment.
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    OK, I'm now on the PC. My main PC with the hi-res monitor is being refurbished so this 2nd PC will have to do, it only has an old Dell E228WFP monitor (1680x1050) attached. The browser is now Firefox. This is a Windows PC with the brow
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    See reply to willipriano . Browser Chrome. As I said, I'll try my PC and get back. At this point, all I can say is that everything else I've looked at on HN in the last several is perfect. ...Thinking, if OK with you this could b
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    Absolutely not, this phone is stock standard Huawei Honor (GR5) 2017 It's completely untweaked (unlike most of my rooted phones). In fact, I use this phone as a workhorse because the screen is very good for a cheap phone. (Even if we
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    by hilbert42 5y ago

    I'm not commenting on this story and here's why (it's a copy of my feedback to that web site): "I have not yet read this article because it's too difficult to read. Even the text I'm entering into this comment