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by kloch 4y ago
That was definitely a thing back then. I've had sites slashdotted several times and never had any issues using FreeBSD and static-ish content and/or compiled C cgi's w/mysql. It also helped that I worked in networking an
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What Happened To 2-5-2 Aircraft Seating Configurations?(simpleflying.com)
2 points by kloch 4y ago|1 comments
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The psychological benefits of commuting that remote work doesn't provide(phys.org)
4 points by kloch 4y ago|0 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
> no digital harshness Reminds me of comments when CD's came out int he 1980's. Audiophiles and magazine articles insisted they could "hear the aluminum". What they were actually hearing was songs mastered for Vinyl o
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by kloch 4y ago
The first cellphone I bought was a Motorola Alpha https://www.mobilecollectors.net/phone/3802/motorola-microta... I thought it was odd - and a bit misleading that it had the words "Digital Personal Communicat
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by kloch 4y ago
As a side note, this video has a great variety of historical footage of cars/cities/life.
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by kloch 4y ago
> they're safer when it snows and winter Are they actually safer or do they just give the driver a false sense of security? Assuming it actually has 4WD/AWD (and most don't), that only helps you "go" and does not
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by kloch 4y ago
This site is the birthplace of Radio Astronomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Jansky
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by kloch 4y ago
> Reactions by 10 independent experts contacted by Quanta ranged from unbridled excitement to outright dismissal, with many of the experts expressing some version of cautious optimism. This is exactly how an arbitrary group of scientists
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by kloch 4y ago
This is exactly the kind of thing the patent system was intended to prevent. You have to share enough details of your secret sauce so others can replicate it, even if you intend to not license it or charge outrageous licensing fees. That wa
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by kloch 4y ago
Thanks, now I feel really old. Seriously though, until very recently you could hear dot matrix printers at most airline gates. They used them to print out manifests to hand to the crew right before the plane departs.
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by kloch 4y ago
> Davit Niazashvili, a maintenance manager at Geosky, a cargo airline based in Tbilisi, Georgia, still uses floppy disks to apply critical updates to two 36-year-old 747-200s, which were originally delivered to British Airways in 1987: G
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H.R.538 – Informing Consumers about Smart Devices Act(congress.gov)
3 points by kloch 4y ago|0 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
"It's the year 2000, but where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzm6pvHPSGo
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by kloch 4y ago
Are you sure? It's about the same temperature as the surface of the Sun. That means if you could see it, it would also be as white hot as the Sun seen from Space.
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by kloch 4y ago
being "skeptical of throwing full confidence at option 2 " is not the same as "demanding it be thrown out". It just means show us something more than "magic variable 'X' fits all curves."
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by kloch 4y ago
> For dark matter, we keep those standards. The evidence for some kind of dark matter, that there is something that can’t be explained by just the Standard Model and Einstein’s gravity, is at this point very strong. Option 1: Do more res
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by kloch 4y ago
This works really well! Could you add links to play songs on Spotify?
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Sam Chui: The Last Boeing 747 – Final Delivery Flight [video](youtube.com)
1 points by kloch 4y ago|0 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
For software engineers wanting to know more about this subject I highly recommend this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931 Human color vision is a lot more complicated than it seems at first. The sensitiv
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by kloch 4y ago
When I was a kid in the 70's/80's we weren't just allowed to play outside unsupervised until dark - we were required to! There was an arrangement where the older neighborhood kids would look after the younger ones.
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by kloch 4y ago
It wasn't even a 707, it was a prototype model 367-80. There were some unusually significant structural differences between the prototype dash 80 and production 707's, for example: > The 132 in (3,400 mm) wide fuselage of the D
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by kloch 4y ago
> As part of a planned change to update the IP address on a WAN router, a command given to the router caused it to send messages to all other routers in the WAN, which resulted in all of them recomputing their adjacency and forwarding ta
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by kloch 4y ago
This is particularly disturbing because often EA chargers are the only reliable fast chargers around for CCS, so it's not like you can just avoid them for another network on a long trip.
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Why Streaming the Super Bowl Has Gotten Weird(barrons.com)
1 points by kloch 4y ago|0 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
JWST has unmatched sensitivity for galaxy searches but a fairly narrow field of view. To cover the same area as this survey (whole southern sky) would take about 15 million JWST frames.
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by kloch 4y ago
I wouldn't read too much into that, hairless cats and plucked birds look very different from their fully dressed versions.
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by kloch 4y ago
The author ignores an important part of the negotiation equation - are you being adequately compensated for the imposed limitations? For example a one year non-compete after separation might be unreasonable by itself, but coupled with one y
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by kloch 4y ago
There is some small truth to this - at least for image acquisition. The bayer filters in modern digital sensors are way to broadband, which perhaps counterintuitively reduces saturation, but more importantly reduces color accuracy from hu
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by kloch 4y ago
> The article discusses the picture-phone in 2001 as if it's commonplace technology today, but it really isn't. It's available, but people don't actually use it much outside of Zoom meetings for work. Before Covid thi

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