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by kw71 10y ago
Some of the external ports in my lifebook are simply mounted on the housing and connected to the boards by cable assemblies, so: They may have stuck the needed connector on a wire and used an NC mill to make an appropriate cutout from an ex
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by kw71 10y ago
I think this works on the basic wave mixing principle. You mix two frequencies together and the products include the sum and the difference. My theory is this gadget was able to reflect the RF wave sent to it mixed with the sound waves fr
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by kw71 10y ago
If it's available, that is! I know most appliance repair techs are not going to go through this, but there are probably two components on the computer control that I can not buy off the shelf. The SMPS transformer and the cpu with ma
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by kw71 10y ago
I use hot water in laundry sometimes and that is a cost that you didn't mention. My front loader takes a longer time to do a wash cycle, and I think its better spin cuts drying time by 1/3.
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by kw71 10y ago
The computer brained dryer might be better at temperature regulation but otherwise I see nothing that the mechanical timer-control and simple electronics can't do.
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by kw71 10y ago
Using less water is what got me interested. When I bought it I was worried about loading the septic drainfield with excess water and soap. Then I moved to a city where water is very expensive. The energy to heat the water is a concern to
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by kw71 10y ago
My made in 2004 LG frontloader has a simpler device for this. A ball bearing rests in the path of an LED light. If it shakes, the ball moves, allowing the light to shine on a phototransistor. The machine will slow down or stop and toss t
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by kw71 10y ago
This is why I made my money before having a family. The downside to this is I'm going to be in my 60's when my first kid graduates highschool. But in the meantime I have plenty of time to spend with the most important people in
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by kw71 10y ago
Interesting! I think that those who work for the government are not participating in captialism, but I have met many who like to complain about those who participate in socialism, and criticize those engaged in capitalism. It must be nice t
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by kw71 10y ago
looks like original research to me
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by kw71 10y ago
THE PAIN! I'm such a fool. It was so terrible the first time. I wanted to cut off my hands. It went away and I got back to work. Eventually I had to stop work every hour from the pain. It can't be the keyboard! My precious PS&
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U.S. court blocks FCC bid to expand public broadband(reuters.com)
2 points by kw71 10y ago|0 comments
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by kw71 10y ago
Beware, some of that stuff is extremely sketchy. Stuff that you used to take for granted, like ceramic capacitors, are being mismarked or poorly made now. What good is an assortment of X7R grade caps anyway, even if they are not out of sp
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Why Do We Destroy Our Barbie Dolls? (2009)(jezebel.com)
1 points by kw71 10y ago|0 comments
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by kw71 10y ago
I learned some Spanish in latin america by immersion. I can make sense of written Italian and Portugese. However in Spain I can't understand anything spoken.
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by kw71 10y ago
The indictment accuses them of intending to steal money from the bank accounts, and seems to refer to the allegation the journalist is investigating as a "statement which he knows to be false." I hope this is the end of Judge Weav
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by kw71 10y ago
Yes! They were early digital oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
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by kw71 10y ago
I have purchased many things from China on eBay and am now getting spam offering me free products if I review them. I'm sure that Amazon or any site could detect and cull these reviewers, but would it be in their best interests to do s
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Security researcher gets threats over Amazon review(techcrunch.com)
210 points by kw71 10y ago|84 comments
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by kw71 10y ago
The explanation of raster scanning in portrait mode reminded me of an interesting peculiarity in some other equipment. Some of the first HP test equipment with raster crt screens, had the displays oriented in a landscape position, but the r
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by kw71 10y ago
I don't know how my find compares to yours but I amassed a fleet of used Netgear WNDR3800's, and replaced their old stock OpenWRT with modern version. Compared to the linksys boxes, they have GigE, better radios (speed and range)
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by kw71 10y ago
A MRO tech at a potato chip factory told me the chip bags are filled with nitrogen. So maybe they are free of oxygen inside. I think many nonperishables with expiration dates (distilled water etc.) have to do with degradation of the contai
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by kw71 10y ago
> Everyone is a NIMBY in their own way It certainly seems that many people want to be the last person to move into their neighborhood/area.
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by kw71 10y ago
The "Price First" house brand at Walmart has many items with huge barcodes on all surfaces. I wonder how this experiment will work out given that these ugly packages compete right next to pretty ones.
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by kw71 10y ago
Then I might try it. If done at the right time, it might kick off a two hour ragchew about health problems associated with elderly people and unhealthy food.
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by kw71 10y ago
I saw your "dead" comment, thought it was valuable. Your previous comments didn't appear to be antisocial so I vouched it. Your karma went up since then so apparently some people agree. You're still flagged for whatever
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by kw71 10y ago
Interesting, using the autopatch to order food has been repeatedly cited to me as an example of barred commercial traffic. Maybe I am getting some specific local or machine rules confused with the FCC's rules.
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by kw71 10y ago
The US military uses the river that runs behind my rural property as kind of a track for some kind of supersonic flight. I've heard them for years, with periods of daily activity, but never seen one, for by the time I hear the sonic bo
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by kw71 10y ago
Many instructions of machine code can be written as one C statement. There are some cases of things the cpu can do that are not standardized in C, like "arithmetic shift vs. logical shift." Maybe these instructions would be inli
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by kw71 10y ago
Next time you see a multicast stream, try playing it with vlc.

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