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by lb1lf 5y ago
-I've met collectors (of records, in that case) who had what I consider an admirable attitude towards the perils of instant eBay gratification - seeing as the chase in most cases was better than the catch, they'd imposed a 'n
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-The problem, of course, being: What do you do when the collection is complete? (I ran into that problem once - I collected stamps fairly seriously during my childhood and youth, spurred on by my father who was and is really into it. Howeve
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Myself, I don't listen to country&western music, but I don't want to denigrate people who do. Oh, if you listen to C&W and read this - 'denigrate' means 'put down'. :) (I agree wholeheartedly, though -
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-The 12 bit A/D provides a (theoretical) 72dB of S/N, so if you can do that at a decent sample rate to get sufficient bandwidth, the digitizing should be good. As long as the PWM D/A has a good clock to keep the PWM ratio acc
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Not the OP, but my impression is s/he implied that the big corporations performed tax shenanigans to ensure their taxable profit ended up very near zero - say, buying expensive services from subsidiaries in tax havens &c. Say I ru
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-I had a colleague once, fresh out of mechanical engineering at the local univerity college, who as his first project did a locking pawl for a winch drum. Tolerance? H7. The fitters threw a fit trying to make that happen.
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Measure with a micrometer. Mark with a chalk. Cut with an axe. (Apparent practice at a workshop I used to frequent.)
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Oh, the building was up to code as we had (at least) two routes from any office space to the outside in an emergency.
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by lb1lf 6y ago
> Ironically, you could open the windows by your desk to get a cooling fresh breeze of air, but then the building manager would come around and complain that you had to shut the windows, they were disrupting the ‘smart ventilation’ airfl
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by lb1lf 6y ago
The increase in distance would be approx. 6,000Nm (assuming they arrived at the entrance to the Red Sea before having to change course). 6000Nm and, say, 25 knots (probably a bit on the high side, but not by much) should add 240 hours of st
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-At a former employer, we suddenly found ourselves with a fresh hire manager who subscribed wholeheartedly to the 'Move fast and break things' mindset. Additionally, he had a very strong urge to show everybody who had the last wor
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Oh, you can, but it grows expensive fast. Around here (Norway) a lot of houses have shingles on the roof - typical lifespan ~20 years or so. On the upside, it is simple to replace. Next step up being corrugated steel, though mostly it is sh
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Oh, they most definitely can - when replying, I had the OP's observation that quitting FB hadn't impacted his life at all. It wouldn't impact mine, either - hadn't it been for all the entities you need to interact with w
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by lb1lf 6y ago
The problem (in some places, at least) is that people and organisations have mindlessly started using FB to communicate; I (reluctantly) signed up as the school my kids attend, their athletics union &c all started using Facebook to shar
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by lb1lf 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Viwwetf0gU
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-I somehow think it makes sense that the common words disappeared first - after all, those are the ones which pop up in conversation with the Arabic-speaking population every time, and as such are more likely to be substituted.
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-For something same, same but decidedly different, you could do worse than checking out Keith Jarrett. I usually recommend his Köln Concert as a starting point - a recording of a 1975 concert which even though I've probably listened to
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Living in Norway, whose monarchy is basically reduced to being on hand for when we need someone to officially open a new bridge to nowhere or provide apolitical statements in time of need, I am a pragmatic monarchist. In the sense that kee
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs.Brown And things seem hard or tough And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft And you feel that you've had quite enough Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolv
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Considering the scale of the hostilities, I don't think it is much hyperbole to suggest the turn in attitude happened virtually overnight. I do seem to recall that the Berlin airlift more than any other event was what turned the inhab
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by lb1lf 6y ago
And, of course, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds paid tribute to the genre in the mid-nineties, doing a wonderful mix of classics like Stagger Lee[0] and Cave's own songs. [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbe5RERDh4k The
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Incidentally, my curiosity got the better of me today and I rang up the AKG distributor to inquire about a spare driver for my 1990s vintage K240 cans. 'Sure can do, but if you're willing to shell out another $11, we'll sell
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by lb1lf 6y ago
...so, if Theseus wanted a pair of headphones, chances are he'd spring for HD650s? In addition to Sennheisers, I've had good experience with AKG spare parts availability, too.
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by lb1lf 6y ago
You're off to a great start, but might I suggest you look into Tolstoi? The Sebastopol Sketches about Tolstoi's impressionf of the Crimean War, for instance? For a (much more refined!) literary work, I think my favourite is Hadji
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Not OP, but presumably advances in machine learning which will make it simpler to identify patterns and gleam useful, actionable information from the vast troves of data being collected. Today, it is my impression that much data is only use
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Additionally, Toyota (and most other 'old' car manufacturers) have built a massive service organization which Tesla, well, hasn't. Anecdotal - my neighbour has a 2019 Model X with some shenanigans going on with a sensor in th
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by lb1lf 6y ago
When living in Trondheim, Norway I always had a chuckle going to the airport - the bus drove through the municipality of Hell, so I could quite accurately and without hyperbole claim that I had to go through hell to get wherever I was going
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Not bad advice at all; while anecdotal, I learned to write properly using a fountain pen - my grandfather handed me one as I started primary school, claiming that this would learn me how to write properly, doubly so as I am a leftie. It too
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by lb1lf 6y ago
As for #1, if my experience is anything to go by, substitute your Moleskines for Leuchtturm notebooks. (I've used Moleskines as my go-to field notebook for fifteen years or so, until making the switch to Leuchtturm a couple of years ag
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Not OP, but in my piston-filler pens I try to lube the gaskets with a tiny amount of silicone grease once a year or so.

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