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by lb1lf 6y ago
-As did I, chuckling at the 'built with foreign documentation' label affixed to many of the exhibits, in particular in the consumer electronics exhibition. Chuckle turned to laugh when I looked at the replica H-bomb in the lobby b
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by lb1lf 6y ago
The Norwegian bureau of statistics used to have a brilliant bank of historical name trends, where you could input any name and see how popular it had been throughout the years. One of my favourites were Vidkun, which fell off a cliff in the
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Given the cost of a StarLink satellite (I've no idea, but seeing as they will be launched in the tens of thousands, they can hardly be a gigabuck a piece), the solution to the first problem is simply to launch more of them. It is prob
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by lb1lf 6y ago
While a transmitter is indeed to a first approximation a beacon screaming 'I'm here!', do keep in mind that these antennas are highly directional, and while there will be side lobes, you basically need to be in the beam path
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by lb1lf 6y ago
To quote Paul Weller's brilliant The Jam song 'A Town Called Malice' about the hardships of lower working-class life - 'To either cut down on beer/or the kids' new gear/it's a big decision in a town c
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Just a tad shy of 150,000 miles tall, since you ask. (A dollar bill is .0043in thick, so unless imperial unit-challenged me messed up doing the conversions, it should be almost 2/3 of the way from Earth to The Moon.) This would be awf
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-This is not meant as a witticism, but suggesting the Lebanese government is 'highly structured and rule driven' is giving it way too much credit. Cynical me find the explanation that AN fertiliser simply is too cheap more likely
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by lb1lf 6y ago
It is basically CYA. If the employee should later indeed be found to have taken IP or other assets during their last weeks at work, it would reflect poorly on whomever decided they should work during the resignation period. Hence, you let t
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Still only anecdata, but I've been buying lots of music on CD since the late eighties, the oldest I know of was pressed in late 1983 sometime. (Which is only a year or so after the introduction of the CD anyway) In sum, some 3,800 CDs
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by lb1lf 6y ago
And, of course, compared to the sinkings with the largest loss of lives, neither the Eastland nor the Titanic seems particularly -hm, for want of a better word - impressive. The Wilhelm Gustloff, sunk in the Baltic Sea in the closing months
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-'Average' people got to fill the seats not taken by the rich and famous on occasion. (I flew it once - BA 747 LHR-JFK, Concorde JFK-LHR, mid-nineties. The round trip was organized by an aviation magazine, once the ‘wow, I’m on th
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Out here in the boonies, the only FM broadcast still available is the so-called 'Vår Herres Radio'...
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Driving through Sweden from the Svinesund border crossing to the Øresund bridge last year, we definitely had DAB coverage for parts of the trip, but not all - definitely around Gothenburg and Malmö, I believe reception lasted quite a way o
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Indeed. Norway adopted DAB early - test broadcasts started sometime in the late nineties - but a couple of years ago when the majority of the FM broadcast towers were switched off, the DAB encoding scheme also changed from DAB to DAB+, ren
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Name, aesthetic and UI. Rangefinder cameras do have their purpose still - being able to see what is going on outside the frame is a great aid, as is its ease of focusing in low light. And, to a lesser extent now that mirrorless cameras are
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Oh, it is about more than just quality - say, a pro DSLR should be able to double as a hammer if you need to drive in a few nails to hang your backdrop from. Also, autofocus should be instantaneous, and should be able to lock on a bat in a
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Sounds plausible; I was just looking up a few of the eastern Siberian towns - Ust-Nera (143E, 64N or so) at 6,500 inhabitants, Bilibino (167E, 68N) - also home to the world's northernmost nuclear power plant, 6,000 inhabitants...) Clos
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Business dealing of sorts. My grandfather was an engineer with the utility company and brought me along once, figuring I'd find it interesting. He was right.
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by lb1lf 6y ago
> Having an electricity interruption of more than a handful of hours can cause the aluminum in-process to solidify, causing tens of millions of dollars in damage to the smelter and requiring months to fix. -When touring an aluminum melti
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Just to make it clear - I did not in any way intend to comment on the quality of Ron Gilbert’s dev tools - however, his observation holds true for a number of tools I’ve been hacking together myself - not to mention a few others which I’ve
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by lb1lf 6y ago
From the GrumpyGamer post referenced on the GitHub page - «The other downside is these really are the dev tools we used to make the game, and like most in-house dev tools, they are poorly documented and very crude around the edges.» What th
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by lb1lf 6y ago
A Graduate Record Examination; a standardized admission test. If you hope to be admitted to grad school in the US (and Canada, methinks), the GRE is mandatory at many, if not most, establishments.
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-While I have no first-hand knowledge of the US military (or, for that matter, any military - I was conscripted into a branch which didn't take hierarchy too seriously), just about every time the subject of immoral/illegal orders
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by lb1lf 6y ago
As a former colleague of me liked to quip - "The UK and the US are two countries divided by a common language." Being a Scot, he usually followed up with a "They should settle on Scottish as a compromise!"
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-No worries, they'll just assume the content is malicious, then. (/s. I hope.)
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-I read it more like the BBC trying to keep the reporting neutral to a tee while still leaving no doubt (to anyone but the most ardent believer in quackery) that this device is a scam. Decidedly British, I'd say.
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Which reminds me - what three teams in the Football Association contains cursing in their names? Scunthorpe, Arsenal and Manchester Fucking United. I'll lead myself out.
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by lb1lf 6y ago
> so where would the air pollution have come from? -An ignorant (as I have never been within 1,000 miles of Kathmandu) guess is loads of wood-burning stoves; they soot like mad and can make Woody Allen[0] trust the air. [0] When asked ab
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by lb1lf 6y ago
The Grimeton (SAQ) transmitter is based on an Alexanderson alternator and, hence, supplies orders of magnitude less harmonic energy than a spark gap transmitter, yet it still falls woefully short of current spectral purity standards. It sti
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by lb1lf 6y ago
At a former employer, a fresh CADdie designed a brake housing with a bolt circle too close to the outside diameter for a socket to fit over the bolts. Oops. He'd apparently turned off some constraint check without noticing, and, never

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