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by lb1lf 7y ago
Yup. One of the windows to the stairwell on the left (towards the park) when you're standing behind it, if you are a local.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Not at a beach, but amusing still - during my student days, I worked at a concert venue which, among other things, hosted an annual Christmas party for the town's emergency services; just about every off-duty cop, firefighter, nurse an
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Oh, they most definitely do, it was poorly worded on my part - my thought was that their selection of titles is rather UK-centric, though I do believe it has broadened in later years. (I live in Norway, but have been a Folio Society regula
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Assuming you're in the UK, I'd like to draw your attention to the Folio Society - granted, their selection is very limited, but their titles are a joy to behold - proper, heavy paper, sewn spines, commissioned illustrations...
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by lb1lf 7y ago
There are (were!) some pretty nifty mechanical computers out there. If you can spare the time, this 2014 Ars Technica story on USN fire guidance computers is engineering porn of the first degree: https://arstechnica.com/info
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Just wagering a guess here - the link was probably frequency modulated; an FM receiver has a very strong capture effect - the strongest signal received on the tuned frequency is the only one demodulated; any other, weaker signals are effec
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by lb1lf 7y ago
> ...hijacking it would not be trivial. You need to be in the line of site and be able to produce enough power to overwhelm the real signal, which isn't trivial at those frequencies. -While power at 10GHz is non-trivial (though sign
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-During the annual EE safety refresher course I take at work, the instructor makes a point of the fact that during domestic work, the electric shock is often merely the trigger for the real injury; you get zapped, then fall from the ladder
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Wouldn't making them inflatable solve much of that problem? You could even offer a deluxe version with a CO2 cartridge.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
For comparison, it is now -14C (7F or so) outside. It is considered 'brisk' (as opposed to 'really cold') by local standards. We do have Teslas all over the place.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Years ago, I spent a couple of weeks offshore on a vessel on which the owners had stencilled on the aft superstructure 'SAFETY FIRST' in 5ft tall letters. Beneath this slogan, some witty soul had stencilled 'SECOND ONLY TO P
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-My parents (living in rural Norway) once had a postcard delivered where the address given was simply their first names - no last name, no street, no town, no nothing. Having a database in which every citizen's domicile is registered d
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by lb1lf 7y ago
> It was cheap, durable, and ubiquitous. This, this and this. Where & when I grew up - rural Norway in the eighties - just about everybody had one, ensuring that no matter what you wanted to do, someone nearby were into the same thin
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by lb1lf 7y ago
I grew up in a rather small community on the northwestern coast of Norway, home to a lot of small-time fishermen working up in the Arctic. Just about everyone my age and older still remember when a vessel was lost back in the eighties, init
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Yes, that is my understanding, though I haven't had any first-hand experience with anything but breathalyzer testing. Further, from what I've been able to gather refusing a breathalyzer test does not lead to another charge; refus
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by lb1lf 7y ago
As you say, it depends on your jurisdiction. In Norway, if you refuse to take a breathalyzer test you'll have a blood sample taken whether you like it or not. Additionally, if you do consent to a breathalyzer test and it shows traces o
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-While I agree with your point, I'd just like to chime in that skydivers tend to do several jumps in a day. I tend to spend a few days at a skydiving hotspot every summer - not to do any jumping myself, if the plane works I'm perf
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Oh, the problem was the host, not AirBnb. She’d registered with more than one service and had forgot to update her AirBnb calendar with the booking from $SITE, whichever it was.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
>I don't want a refund in either of those cases so much as a place to stay that matches my requirements NOW. -Don’t get me wrong; I’d much rather have no fuss at all - but when a bad experience occurred, AirBnb were better than I ha
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by lb1lf 7y ago
> Try to get refund from AirBnb for misprepresentation or deliberate omissions of negative points. -I don’t know whether their policy differs from country to country, but after using AirBnb 30+ times traveling with wife and three kids in
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-I don't know how the cameras were installed, but it wouldn't surprise me if the explanation was simply that they were on the same mains circuit - only to have that trip for some reason or the other. Heck, possibly they were dumpi
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Not in the US, but my insurance policy explicitly states that it does not cover damage caused by a government entity doing its work. I am not concerned, though, as in my jurisdiction (Norway) the authorities would be required to compensate
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Just out of curiosity, doesn't that same obligation to serve missions apply to women? I used to live right next to an apartment owned by the Mormon church in a small Norwegian town; on two occasions the missionaries were female. Oddly
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-That really depends on where you are. In Scandinavia, lunch breaks are mandated by law. In Norway, if you work more than 5.5 hours, your employer must give you at least 30 minutes off (unpaid) to have lunch. If the nature of your workplace
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by lb1lf 7y ago
This has been a thing for a while here in Norway, at least - at a former employer, there was an almost absurd desire to outsource anything and everything; I quipped to a colleague that they'd probably do the office greenery next - only
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by lb1lf 7y ago
I agree, but the Chinese saw it differently, to put it mildly. The committee awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to a Chinese dissident was led by a former prime minister, its members two former members of government and two former members of pa
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-That they are, but by foreign powers (China is not the only one!), its independence is often cast in doubt. Doubly so as the Norwegian parliament elect members to the Nobel committee, and they tend to choose has-been politicians to put the
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by lb1lf 7y ago
If it gets the job done, it gets the job done. One of the CNC machines in our workshop was controlled by a MicroVAX until recently. Did what we asked it to.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Probably cheaper to localise. Rather than having to do X front panels, you just put all localisation data in a config file and be done with it. And yes, I would much prefer actual pushbuttons.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-I was given a visitor's hard hat when visiting $YARD on the Gulf coast - gate security didn't quite know what to make of the "Use your head, not your helmet" sticker affixed to the helmet I had brought - and eventually

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