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by lb1lf 2y ago
...whereas that of New Hampshire is 'Live free or die' Incidentally, NH licence plates are stamped out by prison inmates. Now THAT is cruel and unusual punishment, right there! Edit: For those not well versed in NH plates, the sta
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Wood is surprisingly long-lasting in reasonably dry environments as long as fire does not consume it. Norway still has more than a dozen wooden churches built in the 1100s-1200s, and on farms in the inland there are more wood buildings dati
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by lb1lf 2y ago
I got into tape trading of live shows just before CD writers became widespread - I still have a tape deck and literal crates packed with Maxell XL-IIs tapes. Good times. Of course, nowadays I find most shows online - but I miss the whole so
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by lb1lf 2y ago
You make the length of the business end of the needle protruding from the tip of the iron as short as possible, wrap copper braid around tip+neddle, put on a very small hose clamp on top, then turn on the iron and give the copper braid as m
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Oh, the problem is rarely the ship's crew - they know all too well that if something breaks and they haven't got a spare, they're up shit creek. The problem is rather - I'll just let my prejudices roam freely, my apologi
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by lb1lf 2y ago
This. The big bright ball in the sky, for instance. (This is a very real problem for my employer - we make stuff which is installed on ship's decks. We've always used Siemens displays as their service organization is second to non
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by lb1lf 2y ago
-Probably, there's a (at least used to be) rubber membrane between key caps and switches to ensure water, coffee, hydraulic fluid, blood, assorted acids, dust, gravel etc. does not make it inside when you douse it in one or more of sai
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by lb1lf 2y ago
This was my M.O. - something had failed on a ship somewhere or other. Sometimes, it was dockside (Hooray!), more often than not off some disagreeable coast, meaning I'd get airlifted out bringing anything I could conceivably need (and
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Oooh, I finally managed to coax my manager into getting me a ToughBook at a previous gig, after I'd churned through a Dell Mobile Workstation or two a year doing field work. The ToughBook lasted years. True, the keyboard left a bit to
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by lb1lf 2y ago
In some jurisdictions, like in Norway, for instance, if you are a craftsman working on your own property, you are (supposed) to pay VAT on the added value your work brings to the property. I expect very few people to report this to the auth
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Definitely comes down to mindset. And circumstances. And, as you note - having adequate tools for the job. (Not necessarily the ideal tools, but enough to get the job done without it turning into a grind.) Working on my tractor in the summe
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Nothing more complex than three great-great-grandparents being German. (Oh, and it was meant as a joke - I definitely don't think of myself as part German!)
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Those nerds tend to be quite vocal about it, though! (I count myself amongst them, despite only being 3/32 German...)
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Not Czech, I just wanted to chime in that 'defenestration' is one of my all-time favourite words - that the act occurred frequently enough to warrant its own word being coined...
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by lb1lf 2y ago
2004, methinks. Our first sat, NCUBE, never made it out of the launch canister once in space; the 2nd one was on a failed launch which probably made some Kazakh farmer's day very interesting - judging from the photos I saw, it seems it
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by lb1lf 2y ago
...and the less is spoken of the time I had visited a CubeSat workshop at CalPoly carrying the actual flight prototype of my university's first effort in my carry-on - for compliance testing - the better. I found out the interesting wa
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by lb1lf 2y ago
On a somewhat related note, I once worked on a vessel which had 'SAFETY FIRST' stencilled onto the superstructure (quite common). Underneath, someone had stencilled in slightly smaller script 'second only to profit' (Som
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by lb1lf 2y ago
A wirecutter would presumably cause an issue which would manifest itself prior to takeoff. Either that, or you must make your way into the bay while in flight with said wirecutters. Now, a dongle quietly manipulating enough variables to mak
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by lb1lf 2y ago
I own this photo book, and I can't recommend it enough. Full of glimpses into life in the KWC, interviews with loads of its tenants. If you find the idea of the KWC even vaguely fascinating, you could do worse than ordering this book.
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Oh yes. In Norway we have the exact same jokes about the Swedes. One quip which did the rounds in the papers prior to the Swedes starting to drive on the right was that they would perform the switch in several phases - first heavy traffic,
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Oooh, thank you for sending me down memory lane. (I took part in lots of tape trees back in the nineties -mostly Neil Young, with a good helping of Grateful Dead and occasionally some Phish thrown in for good measure. Then CD-R became a thi
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by lb1lf 2y ago
> It's like in the USA saying "I don't know, but let me get someone who does" isn't allowed. -Anecdotally, I believe this sentiment is inversely related to worker protections - it appears that the easier
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by lb1lf 2y ago
In Norwegian we have the (made up, but widespread) word 'Permasorisk' (a mangling of permanent and provisorisk) to describe a solution which is by no means meant to be permanent, but solves the original problem well enough that th
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by lb1lf 2y ago
It dual-booted into W95 or NT4 when I tried to do serious work. MatLab could suck up memory like you wouldn't believe. Also, I think what made me pull the trigger was that RAM prices unexpectedly dropped by quite a lot just as I was ab
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Some people get off on money, others on influence. While I find it a tad too dystopian to assume the intelligence services &c control government, surely it isn't too far-fetched to imagine some spook visiting a legislator, putting
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by lb1lf 2y ago
As do I, on a 166MHz MMX with a whopping 64MB of RAM. First computer I bought with my own money, pored over computer magazines for weeks to figure out how to get the best bang for my buck. Ended up with a Matrox Millenium 4MB graphics card
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by lb1lf 2y ago
To top it off, you could do worse than asking Bob Walkenhorst of The Rainmakers to be the inaugural Moses. The Rainmakers' 'Let my people go-go' [0] remains a masterpiece. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Indeed! Just a quick question to satisfy my curiosity - seeing as you fly out of Trondheim, work with embedded systems and have a background in physics, would you happen to be named Jostein and have a dark past frequenting Omega Verksted an
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by lb1lf 2y ago
As is OSL / Oslo Gardermoen, but on occasion they will use the PA to find late pax, at least on international flights. Presumably there's more paperwork if there's a no-show, I don't know. Anyway, sitting in a bar there
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by lb1lf 2y ago
I came within a cat's whisker of being flown from Molde, Norway to Oslo rather than to my intended destination of Bergen when I was a teen. Molde Airport is a very small affair, a handful of flights every day, and no such fancy thing a

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