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by lb1lf 4y ago
You definitely need to watch Dark City (if you haven't already!) The movie does a variation on this exact plot. Very well, even.
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by lb1lf 4y ago
No one posted Martha Snow's epic poem yet? Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a quay and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Back in the nineties, it was a prank.
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by lb1lf 4y ago
This reminded me of an evil prank I did on some friends of mine when in university - CD burners had just become a thing, and at the local concert venue where we volunteered, a handful of burned CDs soon appeared at the mixing console with v
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by lb1lf 4y ago
As for the robots, I have no idea how many 4,000m capable WROVs are operating around the world, but it is measured in the high hundreds, if not low thousands. My past and current employer alone have delivered handling equipment for some 250
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by lb1lf 4y ago
So the obvious solution for any AAA designer would be to emulate the radiation pattern of a microwave as closely as possible? Point being - even if the emissions doesn't match anything you have on record (except possibly a microwave) -
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by lb1lf 4y ago
If my experience in the offshore industry is anything to go by, a crew cabin will be 8-10sqm (100sqft-ish), with either one or two bunks (Pro tip: try to get dibs on the lower one), a small table or desk if you are lucky, a couch two people
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by lb1lf 4y ago
-If my kids are anything to go by, no worries: If it annoys them, they'll tell you. Repeatedly.
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by lb1lf 4y ago
My grandfather was a field engineer with the utility company in Aalesund, Norway; they got one of the first cellular phones (of sorts) in the Aalesund area sometime in the early sixties. As he recalled it, the phone occupied most of the tru
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by lb1lf 4y ago
This was how I got a licence for the Protel (Now Altium) PCB design software when back in university; the cracked version doing the rounds on campus was rather prone to crashing, so eventually I figured I had nothing to lose, called up the
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Most cars (all?) have the option to dim the dashboard backlight. I find Saab's solution to be extremely elegant - on some, if not all models, there's a night mode button - what happens is that all non-essential instruments are sim
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Not the OP, but at least in my jurisdiction (Norway), AirBnB dutifully lists any cleaning fees before I press the 'confirm booking' button. I think the point was 'No -surprise- fees.
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Apologies for the confusion - what I was clumsily trying to bring across was that while all of Norway is in GMT+1, the westernmost parts ought really be in the same zone as the UK, seeing as we're at 6E or so. Worse for the people up n
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Norway entered the new year 27 minutes ago (though my particular little nook is squarely in the GMT zone, details, schmetails.) Happy New Year to all - let's hope 2023 proves less eventful than 2022 was (for all the wrong reasons)
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Having a number of portable V/UHF radios, GPS receivers and assorted other bits of outdoor electronic gear, I have had a tiny bit of acid-free vaseline on any gasket or O-ring I could find annually. Has worked a charm so far. (With tod
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by lb1lf 4y ago
The GPSr crowd tend to be less obsessed by their devices being a fraction of a millimeter thinner than last year's model, though. (Much as I love a good locking mechanism and a rubber seal, I can see it making the phone a little thicke
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by lb1lf 4y ago
I had a Lada Niva 4WD back in the day; part of the winterization package was an extremely heavy sump. If you perused the manual, you found out why - it suggested you light a small fire under it to serve as an outback engine heater. The Niva
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by lb1lf 4y ago
God jul to all from Santa's home, Norway!
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Scandinavia opts for the 24th. Also, I read yesterday that the Ukrainian orthodox church suggested its followers could celebrate on the 25th rather than on the customary January 7th (Christmas in the Julian calendar) this year.
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by lb1lf 4y ago
As did I, my father had talked my grandfather into buying them as they were released in Norwegian in the fifties, so I had some fifty books on my shelves and read them all, some several times. I adored them, but in hindsight: Gawds, how fo
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Egypt wants to get one, too, just to use on you-know-who. So Israel's getting tense, wants one for self defense "The Lord's our Shepherd", says the psalm - but just in case, we'd better get a bomb!
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by lb1lf 4y ago
That was kind of what I hoped for, yes. (We did get a rather confused call from the manufacturer a couple of years later, they had spotted my stamp and were curious, but not hostile in any way. If nothing else, they were probably grateful i
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by lb1lf 4y ago
One of my first field service calls was similar - show up at a vessel in a godforsaken port way outside civilization, after a curt greeting from the C/E I head for our deck machinery to get to work, only to be told in no uncertain term
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by lb1lf 4y ago
In the particular case of Siemens, they already did that for you. (Migrating from S7-300 PLCs to the current S7-1500 range, I found the complete documentation package for the 1500 universe in one whopper of a pdf. Just north of 11,000 pages
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Out of curiosity, your comment made me fire up the C64 and 1541 I keep as a conversation starter in my office. It still loads the, uh, evaluation copy of Defender of the Crown which 1988 me copied onto a 3M DS,DD floppy in February of that
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by lb1lf 4y ago
If my own anecdotal experience is anything to go by, we tend to carry IDs in the phone wallet case. Lose one, lose the other. Sigh. The worst part is, I know this is a terrible idea, and yet I carry all my eggs in the very same basket. At l
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Hi, Thank you. I figured as much, but I will admit if still irks me a bit how what was mostly a good company was run into the ground, so whenever I am given half a chance, I vent. :/
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Oh, for the usual reason, I guess. When the acquired company was to be integrated into ours, lots of effort was expended on stating that the new company would try to take the best bits of both companies to make us even better yada yada - af
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by lb1lf 4y ago
-At a former employer, the upper management managed to one-up this by telling those of us still working there that we were the damaged goods; during an all-hands meeting where it was announced that we were to acquire a competitor, our CFO m
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by lb1lf 4y ago
-Obviously, public opinion differs in different monarchies, but living in one constitutional monarchy - Norway - I feel that precisely as the monarchy is gutted of real power, its resilience is strengthened. One could quip that we need some

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