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by louky 4y ago
That wasn't as apparent when he was a BYTE columnist for many years but boy his website sure turned into "old man yells at clouds" although he did have serious health issues in his later years.
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by louky 4y ago
Yeah, headed by "wild Bill" Donovan. They were like a knock-off version of the British SOE (Special Operations Executive) and the XX Committee. The British Intelligence apparatus in WWII was a thing of beauty. The Germans dropped
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by louky 4y ago
I had one of each (Psychologist, Psychiatrist) as parents. Could have been worse. Almost no anger 40 years later!
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by louky 4y ago
"Heroin" is very widely adulterated with fentanyl, carfentanyl, and who knows what. If you could still buy Bayer heroin Many of the deaths in recent years would probably not have happened.
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by louky 4y ago
Slashdotted.
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by louky 5y ago
Tony Robinson has a series that includes walking on, and talking about the history of, Offa's Dike. >Tony walks Offa's Dyke, an earthwork pathway that runs along the border between England and Wales named after the Mercian King
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by louky 5y ago
Source for 1 trillion humans estimate? That's 1,000 Billion humans. There's ~8 billion now. Sure without regards to any other than food organisms and pulling a "puppeteer" world (Ala Larry Niven) I don't see it. And
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by louky 5y ago
My grandfather was an EE involved in early radar/microwave comm research and repeatedly used the beams to warm his hands and feet when in the field. He was exposed to who knows how much and developed serious sensory and circulatory pro
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by louky 5y ago
Hilariously that won't even load for me on firefox w/ublock origin.
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by louky 5y ago
The label used to have instructions on using the soap and lemon juice to prevent pregnancy, amongst other wild stuff. I wish my old bottles had more than scraps of the labels.
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by louky 5y ago
Suzy Dent has some good books out, like https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46140227-word-perfect
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by louky 5y ago
Still broken for me, and I've used the thing for years - very familiar with the quirks.
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by louky 5y ago
NewPipe has had multiple unfixed regressions around opening videos, the pop-up player, and losing the time index of the current video. They started (for me) in the version that addressed the youtube change then the last two did nothing to f
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by louky 5y ago
Demo looks great, however when attempting to sign up I get a blank screen using Firefox - JS enabled and ublock off, not sure why - I'll try a different browser.
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by louky 5y ago
I still miss the hive regularly. So many great discussions lost in the fog.
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by louky 5y ago
Mine died (I had 4-5 over years) there was a hardware flaw google refused to acknowledge then the company effective just wandered off to the next shiny. The second nexus 7 lasted until THE LAST firmware update bricked two devices at the sam
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by louky 5y ago
Correct, cobber.
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by louky 5y ago
You're looking at the sky over the port through the analog eyes.
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by louky 5y ago
We (unamed BBS collective kids in US) back in the 1980s developed a simple IR seeking short range rocket from Radio Shack and Heathkit stuff. Nothing nefarious indended, just Hmm how can we solve this problem that nations are. OG hacking in
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by louky 5y ago
IR countermeasture flares extra per (1) incident.
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by louky 5y ago
We deep freeze anything of that nature for a month or so before drying off to root cellar. There's a small brown moth that hitches in on dog kibble, bird seed, brown rice, and more that can establish a reproductive cycle most places wi
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by louky 5y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2368220.Mutant_59
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by louky 5y ago
Garden hoses are lead contaminated, at least the ones I avoided all said 'this product contains lead'. I'm in the US. Quick link - https://turfmechanic.com/garden-hoses-lead/
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by louky 5y ago
Inspector Lewis and Inspector Morse are great detective series as well.
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by louky 6y ago
My father insisted on getting a brand-new Massey Ferguson compact tractor. Way overpriced but he's got brand loyalty from many decades back. Wouldn't even hear of a Kubota.
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by louky 7y ago
You have to open a business account. It's $10 user with unlimited storage. At least that's what we have.
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by louky 7y ago
Isn't that only in the trump budget, which is only a request?
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by louky 7y ago
I refuse to buy google hardware after the horrible mess they made with their tablets, My first Gen Nexus 7 died due to hardware failure and they refused to admit or fix it, then I bought a second gen and the last firmware update bricked it
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by louky 7y ago
Not great, Dave from EEVblog did a few videos on them and how to use them. I think they're all OTP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rixo78hv_lw
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by louky 8y ago
Most of those are junk after the first or second season, In my opinion. Completely unwatchable considering the great stuff out there.

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