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by madengr 7y ago
I believe 1911 (handgun) slides and frames still have to be hand fit to one another. Though there is a company claiming tight enough tolerances that theirs don’t. I have two identical 1911, but have not tried it. I wonder how original Col
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by madengr 7y ago
I miss bathroom humor scribbled on the wall, such as: What are you laughing at? The joke is in your hand.
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by madengr 7y ago
I’m the same height. Do you mean elevation or azimuth visibility? My Leaf is awesome for elevation as I’m not staring into the visor like I am with all other vehicles. In the Leaf, I’m looking several inches below the visor.
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by madengr 7y ago
This was all known during the Clinton administration. Lot of good it did then.
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by madengr 7y ago
ADI has gone down hill. For example, the HMC6300 datasheet is crap, having wrong register values, and lacking the interfacing details. Hittite, prior to ADI, would have never had a poor data sheet like that. The ADI web site also stinks,
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by madengr 7y ago
Why is it that it's always a one-way street WRT to gun laws? True compromise would be red-flag laws or background checks, in exchange for national CCW, or taking suppressors and short barreled rifles off the NFA list.
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by madengr 7y ago
Our elementary school provides iPads in all grades, taking them home starting in 3rd. I was horrified to see my 5th grader zooming into math worksheets and using her finger to work out the problems between the text. We put a stop to that
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by madengr 7y ago
I think it was the issue of taking the SAT at 12, but turning 13 before the program. I don’t recall, it was almost 40 years ago. I just know my mother was pissed.
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by madengr 7y ago
I did the same for JHU, and got good enough scores to get into their program. They wouldn’t let me in because I missed the age cutoff by 1 month. Screw JHU.
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by madengr 7y ago
I majored in EE, and can say it was only the non-STEM courses that were worthless. There is no way I’d gain the same amount of knowledge without attending college.
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by madengr 7y ago
It’s $200 per person (4x people, 2x a year), that sometimes has x-rays and sealant.
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by madengr 7y ago
I wonder what’s the graduation rate for medical school? You’d think it should be difficult enough to flunk out 2/3 of the students (like engineering), but I’m guessing that is not the case.
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by madengr 7y ago
My employer dropped dental insurance a few years ago. They never gave me a pay bump to compensate. Now I spend $1,600/year on cleanings for a family of 4. At least it is out of my HSA, so pre-tax.
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by madengr 7y ago
Couldn’t agree more. Though this was 1990, the professor for the calc classes could care less if you had a calculator, as it “won’t be of any use”. Even in engineering and physics courses, you had better show all your work. If a numerical
585.
by madengr 7y ago
Back when I was in calc, you actually had to show your work, so a calculator was pointless.
586.
by madengr 7y ago
Yes, if you are looking for something that is not particle board.
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by madengr 7y ago
I just buy CDs.
588.
by madengr 7y ago
My credit card is stolen every other year. Somehow XBox live (for my son) has no problem figuring out how to keep charging me, despite the number changing.
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by madengr 7y ago
The same or worse, which is fine, as it causes gridlock. The last thing I want is single party control.
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by madengr 7y ago
What internal turmoil? Trump? He will be gone in 1-5 years, then it is another political cycle. Nothing unusual. China has had 1 party (communist) rule for 70 years?
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by madengr 7y ago
Kickstarter is not a damned tech company. This whole stinking “tech” economy can’t crash fast enough. A 2000’ish reset is needed to get rid of the dogfood.coms.
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by madengr 7y ago
Google is advertising. Facebook/Twitter/etc are social networking. Uber is transportation. Amazon sells stuff. Silicon Valley lost its tech when it lost its silicon. You are not a tech company unless you sell technology to other c
593.
by madengr 7y ago
Well the BART janitor makes the most. I guess you’d have to pay me that to clean piss, shit, and used needles.
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by madengr 7y ago
Snowden also leaked everything he had. It certainly was not targeted.
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by madengr 7y ago
If you look at plasma attenuation of a reentry body, it’s about 30 dB. Even a thin sheet of foil or perforated screen is way more (> 100 dB). They just need to hook an antenna to a spectrum analyzer (with low noise path) and measure the
596.
by madengr 7y ago
Yes I did. This is the main presentation from the reference web site. http://nebula.wsimg.com/d0cadaec2cf44c9682cebb1610ce1a91?Acc... If you look at the thermal analysis, it is incomplete. They are only considering the th
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by madengr 7y ago
Yeah, they should be firing low performers. A lay-off is when you lose business, with the prospects of being re-hired in an up-turn.
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by madengr 7y ago
It's got a little more range than an older Leaf with the ~25 kWh pack, and significantly cheaper for the new price. Then again, you can get a lightly used Leaf for under $10k. I bought a 2015, in 2017, with 19k miles for $8,500. You
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by madengr 7y ago
I’m betting this will have horrible noise temperature. Not good for receiving.
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by madengr 7y ago
All these comments and no one has mentioned reel-to-reel tape decks. That will be the next hipster craze.

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