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by msisk6 3y ago
SGI tried its hand at the PC video card business as early as 1990. I was at Autodesk at the time and got one of these to beta test on a DOS 486 running AutoCAD. It was an impressive product. But huge; it took up two full-length ISA slots. A
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by msisk6 3y ago
Long ago in 8th-grade shop class I wasn't feeling well and asked the teacher if I could go to the bathroom. He said no. Right then I projectile vomited all over him and his desk. All he said was "Ok, you can go." Afterward he
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by msisk6 3y ago
Yeah, on one armrest you had the sound-tube headphone "jack" and the other armrest had an ash tray. Wild times.
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by msisk6 3y ago
I've had my Amazon account since '98 or so. I still have items on my wishlist from the 90s. Think of all the database upgrades over the years to move that data forward...
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by msisk6 3y ago
Most people think of Oregon as the western third from the Cascades to the coast. The eastern two thirds is basin and range desert and equally beautiful in a different way.
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by msisk6 3y ago
Yeah, it was open but I didn't take the time for a soak. This was during the week in late summer and there was no one around at the time.
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by msisk6 3y ago
A few years back I camped out on the Alvord Playa in this part of Oregon on a clear, moonless, summer night: it was spectacular! I've been to quite a few remote dark sky sites, but this place was something else. Later that night a stor
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Lumen Orbit to put data centers in space(geekwire.com)
1 points by msisk6 3y ago|1 comments
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by msisk6 3y ago
I remember getting an email from John in the early days of Autodesk. At the time most developers had Sun workstations and he had gotten into all our systems and ran a password crack program looking for weak passwords. Our network wasn'
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by msisk6 3y ago
Early Warning Services (Zelle) | Full-time | ONSITE (Seattle, SF, Phoenix) | Sr. AWS DevOps Engineer I'm looking to add a Sr. Cloud Engineer to the team that works on the cloud infrastructure behind our Zelle and Paze products. We have
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by msisk6 3y ago
I've had a half dozen or so Subaru's and have had little trouble with any of them. Currently we have a '17 Forester we bought new currently with 120k miles on it and just last week I picked up a used '21 Ascent. The Fore
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by msisk6 3y ago
I just finished the audiobook version of this on a long drive through the heart of Ameristan. Very plausible. Remember Moab!
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by msisk6 3y ago
I have a friend that just spent the last two years building a fox-body Mustang drag car with a turbo-charged big-block Ford engine in it. I was surprised to learn he put a Powerglide in it. I guess the Ford folks even use the Powerglide. Th
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by msisk6 3y ago
Drag racers. The current trend is very high-horsepower turbo-charged engines with lots of torque and a two-speed "auto" is all they need and there's only one shift in a 1/4 mile run. I put "auto" in quotes beca
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by msisk6 3y ago
It's getting a bit more coverage at least. Here's a (soft paywalled) link to a commentary about the incident in the Kansas City newspaper: https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-com...
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by msisk6 3y ago
I worked in AutoCAD Support during these days. We hated the dongles ("hardware locks") as much as our customers. We eventually got rid of them. I haven't used any Autodesk product in decades so I don't know what they do
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Bootstrapping your business with Linux on eMachines (in 1998)(mikesisk.com)
2 points by msisk6 3y ago|0 comments
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by msisk6 3y ago
I can also confirm. A fifth-wheel trailer with the proper size truck is very stable; even in severe cross-winds. I use a gooseneck adapter on my RV since my farm trailer uses that and it's a bit more difficult to hitch up but you get u
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by msisk6 3y ago
Global.
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by msisk6 3y ago
I've been wearing nothing but Darn Tough for the last decade. They last awhile. After a few years a few get small holes or the elastic wears out. I save them up until I get 6 or so pair and send them back to Darn Tough. They send back
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by msisk6 3y ago
Outside, Inc | Sr. Cloud & Geospatial Engineer | REMOTE | $140k to $175k base + Equity At Outside, we believe life is best spent outside experiencing healthy, connected, and fulfilling lives. We inspire and enable people to discover why
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by msisk6 3y ago
The Missouri GOP is on a roll. They also want to get rid of the sales tax on guns and ammo.
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by msisk6 4y ago
I think nowadays an old car with a manual choke, a stick shift, and a separate coil where you can remove the ignition wire between the coil and the distributor would probably eliminate all theft outside someone just picking the whole thing
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by msisk6 4y ago
I often dream of going back to a car without any electronics at all. Of course, I've had those and they have their own problems. Carburetors and point ignition systems have their issues. So I instead live in a world where even my chain
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by msisk6 4y ago
That's actually a minor plot point in Neal Stephenson's latest novel "Termination Shock."
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by msisk6 4y ago
I pick up my iPhone on a MagSafe charger with one hand all the time. As I pick it up I just use a finger to slide the MagSafe puck sideways and it releases. Not a big deal at all.
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I Interviewed a Real Time Lord (In St. Louis)(youtube.com)
4 points by msisk6 4y ago|1 comments
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by msisk6 4y ago
Jeff Geerling interviews John Clark and Demetrios Matsakis at Masterclock.
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by msisk6 4y ago
Back then there were several ways to do this sort of thing. Rub-off dry transfer lettering like those from Letraset or mechanical pantographs like the Leroy were commonly used for technical lettering. But it was probably hand drawn -- &quot
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by msisk6 4y ago
I had a T1 line in my house when I lived in rural New Hampshire from 2000 to 2005. There was no other option at the time and I was working from home and needed something. Cost was high (around $1k a month if I recall correctly) but it was v

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