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by peckrob 10y ago
Waffle Houses are somewhat analogous in the US South. They're everywhere (there are 4 within a 15 minute drive of my house), but many people have a favorite one. We'll occasionally pop into one of the nearby ones after church on S
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by peckrob 10y ago
> All this assumes you want arbitrary duration/portion dispensing, otherwise you just need N bowls, and a rotary cover that opens each at a set time (which is most commercial ones I've seen). Mine current design will allow some
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by peckrob 10y ago
I'm currently building a cat feeder using a Raspberry Pi and a servo. Is it way overkill? Well, yeah, probably. It's not that difficult to pour a cup of cat food into the dish. But I'm learning a whole lot of neat stuff in th
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by peckrob 10y ago
This. "Blueprint for Armageddon" [0] is amazing. He spends a good bit of time talking about what trench warfare was really like. The horror people there experienced is just nearly unimaginable. The entire length of the series is n
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by peckrob 10y ago
When I bought my first home, my Dad gave me a good piece of advise: "Don't look at it as an investment, look at it as a home." What he meant was, you have to live somewhere NOW. If you make some money at some undefined future
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by peckrob 10y ago
This was also made into a movie called Night Crossing [0]. It's available for streaming from a few places [1]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Crossing [1] http://www.canistream.it/search
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by peckrob 10y ago
This is a bit how the Internet and the early web felt to me as a teenager in the mid 90s. When most people in my high school could barely turn a computer on, I felt like a wizard who knew about an entire secret world, and it was awesome. I
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As a long time country music fan, I find this current generation of "bro-country" to be grating at best and downright insulting and degrading at worst. But I can't tell if it's just because I'm older or the music is
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by peckrob 10y ago
The very first picture, the first thing I thought of was the Agamemnon from Babylon 5. Some of the extreme examples remind me of Shadow ships.
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I've migrated many Macs using Carbon Copy Cloner. Works fabulously and is a great tool.
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by peckrob 10y ago
Purely anecdotally, my ten year old Toyota Tacoma is the best vehicle I've ever owned, so I'm not really surprised to see it at number five on that list. Had one major problem in ten years (clutch springs broke at 60k). Otherwise
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by peckrob 10y ago
When I was a senior in high school, Cisco offered their NetAcademy program to a few high schools around the nation. It was a pretty sweet deal: for a relatively small price, you could earn your CCNA as an optional elective. You had to get a
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by peckrob 10y ago
> As is parking in a private driveway in a manner than blocks a public sidewalk. Laws like this becomes really interesting when you build neighborhoods in certain ways. In my neighborhood, the houses were built very far forward on the lo
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> 4. I'm not a trucker, nor an SUV driver, but something to account for high-height vehicles could be useful for many. This exact issue causes a fair number of trucks to hit this one specific bridge [0] in Durham, NC. Blindly follow
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by peckrob 10y ago
> I would imagine (please correct me if I'm wrong) that pilots' checklists are developed over time by veterans and changed infrequently. Generally yes. For most general aviation aircraft, the checklists are part of the POH (Pil
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by peckrob 10y ago
I don't disagree. Aviation generally has a safety conscious culture, which is easy for pilots because we're putting our lives on the line each time we get in the cockpit. I like not dying, so I'm going to do all things I can
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by peckrob 10y ago
It always surprises me when I learn that more industries haven't adopted standardized approaches like this. Using a checklist when doing anything that may have the chance to seriously injure or kill, like for many things in medicine, j
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by peckrob 11y ago
In a previous career I was a Park Ranger, working in Yellowstone National Park. During my final tour in the park (this is early 2000s), at one point I had some time off coming that wasn't for other uses. Normally on my days off I wou
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by peckrob 11y ago
I remember when these first came out. There was a lively small hacker scene around these, with people "declawing" them so they could be used as regular keyboard wedge barcode scanners. When Digital Convergence folded, I got my bud
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by peckrob 11y ago
Yup. After Jalopnik pushed photos of ISIS burning someone alive into my RSS feed with no content warning, I was done and removed every Gawker property I followed. One, it had nothing to do with cars, and two, at least give me some warning b
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by peckrob 11y ago
This happened to my wife when we moved to a new city. We needed a new dentists, and chose one based on Angie's List reviews. She'd never had a cavity in her life and goes in for a routine cleaning. The guy said she had SIX cavitie
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by peckrob 11y ago
Let me provide you with a little bit of feedback for your future projects. You had a great launch that showed a lot of interest from the community. I still think there's room in the ecosystem for an open competitor to PH's closed
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Google Fiber Expands to Huntsville, Alabama(techcrunch.com)
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You hit on a very good point that a lot of people miss: the entire concept of "race" is a social construct that can and does change over time and even depending on who you talk to. Not too long ago, people of Jewish descent weren&
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by peckrob 11y ago
While the first tweet could have been phrased a bit more carefully, I understood what she was trying to do. Saying something along the lines of "we strongly encourage women and minorities to apply" is, IMHO, completely fine. But e
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by peckrob 11y ago
I had a similar experience. When I first got them, they worked great in the summertime. No complaints. But they were bloody awful for me in the winter: * Nest would, randomly, refuse to turn on AUX heat. I woke up one morning and my house w
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by peckrob 11y ago
> You've exposed your father to losses without explaining to him that BTC is in fact not USD and USD/BTC is a floating exchange rate. You are assuming that both of us were not aware of that. We both were and were interested in
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by peckrob 11y ago
> You just don't do USD->USD transfers with BTC. But that's primarily what I use PayPal for: sending money to family and friends. Paying for my share of dinner, or concert tickets in a group buy, that kind of thing. I will o
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> You obviously have never used Bitcoin. One of the big problems with using bitcoin for something like this is you're not just sending money. Your converting to a different currency, sending money, and converting it back. It would b
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by peckrob 11y ago
> That said, I do know that despite my social anxieties, I tend to be pretty comfortable talking to people I don't know that well (if anything, more so than people I do), so that might have made it easier than I realised. In retrosp

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