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   by sizzzzlerz 4y ago

   I think the fear was that subjecting a PCB to the vibrational stresses imposed during launch could possibly crack traces or solder joints. Even with P2P, they spotwelded where they could. Whatever the reasons, the equipment proved to be rel
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   by sizzzzlerz 4y ago

   I own a variety of pans bought over the years but I've found that I am almost exclusively using a 10" cast iron pan my grandmother used to use and a 12" pan I bought for maybe $30 or $40 some decades ago as well as a 5-quart
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   by sizzzzlerz 4y ago

   I switched to shaving with the double edge safety razor 15 years ago from the cartridge style and haven't looked back. I get a better shave for considerably less money. I find that I can shave daily and get a week's worth of shave
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   by sizzzzlerz 4y ago

   L.A. boasts of three seasons: Drought, mudslide, and wildfire.
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   by sizzzzlerz 4y ago

   Said nobody on their death cot ever, “I wish I’d spent more time carving hieroglyphs down at the Pharoah’s tomb!”
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   by sizzzzlerz 4y ago

   I've been a musician since I learned to play the clarinet beginning in 4th grade, almost 57 years ago. During that time, I've learned to play the saxophone, guitar, and the piano. I learned how to read music from the very start an
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   by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

   To save y'all some time, it's $89
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   by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

   Can egrep do lookaheads or behinds? I find it necessary to use positive lookaheads to verify the test words include all the letters marked present but in the wrong location.
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   by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

   I wrote a python script that use regular expressions to winnow out words based on constraints imposed by previous guesses. There are 3 parts to a regex. The first uses positive look aheads to verify the test word includes each letter that h
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    A universe of kudos to NASA, Goddard, and the hundreds, maybe thousands, of scientists, engineers, and technicians who designed, built, tested, launched, and now, run, this jewel. This is just the beginning.
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    Many years ago, the San Francisco Giants were looking for a new stadium to replace the decrepit Candlestick Park. They settled on some land in the south bay on the outskirts of my town. Local town officials approved a plan that would implem
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    Fire up your morse code trainer and practice.
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    ping... Hello. You've reached the Voyager I spacecraft. We can't answer your ping right now but if you'd like to leave a message, please, do so after the beep. We look forward to servicing your request as soon as possible.
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    It constantly amazes me how great ideas and inventions stem from the humblest beginnings. 1) Sees someone struggling over some problem and asks if he can help. 2) Together, they get it working and it goes on to be used globally 3) ... 4) &q
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    Excellent observation. On my first visit, I thought it was broken because it wasn’t advancing. I didn’t realize that you needed to scroll until I read your post. I returned and was able to view the whole sequence by scrolling. Clearly, this
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    So, it was legitimate political discourse then?
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    Are pictures and written words a requirement now? Wish I knew that 35 years ago when I made the trip.
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    Why yes. Yes, I have. The John Muir trail in California. Three weeks, 213 miles, 47,000 feet of elevation gain, and all I got was a lifetime of memories.
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    And here I thought the goal of hiking a long trail was pride of achievement when you get when you finish it. Silly me.
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    CP-SLO EE grad here. Prestige needs to be earned based on the quality of the graduates which depends on the faculty, curriculum, and resources. You don’t get it simply by sharing a name. I do wish them success with this change. At least the
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    The Idea Factory, written by John Gertner, covers the almost inconceivable amount of innovation that came out of Bell Labs from the turn of last century to the 1980s. The names of the people who worked there reads like a text of 20th centur
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    Antennas are weird beasts. Their behavior and performance can be predicted and measured in very technical ways but, at the end of the day, throwing a random length of wire over a tree branch, cut to 1/2 or 1/4 of the operating fre
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    This poem was used for the penultimate episode of the phenomenal TV show, Breaking Bad. It showed the downfall of Walter White, aka, Heisenberg, who came to believe he was invincible, much like Ozymandias did.
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    It would have to be southern Cal. We here in northern cal refer to highways as "5" or "101".
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    Around Thanksgiving, I drove through Portland on my way up to Washington and then back to Cali. Even with the roads dry and snow-free, traffic was a frickin' nightmare. Even so, Portlanders should feel good that traffic there is still
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    Congratulations to STSI and all the dedicated men and women who've worked so hard and long to make this happen! Through all the setbacks and difficulties, they've overcome them all. Now, let's get some great science!
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    I just finished playing it on my ipad. Worked flawlessly.
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    Cloned and built on my Mac without any issues. Everything compiled and linked without warnings. A huge plus in my opinion. Other than stating that it builds two executables, there doesn't seem to be any documentation on using it. Did I
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    I solved about 270 problems several years ago, had fun doing it, mostly in python, but I reached a point where I just didn’t have the math theory chops to continue. I visit the site every now and then, try a few new problems, but without su
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    by sizzzzlerz 5y ago

    I started my EE career in the bay area in 1978. Before retiring in September, I had worked for 3 companies. Each one modeled itself in the HP style. The culture of each made life at work tolerable if not actually pleasant. All 3 were very s