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by ssimpson 5y ago
I have a physical copy of this with 5.25" floppies and everything. It's one of my prized possessions :D
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by ssimpson 5y ago
Thank you! I lived in the Netherlands for a short time ('92-93) as a kid and I always thought teletext was so cool!
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by ssimpson 5y ago
Youtube app update and now has a huge banner ad at the top when you start it up. Very annoying!
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by ssimpson 6y ago
I have an old coworker in a group of friends that fits this description. Its frustrating because they will continue to spout this stuff off confidently, but not ever listen to the counter argument or understand that their philosophy is flaw
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by ssimpson 6y ago
Ham isn't an acronym :D
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by ssimpson 6y ago
My dad worked at USMA from ‘93 to ‘98 and I grew up around the Academy in high school. I always thought it was so cool how if say you left your calculator on the desk it would just sit there and people would work around it. I worked at Vict
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by ssimpson 6y ago
I remember my VP saying one time "the CEO is going to be in our office this week, everyone needs to be here, no questions".
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by ssimpson 6y ago
I feel like I am lucky, my club has a bunch of old dudes, but they are still learning and growing. A few years ago, I proposed adding a digital repeater, and it caused all kinds of trouble, but most of those folks left and now its great. W
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by ssimpson 6y ago
I've been trying to figure out how to use my grandfathers Dietzgen Maniphase Multiplex Decimal Trigtype Log Log rule. I found the manual on this site! Very cool!
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by ssimpson 6y ago
> Tencent paid $400 million for a 93 percent stake in Riot Games.[2][9] Tencent bought the remaining 7 percent in December 16, 2015; the price was not disclosed.[2][10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Games
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by ssimpson 6y ago
Riot is owned by Tencent, a Chinese company.
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by ssimpson 7y ago
everyone wants to have offices in all the trendy downtown areas. a lot of the cost of the office goes to rent, so even if a desire for cubes or offices was there (which generally management doesn't because they are expensive) the budg
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by ssimpson 7y ago
in some drafting, you can buy mechanical pencils which are basically graphite holders. They will hold a nice thick chunk of material. we used a small pallet of sandpaper to keep the tip sharp and learned to rotate the pencil while writing
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by ssimpson 8y ago
I have the same issue. I'm in the PNW, but have a 210 number. I'm pretty sure most of the time they are just war dialing the prefixes to figure out who answers. The robocallers are also spoofing all numbers, as i get people calli
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by ssimpson 8y ago
it was more senior people this time. But it has been that way the last couple times too. I have a few very talented friends that lost their jobs. They also pretty much cut out a bunch of the private cloud group. Sad to see such a good compa
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by ssimpson 8y ago
i know right?! i have have two kids and they are constantly streaming stuff off disney, nick jr, and pbs apps. i wish there was a way to cache locally the stuff they just watch over and over so i'm not getting hit over and over. Als
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by ssimpson 8y ago
that was my exact experience when i bought one to play RDR2. I took forever to update, then when RDR2 came out that took forever to install and update. Not to mention all the updates chewed up 15% of my comcast data cap that month. Its s
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by ssimpson 8y ago
All situations end up being a compromise. Most HOAs abhor antennas. I have an Endfed Halfwave antenna (EFHW) strung up in a tree. I can operate 6meter to 40meter band with it pretty well. https://myantennas.com/wp/produ
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by ssimpson 8y ago
You could always use websdr to listen http://www.websdr.org
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by ssimpson 8y ago
part of why i'm a fan of digital modes, short message ones like FT8 in particular. plus i've been getting lots of dx too! i really need to learn CW.
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by ssimpson 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_frequency_alloca... notably: 13 centimeters – 2300–2310 MHz (lower segment), 2390–2450 MHz (upper segment)
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by ssimpson 8y ago
awesome! i need to get my butt up some of the summits around me and do some SOTA work myself. I've got all the stuff, just need to do it!
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by ssimpson 8y ago
do it! you can get started with some cheap SDR stuff to "see" whats out there. I you want to participate it is really a great hobby. I can't wait until my daughters can participate.
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by ssimpson 8y ago
While i wouldn't call it a golden age, its definitely not a bad time if you want to do things like digital or satellite work. New modes like FT8 really allow hams to work in at this crappy solar level. Pricing on HTs has gone down a l
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by ssimpson 8y ago
digital messages encoded in a format then transmitted using frequency shift keying for the data to audio. it has 15 sec transmit/receive cycles and due to the error correction involved has very few characters that are actually transmi
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by ssimpson 8y ago
The neat thing about all the "new" stuff is its just a layer on top of the old stuff. If you think about it, CW is just a data mode you can grok with your ear. using cw skimmer and computers to send you can operate CW without ev
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by ssimpson 8y ago
1. Might be able to use the FCC DB to look it up. 2. Hobby and EmCom. When I lived in Texas most of the clubs were HF contest based. Now I’m in the PNW and lots of the clubs are EmCom based which is interesting. Lots of neat operating modes
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by ssimpson 8y ago
all i remember about the microsoft network, is that it would kill my compuserve setup by putting a new winsock.dll file in place. it was the only file that windows 95 would detect as "corrupt" when i reinstalled the compuserve on
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by ssimpson 8y ago
No. It used to be that you got a “restore disk” with your new computer. I’ve had a few dells that had this, Apple used to as well. Now if anything, there is a rescue partition or a utility that knows how to download an rescue image. Without
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by ssimpson 9y ago
Good point. There are probably other like services. I don’t really get much traffic!

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