tengwar2

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by tengwar2 4y ago
I've been getting a lot more problems with typos, even on second or third attempt. I'm inclined to blame the OS for that as I'm pretty careful when I do the corrections. I haven't found the experience getting worse in ot
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by tengwar2 4y ago
No, that was v1.0. v1.1 was incompatible with v1.1 in some respects for that reason. I had some stuff that was literally hard-wired with wire-wrap to do bit-shuffling from an image acquisition system (assembly wasn't fast enough) and
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by tengwar2 4y ago
What was in the SDK? I'm just curious because I developed for OS/2 1.0, i.e. before the Great Schism, and before Presentation Manager was launched. The SDK was MS C v5.2, MASM, CodeView, some .lib files, and some seriously inaccur
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by tengwar2 4y ago
The hold is pressurised. Unless it is a DC-10 with a cargo door popping open in mid-flight, in which case the pressure differential is enough to collapse the floor of the cabin and throw passengers bodily out of the plane.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
They don't appear to have GPS. Rather they contact local Apple devices over Bluetooth, and those devices know where they are. But then they don't have cellular access either, so this discussion is moot.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Not so much polarised as aimed. I'm not familiar with 5G (which I believe uses phased array beam aiming), but earlier generations had provision to physically tilt aerials in the vertical plane to optimise beam direction.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
I did like the fact that he led a Bible study in January - on the Book of Numbers. Does that count as an addition to semi-numerical algorithms?
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by tengwar2 4y ago
This was addressed by the Pye Wacket missile ( http://astronautix.com/p/pyewacket.html ) which was to be developed for the B-70 bomber. It was to be a 500lb circular (lenticular) missile which could be launched with its
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by tengwar2 4y ago
I find it difficult to think of a context in which Gates would say that 640kB was enough, given that the limitation came from the IBM PC. MS/DOS could quite happily address 768kB on an RM Nimbus, for instance. The more fundamental 1MB
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by tengwar2 4y ago
troff, but MS Word was available from 1983.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Crimping is pretty easy if you have the right tool - not the "free" one made from stamped metal that comes with those cheap boxes of red/blue/yellow connectors, which crushes the connector flat rather than allowing it to
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by tengwar2 4y ago
If we did not have to deal with the two problems you identify (direct communication peer to peer - effectively the NAT problem with IPv4 - and current firewall practice), then SCTP would be worth a look. I'm not a low-level network exp
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by tengwar2 4y ago
This is not the case. One of my jobs is taking funerals, which means that I meet a random selection of the population, of all social classes. This includes people down to about 20 years old, not just the older relatives you might expect. Th
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by tengwar2 4y ago
> The circuit it is part of is protected against overload, and WILL NOT deliver more than the rated breaker output for more than a few cycles. Actually it will, and it is required to do so. There are different classes of fuse and circuit
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by tengwar2 4y ago
There are commercial training courses, which most people don't take. The recommended techniques are based on pen and paper - so no real potential for commercialisation there. Of course most people born after 1960 will use some form of
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Thingy, whatsit, whatchermacallit - there are loads of these words. “Jawn” may have slight differences in the way that it is used when compared with “whatsit”, but it doesn’t seem very different. “Dongle” used to be used this way (by the pe
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by tengwar2 4y ago
It's a reasonable question. I chose to learn a different keyboard layout (Colemak) for my ortholinear keyboards and use QWERTY on staggered keyboards. I'm not sure if that made a difference, but I don't have difficulty using
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Well, I learned a lot about how centripetal assymmetic gravity interacts with heat, disproving greenhouse gas dogma - but so far I haven't found an example of the language. Can someone point me to it?
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Radiators can add drag, but they can also add thrust which exceeds that drag. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_effect ).
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Re passenger jets - I imagine you are thinking of the Comet 1? That was a more complex failure than is generally known. In brief, they did know about fatigue life at the time, and had ways of retiring aircraft before it was an issue (safe-l
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by tengwar2 4y ago
From a UK perspective, it is not obvious that they can keep appealing. Here there needs to be a legal basis for an appeal. I am not sure about civil cases, but the criminal case grounds for appeal appear to be: * new evidence - but only und
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by tengwar2 4y ago
I like cats, but I do find it disconcerting to be in bed, and wake up to find a cat looking down in to my eyes. Definitely predators.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
I was surprised by "An email can only have one From: address" being wrong. Under what circumstances would an email have more that one?
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by tengwar2 4y ago
The whole point of a laundry is to get money out that has an apparently legitimate source. That isn't happening here.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
You're right - I hadn't spotted that.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Those removable slides are usually just to get the spit out of the loops. I haven't seen the lever you mention - are you sure you are not just looking at the usual [water key]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMbb8-WK_VM
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by tengwar2 4y ago
If you listen to the start of Acker Bilk's "Stranger on the Shore", you can hear him bending the notes deliberately.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
It's an interesting place. The language (Shqip) is Indo-European, but not closely related to any existing lamguage. The population is mainly Moslem, but isolated from other Moslem-majority countries. They were allied with Communist Ch
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Brass instruments (not just the trombone) can have micro-adjustments in pitch through the embouchure (lip position/tension) of the musician.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
A Hymn to God the Father Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before? Wilt thou forgive that sin, through which I run, And do run still, though still I do deplore?

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