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by tjohns 8y ago
Silvercar was recently acquired by Audi, so that's an example of a auto manufacturer running an car rental business.
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by tjohns 8y ago
These are the CBP "Biometric Exit" kisoks, which are only for international flights. Which means everybody on those flights will have a passport.
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by tjohns 8y ago
Corporate/university IT shops don't normally do component-level replacement. Both due to time constraints and the nature of their support contacts. (Assuming the Dell/HP/etc. workstations they bought even take standard s
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by tjohns 8y ago
Probably related to the switch to USB-C, which started with the 2016 models.
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by tjohns 8y ago
Keep in mind that Panic has been a Mac-only shop since the early days of the platform, before OS X, back when Apple was viewed as a beleaguered company and Microsoft's dominance of computing was unquestioned. If they stuck with Apple t
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by tjohns 8y ago
I like that "Not made from a web browser" is a headlining feature. My laptop has 16 GB of RAM, and still doesn't have enough memory to run all the Electron apps I use without grinding to a halt.
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by tjohns 8y ago
Playing a vertical game of football underwater would be very difficult, and likely hazardous. 1. As anyone who's gone diving will attest, you physically can't dive very quickly. You have to constantly equalize your ears as you d
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by tjohns 8y ago
The conference rooms at my office often have CO2 sensors on the wall. In the interest of science, I discovered a few strong breaths of air next to the sensor will kick the HVAC on full blast.
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by tjohns 8y ago
Same. I skimmed the article, and was really confused I saw the author talking about 787s and A380s, because there's no way one of those would fit on the runway at KSQL.
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by tjohns 8y ago
I ran into one at a Phillips 66 yesterday where the (hidden) mute button silenced all the video clips except the ads. I was not happy.
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by tjohns 8y ago
For what it's worth, my Volt has been absolutely reliable. And I hear the same from other Volt owners too. Aside from oil changes and tires, the only real maintenance needed was to top off the battery coolant once. (And that was due to
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by tjohns 8y ago
DME equipment explicitly does not take altitude into account. It's colloquially called "slant range" for this reason, and if you care about actual ground distance you have to use trigonometry.
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by tjohns 8y ago
My advice is to look at the statistics. Commercial flying is much, much safer than any other mode of transport. Do you get scared when you drive to work? Or take a train? Both are more risky. (Driving significantly so.) More specifically.
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by tjohns 8y ago
I can understand why the sensor will expire, but why does the transmitter expire? Shouldn’t it just require changing a battery?
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by tjohns 8y ago
I know ChargePoint stations in the US accept standard tap-and-pay, so are compatible with Google/Apple Pay.
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by tjohns 8y ago
I don't work in IT, and I'm a bit biased on this topic, but my understanding is that these protocols are chatty and can flood the network on large deployments (e.g. an entire campus that shares the same subnet). They also tie up W
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by tjohns 8y ago
There's an old AT&T video showing the careful coordination and huge amount of manpower needed to upgrade a single telco switch. They had rows of workers with cable cutters, in order to literally cut the entire service over to the n
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by tjohns 8y ago
Is eLORAN still actually happening in the US? Since we shut down our LORAN transmitters a few years ago, I assumed the plans for eLORAN went out the window with it.
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by tjohns 8y ago
I use WWV (or more accurately, WWVB) to automatically set my Casio Navihawk watch, as well as my digital wall clocks. I also rely on WWV as a beacon to make sure my HF amateur radio station is receiving properly.
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by tjohns 8y ago
We do. GPS is actually more accurate. That said... 1. GPS requires a clear line of sight to the sky. Doesn't work for indoor clocks. 2. Shortwave receivers are more energy efficient. 3. Redundancy is a good thing. Just in case GPS (or
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by tjohns 8y ago
Weird Stuff in the Bay Area used to be exactly this. Until it closed down earlier this year, sadly. HSC is the equivalent for lower-level electronic parts. They’ll also be closing down in January.
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by tjohns 8y ago
Indeed. The usual term for this is a “mDNS Reflector”. There’s a guide for setting it up with Avahi here: http://chrisreinking.com/need-bonjour-across-vlans-set-up-an...
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by tjohns 8y ago
GPG doesn't use a centralized authority. It uses a decentralized "Web Of Trust" model.
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by tjohns 8y ago
Wires connected to a closed circuit will radiate too, if you drive them at high frequency. Maybe not efficiently , but it'll still radiate. There's nothing special about an open circuit that makes an antenna work. Shielding (e.
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by tjohns 8y ago
I've seen some other sources mention that the new minimum wage is actually "$27.86 an hour, which translates to $17.22 after expenses". [1] What they consider "expenses" there isn't specified, but that would pu
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by tjohns 8y ago
From the first paragraph of the linked article: "The city's Taxi and Limousine Commission voted Tuesday to establish a per-minute and per-mile payment formula for Uber, Lyft, Via, Juno and Gett that is supposed to result in driver
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by tjohns 8y ago
I've noticed that the amateur radio community tends to gravitate towards developing closed source software. It really confuses me, given both the FCC rules about keeping the airwaves open and unobfuscated, as well as amateur radio bein
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by tjohns 8y ago
That's a pretty big travel area, and T-Mobile's core network doesn't work well outside urban centers. (Rural coverage has historically been better on Verizon.) T-Mobile's Extended Range network (LTE Band 12) has substant
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by tjohns 8y ago
You should be getting LTE and decent connection speeds in most metro areas of the US. What carrier were you using, and what part of the country were you in?
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by tjohns 8y ago
Regarding SMB... there isn't an official "standard" implementation outside of Microsoft's walls. Apple used to use Samba, but had to drop it in MacOS 10.7 when Samba switched from GPLv2 to GPLv3. I can't really faul

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