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by tjohns 3y ago
Now I'm wondering: 1) Can you get a digital line to support 56k BBS hosting anymore? 2) Can you even get an analog copper line from AT&T for outbound calling? (I know the FCC recently said carriers aren't required to offer it
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There's also a torrent there, in case you feel guilty about their hosting bill for direct-downloading 27GB.
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Apple doesn't even make rack-mount server hardware. It's not that surprising. Apple makes very capable, efficient devices for end users and content producers. End users do not normally need to train new models.
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I wonder if your doctor could get a compounding pharmacy to make it for you? That is an option sometimes.
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Ugh, that's even worse. (Looks like that's Oregon and Mississippi, for anyone else curious.) There's really no reason this shouldn't be OTC.
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Even outside of healthcare circles, most folks I know were aware from anecdotal experience that the OTC phenylephrine was practically useless, and that the psuedoephedrine behind the counter was the way to go if you had a cold. Night and da
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Why do you think 1.2 GHz would be less congested? Wi-Fi is congested because (1) lots of neighbors, especially in urban areas, and especially on lower bands where the signal penetrates walls better, and (2) unlicensed devices have to tolera
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For anyone confused, "identification friend-or-foe" (IFF) is the military term for what's more generally called "secondary surveillance radar" (SSR) in the civilian aviation community. This is the backbone of modern
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I'm not actually sure what the solution you're proposing is? Even if you completely eliminated air travel (with no replacement - which is not realistic), you'd just reduce emissions by a mere 2%. Not a trivial number given th
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Allergies are not the same as toxicity. Many humans are severely allergic to peanuts, but nobody would expect peanuts to be labeled "toxic" for that reason. (That also doesn't explain "bottled water" being listed as
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That's a complicated topic, but the short version is cost of this treatment needs to cover the R&D costs to develop it, plus the costs for all the other failed experiments that didn't work out. Plus gene therapy is in its infa
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I recall that promotion was for the Mir reentry (unless they did that twice)?
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First, stage lighting is already uncomfortably hot for anyone working under them for any length of time. Second, these weren't ordinary stage lights. These were lights for use outdoors to simulate natural sunlight, which is much bright
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The "average guy" shouldn't be doing technical stage production. You hire trained professionals for this kind of thing. There are literally entire companies who specialize in putting together these kinds of events safely, eve
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My understanding was that debit cards typically have lower fees than credit cards (except for small-value transactions).
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Oh right, thanks! Good catch. :)
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But don't slam the cyclic down too quickly, otherwise you'll get a "mast bump"... which is a nice way of saying "the main rotor just cut the helicopter's tail in half". This also doesn't end well. Goo
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"Consolidator fares", where a travel agency buys up a large block of tickets for a flight at steep discount and resells them exclusively via their own channels are absolutely a thing, and have been for ages. The catch is the trave
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USB Mini also had a design flaw which caused the port to wear out prematurely (after only about 1,000 insertions), which was why the industry transitioned to USB Micro so quickly (which is rated for about 10,000 insertions). https:/&#
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Breathing and blood oxygen at a minimum, for the take-home tests. If you go into a sleep lab, they also wire you up to an EEG as well to monitor your brain activity. They're not just looking for blood oxygen to drop. They're also
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It's true, but that's because there was no legally approved alternative until about a year ago. Now that there's an approved unleaded replacement for 100 Octane avgas (G100UL), I expect leaded fuel will disappear quickly. Air
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It's being actively phased out. The replacement for 100LL was literally just approved by the FAA a year ago, after decades of work. Many of the bay area airports have already started offering 94UL unleaded fuel, and the others across t
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> because Brits have a very solid understand of metric As an American, I was taught metric in elementary school 30 years ago. It's used throughout education for science classes. I can't imagine there's many Americans who d
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Much of the complexity is in interop. Passing data between ATC control positions, between different facilities, and between different countries. Then every airline has a bidirectional data feed, plus all the independent GA flights (either v
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I'm sure they thought about this at some point. Airports already have a country-code prefix. (For example, airports in the Continental US always start with K.) For whatever reason, by convention navaids never use a country prefix. Even
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HP printers with a model number ending in "e" require a subscription. If you avoid the "e" models, you'll get a normal printer.
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It's worse than you know. Ancient computer systems, non-ASCII character encodings, analog phone lines, and ticker-tape weather. You'll also be surprised to learn there's still parts of the US where there's no radar or ra
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Also, "tree" for 3 and "fife" for 5.
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That would actually be pretty bad. As mentioned, W3W is propritary, requires an online connection, and has homonyms. On top of that, you need to enter these waypoints into your aircraft's navigation system - sometimes one letter at a t
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The big problem isn't compression - that can at least be disabled (in theory). Modems expect a circuit-switched network which guarantees zero packet loss and zero jitter. Even if you connect using G.711 μ-law (uncompressed), you'r

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