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by vibrolax 8y ago
I could never read through the passage about the arrival of the daishiki chieftain and his entourage at San Francisco City Hall without getting a side stitch, teary eyes, and a runny nose from laughing out loud. I disliked "Bonfire of
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by vibrolax 9y ago
The vending machine would be a more equitable host by telling Dave that it was saving the last Tab for Carol, and offer the alternatives. Dave could accept or decline. Maybe Dave wants the Tab because he's fetching it for Carole.
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by vibrolax 9y ago
If you visit Tokyo again, you can buy fake food samples in a number of shops on Kappabashi street. https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3020.html
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by vibrolax 9y ago
I have a Thinkpad Edge from 2009 that is still working "fine", but it has very little in common with a real Thinkpad. My rationale for buying it for 1/3 the price of the mechanically robust real thing was that I was capable
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by vibrolax 9y ago
Frigidaire also used to be a division of GM.
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by vibrolax 9y ago
You're welcome. Another possible solution for you is a dc-dc laptop brick like these: https://www.powerstream.com/ADC-p006.htm . Fit your gel cell with an auto accessory socket, then plug in the power supply.
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by vibrolax 9y ago
If you want a near turn-key solution, there is this: http://www.mini-box.com/DCDC-USB?sc=8&category=1264 Mini-box has a number of dc-dc converters and battery charging systems for gel-cell and other batteries. I do not
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by vibrolax 9y ago
American with NEXUS including Global Entry and PreCheck; It's a real treat to bypass 2 hour line-ups at the road border crossings on holiday weekends. In six years I've never had an unpleasant time at the border going in either d
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by vibrolax 9y ago
I was most impressed by the "cartoon" illustrations of the board, advisors, team, etc.
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by vibrolax 9y ago
Well, ads for casinos and alcohol (in New York USA at least) come with fine print at the bottom encouraging responsible use and/or how to get help for problem gambling.
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by vibrolax 9y ago
I still have every one of my Hot Wheels cars from my childhood collecting years (approximately 1968 - 1972). Except for the dozen or so I repainted in youthful folly, the other ~70 are in fine shape. After my mother passed away, I found a
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by vibrolax 10y ago
I'm a software engineer working in the precision optical fabrication and metrology industry since the late 80's. I've written a lot of software advancing the art in interferometry and computer controlled optical fabrication.
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by vibrolax 10y ago
The process is called stress polishing. Here's an article about it: http://bobmay.astronomy.net/vacpan/vacpan.htm
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by vibrolax 10y ago
The US Navy's DSRV's you referenced do not have cylindrical pressure vessels. The cylindrical external hull encloses 3 linked spheres that are the actual pressure vessel. BTW, the DSRV's were retired several years ago.
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by vibrolax 10y ago
The Apollo LM first flew in earth orbit on the Apollo 9 mission in March 1969. Its first test flight was only 4 months before the Apollo 11 mission landed one on the moon! And the first all-up Saturn V flew unmanned in November 1967. The
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by vibrolax 10y ago
My experience with "NR in C" is 2e. There were a number of routines I wanted to run on data stored in native C arrays, so I painstakingly re-wrote the NR functions to use 0-index single dimension C arrays.
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by vibrolax 10y ago
The code in the c edition uses 1 for the index origin, via a utility library that provides vectors and matrices that provide Fortran-like indexing.
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by vibrolax 10y ago
After 3 unsuccessful attempts to get into GR, I just started skimming pages until the action/prose caught my attention, about 120 pages in. I have no shame circling around back later.
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by vibrolax 10y ago
Machinekit, originally derived from Linux CNC, uses the BeagleBone's PRU's to handle the real time I/O. Code: https://github.com/machinekit/ PRU links: http://blog.machinekit.io/2013&#x2F
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by vibrolax 10y ago
FreeNAS has worked well for me for two years on a dedicated home NAS server I built with a mini-ITX motherboard. I chose DIY NAS over a NAS appliance like Synology's, because I can readily obtain a replacement for any hardware that fai
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by vibrolax 10y ago
Google's cash cow product is knowledge of people's behaviors. Can equivalent product be built for much less, or be much easier to use? MS seems eager to build a similar business. Amazon store seems built to survive at a near zer
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by vibrolax 10y ago
Rochester NY resident since 1982, Kodak's peak employment year. Wrote embedded software for Xerox for a couple years around 2000. My belief is that companies like Kodak, Xerox, HP, IBM, etc. have business structures that cannot surv
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by vibrolax 10y ago
In late 2015 the US has demonstrated new production of PU 238 for RTG use at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory High Flux Isotope Reactor. This was undertaken in 2013 with NASA funding. https://www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-ac
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by vibrolax 10y ago
It's not quite GTFO, but you do have to spend a lot more than the $15 it costs for an opto isolated parallel port to stepper interface board. My celeron j1900 does about 20k steps/second with low jitter on LinuxCNC
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by vibrolax 10y ago
Well we do know what happened when DAT was introduced in 1987: nothing. DAT was rejected as a consumer audio format. One reason often cited for the rejection was the inclusion of DRM features (called SCMS, or Serial Copy Management System
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by vibrolax 11y ago
In George Orwell's "nineteen eigjty-four", the Versificator machines cranked out music and cheap lit for the masses (proles). I wouldn't bet against Orwell.
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by vibrolax 11y ago
What you are calling "analog-era call quality" was likely mostly digital call quality, with only the local loop being analog. Before digital carrier facilities and switches like 4ESS, 5ESS, etc. became ubiquitous on the PSTN, th
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by vibrolax 11y ago
My fiancee (at her daughter's recommendation) allowed the Windows 10 upgrade to proceed on her Lenovo T530. It suffered the same Wifi symptoms you reported. We followed the same course of action to repair the problem, to no avail. R
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by vibrolax 11y ago
From: http://lasergist.com/design-guidelines/ Depending on your design, the engraving position will have a tolerance of +- 3mm. Is this engraving position registration tolerance correct, or a typo? If +/- 3 mm i
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by vibrolax 11y ago
Aside from the real and perceived safety issues of nuclear propulsion, there is also the issue of operational availability. US submarines and aircraft carriers spend a lot of their careers unavailable due to planned maintenance. I wonder

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