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by ztetranz 4y ago
I've been watching "Secrets of the Occult" on Wondrium https://www.wondrium.com/secrets-of-the-occult and Crowley appears numerous times. No mention of climbing yet but there is a whole episode on Crowley tha
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by ztetranz 4y ago
Here's an off-topic but somewhat related question that I've been meaning to ask somewhere. How do "plug and play" consumer devices that receive an incoming call / connection work behind the typical home NAT router?
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by ztetranz 4y ago
That's true. As a kiwi in the US, I was surprised by how many mortgages here are fixed term for a long time. When I last bought a house in NZ about 30 years ago floating rate (potentially changing every month) was the norm and "lo
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by ztetranz 4y ago
I'm from New Zealand where we have lots of roundabouts. My observation is that they work well, even with heavy traffic except some unbalanced conditions that can happen at rush hours. Imagine this. Driving on the right. Roundabout with
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by ztetranz 4y ago
As a kiwi in the US I had the opposite experience. At least where I live in New Hampshire, everything seems gray and drab compared to New Zealand.
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by ztetranz 4y ago
I'm happy to be told I'm wrong but it seems like Australia and New Zealand are some of the few countries that have pretty much totally changed. I'm a kiwi old enough to have been at high school when we changed. Absolutely eve
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by ztetranz 5y ago
Not a bootcamp but does anyone here have experience or an opinion about Launch School? I know someone who is thinking of attending.
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by ztetranz 5y ago
I think in New Zealand (probably plenty of other places too), if you're a normal person earning a wage or salary and maybe some interest but nothing special going on, you don't need to file a tax return at all. After all, a tax re
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by ztetranz 5y ago
TIL, he never received his PhD because he didn't provide a bound copy of his thesis to the Harvard library. https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies...
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by ztetranz 5y ago
Wow, it looks like the state of PA still uses ColdFusion.
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by ztetranz 5y ago
Except that all he would have said was: Denny Crane!
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by ztetranz 5y ago
You're right, of course. I wasn't thinking about that clearly :)
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by ztetranz 5y ago
It's been years since I did any real electronics but I remember using a NAND gate as a "programmable inverter". The signal from input A to the output is either inverted or not inverted depending on the state of input B.
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by ztetranz 6y ago
Maybe Google will be a bit faster with new features. It took almost six years and a 544 post thread in their community forum to finally provide the ability to use kilojoules instead of calories. It's just a multiplication factor like
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by ztetranz 7y ago
In Australia they have (or least used to have) channel zero. For many years "channel oh" was the Ten Network in Brisbane.
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by ztetranz 7y ago
Lots of old hams say "kay cees" and almost get offended when a newcomer says kilohertz.
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by ztetranz 7y ago
This is the type of phone I grew up with https://collection.motat.org.nz/objects/111551 It seems more logical to me. Those from other countries seem backwards. Pulse count = 10 - digit.
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by ztetranz 7y ago
I'm working through his lessons. They're very good. I don't have a HackRF but I managed to get the "Hello World" flow, i.e., listen to FM broadcast radio going nicely with a cheap RTL-SDR by following lesson 1, but
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by ztetranz 8y ago
Auckland, New Zealand has gone to the opposite extreme. When I first lived there in the late 1970s there were about 25 municipalities with the central one called Auckland, each with their own mayor and council. I guess it wasn't as bad
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by ztetranz 8y ago
Buckminster Fuller thought of that long ago. http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/newsletters/1995/bu...