3pac

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by 3pac 3y ago
SABRE is pretty good compared to the card file it replaced.
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by 3pac 3y ago
SDI is not really comparable. The numbers for the orbital parameters did not add up at the time, but they had Edward Teller behind them.
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by 3pac 3y ago
It's just a heavy metal umlaut for someone who could have written "state-level" or "country". Like forcing the word "geopolitical". I would not get too worked up about it.
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by 3pac 3y ago
The more recent US hegemony in radio communications technology was held by pioneering Bell Labs work leading to patented implementation as 3G standards. I think the US rested on the laurels of those patents for too long. Microwave RF baseba
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by 3pac 3y ago
Won't errors due to cosmic rays be an increasing issue at these process sizes?
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by 3pac 3y ago
You can't be sure what's in it these days, especially if it looks super professionally packaged.
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by 3pac 3y ago
My bank just said that there was "no error" when I did this after Amazon failed to deliver something last year. I imagine that Amazon makes up a good portion of their chargeback complaints now. Separately, I had my bank block Amaz
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by 3pac 3y ago
Is church/temple out of the question too? Where do people go these days?
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by 3pac 3y ago
On a printed receipt at a restaurant, I once saw suggested tip percentages where the corresponding currency amount was greatly inflated and nowhere near the actual percentage.
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by 3pac 3y ago
There is a heater for the vidicon which had to be shut off due to power budget. This heater had been on since launch. After being switched off, turning on this heater back on, or the vidicon's cathode filament (itself a separate heater
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by 3pac 3y ago
It also has a vidicon tube for gathering images, although that can no longer be switched on.
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by 3pac 3y ago
You have to be logged in, so you can also see a register of who has browsed your own tax returns. I once saw that somebody I had dated 7-8 years prior had checked up on mine. It was a hoot.
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by 3pac 3y ago
Growing tensions over whether US employers interview process represents a good-faith effort to hire
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by 3pac 3y ago
Where does 2.73 come from?
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by 3pac 3y ago
This cannot be the "the first time such rock-and-roll acoustic engineering has been employed in a church" if it is referring to digital delays. The other weekend I visited a gospel church which used maybe ten dbx DriveRacks, along
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by 3pac 3y ago
'92 Olympic Dream Team (US) in basketball. Asking anybody to play against them was pushing the boundaries of ethics.
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by 3pac 3y ago
Apollo 11 command module computer did receive a patch from Houston to the running executive in core memory while in flight to the moon.
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by 3pac 4y ago
UFOs as such are as American as Elvis. Foreign spies can waste their time figuring out how much somebody has read into The X-Files. In our society, we can openly wonder about these things with a sense of humor. Imagine flying from another d
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by 3pac 4y ago
"We will provide you with vast riches when we arrive, if you build the receiving end of this matter transporter according to these instructions/accept us as gods/wear Nikes/tell nobody else." "Especially if you
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by 3pac 4y ago
KDE5 Plasma is superb. I wish that it ran on OpenBSD. However I do not wish to run Wayland, D-Bus, or any sound server on an OpenBSD installation. So, I wish that it were light as twm, fvwm or OpenStep.
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by 3pac 4y ago
I saw a UFO maybe 12-13 years ago. It did not look like anything a human would design, even with advanced technology. It looked something like the oblong silver blob in The Flight of the Navigator, just hanging there, "much in the way
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by 3pac 4y ago
I think that centralization of power is a spurious correlation. It may be part of the equation, but there is more to it. Norway has a single national police organization which extends the local level. It is well-regarded by the citizens who
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by 3pac 4y ago
I do not consider logging into iCloud to be part of "finishing setting up" my computer. In fact, I would like more out-of-the-box visibility into the phoning-home that Mac OS X performs. With Xcode specifically, I think a computer
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by 3pac 4y ago
I forgot Xcode, it should be included, plus all the Dictionary files, considering how much storage is on even the base configurations being sold.
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by 3pac 4y ago
I think that MacOS is terrific and keeps getting better. It's well past time to include Pages, Numbers, Keynote, GarageBand and iMovie in the base install image. Also mkv, ogg, opus codecs for QuickTime. I prefer to do as much as I can
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by 3pac 4y ago
It's called a beat. The very greatest musicians have struggled with it. Try going to a piano, and playing two notes, black or white, that are immediately next to each other at the same time (a half-step interval). Further listening: Mo
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by 3pac 4y ago
Counterpoint: Their job is to protect with the highest professionalism, indeed with their life, a democratically-elected person whose opinions and actions they may personally disagree with or even resent. It is a very honorable position if
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by 3pac 4y ago
HN does not let me edit now, but I regret using the derogatory term "keyboard nazi", lest somebody take it as a challenge to prove they are more than that. Disaffected people have largely the same insecurities as everybody else, s
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by 3pac 4y ago
What is objective about a law? It still comes down to judgment calls. First Amendment aside, I fear that restricting speech would result in a backlash from Neo-Nazi types, or worse, a national situation like The Gulag Archipelago describes.
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by 3pac 4y ago
We really do not have a sense of these things. We are often overconfident in our limited senses. I was being poisoned by carbon monoxide from my oven and did not realize it until it was too late. I told myself "it cannot happen to me&q

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