509engr

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by 509engr 2y ago
No, you're definitely not the only one who likes them. Some folks complain about them when they first go in, but they tend to figure it out. WSDOT has been encouraging them for a few years now, and my town has several new roundabouts
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by 509engr 3y ago
There might be a bit you can do if you have a few details, thanks to other documents being digitized and OCR'ed. My great uncles both died in WWII and their service records were destroyed in this fire. I had been able to piece togethe
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Sputnik's radio tech launched a revolution in bird migration research(engadget.com)
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by 509engr 4y ago
When they first announced the Mindstorms kit, I was obsessed with the idea, but we were a Mac family. My parents somehow obtained a Robolab kit from the Lego educational catalog, which did run on Mac. I had so many good memories of buildi
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War halts project to track wildlife from space(science.org)
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by 509engr 5y ago
I was in middle school around that same time, my parents got me the educational equivalent of Mindstorms (with RCX 1.0). We didn't have a PC and the educational edition came with a alternative LabView-based UI that ran on classic Mac
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by 509engr 5y ago
I had a hard time finding a publication date for the original, but searching for it suggests 1979.
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by 509engr 5y ago
Wow, that is quite bizarre. I hadn't noticed the comment due to my browser extensions.
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by 509engr 5y ago
Mark Arax, the author of that article has a longer book, A Dreamt Land, on the subject of California agriculture and water, (probably the article is an excerpt) that is a really good read too. A little more up-to-date than Cadillac Desert,
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by 509engr 5y ago
Her essay on California's water system is one of the most beautiful pieces of writing about public works I have ever encountered. http://archive.pov.org/thirst/holy-water/
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by 509engr 5y ago
Civil engineer here - had a similar situation in undergrad, with an electrical engineering prof trying several times to get me to switch based on my interests. There are a lot of opportunities to do coding and tech stuff in civil engineeri
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by 509engr 5y ago
I got three of these for a home NAS, not knowing any better. One failed within a day, the next failed within the first month, the third one lasted several years. For a long time, I didn't trust the NAS, making regular second backups (
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by 509engr 5y ago
I had a similar experience with a USB-C hub I bought from a brand recommended by wirecutter (not the exact model as it was "replaced by a newer model". I plugged it into a brand new laptop and I got a warning about it drawing too
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by 509engr 6y ago
Wow, this still exists?! I remember trying to install MkLinux on a Performa 6116 that my parents no longer had a use for. I seem to recall it not having enough ram to run Xwindows, and the command line mystifying me. This at the same time
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by 509engr 8y ago
The general responses to suggest getting off of voice modes either HF or VHF, and into digital or contesting has problems for people not living in a large city with multiple clubs to choose from. I’ve been an active ham for more than half