Mister_X

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by Mister_X 1y ago
All five of my former domains since 1999 are now placeholders by squatters.
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by Mister_X 3y ago
When I could still go caving 30+ years ago, I wanted to visit Ellison's and drop Fantastic Pit, yeah... 586 feet free, that would've been fun. But I was too busy discovering/exploring/mapping caves in California to ever
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by Mister_X 4y ago
I agree, but even when I was installing/servicing hydro, wind and solar systems years ago, solar was still the least expensive way to go if one had sufficient solar exposure. And solar panels have drastically come down in price since t
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by Mister_X 4y ago
From my experience, smaller scale Wind Turbines are more hassle than they are worth, at least in the early 90's when I was servicing them. First, one has to complete a wind survey, so installing an anemometer for a full season to get a
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by Mister_X 4y ago
Micro Hydro is a bit of a misnomer here, the link leads to a device thats more like mid sized hydro. In the early 90's I was installing/servicing micro hydro systems here in rural Northern California, on properties off the grid wh
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by Mister_X 4y ago
Yup, when I saw the initial report I wondered if it was a murder/suicide, or an extremely distracted or inattentive driver. I've driven that section of Highway One South of Pacifica many times and it's narrow, so it could ha
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by Mister_X 4y ago
What a nice build and documentation, you've really put a lot of thought and useful options into this project, thanks for that. Hmmm, what's your use case for the Armed home mode? I'd likely forget it, and open a window or doo
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by Mister_X 4y ago
For those who still like to tinker with electronics, here are some places that I still get parts from. Jameco Electronics https://www.jameco.com/ The Electronic Goldmine https://theelectronicgoldmine.com/ A
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by Mister_X 4y ago
If you believe radio kits were as advanced as one could buy "back in the day", I guess you never looked at a HeathKit catalog, they offered all kinds of kits more sophisticated than radios. In 1980 I got one of these kits for my a
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by Mister_X 4y ago
Chips and Dips: 1997 And I have a beard, but not a neck beard. This place is more like the "old" /. and I like it here.
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by Mister_X 4y ago
Thanks for that. BTW, I've been hanging out at /. since it was "Chips and Dips".
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by Mister_X 4y ago
Actually, rescuers did use a rock hammer drill to place anchors to attach pulleys to, so he could be extracted, unfortunately, the drill bit broke and they had to return to the surface to get another one. Then (tragically) after they set th
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by Mister_X 4y ago
There are very few "professional cavers", i.e. those who are paid to go into caves. It's mostly hard core cavers who do the majority of cave exploration, surveying/mapping and biological/archeological inventory in c
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by Mister_X 4y ago
Both of those stories garnered world wide attention, but one of the positive unintended consequences of those tragic events was that they scared many "adventure seekers" enough that they stayed away from cave exploration, which is
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by Mister_X 4y ago
Yay, KFJC FM where I started my radio career in 1979. It's still a great station to hear "new" music. https://kfjc.org
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by Mister_X 4y ago
Not likely, since the ASCAP reporting period is only one week, twice each year. ASCAP = American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Society_of_Composers%... I used
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by Mister_X 4y ago
I spent 12 years at KMFB FM on the Mendocino coast (show host & Control Op), and it was a rare commercial station that had specialty shows where the host would have to get their own advertisers to be on the air.
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by Mister_X 4y ago
I recently retired after a 42 year career in broadcast radio (at six different stations), and the two non commercial stations I worked at had "underwriting" which is kind of like a commercial, but legal under FCC rules.
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by Mister_X 4y ago
My father was an ME and EE and was one of the principle engineers on that project (of Clementine, the BIG claw that picked up the Russian Golf Class sub). I used to drive him to and from the Redwood City shipyard as there wasn't a lot
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by Mister_X 4y ago
If I'm understanding what you're getting at, I believe all the main dating sites already share user profiles between themselves to flesh out their "stock" of potential paying customers. So using a specialty site like Kay
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by Mister_X 4y ago
When I used to go out on 1 on 1s, I had zero expectations, that way no matter how it went, I usually had a good time because I like meeting new people. But I hope you can find someone to collaberate with and expand upon your ideas, and let
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by Mister_X 4y ago
Yes, Working on it, trying to figure out an email contact form, I don't know PHP.
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by Mister_X 4y ago
Best wishes with developing that idea, and I believe there is already a FOSS dating site template out there somewhere, I saw it a few years ago but didn't have the emotional energy to persue it. I'm older and I've tried multi
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by Mister_X 4y ago
Ha, ha, ha, I just read the blue sidebar on the right of their page, and they play the big corporation conspiracy card too. It's the 100 mile per gallon carburetor "cover up" all over again, priceless!
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by Mister_X 4y ago
Why is this even here on HN? I see no prototype, no torque output predictions for a prototype, and no documentation that it's even been built. It reminds me of when I was part of a hydrogen PEM fuel cell start up in Cupertino 30 years
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by Mister_X 4y ago
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by Mister_X 4y ago
Storing data accomplishes nothing unless the agency involved is organizing, collating and sharing that data with others. Do you really believe "they" have the time and money to do that with that much data, considering 99.999% of i
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by Mister_X 4y ago
Never heard of Richard Dolan and just tried to listen to an interview with him but couldn't make it through the first 5 minutes, he's clearly a UFO conspiracy monetizer whackadoodle.
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by Mister_X 5y ago
Yes, and no. I'm an early adopter of technology that I see as viable for my lifestyle, so I'm no old fogy wishing for an idealistic past. I started with vinyl when singles cost US .79 cents, LP's 1.99, because other than the
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by Mister_X 5y ago
The small US town I live in has many Finns and Norwegians who arrived here in the mid/late 1800's to work in the logging industry. When I got here 30 years ago it was my first experience "interacting" with Finns and I al

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