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by chronomex 5d ago
This site has presented me with a clickwrap agreement: By continuing, you agree to our Terms of Service, which include arbitration and a class action waiver, and our Privacy Policy. You agree that we and our third-party vendors may collect
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by chronomex 4y ago
no one i know got caught :)
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by chronomex 4y ago
another copy, in the original Mercurial, and with mediawiki dumps too: https://archive.org/details/SymbianOpenSource
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by chronomex 5y ago
Rsync also doesn't track hardlinks by default! I use "-avPzHAXS" for my backups.
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by chronomex 5y ago
The rack unit's dimensions are inherited from manual telephone switchboard jack-and-lamp panels ... and the standard rack is approximately 100 years old. https://archive.org/details/bstj2-3-112
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by chronomex 5y ago
In context, with the rest of the magazine: https://archive.org/details/MacUser8605May1986/page/n9/mode/...
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by chronomex 6y ago
ESD protection Zener diodes, maybe?
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by chronomex 6y ago
If "hella" is 10^27 then clearly "hecka" would be the correct name for 10^-27.
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by chronomex 6y ago
One hundred percent of the time when I've clicked that button, it says "XYZCorp is advertising to people located in the United States", even when the ad is clearly more targeted than that.
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by chronomex 6y ago
Yeah, it's feet measured east and north of an arbitrary point southwest of everything in the state. There is an actual point inside the state used as a base but they set up a false easting and false northing by subtracting a large rou
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by chronomex 6y ago
Related work elsewhere (2012): https://research.swtch.com/qart
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by chronomex 6y ago
Hi there! Connections Museum volunteer here. We're on good terms with our landlords (CenturyLink). While we are 100% volunteer run, we also are part of an independent non-profit, the Telecommunications History Group. We've been
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by chronomex 6y ago
They serve everything in-house and are their own AS; this allows them to provide stronger guarantees of reader privacy than sites that use a CDN.
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by chronomex 6y ago
Yes, in the US rents are usually due on the first of the month and all months cost the same amount.
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by chronomex 6y ago
Sidetone! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidetone
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by chronomex 7y ago
Isn't this what SOAP promised? What's different this time?
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by chronomex 7y ago
ripcord is exactly that https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
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by chronomex 7y ago
i've visited a number of private telephone collections and Don's is absolutely massive by any standard. i can't do it justice, nor can any photo album. but he has, among other treasures, some highlights from my memory:
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by chronomex 8y ago
I've definitely watched birds playing.
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by chronomex 8y ago
One of the articles cited is available for free: < https://archive.org/details/bstj39-4-995> . I find it interesting to note that the engineers also made variable force profile pushbuttons to test different spring
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by chronomex 8y ago
Natgas is a turbine engine directly; coal and oil uses a boiler running a steam turbine.
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by chronomex 8y ago
Yeah ... I can drive across the country and land in a particular parking spot with 100% repeatability.
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by chronomex 8y ago
That's not what they said though. They said "if you want to know if someone feels welcome, and you ask them, and they say they don't feel welcome, then you're done researching whether or not they feel welcome".
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by chronomex 8y ago
Click.
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by chronomex 11y ago
Birds aren't made of plastic and metal and lithium-polymer.
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by chronomex 11y ago
Tyvek, perhaps? I'm not sure how long-term it would stick around, but it wouldn't decay as fast as paper in an unprotected environment.
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by chronomex 11y ago
And yet we still have to manually query every combination of departure and return dates to find reasonable airfare.
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by chronomex 11y ago
What's with the forced email signup form?
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by chronomex 11y ago
Most of these gracefully (?) degrade to sending a paper cheque in the mail, if the recipient isn't a party to their payment system.
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by chronomex 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.400#Addressing Everything old is new again.

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