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by fotbr 1y ago
I have a relatively ancient 8086 I still use from time to time with plain text files and a simple editor. It provides a distraction-free environment for writing. Save it to a 720kb floppy that my linux box can still read, and move it to a &
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by fotbr 3y ago
They're looking at it wrong. The signs are operable by the flight crew. Given: Aircraft power is on, signs are on. Aircraft power is off, signs are off. Aircraft power is operable by the flight crew. Therefore: Signs are operable
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by fotbr 3y ago
https://cifsjustice.org/leadership/ 4 Founders 6 Board of Directors 14 Advisory Board Members 3 Staff I'll grant there may be a 4th staff member not (yet) listed on their webpage, but their organization seems a li
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by fotbr 4y ago
That's not worse, that's an outstanding mental image.
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by fotbr 5y ago
To pick on my favorite example, Many years ago, my univerity's choice of calculus book also had the solutions to half the problems (evens or odds, doesn't really matter). Department policy was also one of "we won't provi
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by fotbr 5y ago
Good catch. Curiosity got me and I focused on the distance aspect, missing the forest for the trees, so to speak.
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by fotbr 5y ago
Assuming that they're referring to decimal degree notation, and not Degrees-Minutes-Seconds, and that the location is correct, and ignoring the spheroid vs perfect sphere issues: about 11.1 meters (36.4 ft). http://wiki.gis.
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by fotbr 5y ago
Trivially defeated with a boot disk and ResEdit. Breaking things with ResEdit was pretty much my jr. high school hobby. It took a bit before I figured out how to restore things when I was done. Head "tech" guy in the building eve
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by fotbr 5y ago
First, I appreciate the answer. I didn't know about the "no large bodies of water" requirement. When then leads me to ask, what's a "large" body of water? Second, and I'm not trying to be snarky, just tr
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by fotbr 5y ago
To which I ask: Why not place a small loop of (wire, cord, thread, whatever qualifies) on the ground in a park somewhere. Then define "outside" and "inside" the other way 'round from "normal", thus makin
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by fotbr 5y ago
Some states allow "one party consent" to recordings of communications (ie, phone calls). Extending that, as long as Company A is aware of FB's practices, then your wishes are irrelevant as far as the law is concerned. I have
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by fotbr 6y ago
All I see when I look at the JAXA logo is the blue Lockheed Martin star that they've used since the mid 90s, if not earlier.
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by fotbr 6y ago
I had a similar problem, several constraints (dozen or so, iirc), data set of a few thousand items. I thought about finding an elegant solution, but in the end decided that just doing a (psuedo-)random selection of the remaining set and the
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by fotbr 6y ago
Regarding other software / platforms, HTTP GET seems easy enough to work with. My issue with wifi is really just a matter of too-many-networks and interference making it a bad solution for me. But I understand the appeal of the ESP8266
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by fotbr 6y ago
Wish it had more details: Rate(s) of rotation, load capacities -- including windloading, etc. Also rather wish it didn't rely on wifi/android, but that's mostly because I don't use anything android based, and don't
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by fotbr 6y ago
They did a lot of the "rails to trails" stuff around here as well, but the underlying deal is that it's all technically land-banked and the railroads can claim it back at basically any time as long as it gets put to active us
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by fotbr 6y ago
There's a station local to me with above ground tanks. They're in an area that flood regularly, which is why the tanks aren't buried. I've never noticed a measurable difference when filling up the 20 gallon tank in the
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by fotbr 6y ago
The theory is that they can reduce the supersonic shockwave to the point where supersonic flight over populated areas can be legalized again.
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by fotbr 6y ago
I grew up with the "Save a Connie"[1] plane and organization in my back yard, so to speak -- we lived about 6 miles from the KC downtown airport. I remember dad taking me down to the airport to sit on the river levee and watch th
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by fotbr 6y ago
Many universities these days have students scattered around the world in various distance education programs, or have students/staff/faculty at various other locations doing research in collaboration with other labs, facilities, e
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by fotbr 6y ago
A few years ago, I placed an order from a small company on the east coast, to be shipped via USPS parcel post (ie, the cheapest and slowest option possible, though the company does pay the extra for tracking). In a rush, I fat-fingered the
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by fotbr 7y ago
Because Boris is UK-Trump? (said only semi-seriously, I don't follow UK politics close enough to know for sure how good the comparison is) I suspect it's a matter of the "special relationship" the US and UK have had for
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by fotbr 7y ago
Drivers Ed was an optional summer course in my district, and did include an on-road component. Not required at all (although the insurance company gave a discount for completing it). HS graduation requirements vary (in some cases, much mor
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by fotbr 7y ago
Thank you, it looks very promising, and I like the host-it-yourself aspect.
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by fotbr 7y ago
Is there a current (preferably free, ideally open-source) replacement that is as easy to use as Hamachi was?
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by fotbr 7y ago
I've got a truck (an older Tacoma) and too many hobbies that make it hard to give up, so I'll likely always have a truck. If Tesla had introduced a factory version of Simone's, I'd be screaming at them to shut up and tak
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by fotbr 7y ago
A lot of the midwest (or the great plains) is devoted to feed corn and corn for ethanol, wheat, and soybeans. It's not california where you'll find fields of lettuce, for example. With that said, there's no shortage of small
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by fotbr 7y ago
He's not landing it back at the pad or anything like that, just wherever it happens to be coming down at. Then keep it vertical(ish), keep it from moving too fast sideways or it'll tip over (again, stability, not guidance), and w
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by fotbr 7y ago
My memory might be wrong, but wasn't the Brooklyn Bridge built when steel was still a relatively new thing? Its properties weren't entirely understood, or even well understood, so as a result, it was tremendously over-built. Now,
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by fotbr 7y ago
If you can open it enough to cut the led, why not just wrap the led in tape while you've got it open? That should cut down on the light leakage through the usb ports.

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