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by jackhack 8y ago
A FET preamp feeding a tube power section, pushed into clipping is at the heart of the Dumble tube amps. The Overtone Special (OTS) and Steel String Singer (SSS) are among the most desirable and most expensive guitar amplifiers in the world
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by jackhack 8y ago
translation: "an amplifier that sounds pleasant and warm, not harsh like a transistor."
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by jackhack 8y ago
ace body spray -- still can't pay me enough.
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by jackhack 8y ago
Thus the reasoning behind the "three strikes and you're out" laws which call for mandatory prison sentencing for habitual criminals. Some will not be dissuaded from crime. The rest of us deserve to live apart from them.
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by jackhack 8y ago
agreed -- not likely, and it assumes those gains every year which is not reasonable. More, it ignores one very important fact, the destructiveness of losses. A one-year loss can be devastating to a fund. which is why many favor "safety
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by jackhack 8y ago
another important difference -- while the US Space Shuttle was manned, the Buran flew an unmanned mission. It launched, orbited the Earth several times, and landed just a few feet from the X on the runway under automated control. A rather
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by jackhack 8y ago
Thus the importance of sites like https://www.fakespot.com/ checking for likely-fake 5-star reviews before making an expensive purchase is a good idea.
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by jackhack 8y ago
Just to clarify: Amazon's "main business" is AWS, not their online store. For many years their store operated at a loss. Don't get me wrong, amazon.com is a HUGE business, but it's not Bezos' breadwinner. http
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by jackhack 8y ago
>>...they have to beat the market by 1% every year just to break even... It's even worse than that. 1% ON TOP of inflation, which is reported as 1.9% but many financial experts say the actual figure is closer to 4% once goods suc
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by jackhack 8y ago
Cars are licensed, and substantial taxes are paid for the privilege of using the public roads, including city streets. Unlike the nuisance bikes and scooters now littering sidewalks and parks which are typically designed for pedestrians any
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by jackhack 8y ago
It will end with the boot of the state stamping of the face of Winston Smith, and Winston expressing his love for Big Brother. Newspeak. When I first read 1984 I thought it so farfetched as to be laughable. I'm not laughing any more.
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by jackhack 8y ago
>lisp machines were expensive workstation computers In most cases, yes, but the language also found its way into some very unexpected places. For example, a subset of Common Lisp, "L", was at the core of Prof. Rod Brooks'
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by jackhack 8y ago
>If it is pointed directly at us Is a gamma burst directional, or spherical in term of high-energy emission?
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by jackhack 8y ago
Schrödinger's cat emits a meow, indicating "yes."
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by jackhack 8y ago
I've no idea why you were downvoted. The idea of a $20 solution for trying-out a standing desk (two crates upturned and a plank of wood on top) vs. a commitment of $300-$400 seems like a worthwhile contribution. And as far as a critici
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by jackhack 8y ago
It's the difference between consuming and creating. Smartphones are for consumers of information. Computers are (were?) for creation of information.
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by jackhack 8y ago
Duke University, just a few miles away from NC State, had a coal-fired boiler system (switched to NG in 2011) and a spur railroad line for delivery of that coal. One of the roads names bears this history, today : West Campus' Coal Pile
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by jackhack 8y ago
The Apple ][ was actually a joy, but there were challenges : interleaved raster lines and quirks of hires color byte alignment (certain colors could not border other certain colors). As I understand it, commodore had better support for spri
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by jackhack 8y ago
former HVAC tech here. Sorry for the wall of text but here's most of what I would do as a seasonal change-over inspection: Every year, a full visual inspection of the heat exchanger, especially important after 5 years of life. We'
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by jackhack 8y ago
Old Apple ][ asm coder here. Don't despair. It's not the merits of your "product" being judged. It's just the wrong audience (mostly). Colleges now don't even bother to teach two's-complement. Of course to
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by jackhack 8y ago
currently: entertainment systems (audio streams, weather forecasts, traffic/route planning navigation, etc.) Eventually: spying on the passengers and turning the operator's behavior profile into an alternate revenue stream.
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by jackhack 8y ago
I remember those days. One is annoying. A dozen or so all going at once... well it just sounded like work was happening and as strange as it sounds it was kind of nice. Now the big Epson impact printer in the eggcrate-foam lined coffin (mea
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by jackhack 8y ago
>>Everything from there up seems to be self-taught, either from the internet, code examples, or working it out from first principles. But to be fair, can't that be said that nearly everything is self-taught? From Physics, to math
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by jackhack 8y ago
My experience with body armor is based on equipment from the 1990s so take this for what it's worth. While the bullet may not penetrate the cloth, it often results in broken ribs and a great amount of bruising underneath. Damage to liv
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by jackhack 8y ago
That's correct -- it's adults too. And the odds are against the average person. But I must point out it's not just data scientists we are up against -- it's psychologists, psychiatrists and medical doctors, addiction exp
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by jackhack 8y ago
financial divide by zero error or wallet capacity underflow. Just speculating, but my guess is the bandwidth demand exhausted the available capacity and author wasn't willing to pay for more.
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by jackhack 8y ago
>>The first thing to do upon arriving at a Code Blue is to take your own pulse. Can you expand on this item, please? I interpret it as "don't just arrive and immediately begin taking action, but take a moment to fully assess
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by jackhack 8y ago
that's the attitude of the videogame industry. "there's a long line of suckers on the sidewalk just waiting for you to burn out and quit..." I've heard the same thing in construction jobs, and retail, too. It's
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by jackhack 8y ago
Oh, they're asking "should we" -- they're just not asking the public (the public is the product being sold, after all).
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by jackhack 8y ago
No. It's called "I go chop your dollar", by Nkem Owoh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_YjvC4ndzM Lyrics I done suffer no be small / Upon say I get sense / Poverty no good at all, no / Na im ma

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