leecbaker

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by leecbaker 13y ago
If you slow the bike from either the front wheel or the back wheel, energy is removed from the whole bike. There's little to no benefit from harvesting from both wheels.
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by leecbaker 13y ago
As I understand it, if you ar a resident of the another country as defined for the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (330 days a year outside the US _or_ have permanently settled with no evidence of intention to return to the US), you are exe
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by leecbaker 13y ago
In the leaked Rogers video, they say "OK Google now, what is the weather." Maybe that is the keyphrase? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bUmuI...
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by leecbaker 13y ago
Kayak when in the Western hemisphere, Skyscanner in the Eastern hemisphere.
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by leecbaker 13y ago
I talked to a company that did this kind of work, and they used tiny MEMS mirrors made of gold plated silicon. They wouldn't tell me much about their customers, but they specialized in switching and splitting high speed data at the phy
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by leecbaker 13y ago
I appreciate the ability to browse around my inbox while writing an email, and I suspect that is why the change was made; however, I wish they had left in the ability to compose from the old compose window.
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by leecbaker 13y ago
That picture is not a free-flying blimp, but an Army aerostat (tethered balloon). About 10 are used to enforce the southern US border. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethered_Aerostat_Radar_System
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by leecbaker 13y ago
Programmer, artist, technical writer, etc.
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by leecbaker 14y ago
IIRC, they had a lot of problems with engine failures, as the 747 really pushed engine technology and size at the time. Joe Sutter's book [1] is an interesting look at the history of the 747 design (he was the lead designer). There was also
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by leecbaker 14y ago
Some quick corrections: Southwest operates from Dallas Love Field (DAL) instead of DFW- almost all commercial flights at DAL are Southwest flights. Midland(MAF) is a city about 350 miles away that they also fly to. Southwest merged with Air
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by leecbaker 14y ago
I have heard rumors that they use the TCP TTL field to detect tethering, regardless of device type. If you open a connection from a tethered device, the TTL field will be one count smaller than if the connection originated on the device its
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by leecbaker 14y ago
T-Mobile won't allow you to tether a phone that uses this package, so they presumably wouldn't allow another device to share the package. Src: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/08/t-mobiles-service-to-...
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by leecbaker 14y ago
6 to 12 weeks in advance according to this reservation agent. "IAMA Delta/KLM/Air France reservation agent that knows all the tricks to booking low fares and award tickets AMA" http://www.reddit.com/comments/v82rz/c524yi7/?sort=best
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by leecbaker 14y ago
Gold is an inferior conductor to copper, and is used in electronics because of its corrosion resistance, and would not make better wire for most purposes.
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by leecbaker 14y ago
I quickly typed Computing Science in Google, and got the following list: University of Auckland Victoria University of Wellington University of Waikato University of Alberta Simon Fraser University Toronto CMU University of Glasgow Oxford S