mm0lqf

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by mm0lqf 5mo ago
theres the well known inherent problem with the graphite at UK AGR reactors which could be very bad (can crack or misshape in such a way that the control rods or fuel rods cant be moved), not to mention the boiler cracking at the weldseams,
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by mm0lqf 5mo ago
this. it took me 2 years to notice my T14s even had a touchscreen its useless flexes too much to actually use it
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by mm0lqf 7mo ago
EU and US do the same to the UK
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by mm0lqf 7mo ago
doesn't really mean anything, Mac randomly autocorrects dashes to em-dashes (caused me a world of pain once when it did that in a GUID in a config file)
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by mm0lqf 7mo ago
> My understanding is A roads in the UK are much like USA interstates. Not in Scotland, some of them aren't dualled (just a single carriageway in each direction), narrow, windey, full of terrible potholes and animals you can hit et
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by mm0lqf 10mo ago
Tape drives are generally SAS so you will need a controller card I've got a HP StorageWorks Ultrium 3000 drive (It's LTO-5 format) connected to one (LSI SAS SAS9300-4i), in my NAS/file server (HP Z420 workstation chassis). Do
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by mm0lqf 2y ago
when I worked in the embedded software industry long ago, I spent lots and lots of time connecting over serial ports to dev boards, using software like Minicom. Being able to do that in screen itself would be neat. Tmux does it.
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by mm0lqf 2y ago
Was common with AMD CPUs in the past, the Ryzen 1000 range had a widespread problem where many made in 2017 would randomly segfault from time to time under Linux, it was a whole drama, and you had to RMA them until you got lucky.
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by mm0lqf 2y ago
Probably lots, my first Palm was a TX in 2006, and I remember it was ~£300. I used it with a IBM T60 which was was I recall £1200+ I had an IBM R30 before that in ~2000 and recall it being ~£1500 as well. Laptops weren't cheap!
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by mm0lqf 4y ago
In real morse messages, you aren't always sending full words, most of the time you are sending prosigns (abbreviations) - Think like early SMS chat. "DE" means this is, you hand over with a "K", "SK" means