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by passer_byer 2y ago
I did this with a manual 35mm camera. You can purchase rolls of infrared sensitive film. You must make a focus adjustment when shooting infra red. Most manual camera focus rings have a second focus index mark, since infrared light focus
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by passer_byer 3y ago
My hack was to purchase a 2017 vehicle with a 5 speed manual transmission. I reckon 95% of would be thieves can’t easily drive it away!
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by passer_byer 3y ago
Because regardless how you classify them, they are humans who deserve our empathy and compassion.
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by passer_byer 3y ago
Sadly, this seems to be the case. Which means we the people, have lost control of our government.
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by passer_byer 3y ago
Alfred Wegener as the initial author on the theory of plate tectonics comes to mind. He was a trained meteorologist who observed the similarities between geological formations between the South American east coast and African west coast. H
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by passer_byer 3y ago
Pretty good if they did it in a day. Encountered the same issue and it took me at least three days to resolve. The issue presented itself as a database table not updating.
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by passer_byer 4y ago
OP here. These are some really great ideas here and I thank you.
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by passer_byer 4y ago
Now that would be a fun hack, no? I bet with the collective knowledge from this thread I might be able to pull it off. I’m still working for the man, though. I recall a time that I wrote a program that called for a tape mount and a file to
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by passer_byer 4y ago
Gary deWard Brown is the author and hence the name. If I recall, he also describes utilities like IEBGENER, IEBCOPY and so on. One copy of the book on Amazon was over $100.
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by passer_byer 4y ago
Another thank you! I have choices
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by passer_byer 4y ago
Thank you!
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by passer_byer 4y ago
Great tip, thank you. Easy is relative. Lucky for me, I have kids who can get me going with a twitter account.
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by passer_byer 4y ago
This is very helpful. I’m guessing you have a copy of the Brown/Blue => Blue/Brown book.
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by passer_byer 4y ago
I’m guessing you also have a book recommendation on the history of the 360 architecture. Excluding Watson’s bio and “Mythical Man Month”, what book should I read next?
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Ask HN: Forensic analysis for 50 year-old tape?
57 points by passer_byer 4y ago|33 comments
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by passer_byer 5y ago
This! I would add, pick challenging projects. Interviewing and hiring is a two-way street. If the project is not one you deem to be technically challenging enough, then hold out for the one that is. Being a part of a competent team rais
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by passer_byer 5y ago
In my case, extremely useful as Google requested access to my location, and I declined. With this link, I get to read it with a tiny bit of anonymity. But, I do kid myself. Google already tracks me across multiple sites, so it becomes a
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by passer_byer 5y ago
Alaska is the western, northern, and eastern state in the U.S. The Aleutian Islands cross the International Dateline. Hawaii is the southern most state.
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by passer_byer 5y ago
The observations posted here are very useful, thank you for such detailed response.
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Ask HN: Is PySPark a Dead-End?
9 points by passer_byer 5y ago|9 comments
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by passer_byer 5y ago
A Volvo 240 DL, model years 2000 to about 2010. Completely reliable daily driver, safe, comfortable sedan that can goo 500,000 miles with reasonable care. I had three of them over the years. Today, my daily driver is a 2017 Toyota 4Runne
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by passer_byer 5y ago
This! I was constantly looking to grab the next rung up on the career ladder. Having kids made me rethink my priorities on helping them mature into happy, productive members of society. Sure, we made a pile of mistakes along the way in o
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by passer_byer 5y ago
You would be correct. Mine is "#1". I use compound english words whose meaning is non-sensical in a conversation but easy to remember.
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by passer_byer 5y ago
> What you say feels to me as Joseph McCarthy has just sprung back to life. No need to go that far back in the history of the U.S. Government spying on it's own citizens. In the late 1960's, the Nixon Administration used IRS d
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by passer_byer 5y ago
I agree with your reasoning here. I'm genuinely interested in your interpretation of the idiom, "whistling in the dark". I have heard this as, "whistling in the wind", taken to imply sound waves are distorted by wi
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by passer_byer 6y ago
Some hiking trails are inherently dangerous for those ill-prepared. The Grand Escalante Staircase in Utah comes to mind. There is no cell signal and water sources are scarce. Beautiful slot canyon hiking and loads of fun, but it does car
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by passer_byer 6y ago
Except when they do go down. Not as a result of the processor itself, but as a result of the hiccups in the dependency chain. In one case ours went down for a day when a backhoe hired for construction cut a power supply line. The data cen
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by passer_byer 6y ago
Consider a subscription to the British newspaper The Economist. It began publication in 1848 in protest against the British corn laws. The writing is superlative written with a rather sly sense of humor. In particular, they collect and gr
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by passer_byer 6y ago
This is the only book you need for JCL. Called, either the Brown-Blue book or Blue-Brown book. https://www.amazon.com/System-370-Job-Control-Language/dp/04...
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by passer_byer 6y ago
This story also highlights the enduring strength of IBM's 360/370 architecture. It is still in widespread use today. The correct syntax is: //SYSIN DD * A data definition statement indicating the next line in the progr

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