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Re:Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @10:35PM (#49679407)
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Re:UWaterloo Steam Tunnels
on Sunday December 18, 2022 @01:08AM (#34035439)
no one i know got caught :)
Re:Symbian Source Code Final Repositories from the Defunct Symbian Fou...
on Saturday November 12, 2022 @05:16PM (#33577702)
another copy, in the original Mercurial, and with mediawiki dumps too: https://archive.org/details/SymbianOpenSource
Re:An almost perfect rsync over SSH backup script
on Friday February 25, 2022 @02:21PM (#30471069)
Rsync also doesn't track hardlinks by default! I use "-avPzHAXS" for my backups.
Re:The slow rise of robots in the data center
on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @04:13AM (#27673202)
The rack unit's dimensions are inherited from manual telephone switchboard jack-and-lamp panels ... and the standard rack is approximately 100 years old. https://archive.org/details/bstj2-3-112
Re:Super Crunch (1986)
on Friday April 02, 2021 @05:37PM (#26676256)
In context, with the rest of the magazine: https://archive.org/details/MacUser8605May1986/page/n9/mode/...
Re:Siliconpr0n: High Resolution Chip Maps
on Friday January 29, 2021 @10:37PM (#25965759)
ESD protection Zener diodes, maybe?
Re:Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte
on Friday January 15, 2021 @05:46PM (#25797558)
If "hella" is 10^27 then clearly "hecka" would be the correct name for 10^-27.
Re:Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out
on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @11:11PM (#25578421)
One hundred percent of the time when I've clicked that button, it says "XYZCorp is advertising to people located in the United States", even when the ad is clearly more targeted than that.
Re:Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? (2009)
on Monday August 31, 2020 @12:32AM (#24328517)
Yeah, it's feet measured east and north of an arbitrary point southwest of everything in the state. There is an actual point inside the state used as a base but they set up a false easting and false northing by subtracting a large round number such that the origin of the coordinate system is southwest of everything in the state. A lot of things in surveying are designed such that the math is easier for people working in the field to reliably get correct.
Re:Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes
on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:33PM (#24160748)
Related work elsewhere (2012): https://research.swtch.com/qart
Re:On the Closing of Living Computers: Museum+Labs
on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:50PM (#23793472)
Hi there! Connections Museum volunteer here. We're on good terms with our landlords (CenturyLink). While we are 100% volunteer run, we also are part of an independent non-profit, the Telecommunications History Group.
We've been keeping busy during quarantine, working on all kinds of restoration projects, and look forward to being able to give tours when that's safe again. For now you'll have to get by with our youtube channel.
And our power draw is more in the neighborhood of 200A than 1000A :) With respect to moving, the greater challenges are that everything is hard-wired together (not connectorized) and we'd need a space with 13+ foot ceilings that allows high floor loading.
Re:Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth
on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:55PM (#23149394)
They serve everything in-house and are their own AS; this allows them to provide stronger guarantees of reader privacy than sites that use a CDN.
Re:31% Can’t Pay the Rent: ‘It’s Only Going to Get Worse’
on Sunday April 12, 2020 @10:17PM (#22852535)
Yes, in the US rents are usually due on the first of the month and all months cost the same amount.
Re:I built a dumb cell phone with a rotary dial
on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:37PM (#22639523)
Sidetone! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidetone
Re:OpenAPI 3.0.3 Specification Released
on Friday February 21, 2020 @01:49AM (#22381380)
Isn't this what SOAP promised? What's different this time?
Re:The Horror of Microsoft Teams
on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:58AM (#20683162)
ripcord is exactly that
Re:Capehart Communications Collection – For Sale
on Saturday June 29, 2019 @04:50PM (#20314696)
i've visited a number of private telephone collections and Don's is absolutely massive by any standard. i can't do it justice, nor can any photo album. but he has, among other treasures, some highlights from my memory:
- autovon equipment
- several generations of digital switches
- electromechanical switches too
- loads and loads of paper documents on compact shelving
- bell labs prototypes
- phones that i never knew existed
- the first switch from Sprint's long distance network
Re:Idleness as Flourishing
on Thursday October 18, 2018 @01:54PM (#18250486)
I've definitely watched birds playing.
Re:A brief history of the numeric keypad
on Sunday September 23, 2018 @08:49PM (#18054256)
One of the articles cited is available for free: <https://archive.org/details/bstj39-4-995>. I find it interesting to note that the engineers also made variable force profile pushbuttons to test different springinesses as well.
Re:Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid
on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @04:46PM (#17710638)
Natgas is a turbine engine directly; coal and oil uses a boiler running a steam turbine.
Re:Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft reaches cosmic 'diamond'
on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @12:15PM (#17409367)
Yeah ... I can drive across the country and land in a particular parking spot with 100% repeatability.
Re:Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change
on Thursday April 26, 2018 @05:09PM (#16935818)
That's not what they said though. They said "if you want to know if someone feels welcome, and you ask them, and they say they don't feel welcome, then you're done researching whether or not they feel welcome".
Re:What of the lowly page number
on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @09:29PM (#16918064)
Click.
Re:FAA Proposes Nearly $2M Fine Against Drone Operator
on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @07:22PM (#10343125)
Birds aren't made of plastic and metal and lithium-polymer.
Re:PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet
on Saturday September 19, 2015 @10:48PM (#10246396)
Tyvek, perhaps? I'm not sure how long-term it would stick around, but it wouldn't decay as fast as paper in an unprotected environment.
Re:Dropdowns Should Be the UI of Last Resort
on Monday July 20, 2015 @03:54PM (#9918581)
And yet we still have to manually query every combination of departure and return dates to find reasonable airfare.
Re:My favorite underused Python idiom
on Monday June 22, 2015 @12:29PM (#9759415)
What's with the forced email signup form?
Re:In High-Tech Japan, the Fax Machines Roll On (2013)
on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @03:41PM (#9336611)
Most of these gracefully (?) degrade to sending a paper cheque in the mail, if the recipient isn't a party to their payment system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.400#Addressing
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