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SoCal it can also be replaced with dude/dudes

Win32 or Win16?

The difference is, we have better QC procedures and modern flight control electronics.

AFAIK, we do recover and refurbish them - at least when shuttle was flying.

The ironic part of all of this, I would have pay linear TV services if it was cheaper - 50 bucks a month for the whole house, and I suspect they could have 30%+ more customers.

I looked at a model 3 at the time I was shopping for my Chrysler 300, and saw with my own eyes.

So unless my eyes are lying, no, I dont think I have been.

There will at least - in 75 years be something internally, a minimum layer of abstraction that looks a whole lot like VT100 escape codes in a character stream. It's probably one of the stickiest API's that I can think of.

I've not been a huge fan of Tesla generally because of the lack of physical buttons, as well as build quality.

I think my next vehicle, will be at a minimum plug in hybrid, and maybe full BEV, ironically, replacing our dual electric tank hot water heaters allows for us to install a charger.

How do you like the Cybertruck.. I find the appearance polarizing, much like G1 priuses.

> Generally people aren't running web servers on Windows, but the internal IT infrastructure world uses a ton of Windows servers.

With good reason I'd note, its a use case which windows is profoundly good at - whereas web servers are not something I would say windows is very good at.

Local Access is a very different issue, and I dont really disagree - but the local copper loop being broadband is an accident and one of technological evolution.

When the decisions were made about divesiture, that bit was non obvious.

The research done at Bell Labs is the foundation of the information age, however, Bell Labs sowed the seeds that made the post-divestiture AT&T a doomed enterprise from the start - there is a reason they only lasted ~20 years from divestiture 'til they were bought by one of their former children, SBC.

AT&T provided for most of its history, the best quality telephone service in the world, at a comparable price to anyone else, anywhere.

There were structural issues with the AT&T monopoly however, for example cross subsidization - the true cost of services was often hidden because they would use optional services (like toll calling) to subsidize basic access, and business lines would cross subsidize residential service.

The level that AT&T fought foreign connections (aka, bring your own phone), probably hastened their demise, in the end, the very technologies that AT&T introduced would turn long distance from a high margin, to low margin business - the brass at AT&T had to know that, but they still pinned the future of their manufacturing business on that - a manufacturing business that had never had to work in a competitive environment, yet was now expected to - because of this and other factors divestiture was doomed to failure.

I'm a believer in utilities being a natural monopoly, but AT&T was an example of effective regulatory capture, it did not, and does not have to be this way, however it was.

Employment in most of the US is at will by default - with the exception of Montana basically.

As an adult, I've taught myself five programming languages, I read 20+ books a year, and while in school I was reading at a college level by the fourth or fifth grade.

However, because I have ADD/ADHD, I was shunted into the special education program, and told point blank in high school that I was not 'college material', I was not allowed to take advanced math.

I did in fairness have a great deal of trouble doing a lot of the busywork that school presents to you - because I saw little point in it, I knew the material, I'd read the book, I could write about it and often passed tests on it with flying colors.

If I'd been given an opportunity to do more engaging learning, and less information regurgitation style learning, I wonder where I would be. Like an introduction to computer programming class, would have completely changed the trajectory of my life - yes I'm a working engineer today, but it took me a long time to work my way up from a low wage service job.

Orphaned works have long been one of my bugaboo's about the current copyright regime.

I would much prefer copyright be transitioned to a paid for license regime after some suitably long initial term (say 20 years), then those who see continuing commercial value can renew for another 10 year term - and so on up to say 100 years, with increasing fees for every term thereafter.

I think its perfect reasonable to balance the needs of large IP holders - who should be encouraged to do restoration and preservation on the IP they own and letting the commons do those things when there is no viable market for those properties.

The issue is the outmoded and excessively specific system of procurement used by the US Military - one more or less mandated by congress.

We can chose to alter how we procure, but there are good reasons why the system is as it is, so a careful effort to understand why it is like it is before we reform must be undertaken.

Chesterton's Fence applies here for sure.

Its really an ingenious device, I've wanted to build one, just because I'm a phone nerd, think its cool.

Bear in mind, before this there was a mechanical repeater as well, which was a transmitter and receiver which were mechanically coupled.

A carbon mic is somewhat self-exciting and does provide an amplification factor.

How so?

I am cheap.

So I've never used an isolation transformer, I measure from test equipment chassis to chassis and check voltage potential, then roll the plug as needed.

it usually is? you still need to do some manner of input validation on the decode. It helps when the barcodes you're reading have a known structure - then you can validate for the structure and its pretty easy.

See, I've never tried to do barcode decoding in software via images - I've always used an imager with internal decoding.

All the times an apparition has appeared to me, they were dressed as people.

I just somehow knew they were a spirit.

Its happened a half a dozen times or so for me, since I was a small child.

As someone who has cleaned a soft serve machine, its not really long or tedious.

Yes, we export it to everywhere, without permits.

Yes.

The Cisco C9200 is not considered a munition in the states.

export compliance is a total absolute tire fire, its full of non-sensical policy, and contrary opinions, and the more countries your product goes thru, the worse it gets.

Have a part made in Japan, integrated into a product in the states but sold by someone in the UK to in France? you'll have to comply with Japan, US and UK laws.

Neat fact, the UK considers the Cisco C9200 switch to be a munition, because it has ipsec.

Ideally, any passwords you generate for hand typing or being read over the phone should exclude

include only one of each I/l/1, 0/O

soundalikes without phonetics - so include only one of the following e, p, c, v, t, 3

I figured from the URL - but its a really well written ad!

It taught me something, and at the end, it presents a problem that I may or may not need solved.