true, but it is possible to use it in ways that benefit you or your priorities. I'm not saying that is what Musk is doing, but the ability to spend a billion dollars or potentially charitable endeavours can have direct benefits to the giver.
I did ditch my 3 SGI Sony Trinitron 21 inch monitors. The were the pinnacle of CRTs in my experience. I do still have a couple O2s, 3 or 4 Octane 2s, and a Fuel in my garage.
I love that a protocol from 1983 is still in very active use. Either it was very well thought out, or the userbase has very limited needs. (actually a little of both.)
I was waiting for the story to end with “the police impounded my bike for evidence, so I still don’t have my bike.” Nice that it actually worked out for him.
my personal domain is a ccTLD domain and has gone down over time. I know it's a bit iffy, but I like my ultra short domain, and if they take it from me...oh well.
I remember taking a multiple choice question test for some scholarship 35 years ago. 20 questions with the explicit instructions that for any question all of the choices could be correct or none of them or combination, and you were supposed to check only the answers that were correct. It was a VERY hard test. In addition you could score less than zero since every correct item that you checked would add points but every incorrect item itme you checked would subtract points AND every correct item you didn't check would also subtract points. You didn't get points for not checking incorrect items.
Maybe I'm the exeption, but there is nothing digital in my current life that I have any expectation to live beyond me. If anyone cared about my photographs, there are folders and folders of negatives. If anyone cares about the music I've written, there are printed folders with all my music in them. Same for short stories and screenplays. Honestly, I've always treated the entirety of tech as ephemeral. Of course, being permanantly single makes that a little easier for me.
my read is it is skewering both the "performative over achiever" and the "ambition-less bored under achiever." Maybe its intended as a rorschach test to see which side people see.
thanks for reminding me of that movie! I haven't seen it a very long time. Its hard to explain, but its a kind of humor that I really don't see very often--serious and self-deprecating humor.
Sony has a stupid update app as well, but Nikon and Pentax? Download a firmware file, put it on the root of the SD card, and boot itin a particular way or goto some menu and runu the update. Its a very 90's process but easy and simple compared to Olympus and Sony.
Don’t forget that HN is also self moderated through upvotes/downvotes (I’ve never used Reddit, does it have similar?). This does two things IMO—first, low quality posts become less and less readable which reduces incentive to make inflammatory posts, but second it also imposes self moderation (except for users that resort to throwaway accounts) since losing too many karma points removes some of your ability to participate on the site.
To me, the most influential book is Allisons’s Essence of Decision. Most people seem to treat it as a book about the Cuban middle crisis, which of course it is, but the event is analyses through the lens of several analytical techniques. That’s the part that is fascinating to me, especially the organizational process model.
my mid 80's FJ60 had a hand crank for the gasoline engine, so, given that this article is about the 70 series that debuted in 1984--I wouldn't be surprised if it had a hand crank as well.
mine had a leaky rear main seal. That was not a fun job. Fortunatly, my brother is an experienced auto mechanic (with ~$50k of SnapOn tools). So we were able to get it done, but there is no way I could have done it myself. The vehicle had 300k on the odometer and ran perfectly when I sold it last year for more than I paid. The reason I sold it was that the plastics had got brittle from the UV in the new mexico sun, so much of the interiod was falling apart.
I live down the road from the NMSU Chile Pepper Institute, so I’ve eaten many hot things. While I can’t grow anything, I have friends and family that have purchased seeds from their store and tried growing many varieties of Chile peppers. I have found the how it is grown has as much impact on hotness as the plant itself (in my experience). A friend grew some Ghost peppers (Bhut Jolokia), supposedly one of the hottest peppers, but it really wasn’t too hot. I wonder if over watering, like with wine grapes, dilutes the “flavor”?
the Los angeles Police is 1.9b of a 4.9b departmental operational city budget, but there are 600m appropriations and 6.2b non departmental that are in other areas, that aren't terribly clear. So if you have 1.9b of a 11.7b budget, that about 16%.
It looks like property tax accounts for the largest chunk of revenues--20%--but keep in mind that property tax usually fund school districts and county covernment as well (here in NM something like 90% of county budget is property tax.)
So yes, at any place you happen to live your taxes and other governmental fees can easily go to a number of different entities, so while it may be true that LAPD accounts for 16% of the LA budget, it amounts to a much smaller percentage of the taxes you pay.
(Its also possible that the LAPD budget receives funding from other sources and is not accounted in the 1.9b above.)
this is very common in the west. Its one of several ways to "own" more property than you paid for. If your property completely encloses 1000 acres of public land, that land is as good as yours (with the exception of building things, but many of the property owners in these cases are taking people hunting on the land, so no permanant structures would be built anyway.) Another common thing is land leases. I don't know how many ranches I've seen for sale around here (NM) that state something like 1000 acres, but when you look closer, its 200 acres, with a BLM lease on the other 800 acres. That doesn't grant them exclusive use of the land (to the best of my knowledge), but they frequently act like it does--placing "no tresspassing" signs, confronting people, arguing its their land. (and while you are paying for those leases, it is CHEAP. something like $2 per acre per year.
I don’t know if cell carriers support it, but we test our PBX with 933. It functions like 911 but doesn’t route to emergency dispatch, instead it reads back out E911 data. I also don’t know if, for cell carriers, it functions enough like 911 that issues on the phone like reported here would be evident.
I'm actually the opposite, I discovered very early in my college experience that taking notes just hindered my ability to retain the information (I guess because the process of writing and structuring my writing took attention away from listening.) So my undergraduate and masters was all done without notes at all.
I played with the original a long time ago. IIRC, back then Laurie Spiegel asked for some kind of credit on music that was generated by it given that the musical output would be bounded by the software design.
Also, if you've never heard her album Unseen Worlds, its definitly worth checking out.
most of the small manufacturers--Ferrania P30, all the Foma films, I believe the Adox films as well. The Rollei films have DX, and like you said--Kodak, Fuji, and Ilford.
FYI, Bronica. And the fun detail about the ISO and exposure compensation is I beleive they were concentric dials (they are on my Bronica GS-1) so they were just adjusting a single contact. In other words, ISO 100 with no compensation is the same value as ISO 200 with a +1 stop compensation.
a system for tracking gas turbine and diesel engine parts, the engines they were installed on, and the ships the engines were in or docks they were stored at for one particular division of the US Navy.
the article mentioned possible clawbacks, so that one thing. However I don't know if clawbacks will be limited to unspent funds or have the possibility to demand back funds that were already spent.
Another possibility--and I have no idea if this might be the case here--most of the grants here where I work use "drawdowns." Specifically the granting agency awards a grant of $X for whatever you said you were going to do with it in the grant application, but they don't actually give you any money. So you start spending money on the project, and carefully accounting it, and usually every month you sum up everything spent, and issue a drawdown request for the funds spent. The granting agency then cuts you a check and you mark those expenses as reimbursed. This means that if the grnating agency goes belly up, there is a possibility you could be out real funds that you spent and are expecting a reimbursal.
Clark also used it as a throwaway line in Childhood's End. IIRC, humans were given a device that would allow them to see the past--most religions didn't survive seeing the true origins of their faith.