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I remember the TV commercial, but until now I had completely forgotten about it....

Craigslist used to donate over $100,000 every single year. Not sure when that stopped. That is really what kept perl going between the years of 2010 and 2016 or so. The board was actually paying a couple of people to do maintenance on the core repository and code. I believe they still do that but obviously due to deficits that is going to get difficult.

It's sad when so many companies are dependent upon perl, but donate nothing. A good case in point is AT&t in the 1980s was broken up into 20 plus different companies. They were then remerged back in the 1990s. But when they merged, they had 20 different computer systems and perl was actually used to glue all those systems together and handle data sanitation and ETL pipelines. Yet AT&t never donated anything to perl.

>I’ve seen talk of competitor satellite networks

Swansat anyone?

https://web.archive.org/web/20080119080404/http://swansat.co...

Link?

The site doesn't even load at all now (lol)

I was on a cruise ship in the Caribbean for a week just last month and I purchased the starlink powered internet package. Looking at my IP data, location info showed that I was actually in Dallas, Texas. Very sad!

You can't equate airplane safety with automotive safety. I worked at an aircraft repair facility doing government contracts for a number of years. In one instance, somebody lost the toilet paper holder for one of the aircraft. This holder was simply a piece of 10 gauge wire that was bent in a way to hold it and supported by wire clamps screwed to the wall. Making a new one was easy but since it was a new part going on the aircraft we had to send it to a lab to be certified to hold a roll of toilet paper to 9 g's. In case the airplane crashed you wouldn't want a roll of toilet paper flying around I guess. And that cost $1,200.

I upgraded to the pw 5 when it came out and it had the 6.8" screen and I hate it. With the larger screen I can no longer hold it easily with one hand. Looks like this newer version is even bigger :(

Everyone here whining about lead pipes while drinking their $10 Starbucks latte from a brass boiler. lol

I didn't even know this was legal. When did that change??

These modern garbage collectors are not simply free though. I got bored last year and went on a deep dive with GC params for Minecraft. For my needs I ended up with: -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=300 -Xmx2G -Xms768M

When flying around in spectator mode, you'd see 3 to 4 processes using 100%. Changing to more modern collectors just added more load to the system. ZGC was the worst, with 16+ processes all using 100% cpu. With the ParallelGC, yes you'll get the occasional pause but at least my laptop is not burning hot fire.

I went down the vacuum rabbit hole a few years ago. I decided on Sebo. These are more or less big ugly machines with a cord, but you can buy every part online no matter how small (screws, gaskets,etc) or big (motors, control boards, etc).

> retail price (MSRP) of $699.99 USD

rofl

> step 4. Talk to someone in the bathroom

lol wut

Not sure where they are getting all the numbers, but 85GW is no where near the "max": https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/supplyanddemand

lol, my bank's rate is 0.3% on savings account.

Atleast you learnt.

A Dremel with a regular cut off wheel would cut right through titanium.

Ha, I was going to say that. I think it was like 1992 and we got a packard bell for Christmas and it came with a stack of shareware CDs. 2mhz and 2MB of ram I believe. There was some kind of Sherlock Holmes CD-ROM point 'n click type game that had a bunch of FMVs. The whole family would gather around (sometimes the neighbors included) and we'd all oodle over the "graphics".

I see there are cheap indoor wall clocks that are syncd with WWVB. But can't find anything that use gps instead. I am wondering why? Are the receivers too power hungry or the signals just too weak? I'd think going with a gps time sync would be a more future proof design.

And a "coverage map" https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-di...

For those of us that are visual or audio learners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0CWj9DwRBY

Wow, added to wish list!

I hate those so much...

We didn't get the briefcase either. But one officer did bring his K9. Which then tried to bite my classmate during the "come up here and pet it" session.

Kind of like knots...

Well, this is a lot.....

Ok, how do I download it and use it though???

>Given that video is 7.5 hours start to finish,

Link??