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Could you kindly elaborate on the "afraid of heights" aspect? Was there a lot of catwalks or anything of that nature?

This is fantastic! One of my favorite things about traveling is experiencing their media--it gives me that same feeling.

Also, as someone that studied Geography extensively, it's an excellent review in that respect as well. One can quickly jump from one place to another.

Bonus points for using a globe, and not a map!

Most companies don't take all public holidays; this ends up being primarily for Federal workers who do get each of those holidays.

If you make a table of holidays and then check on/off those applicable, then have the algorithm fill back in as needed, that would be helpful.

Exactly; some of these machines have an explicit purpose according to the author: "We feed children into this machine and it spits out teenagers."

Fucking troll user profile created five minutes ago. The site is for individuals who would like to engage in respectful discussion based in science. Get your political shit out of here.

Did the phrase 'knife fight in a phone booth' still apply to SF politics back then?

After the post the last week about the DIY GPS receiver, I decided to get out my RTL-SDR and set it up. Took a couple of days of fiddling around with it, but now I've got SDRtrucking setup. Spent one morning listening to the public safety radio traffic. That was a wild ride on it's own with all sorts of things going on in this metropolitan area.

All hail Bentham!

Thank you so much for posting everything that you did. Long-form details are hard to find. In my truest contribution, I suggest you're a pleasure to work with. Rarely have I seen anyone willing to give the deep-digest of their determination and problems with a function. Consider writing more!

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I didn't see the other posts about brevity. Fuck that. Details matter and so does the human experience. Who hasn't on this site been the unfortunate recipient of trying to get some brilliant but shitty function to work?

Who can't love the commemorative poster as well!!

https://www.nro.gov/Portals/135/Images/Social%20Media%20grap...

4800bps! Back in my day we were happy to get 2400!

Sadly, I had a 1200 baud; my uncle told me his first was 300.

I remember a 110 setting, which might go all the way back to the '48 Berlin airlift!

Ha! I've used a high-end GPS to see my location and other fun facts in flight. I learned to keep it in my pocket as despite my attempts to explain it was only a receiver, I was told by the flight attendant to "PUT IT AWAY." Not being one to push back as to be removed for that flight, I did just that.

Streets and Trips was fun on a laptop for long car drives as you could live reroute in the car much like any old app can do these days but seemed somehow magical back then.

I hated having to use my 'backup' Mastercard for Costco purchases.

Thanks so much for the link to Polymarket. I haven't seen a prediction site since Intrade.

Love the geologic zoo!

I refer to botanical gardens as 'botanical zoos' as well

Appreciate the link to Project Independence. Despite way too many late nights reading about atomic/nuclear history, somehow I missed this one.