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It certainly seems like that when you are stuck in a deep, dark hole, an altered consciousness might be the best chance to find some motivation. Like realizing that there is good in the world and you can be a part of it.

MDMA brings some health risks that shouldn't be viewed lightly, though. Be careful.

Removing complexity (gates) means yield goes up. My indications from being on the periphery of developing custom silicon and respinning it is that NRE is not $500k for devices that are more advanced (ie multiple sparc cores + dsp + application specific logic)

with regard to displays, gbs-8200 will help here.

This seems like a good time to mention that God gave us hardware interrupt inputs and watchdog timers.

What a deal!

I used to play the drums and I did not have wrist issues so I figured I would be less affected by RSI from using a keyboard. It could have made it worse though.

Having no win/meta keys on the IBM keyboard actually led me to try different devices but IBM felt better than all those things so I kept coming back and dealing without the keys. I was very happy with the IBM keyboard for a very long time.

Before I found the POS discard Cherrys, I think I had only heavily used the Cherry MX on a Wyse terminal, but I wasn't really thinking about it at the time. The G80-8200 with clears were a great find with only noticeable wear on the num-pad enter key. The keyboard itself stores the setup and handles all the extra keys, not software on the host, so that's especially great for me as I have some macros to control the kvm switch.

There are a lot of keyboards that some people really like but I think are terrible and preferred the IBM over them. Sun type 4, type 5; DEC LK201, LK401; Keytronic come to mind.

Whatever the reason, I think it was the high actuation force of the IBM keyboard. I don't really slouch. I did not hover my arms and I really don't want to all the time, but I had a pretty good wrist pillow, two "Sun The Network is the Computer" pads adhered together, so my angles probably weren't as bad as you imagine.

I have heard it among guys who work on pinball and arcade machines. It might be less common now, but next time you encounter an appliance repair tech (like microwave ovens) ask him/her.

I felt the same thing until after some years I started getting terrible pain in my wrists. It was the IBM keyboard I prized so much and held on to. Then I found some cherry keyboards in the trash in a pile of Point of Sale discards. Now for ten years, "garbage" as been the most prominent and stable feature of my workspace.

Is that an all electric car? Petrol combustion gives off a lot of heat, but if the thermostat is stuck open this works against the goal - modern vehicles will set a fault in this case because slow warm up causes more fuel to be burned and emissions to be expelled.

This is simply antisocial behavior for the sake of being antisocial.

This is ridiculous, I have never had a car need ten minutes of driving to make heat, even in a Pittsburgh winter. I have had a driving license for 36 years.

> however, idling is as (or almost as) effective as low-speeding driving at warming the passenger area

No. The engine, and thus the water, will heat faster under a driving load.

Some industrial laundries do this, but I have heard this over and over again to describe residential HE laundry machines but never actually seen one with a way to measure this. The usual method is to tumble the clothes until the water level in the tub stops dropping. Now they're saturated with water.

What you are probably getting when you start your washer is an estimate considering the steps of the cycle and loaded to capacity. Some machines have turbidity sensors - mine doesn't - this could deliver information that might shorten the cycle. Also the time may go up if it has to deal with suds or stops spinning to rearrange the load if it shakes.

I am doing this too and using ScanSnap. It turns out to be a really good and fast scanner for documents, not really photos. The included manager app works on Windows and Mac, and I have it set up to save bitmap pdf to a network share then run them thru abbyy ocr (also included.) Then I can search from manager's thumbnail browser, the operating system's search facility, or beagle.

Best to store this stuff in a conditioned space, not a humid shed with no air circulation. Got some lyts from 1962 working fine here.

Tantalum capacitors are not failure proof. Ask around about tantalum failures, usually someone has a memorable story about an old tantalum capacitor that shorted.

If you buy quality electrolytics and don't store the machine in a humid shed/attic they are likely to outlast you.

ipv6 supports traceroute too

With no experience rolling subscriber access silicon or MMIC this is likely to have comedic results.

I've been thinking about that too. In Virginia we had a long-time sheriff who was a homosexual and for most of his office, homosexual acts were serious felonies. He'd also been brought up on charges of kidnapping and some kind of attempted sodomy - while in office - but to deal with this they moved the trial to a rural town with an all white jury who would see the nonwhite victim in a predictable way. So much for equally applicable protection of and liability to the laws. Political patronage trumped the rule of law here.

My very first Comcast cablemodem gave 10 mbits/sec due to living in the ghetto (no other data subscribers around) and @Home not having figured out how to set a rate limit in the docsis config. They never changed my service as long as I was on the system. When I moved to another system, a different company was managing their data service and I had a 3 mbits limit.

I hate that they want to bundle SIP telephony. I arranged my own and pay about $5/month.

Google fiber is in town so prices are ok for data. I set out to get 10 mbits/sec service, the least I could buy was 50 mbits for $35. Apparently I'm getting 75 mbits now.

After about the 11 minute mark the footage shows them working on the front page of the July 1 issue. Looks like they didn't shoot it all in one evening.

I learned base 12 arithmetic in gradeschool and the textbook used T and E for 10, 11.

I'm pretty sure this was before people started using hex notation for computing and logic.

Turn off Javascript.

If you phone in and haggle they will give you the sub for 99 cents.

Sandblasting operations are a long-recognized hazard. Not only can you get silicosis but sandblasting is an abrasive process and what else besides the sand is hanging around in the air? Tiny bits of the substrate metal? Zinc (galvanizing coating), Cadmium (another plating), Chromate (paint), Lead (paint)? Is a cured cyanoacrylate paint passivated enough that it's safe to breathe its dust?

When I was a kid I didn't have anyone to tell me and no reminders to wear a respirator.

Edit: after submitting, I realized I've never used "silicon" sand as a blasting abrasive, but only glued to paper or cloth. I typically blast with aluminium oxide, coal slag, or glass beads.

Actually, if you run a modern engine in a closed garage now, your eyes won't burn, you won't choke and it won't kill you. While this is a stupid thing to do, the bad stuff is only coming out before it's warmed up (meaning closed loop and catalyst warm enough to function) and if you back your car into the garage you can tell the difference the first time you do a cold start.

This frustration arises from the situation that there are places where there is already more poison in the air than what comes out of the tailpipe of a modern, warmed up petrol vehicle. Los Angeles and Beijing are two examples where I have personally seen this situation on bad days. We are at the point now where mixture control and exhaust treatment leave nothing but carbon dioxide and water being emitted from a properly running automobile.

With regard to parent's assertions: 1. The intake air cleaner is to keep particles out that will damage the engine (and eventually lead to lower performance and emissions control malfunction); 2. Whatever airflow meter, or not, on an engine is for combustion control, but its performance affects emissions output; 3. Exhaust o2 sensors, for 10-25 years depending on make and model, have already been telling the control system the results of combustion on each cylinder, for every combustion; 4. The catalysts are not magic. They are meant to react with specific products of combustion; There is nothing in an automobile, nor should there be, to detect and react with things like methane and ammonia. The only time you see a dust/smog detection is in luxury models that adjust the cabin ventilation in the presence of this for comfort of the occupants. There are no adjustments happening at a rate of 8 kHz: combustion in a cylinder is not even happening at this rate.

I personally don't really agree with regression in this area but more than one automotive engineer has told me that things have gotten to where the exhaust must be cleaner than the air taken in by the engine.