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  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    I was wrong. They had 90 seconds. There was no way they were not going into the water. Actually less unless they were monitoring police frequencies which they likely were not. At least the local news reports say the construction...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    When I heard the term 'hangar queen' used in actual conversation, it referred to aircraft that might have had high capability but required lots of maintenance (so it spent lots of time in the hangar). These conversations referred to US...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Dropbox is a cloud file syncing service... You can also use Dropbox for 1:1 file sharing. You give it the email for whoever you want to send your file to, and it sends that one a link that works to...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Your RAPID number is based on the distance in metres your property is from the beginning of the road. ... Numbers on the right side of the road are even; those on the left are odd. How can you tell...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    When I was in college in the late '70s, Valium were a popular recreational drug. They had the interesting property that mixing them with alcohol resulted in memory loss. Folks mixing them would appear to be reasonably coherent (*), but...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    My neighborhood has mostly on-street parking(*). A couple of folks who live on the next block have charging points in their front yards and run the cable through an expansion joint in the sidewalk when charging. Might not be strictly...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    I keep screaming: a HUGE problem with the US legal system is that prosecutors and judges are elected (except federal judges who seem to be appointed for life by the legislators currently in office, which if anything is even worse)....
  • Commented on The coming storm
    'Round where I live, the old gas station locations are becoming Starbucks. They dig up the old tanks in the process....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    Really, the ability to stop what is one of the largest militaries in the world, push them back somewhat and completely prevent them from advancing at all since then should be seen as a stunning success. Maybe it's not...
  • Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
    Not really local, near Towson State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIJxyXC9dYY My block starts about 8:30 in. (If we were in Texas I'd be local ;-) On the paucity of brown ales, I second that emotion. Bell's Best Brown Ale was wonderful in previous...
  • Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
    Bell's (Kalamazoo, MI) makes some real good beers, a dollar or two less than $12 for a 6 pack at Total Wine's Laurel, MD location. Yards (Philly, PA) beers are also good, but pricier....
  • Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
    Most recent systems have versions of their time related system calls that use a 64 bit number. The more salient problem is that lots of filesystems only use a 32 bit number, and this is harder to change. Linux's ext4...
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    ...NATO was formed to prevent USSR/Russia from rolling west. NATO's original purpose was to keep Germany in its place (same goal as the Warsaw Pact, oddly enough). Containing the Soviet Union came later....
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    Once more with feeling: no. Restrictions on NATO expansion were not part of the final agreement. The Soviet Union got cash instead....
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    ...Russia allowed Germany to reunite in return for a promise that the NATO would not expand up to its borders, didn't they? The short answer is no. For one thing, it was the Soviet Union doing the negotiating. What...
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    Actually not all US states use 'first past the post'. Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi require a runoff (a second vote between the leading candidates) in at least some general elections if no candidate wins an actual majority. More states have...
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    If you're going to require only one math course as a prerequisite to get into university, is calculus a better fit for medicine than statistics, though? I don't see how you can understand statistics without calculus....
  • Commented on I should blog more, but ...
    A paper target on a shooting range is just not the same as a combat situation... Paper targets don't shoot back, and there aren't any innocent civilian paper targets running around....
  • Commented on A fistful of tropes
    I'll have a replacement for the basement I no longer have so I can get my yard tools & "stuff" out of the weather. Shipping containers can leak from above. A friend of mine found this out the hard...
  • Commented on A fistful of tropes
    The earliest videos show one wing missing as the plane plummets to the ground. I think this is a civilian plane so the spars (the structural element running along the wings) probably aren't particularly redundant (military planes have multiple spars)....
  • Commented on Pass or Fail
    The way I remember it, the newspaper business in the US was contracting well before Craigslist or wide availability of the Internet. Notably, evening newspapers and evening editions of morning newspapers started going away in the late 1980s and early...
  • Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
    Mark Knopfler's 'Sailing to Philadelphia' (title song of the album released in 2000) references Jeremiah Dixon (co-surveyor of the Mason-Dixon line, not far north of DC) as a Geordie. I don't know if that's historically correct. You can surely find...
  • Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
    Me: My neighbor's pacemaker connects via Bluetooth. paws4thot: And this is a good thing why? It encourages you to get along with your neighbors? (:-) (I was intending to make the point that medical devices do connect in complicated ways...
  • Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
    AIUI implants that talk do so by means of low-frequency inductive coupling between an implanted coil and a coil held in the right place outside the skin. My neighbor's pacemaker connects via Bluetooth. You can see it on your phone's...
  • Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
    AFAIK, no one ever sings "Hail to the Chief". It's just played by the Marine Corps Band. Then there's the spoof in the movie MASH. They sang that. The lyrics are here: http://www.bestcareanywhere.net/songs.htm#hail I couldn't easily find a link to...
  • Commented on Place your bets
    There are still some gems on twitter: https://twitter.com/SchmidCathrine/status/1642694330132631552 Just the parent post, some of the followups are inappropriate....
  • Commented on Place your bets
    Extracting just the critical points: Well, I've just shovelled an 8x15 m driveway with 30 cm of wet snow... I'd be surprised if I was lifting more than 5-6 kg per shovelful... I was moving very slowly, like an old...
  • Commented on Place your bets
    I installed Wolfram Alpha on my tablet. When I asked it the square root of pi, it told me it needed my location. I deleted it....
  • Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
    ...when I've flown in the last 10 years, SW has more legroom than, say, American. American and Delta have a 2 class coach section, with a bit more leg room for a few rows in the front. Their rear section...
  • Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
    "no such thing as climate change" Top 10 3 day snowfalls for the Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC area: https://www.weather.gov/lwx/winter_storm-pr#TopDaySnowfall 5 of the top 10 snowfalls have been since 1990. Records date back to 1800s....
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