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I'm truly saddened by this. One of my favorite artists. Loved his work all around.

Easy. "Here, hold my beer"

There was a 2020 report. Haven't looked for a later one. https://www.bondcap.com/report/onw/#view/1

I'm retiring in 3 months. I'll miss the work and people, won't miss the stress and hours. During my career, I've repaired mainframes and graphics systems. I've managed Unix systems…

Well said.

There was a completed cabinet devoted to outputs for the field engineer. All the register were displayed, as well as buttons to set them. At least on later systems, they were in a …

Not a class per se, but a former company I worked at was trying to get the technical staff working closer to the business side a little better. There were several books we were ask…

You might check out https://libre.space I believe there have been some small sat projects documented in Make magazine also.

The rocket was called Orion. You would probably need more than 200 nukes for it. Proxima Centauri is ~4 light years away, not a half of a light year.

If you would have checked, they've scaled back the party to family and close friends. Before they scaled it back, invitees were asked if they were vaccinated and results of a Covid…

Been there, done that, need the t-shirt...

You do realize how far Pluto is, plus ottomh there is only one moon orbiting Pluto. You wouldn't see the flash anyway.

From what I remember, paper tape was a slower input device, while cards could be read much faster. To make a change, you had to repunch the whole tape, while for cards you could ju…

I was really saddened to hear this. I've always loved his music, and I didn't know he was ill. He will be missed.

Sorry, I hate dark mode apps. Too much eye strain for me. Give me a terminal screen with dark grey letters against a not quite white background and I'm good. Too many books when I …

It would have been nice to have those capabilities, but we still aren't there yet. Such an optimistic view of things.

Interesting form factor of the board. Everything on one edge. I wish I could buy just that. I supposed I will have to settle for the whole thing and toss the keyboard.

I played alto and tenor sax in high school/college. What a great instrument. It still gives me chills when I hear a great sax tune.

You could always start doing high powered rocketry. Some of the current rocket companies started that way. You could also develop a payload and test it as well.

Interesting. But while the first kit is listed as "free", there is nothing I could find on prices to keep going.

Cats, definitely. Friendlier then a panel heater, and contrary to popular opinion they are social animals.

People have been using wet plate photography for years. Others have started using dry plates, and someone is selling them commercially. Then there is a community working on the abo…

I thought I read some place, which I can't remember, that you would probably not make it past 800 yrs or so. Accidents happen. Unless you just hole up someplace and never do anythi…

Being in Junior College in 1973, some of the kids had 4 function calculators hanging off their belt. The rest of us in a tech track usually carried a slide rule. I did take a techn…

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