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No, you're definitely not the only one who likes them. Some folks complain about them when they first go in, but they tend to figure it out. WSDOT has been encouraging them for a f…

There might be a bit you can do if you have a few details, thanks to other documents being digitized and OCR'ed. My great uncles both died in WWII and their service records were de…

When they first announced the Mindstorms kit, I was obsessed with the idea, but we were a Mac family. My parents somehow obtained a Robolab kit from the Lego educational catalog, w…

I was in middle school around that same time, my parents got me the educational equivalent of Mindstorms (with RCX 1.0). We didn't have a PC and the educational edition came with a…

I had a hard time finding a publication date for the original, but searching for it suggests 1979.

Wow, that is quite bizarre. I hadn't noticed the comment due to my browser extensions.

Mark Arax, the author of that article has a longer book, A Dreamt Land, on the subject of California agriculture and water, (probably the article is an excerpt) that is a really go…

Her essay on California's water system is one of the most beautiful pieces of writing about public works I have ever encountered. http://archive.pov.org/thirst/holy-water/

Civil engineer here - had a similar situation in undergrad, with an electrical engineering prof trying several times to get me to switch based on my interests. There are a lot of o…

I got three of these for a home NAS, not knowing any better. One failed within a day, the next failed within the first month, the third one lasted several years. For a long time, I…

I had a similar experience with a USB-C hub I bought from a brand recommended by wirecutter (not the exact model as it was "replaced by a newer model". I plugged it into a brand ne…

Wow, this still exists?! I remember trying to install MkLinux on a Performa 6116 that my parents no longer had a use for. I seem to recall it not having enough ram to run Xwindows,…

The general responses to suggest getting off of voice modes either HF or VHF, and into digital or contesting has problems for people not living in a large city with multiple clubs …