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One of my favorites of Bradbury’s. Haunting.

Just gotta stay ahead of the heat curve! Also well seasoned cast iron is dishwasher safe, there is very little you can do to kill a cast iron pan.

I've always called this radio or dispatcher ear. You see it in industry that uses radio too.

109m is a perfectly sensible measurement

We would all have been better off if Boeing had replaced the 737 with the 757 as intended. Its quieter, more comfortable, and a better aircraft all around.

Arizona Iced Tea at least nominally includes ‘tea’

https://historicaerials.com/ is also good too.

Another thing I'd point out is how often planes regularly fell out of the sky as recently as 40 years ago - my first flight 32 years ago or so, they still had kiosks in the airport…

Yes, and you can buy a new e-reader and read all those same books. A kindle is more like a bookshelf from IKEA, it has a finite lifetime.

I dont think they read any of the parallel posts. For (others) reference the oldest bits of code in our software are from the mid-late 90’s and the oldest systems still paying for …

It is, but I cant build them spares (not even thru broker bought parts) anymore. At some point you have to force the customer to say goodbye.

You try building software with a version of Delphi that wont run on something newer than windows 7 and tell me how well that works out for you. Some of those customers cannot be up…

They changed how they make chewing tobacco (aka moist snuff) about 20 years ago and it has less of the cancer causing stuff (Nitrosamines) in it, its now closer chemically to snus …

Really inhaling something burning is bad. Pretty much every other form of tobacco that is not cigarettes is less bad.

Grew up there, the plant wasn't there first, probably around the same age.

How long should a hardware and software product be expected to last? Try estimating doing win11 updates on a 20 year old piece of delphi spftware with hardware full go custom ASICs…

I'm supporting a 30 year old product, the oldest one in the field are 20+ years old, we still support them. I'm just in the process of developing a lifecycle policy, being able to …

14 years of support for a device is pretty incredible.

The actual site of the tank is 33.78356416377991, -117.99993897629278 [1] - its in an industrial park, and its not a large scale chemical manufacturing facility. Its 'light manufac…

I could also just go buy VueScan, which is cross platform and great.

They could also just not care too much about compiler optimizations etc.

yes, largely - even if its just pin headers adding a detect line which shows a resistance between it and ground would be an improvement. In my working life I've seen - at least 3 d…

I'm open to other options, the biggest things is DTE-DCE auto detection