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What was the failure rate of those vacuum tubes, that they had to be so quick & easy to replace? I'm also curious, if the cathode was grounded to the machine frame, how dangerous w…

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I'm surprised that the 404 Media article does not mention anything about this. At least, searching for the word "Clean" did not return any results.

There are other lines in the post that, to me, provide clarity. First is this, the second paragraph: > British-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) wrote a letter to m…

I didn't know about it! And I really wish I did…

The content of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628303 should have been posted as the item's text. Or, that text could've been put in to an Issue, and the link pointed to tha…

To be clear, Wise (previously "Transfer Wise", symbol `WISE` on the LSE) is not a bank. Wise is a Money Services Business in the US; in the UK, they are an Electronic Money (e-mone…

This makes me think of Jazz Semiconductor in Newport Beach. I think they’re Tower Semiconductor now, but I believe they’re still there, a small fab in SoCal that I assume is making…

Chris' videos are really good. And that was a great surprise at the end! (Yes, I'm being intentionally vague to get you to watch the video.) I played SimCity in the past, along wit…

Yes, 100G multimode transceivers are cheaper, but they don't use the same fiber. 100G on singlemode (100G-LR4 being the most common) uses the well-known two-strand ("duplex") fiber…

I'm curious, when's the last time you've checked the parking garages of your nearby university campus?

Are you talking about El Camino Real? There are two areas of construction happening: One at Page Mill and one in the San Antonio area. Most of the lane-blocks are happening only be…

Or Zipcar

Please reference https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/07/Just-Dont , as discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33518496 I checked in the Waymo app; it would b…

I said “20 minutes (or more)”. The 20-minute case is for a pickup at 5 AM. If I travel to the airport later in the morning, the time difference is worse. And although 20 minutes do…

I wonder how the subscription would respond to a person's area being blocked off. There construction happening a block down the road from me. As part of the work, the rightmost lan…

https://www.actalis.com/activate-free-plan maybe?

> Written with claude. No. The reversion commit references https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/959 . In that GitHub issue is this comment: > The change to zero memory was …

Hello! I think you are looking for the "Who Wants to be hired?" post, which is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357724

I am surprised the trunk didn't open, and I’m very surprised that Waymo support could not turn the vehicle around. I’ve had a Waymo alert me when I left something in the back seat;…

Not completely true for SFO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894081

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