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My high school's was the strangest before they overhauled their site. One of the URLs was some sort of CGI spell check app: just a button and a field that said "I am spelled wrang"…

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if the Pixhawk org. was more cautious about fail-safe systems than Tesla

I'm alright with the author mentioning it because some of the steering behavior is defined in software in newer cars.

Personally, I prefer electric steering because it takes so little torque input. My Mercedes cabrio was heavy and tiring to steer, but I can steer the Mirage with my fingertips. As …

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I find it easier to quickly read watches that have minutes printed instead of hours.

That looks like every phishing text I receive.

That's a beautiful website. Definitely bookmarking this one

I accidentally bought a gaming laptop that can't run Linux, so I'm stuck with Windows 10 exclusively. Although it really isn't that bad now. My workplace uses SmartCAM, an ancient …

It's a really well-sized unit for that kind of work. I know exactly what a thou is and how to keep things in spec, but I'm lost using mm.

Anecdotal, but old.reddit.com (besides search) seems to always work during these outages. I'm guessing they're always knocking out the AJAX and search machines for some reason

My ASUS GA502 makes all kinds of noises. It has a loud coil whine when the keyboard backlight is off/dim, and the audio chipset is constantly popping the speakers by turning on and…

My carburetor requires 0 data to operate!

Could you make something like the old Windows Personal Server [1], but dummy-proof? Make the app a DYNDNS client and let them register subdomains on your short domain (mybox.foo.ba…

Example: The gentlemen's agreement to end competition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_mot...

I'm guessing the camera isn't used for aircraft separation since nearly everything has ADS/B now.

Not a web developer, but Grav CMS is pretty neat.

Worse: liberty mutual has a black box that uses your phone. Then you give up your driving/location data, your mobile data, your phone battery, and your OBD-2 port.

I'm guessing that some of the included BSD tools on my Mac are pretty old, because they're so simple. https://gist.github.com/pete/665971

They're also launching a suit in the capsule. I can't wait to see another Starman, especially one that flies a real spaceship.

Total scam. They wanted to start a reality show to fund R&D for a Mars base. There aren't any technical details on the "Mars Transit Vehicle", which looks like a KSP rocket with a …

Actually, you can talk to satellites[1] using a technician license, because they use VHF/UHF. A general or extra is required for using certain HF bands. [1] http://www.arrl.org/get…