Viewing profile — Mister_X

All five of my former domains since 1999 are now placeholders by squatters.

When I could still go caving 30+ years ago, I wanted to visit Ellison's and drop Fantastic Pit, yeah... 586 feet free, that would've been fun. But I was too busy discovering/explor…

I agree, but even when I was installing/servicing hydro, wind and solar systems years ago, solar was still the least expensive way to go if one had sufficient solar exposure. And s…

From my experience, smaller scale Wind Turbines are more hassle than they are worth, at least in the early 90's when I was servicing them. First, one has to complete a wind survey,…

Micro Hydro is a bit of a misnomer here, the link leads to a device thats more like mid sized hydro. In the early 90's I was installing/servicing micro hydro systems here in rural …

Yup, when I saw the initial report I wondered if it was a murder/suicide, or an extremely distracted or inattentive driver. I've driven that section of Highway One South of Pacific…

What a nice build and documentation, you've really put a lot of thought and useful options into this project, thanks for that. Hmmm, what's your use case for the Armed home mode? I…

For those who still like to tinker with electronics, here are some places that I still get parts from. Jameco Electronics https://www.jameco.com/ The Electronic Goldmine https://th…

If you believe radio kits were as advanced as one could buy "back in the day", I guess you never looked at a HeathKit catalog, they offered all kinds of kits more sophisticated tha…

Chips and Dips: 1997 And I have a beard, but not a neck beard. This place is more like the "old" /. and I like it here.

Thanks for that. BTW, I've been hanging out at /. since it was "Chips and Dips".

Actually, rescuers did use a rock hammer drill to place anchors to attach pulleys to, so he could be extracted, unfortunately, the drill bit broke and they had to return to the sur…

There are very few "professional cavers", i.e. those who are paid to go into caves. It's mostly hard core cavers who do the majority of cave exploration, surveying/mapping and biol…

Both of those stories garnered world wide attention, but one of the positive unintended consequences of those tragic events was that they scared many "adventure seekers" enough tha…

Yay, KFJC FM where I started my radio career in 1979. It's still a great station to hear "new" music. https://kfjc.org

Not likely, since the ASCAP reporting period is only one week, twice each year. ASCAP = American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am…

I spent 12 years at KMFB FM on the Mendocino coast (show host & Control Op), and it was a rare commercial station that had specialty shows where the host would have to get their ow…

I recently retired after a 42 year career in broadcast radio (at six different stations), and the two non commercial stations I worked at had "underwriting" which is kind of like a…

My father was an ME and EE and was one of the principle engineers on that project (of Clementine, the BIG claw that picked up the Russian Golf Class sub). I used to drive him to an…

If I'm understanding what you're getting at, I believe all the main dating sites already share user profiles between themselves to flesh out their "stock" of potential paying custo…

When I used to go out on 1 on 1s, I had zero expectations, that way no matter how it went, I usually had a good time because I like meeting new people. But I hope you can find some…

Yes, Working on it, trying to figure out an email contact form, I don't know PHP.

Best wishes with developing that idea, and I believe there is already a FOSS dating site template out there somewhere, I saw it a few years ago but didn't have the emotional energy…

Ha, ha, ha, I just read the blue sidebar on the right of their page, and they play the big corporation conspiracy card too. It's the 100 mile per gallon carburetor "cover up" all o…

Why is this even here on HN? I see no prototype, no torque output predictions for a prototype, and no documentation that it's even been built. It reminds me of when I was part of a…