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bingaling

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    Comment #40431245

    cloth hockey tape, great for adding soft grip to tools

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    Comment #40199094

    zooming with mousewheel is a bit slow, takes ~10 scrolls to get to ~2x zoom (max)

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    Comment #40080505

    reminds me of phase space plots of weak tcp isn rng https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/oldtcp/tcpseq.html https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/newtcp/

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    Comment #40014977

    where's the chimney?

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    Comment #36989081

    http://ftp.vim.org/pub/netscape/communicator/english/3.04/wi...

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    Comment #36086586

    the wit's soul wears briefs or something

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    Comment #35816804

    this is a pr/lobbying/marketing expense to delay train investment and sell cars, silly .. the purpose of these is to sell cars over trains

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    Comment #34095584

    Yep confirming/restating, for kitchenware, lowercase pyrex == tempered, capital PYREX == borosilicate.

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    Comment #33806295

    My Brother laser printer counts toner consumption (i.e. page count) with a keyed gear on the toner cartridge, different cartridge capacities have different shaped gears, resetting …

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    Comment #33359083

    http push, baby! alternatively, trust the client timer, ship a full 86400 frame gif, and figure out a start-frame hack.

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    Comment #33267254

    it's instantaneous, but the -T (transfer buffer % full display) is sometimes useful for that. (0% full -> source limited, 100% full -> sink limited)

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    Comment #31994002

    Some analysis of the Azure / Sql Server 2017+ automatic index tuning: https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2019/02/what-does-azure-sq...

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    Comment #31126602

    The 1992 WGBH/BBC 5-part miniseries "The Machine That Changed The World"(US)/"The Dream Machine"(UK): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_That_Changed_the_W... is out of prin…

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    Comment #30995903

    You preempted a question about the lineage from/comparison with acoustic delay lines in footnote 2. Thanks for the posts :-)

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    Comment #30995692

    don't trash it, put it in a closet for a while until you want to (or find someone who wants to) learn electronics troubleshooting. You'll regret trashing it in a few years.

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    Comment #13870661

    With darts: https://www.youtube.com/embed/M34TO71SKGk

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    Comment #10687893

    Is your town participating in this project? http://wiredwest.net/map-of-wired-west-towns/

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    Comment #10500550

    Perhaps this is the support you need: https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/commit/9ecc4732a583...

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    Comment #10387734

    Looks like it fixes the suck (lack of package management) of cygwin, very nice! Cmder/conemu http://cmder.net/ is another nice console emulator for windows

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    Comment #9512065

    MEMS sensor (gyros/accelerometers) technology developed for smartphones made cheap multicopter control systems possible.

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    Comment #8450451

    > I have never heard of Illumos which also implies I've never heard anything bad about it. It's the open fork of OpenSolaris after the Oracle takeover of Sun. Many ex-Sun engineers…

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    Comment #7917795

    Did you take into account filesystem block size?

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    Comment #7706560

    perhaps the modern.ie dev vms could be boxed up http://modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads

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    Comment #7292110

    Looking forward to the video!

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    Comment #7185255

    Whoops, running the frontend cache in debugging mode: https://twitter.com/postwait/status/431117981922631681