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no one i know got caught :)

another copy, in the original Mercurial, and with mediawiki dumps too: https://archive.org/details/SymbianOpenSource

Rsync also doesn't track hardlinks by default! I use "-avPzHAXS" for my backups.

The rack unit's dimensions are inherited from manual telephone switchboard jack-and-lamp panels ... and the standard rack is approximately 100 years old. https://archive.org/detail…

In context, with the rest of the magazine: https://archive.org/details/MacUser8605May1986/page/n9/mode/...

ESD protection Zener diodes, maybe?

If "hella" is 10^27 then clearly "hecka" would be the correct name for 10^-27.

One hundred percent of the time when I've clicked that button, it says "XYZCorp is advertising to people located in the United States", even when the ad is clearly more targeted th…

Yeah, it's feet measured east and north of an arbitrary point southwest of everything in the state. There is an actual point inside the state used as a base but they set up a false…

Related work elsewhere (2012): https://research.swtch.com/qart

Hi there! Connections Museum volunteer here. We're on good terms with our landlords (CenturyLink). While we are 100% volunteer run, we also are part of an independent non-profit, t…

They serve everything in-house and are their own AS; this allows them to provide stronger guarantees of reader privacy than sites that use a CDN.

Yes, in the US rents are usually due on the first of the month and all months cost the same amount.

Sidetone! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidetone

Isn't this what SOAP promised? What's different this time?

ripcord is exactly that https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

i've visited a number of private telephone collections and Don's is absolutely massive by any standard. i can't do it justice, nor can any photo album. but he has, among other trea…

I've definitely watched birds playing.

One of the articles cited is available for free: " rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/bstj39-4-995> . I find it interesting to note that the engineers also made variable fo…

Natgas is a turbine engine directly; coal and oil uses a boiler running a steam turbine.

Yeah ... I can drive across the country and land in a particular parking spot with 100% repeatability.

That's not what they said though. They said "if you want to know if someone feels welcome, and you ask them, and they say they don't feel welcome, then you're done researching whet…

Click.

Birds aren't made of plastic and metal and lithium-polymer.

Tyvek, perhaps? I'm not sure how long-term it would stick around, but it wouldn't decay as fast as paper in an unprotected environment.