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Another former draftsman here...started a new job at a civil engineering firm and was tasked with learning AutoCAD. Quickly became once of the lead CAD draftsmen in the department,…

I would say "technology" is more appropriate than "automation". That and globalization have done it. Example: I live in Baltimore, a city that used to have an array of industries p…

One of my favorite "dead tech" memories is from when I worked as a CAD operator for an engineering firm in the late 1980s, where we had a half-dozen AutoCAD workstations and a Rola…

The small ship with the orange deck appears to have been blown onto land (look above its docked location in the after picture). I saw a live feed from later in the evening after th…

My former boss used to get really exercised by my doodling in meetings. He tried to bust me on not paying attention until I recounted in detail the meeting discussion along with se…

Hey, it served it's purpose -- as a shiny prop for whatever political candidate championed it to come and spout some pretty words and get a nice photo op.

If on some midnight dreary there is suddenly a tapping, as of someone rapping, at your chamber door... It's probably a raven. Nevermore.

What happened in the 1980s was the culmination of Baltimore's deindustrialization. Baltimore had the misfortune of having every single one of its major job-producing industries dec…

I think affluence of the local population and job competition also affect the rankings. The places with the worst-rated homes generally have larger populations of less affluent (i.…

Just make sure that if you're going to be discussing disconnecting DeepLens that you turn the pod so that the camera can't read your lips.

Actually, the government (NNSA, https://nnsa.energy.gov/ ) trains for that on a pretty regular basis. They scan cities for known sources of radiation (hospitals, certain types of i…

Why does it have to be a DoD/CIA mission? It's quite possible it is Homeland Security gathering information on illegal immigrants, or possibly the FBI conducting surveillance. I've…

Yep, for example they continuously scan license plates with police/parking enforcement vehicle-mounted cameras. Just do a data dump at the end of shift (saves on those pesky mobile…

I was looking at FlightRadar24 and listening to ATC while an A380 took off from Dulles near DC. Not only did they warn for wake turbulence when the plane was already well away, the…