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I have a relatively ancient 8086 I still use from time to time with plain text files and a simple editor. It provides a distraction-free environment for writing. Save it to a 720kb…

They're looking at it wrong. The signs are operable by the flight crew. Given: Aircraft power is on, signs are on. Aircraft power is off, signs are off. Aircraft power is operable …

https://cifsjustice.org/leadership/ 4 Founders 6 Board of Directors 14 Advisory Board Members 3 Staff I'll grant there may be a 4th staff member not (yet) listed on their webpage, …

That's not worse, that's an outstanding mental image.

To pick on my favorite example, Many years ago, my univerity's choice of calculus book also had the solutions to half the problems (evens or odds, doesn't really matter). Departmen…

Good catch. Curiosity got me and I focused on the distance aspect, missing the forest for the trees, so to speak.

Assuming that they're referring to decimal degree notation, and not Degrees-Minutes-Seconds, and that the location is correct, and ignoring the spheroid vs perfect sphere issues: a…

Trivially defeated with a boot disk and ResEdit. Breaking things with ResEdit was pretty much my jr. high school hobby. It took a bit before I figured out how to restore things whe…

First, I appreciate the answer. I didn't know about the "no large bodies of water" requirement. When then leads me to ask, what's a "large" body of water? Second, and I'm not tryin…

To which I ask: Why not place a small loop of (wire, cord, thread, whatever qualifies) on the ground in a park somewhere. Then define "outside" and "inside" the other way 'round fr…

Some states allow "one party consent" to recordings of communications (ie, phone calls). Extending that, as long as Company A is aware of FB's practices, then your wishes are irrel…

All I see when I look at the JAXA logo is the blue Lockheed Martin star that they've used since the mid 90s, if not earlier.

I had a similar problem, several constraints (dozen or so, iirc), data set of a few thousand items. I thought about finding an elegant solution, but in the end decided that just do…

Regarding other software / platforms, HTTP GET seems easy enough to work with. My issue with wifi is really just a matter of too-many-networks and interference making it a bad solu…

Wish it had more details: Rate(s) of rotation, load capacities -- including windloading, etc. Also rather wish it didn't rely on wifi/android, but that's mostly because I don't use…

They did a lot of the "rails to trails" stuff around here as well, but the underlying deal is that it's all technically land-banked and the railroads can claim it back at basically…

There's a station local to me with above ground tanks. They're in an area that flood regularly, which is why the tanks aren't buried. I've never noticed a measurable difference whe…

The theory is that they can reduce the supersonic shockwave to the point where supersonic flight over populated areas can be legalized again.

I grew up with the "Save a Connie"[1] plane and organization in my back yard, so to speak -- we lived about 6 miles from the KC downtown airport. I remember dad taking me down to t…

Many universities these days have students scattered around the world in various distance education programs, or have students/staff/faculty at various other locations doing resear…

A few years ago, I placed an order from a small company on the east coast, to be shipped via USPS parcel post (ie, the cheapest and slowest option possible, though the company does…

Because Boris is UK-Trump? (said only semi-seriously, I don't follow UK politics close enough to know for sure how good the comparison is) I suspect it's a matter of the "special r…

Drivers Ed was an optional summer course in my district, and did include an on-road component. Not required at all (although the insurance company gave a discount for completing it…

Thank you, it looks very promising, and I like the host-it-yourself aspect.