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One person's tireless work to document airfields from the past

Such takings of property under eminent domain had happened before; it was not a new idea in 2005. This case was the result of a suit against such takings. The suit failed, and the …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London "[The Court held, 5–4, that the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another private owner to f…

I replaced the write-protect sensor with a toggle switch.

There was a time, not long ago, when new products were built on new ideas, and the marketplaces were very, very heterogeneous. Now, the marketplaces are largely commoditized and ne…

Use roads at 60mph? I guess they're most efficient if they don't start the engines at all and you put the plane on a boat or a train.

No, they typically fly at the most profitable speeds within the constraints of the flight and airspace parameters. Which results designing the planes to be efficient at those speed…

Realizing that there are other issues with which to contend, why not just start slowing down airline flights? Drag, and therefore fuel used, is a function of velocity squared . htt…

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/exped... Tyranny of the rocket equation

I think the Alpha port stands out in memory because that was the cause for overcoming 32-bitness.

Many dot matrix printers were boustrophedonic. Also how I mow my lawn.

Or one of the Foenix systems, like: https://c256foenix.com/16bits-new-retro-computers/?v=7516fd4...

There is exactly this in Leesburg, VA. https://www.leesburgva.gov/departments/airport/about-leesbur... It's getting closed, though, and replaced with a physical tower. https://www.…

Elektronika in the Soviet Union sold a number of LSI-11 home computers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronika_BK Fun to ponder what would it be like if the PDP-11 (and descende…

The word “mile” comes from Latin “mille passus”, one thousand paces. A pace was measures from same footfalls: left, left, left. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile#Historical

Reminds me of when the New York Times apologized to Robert Goddard when it turned out that rockets worked fine in outer space after all. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/201…

I seem to recall that Sun put ZFS under a license that has been deemed incompatible with the GPL by pretty much everyone except Canonical, and so that it can't be integrated with t…

As a bicyclist, I use my front brake vastly more than the rear. https://www.sheldonbrown.com/brakturn.html

Relevant conversation here 11 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34651799

Shove crinkled-up newspaper into the boots, it will absorb moisture and hasten drying (was taught this by an Icelandic hiking guide).

I think the Flying Circus in Bealeton, VA (near DC) brought back free wing-walking (i.e. not strapped to the plane), and continues their barnstorming airshows to this day: https://…

That's been done - the Apollo Guidance Computer that took people to the Moon was built from purely NOR gates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer#Logic...