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razzmataz

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    Comment #28814515

    I used to live in an area served by what was then GTE and they had antennas like this. I have not seen anything listing GTE’s equivalent infrastructure. Does anything exist for tha…

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    Comment #22875523

    They started carrying gunpods at the time. Missiles of the era were inaccurate and finicky.

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    Comment #22875520

    Not to mention the AIM-4 was originally designed to shoot down Soviet bombers and not for dogfighting.

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    Comment #21869293

    Whatever happened to the other openbsd fork, bitrig?

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    Comment #21645745

    I don’t know about the current version, but macOS has been certified as UNIX in the past.

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    Comment #20220490

    Darknet Diaries episode 39 covers quite a bit about Daniel. He also used to call in to the PLA Phone Show under the pseudonym “Skunkworks”, and talk about dissolving bodies and voc…

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    Comment #14193262

    These look like the TARS blimps or DEA blimps used for border surveillance and trying to catch drug smugglers.

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    Comment #12231890

    For me, hydroflouric acid.

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    Comment #11791841

    Why not try to resurrect k5?

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    Comment #10228711

    Maybe Alcatel can swoop in and buy them up.

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    Comment #9975935

    Alcatel, Alcatel not Nokia bought Lucent.

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    Comment #9554702

    "A New Kind of Science" was like that.

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    Comment #9485362

    Toner wars, right?

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    Comment #8928861

    Does it support any sort of port forwarding, not just X11?

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    Comment #8907432

    That said, the saving grace for Tcl were things like Expect and Tk. I don't think I ever used it for anything else....

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    Comment #8907407

    The irony here, then, is that Perl 5 took the object system that Python had in 1995 as an example to emulate.

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    Comment #8712230

    The last time an all service airframe was designed, McNamara was Secretary of Defense, and the F-111 was born. The Navy decided to pass on it.

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    Comment #8629660

    I get 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒐...

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    Comment #8621734

    Don't forget the PlayStation 3 and 4.

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    Comment #8611064

    Actually, Illumina's $1000-genome machine is 10 machines, and the way you get the $1000 genome cost is by running around 18000 samples thru in a year.... And when the bioinformatic…

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    Comment #8374106

    Does this count stay at home parents in the 1 in 4 figure?

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    Comment #7223928

    You never know, maybe they will be sacked after these layoffs are taken care of. One place I worked at, two managers were each told to select one of their underlings for layoffs. A…

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    Comment #7217155

    Ages ago, there used to be a python-lisp hybrid called e7. I wonder if that provided any inspiration.

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    Comment #7210712

    Is this true of the Latitude series of laptops? Or just the XPS? I would think the Commercial grade hardware would be a bit tougher.

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    Comment #7174942

    Did they not already abandon one DRM scheme many many years ago, with DRM-ed pdfs? I remember Acrobat versions 5-8 or somewhere in that range of versions having DRM, with a few ven…