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thspimpolds

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    Comment #30911261

    Having gone to college and knowing this guy personally from then, you would have a much different opinion... Maybe he has grown up, but back then... yeeesh

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    Comment #29391973

    Phew, I was wondering when they closed the sale. I swear I would have remembered that

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    Comment #28358540

    They are also pressure fitted onto the axles. They are not bolted or otherwise fixed. The only thing which keeps them on the train is friction and the rail itself. I was on a commu…

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    Comment #28274860

    How ironic... James is VP and DE at AWS...

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    Comment #26411336

    The "gas" is more like a fog of capsules. FM-200 is a common one. Basically it has a Fire suppression agent inside crystals which are blasted into the room by compressed air. These…

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    Comment #25432776

    At least with Azure the new Windows Terminal App has Azure Cloud Shell in it. So you can use it like it was just a different session target and less fuss...

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    Comment #25266073

    the NSF confirmed the cables failed sometime over night, this wasn't the planned decommissioning. They noticed with drone flights the cable exteriors which remained on tower 4 were…

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    Comment #25264869

    As sad as this is, I'm glad the NSF didn't try to repair it now. There could have been people on the platform when it gave way.

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    Comment #25258151

    It caught his nose between one of the ribbons of rail. That caused his car to pierce the barrier instead of having its energy dissipated. Also there is a theory that the pole holdi…

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    Comment #24765860

    Which in this case is tomorrow. The original video was posted last week

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    Comment #24407976

    I actually miss using Razor. That was the best Pxeboot based system I have run into

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    Comment #24119747

    If you liked the stuff here, I would highly encourage you to read this: https://www.amazon.com/Raven-Rock-Governments-Secret-Itself-... It's very well written and lots of pictures …

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    Comment #23750134

    The average student at Harvard doesn't pay even close to actual tuition, most of the endowment is earmarked for student aid. If I remember right, something like under 90k earned by…

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    Comment #22727613

    That would not be done on Ground Station, at least in standard regions. Once you hit that level, you are into at least the Gov region. That being said, those agencies already have …

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    Comment #17033688

    Montreal is on tires which gives a predictable stop, it’s not metal on metal which varies based on atmospherics

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    Comment #16673158

    Similar but inverse to this, I was fixing a critical server and it usually came up in a minute or less. 5 minutes later I get concerned, I walk into the server room and it’s still …

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    Comment #16281753

    NZ was the Fuji Xerox partnership. Fuji ran that from all accounts. I worked in the Developing Markets Org at Xerox (proper), Asia Pacific was its own silo and they did their own t…

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    Comment #16281732

    This is pretty accurate. I mean, I’m sure you remember the xww intranet prefix. Such odd quirks there

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    Comment #14664465

    while I want to read this article, that font makes it impossible.

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    Comment #12912528

    I did this for the AP in high school. They pay you about 40 bucks and two of you go and write it down independently. You than each call the AP and state your numbers and that's it.…

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    Comment #12244096

    Something about android and an obd device working together terrifies me. Last thing I want a phone which has exploits galore being able to turn off my engine as I drive. Frankly an…

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    Comment #11682911

    Same here, I want to get back to my BK love

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    Comment #11672227

    I think you guys undersell BAM. That was such a clutch feature where i used BK. It's sad seeing git large file handling just show up, I garuntee it has a long way to go to get pari…

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    Comment #11530870

    We have 20Gbit of Direct Connect with public peering on. This causes upload for us to be 40% slower in primary region and 2-5% slower in the other regions in the US. We only get an…