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AstroJetson

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news.ycombinator.com 11mo ago

Ask HN: Do you do anything with the "cool" languages that get posted here?

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hackaday.com 1y ago

Before Computers: Notched Card Databases

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: What is your RP 2040 development environment?

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: How do you bypass, eliminate, reduce friction when starting a project

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programmingsimplicity.substack.com 2y ago

Rhetorical questions about why programs are not smaller

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minifigboards.com 2y ago

Mini Figure Shaped Circuit Boards

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www.optoutproject.net 2y ago

Linux is like ice cream

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www.axios.com 2y ago

America's Loneliness Crisis Deepens as Work Friendships Fade in Remote Era

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What is that "I didn't know I needed" tool/item until you saw it here

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What is the most amazing Awk program you've used

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medium.com 4y ago

Ravi, a Lua Dialect

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www.electronicdesign.com 5y ago

Heathkit – An Employee Looks Back

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www.noaa.gov 5y ago

NHC – Record breaking 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season comes to a close

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homebrewserver.club 5y ago

How to build a solar powered website – low tech magazine

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cpldcpu.wordpress.com 6y ago

Addressable 7 segment display using a 7 cent microprocessor

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usa.nissannews.com 6y ago

Nissan builds pickup out of a Leaf and Frontier (2014)

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forge.medium.com 6y ago

Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting

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www.msn.com 6y ago

NASA contractor convicted of subbing Chinese steel for space launch,and cover up

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mythryl.org 6y ago

Mythryl: Combines C speed,Lisp power&Ruby convenience with Hindley-Milner typing

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www.familyhandyman.com 6y ago

The Guide for Secret Hiding Places in Your Home

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hackaday.com 6y ago

Automatic line rewinder makes kite retrieval a breeze. 3D Printed

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www.inquirer.com 6y ago

Philly Phanatic Mascot in Multi-Million Dollar Copyright Lawsuit

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store-us.shapertools.com 7y ago

Shaper Origin now taking orders $2499, ship Jan 2019

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github.com 7y ago

JPL / NASA Release Open Source Build It Yourself Rover Plans

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Recycle fail, used fabrics are not a market

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Amateur Radio at a crossroads with unpopular board actions proposed

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www.arrl.org 9y ago

FCC Issues Amateur Radio Service Rules for 630 Meters and 2,200 Meters

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hbr.org 9y ago

Employee Burnout Is a Problem with the Company, Not the Person

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: What CES device are you excited about?

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www.arrl.org 9y ago

Amateur Radio Antenna Bill Dies at Senator's Desk

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Half-Baked Product 19 days ago

I have a friend whos kitchen is almost the size of my apartment. They have a "dish" dishwasher and a "glass" dishwasher with different inside configurations. Woe to me that only has a sink and loaded into the wrong dishwasher.

(They also have a fridge and then two pull out drawer units, one is for keeping extra snacks frozen things (like ice, ice cream, juice etc.) and the other is for veggie / meat.)

Knoppix 22 days ago

My first efforts in cluster computing was Cluster Knoppix. I would go into the training lab with 25 PCs and boot them all into a single cluster. When I was done for the night it was an easy reboot back.

Fun times

I’m disappointed that VEX IQ didn’t make the list of connections. For a System they have a lot of well thought out parts, they need help on the decoration side and smaller gear patterns.

The Cult of Costco 4 months ago

Sometimes you need 1 item, like a chicken for dinner or ribs to grill. Pro tip, don’t take a cart. Go in, get your two/three things and walk out for under $40.

Take a cart, always over $100.

Some of us don’t, but for about $2k they will drain the fluid out and refill will floater free materials.

Changed my life, I thought I was living in a small crowd of fruit flies.

I have the same system, todo become done. I also add done things that I didn’t expect/ plan to do. (Life’s curve ball). I also started tracking “what is the worst thing that happened today”. That’s added perspective that I may think I had a bad day, when in fact I got these things done and the worst thing was actually pretty minimal.

I think the BOFH answer would be “They ride Elevator #2 to sub-basement 3.” Plot twist, there is only sub-basement 2.

Two pints of ale please!

I have an iPad Air that I love, made in 2014, last iOS is 12.5. I’d love a slightly more current browser, but the rest of the software is working fine. I spend 6-7 hours using it each day.

Just a browser is all I want.

It’s like the days when I traveled for work, and some bright spark in finance said the bonus points belonged to the company. We had a few go-arounds about it. It got ugly in the company, and I refused to fly. Then about a dozen other employees refused to fly. I still went to customer locations, but I drove. What could be a one day trip to Chicago became 3 days out, one day there, 3 days back. Mileage, food and hotels were easily 4 times the cost of the flights. They backed down.

Popeye the Sailor has entered the chat. /s

Weirdly, I do get ads for veggies, but it could be driven by my recent research spree on vegetarian recipes to have great food across the holidays for my mostly vegetarian family. I may have skewed “the algorithm “

I did a very long RCA on a problem. My management at the time was really BIG into looking at ALL THE CAUSES. They wanted HUGE fishbone diagrams to show that we had looked at everything. This was in the days of having huge drum plotters, so the diagrams could be 36" and many feet long.

So I did what they wanted and the root cause was:

On December 11 1963 Mr and Mrs Stanley Smith had sexual intercourse.

I got asked what that had to do with anything and I said, "If you look up a few lines you'll see that the issue was a human error caused by Bob Smith, if he hadn't been born we wouldn't have had this problem and I just went back to the actual conception date."

I got asked how I was able to pin it to that date and said "I asked Bob what his father's birthday was and extrapolated that info"

I was never asked to do a RCA again.

Yes, you can pick a better word if you want.

    Positive spin: consolidation, efficiency, right-sizing, focus, sustainability
    Negative spin: downsizing, austerity, retrenchment, contraction, gutting
I would say that for something that is good for the public, that cutting it back is not a good thing.

Remember, they are not making land any more, so once it's no longer forest / public areas, it's gone.

In the 80’s I lived in SE Pennsylvania. In the King of Prussia Mall was Gene’s Books. They had ALL the titles. I worked for a tech company that wanted people to learn things. I wrangled $300 per month budget and a small office that we turned into a tech library. Gene’s was a regular bi-weekly stop to get the lates editions. Computer Shopper was the only magazine that we got 3 of every month.