Comment Re:APL? (Score 1) 83
I replaced the keycaps on an old IBM model (M?). Keycaps and keyboards are out there. Do a search.
May you find your input device of choice for the holiday season. Happy Festivus.
Comment Re:Internet Radio? (Score 1) 317
Also a ham, and Tesla model 3 owner. Went to meet another ham who was operating in the park (POTA) on 17 meters. On arrival, he commented on the interference caused before the car was even in sight. You might try listening again.
Comment Re:Software Engineering (Score 1) 121
Yeah the SABRE reservation system, written to run on mainframes. IBM. You think American Airlines wrote the code?
Submission + - The millennium bug is still with us (theguardian.com) 1
Bruce66423 writes: A woman who's 101 is causing problems for United Airlines
Comment And the panels are made by... (Score 2) 90
So, nobody is mentioning they are Tesla's SolarCity panels? Gizmodo mentions the inverters on the panels.
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-ech...
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-ech...
Comment Putin got caught? (Score 5, Interesting) 30
charged with allegedly transferring classified information to an unnamed foreign government
The company, ... helps companies and governments investigate cyberattacks and online fraud, and has customers ranging from Interpol to Russian banks and defense companies.
So we can translate this as Group-IB providing information about hackers, to a target of Russian government hacking then?
The company,
So we can translate this as Group-IB providing information about hackers, to a target of Russian government hacking then?
Comment Who? (Score 1) 250
Though it's a long way from becoming law, one of the legislators proposing it says "We need a paradigm shift in how we measure and evaluate our economy. If my district, New York's 16th...
Real "professional" journalism right here. Your quoting Jamaal Bowman, but not identifying him? Disappointing...
Real "professional" journalism right here. Your quoting Jamaal Bowman, but not identifying him? Disappointing...
Submission + - First space-baked cookies took 2 hours in experimental oven (go.com)
pgmrdlm writes: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The results are finally in for the first chocolate chip cookie bake-off in space.
While looking more or less normal, the best cookies required two hours of baking time last month up at the International Space Station. It takes far less time on Earth, under 20 minutes.
And how do they taste? No one knows.
Still sealed in individual baking pouches and packed in their spaceflight container, the cookies remain frozen in a Houston-area lab after splashing down two weeks ago in a SpaceX capsule. They were the first food baked in space from raw ingredients.
The makers of the oven expected a difference in baking time in space, but not that big.
“There's still a lot to look into to figure out really what's driving that difference, but definitely a cool result," Mary Murphy, a manager for Texas-based Nanoracks, said this week. "Overall, I think it's a pretty awesome first experiment.”
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano was the master baker in December, radioing down a description as he baked them one by one in the prototype Zero G Oven.
The first cookie — in the oven for 25 minutes at 300 degrees Fahrenheit (149 degrees Celsius) — ended up seriously under-baked. He more than doubled the baking time for the next two, and the results were still so-so.
The fourth cookie stayed in the oven for two hours, and finally success.
"So this time, I do see some browning," Parmitano radioed. "I can't tell you whether it's cooked all the way or not, but it certainly doesn't look like cookie dough any more."
Parmitano cranked the oven up to its maximum 325 degrees F (163 degrees C) for the fifth cookie and baked it for 130 minutes. He reported more success.
While looking more or less normal, the best cookies required two hours of baking time last month up at the International Space Station. It takes far less time on Earth, under 20 minutes.
And how do they taste? No one knows.
Still sealed in individual baking pouches and packed in their spaceflight container, the cookies remain frozen in a Houston-area lab after splashing down two weeks ago in a SpaceX capsule. They were the first food baked in space from raw ingredients.
The makers of the oven expected a difference in baking time in space, but not that big.
“There's still a lot to look into to figure out really what's driving that difference, but definitely a cool result," Mary Murphy, a manager for Texas-based Nanoracks, said this week. "Overall, I think it's a pretty awesome first experiment.”
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano was the master baker in December, radioing down a description as he baked them one by one in the prototype Zero G Oven.
The first cookie — in the oven for 25 minutes at 300 degrees Fahrenheit (149 degrees Celsius) — ended up seriously under-baked. He more than doubled the baking time for the next two, and the results were still so-so.
The fourth cookie stayed in the oven for two hours, and finally success.
"So this time, I do see some browning," Parmitano radioed. "I can't tell you whether it's cooked all the way or not, but it certainly doesn't look like cookie dough any more."
Parmitano cranked the oven up to its maximum 325 degrees F (163 degrees C) for the fifth cookie and baked it for 130 minutes. He reported more success.
Comment Re:So... better than average? (Score 1) 179
Small nit: KE is not quadratic, it's squared.
KE = 1/2 M V^2
Your numbers are correct though.
Comment Re:Birds of a feather. (Score 1) 12
Indeed, seems like TDR (time domain refelectometry) to me. Closed circuit radar that shows the location of discontinuities.
Comment Re: Use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy? (Score 1) 559
(insults deleted)
You lefties are confused. If you would just leave services like deliveries to the private sector, you wouldn't have our tax dollars that prop up the USPS subsidizing Chinese delivery. Private business would fix the price or go out of business.
No confusion on this side of the education divide; USPS gets NO taxpayer funding. NONE. It's all paid for by postage.
You lefties are confused. If you would just leave services like deliveries to the private sector, you wouldn't have our tax dollars that prop up the USPS subsidizing Chinese delivery. Private business would fix the price or go out of business.
No confusion on this side of the education divide; USPS gets NO taxpayer funding. NONE. It's all paid for by postage.
Comment Re:Is this it? If so, it is a "dull, monotonous to (Score 1) 127
You can also try using the
website which hosts links to about 150 (as I write this) individually owned receivers all over the world. Can be better reception from different locations.
Submission + - Microsoft Launches Counter-Attack on Russian Hacking Group Fancy Bear (winbuzzer.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has seized control of 70 domain names that link to Fancy Bear's command and control centers, therefore discovering previously unknown victims and hampering progress. It plans to carry on the tactic indefinitely.
Comment Re:I'm okay with this but I wish it was more (Score 1) 324
Letter mail is OCRed to facilitate automated sorting. That orange barcode on the back of your mail links to the database record
of the mailpiece destination. It's how the postal system sorts all that mail so quickly, with so few people. I've long suspected
that the data got used in other ways, but it's primary purpose is to move the mail.
Comment Re:Already been a novel about this... (Score 1) 135
Nope. "Daemon" was copyright 2009. Which you should have checked before posting.
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