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Comment · 1 year ago
doubleplusgood
Comment · 2 years ago
...but your X-10 stuff will need to be replaced.
Comment · 2 years ago
cronbot, mostly likely.
Comment · 2 years ago
No.

You are forgetting the Ottoman Empire, the Byzantine empire, the Roman Empire, the Ptolemaic Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the British Empire, the Canaanite Empire, and all the others I have neglected to mention.

Comment · 2 years ago
Is the origin of using the word, baloney, to imply a statement is untruthful?
Comment · 2 years ago
An old timey electronics person just might say, "gray."
Comment · 2 years ago
No. The Q's ran on JP-7. They had the turbojet engines, while most other tankers had turbofans.
Comment · 2 years ago
When they were still flying, I worked on them at Beale AFB. You always knew when an SR was going to take off. About an hour prior, 2 KC-135Q's would take off like a bat out of hell. They would always use water injection and you could see their black smoke trails.

An hour later, you would hear a giant rumbling coming from the flight line. It would get louder and louder until it was all you could hear. As the SR shot off into the distance, you could slowly make out the din of all the car alarms on base.

They would sometimes need 4 tankers and they would shoot off in pairs. I was told they always had two tankers per fill up. They would grab some from one and then some more from the other.

Back in the 90's it was estimated that each SR flight had a cost of at least a million dollars with fuel costs, wages, etc.

Comment · 3 years ago
Or a metric Crescent wrench.
Comment · 3 years ago
Silly boy, the m is silent.
Comment · 3 years ago
You could say that about a lot of followers of belief systems. If someone 'ardently' believes effective altruism & they are confident they will one day save the world; wouldn't committing crimes once in a while be worth the long term result of the world being saved?

Effective altruism is just a way for sociopaths to mask their actions while they burn down the world.

Comment · 3 years ago
Mostly because the similarity is implied.
Comment · 3 years ago
I have 4 pi4's running HiFiBerryOS. They connect to my Roon VM. I can group them together & they will play the same song in sync.

I have a pi4 running OSMC with the Plex addon attached to my television.

I've got about a half dozen Pi 0 W's with addon sensors that inform my Home Assistant of the temp, humidity, PM2.5 level, and CO2 levels in each room.

I just ordered a CM4 to run the PiKVM board for my homelab server.

I also plan to monitor and water my plants using Pi 0 W's.

I just ordered a Pi4 for running BirdNet, to identify birds in my area.

I would also like to work with ChatGPT to identify people and/or birds around my house.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
This is where chirality rears its ugly head.

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