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  1. I did this for 3 years for two homeless women. Had to kick them out because I did not want meth in my home.
  2. In 2007 I was an Italian citizen studying at a university in Texas.

    For a final project, we built a cool autopilot, and demoed it on several vehicles, including a precision dropper airplane, and a sailboat.

    The airplane happened to be slightly better than what the USAF admitted to having at the time.

    There were 5 of us working on that project, including 1 US citizen.

    The citizen got a NASA internship out of it. The rest of us were put on a list and I for one had a very tough time getting a green card later on even with a NIW.

    I shudder to think what this maladministration is doing to foreign STEM students now!

  3. This is very near my hometown (Nebbiuno; I am from Verbania).

    Lots of very old people here. The world's oldest lady used to be from Verbania, she died at 117.

    Northern Italy is less loud than southern Italy but it has a quiet beauty.

  4. China will buy Siberia. No shots fired.
  5. I had this problem on my Oculus Rift box (remember those? it still runs beat saber just fine) and the solution was to solder some beefy capacitors on the end of unused power cables coming out of the power supply. If I recall correctly it was the 12V line that did it, which I didn't expect.

    The buzz isn't completely gone but now I can't hear it unless I'm paying attention to it, which if I am playing beat saber, I'm not.

  6. Dr. Walter Gibbs: Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop.
  7. I think if someone yoinks your phone and installs stuff on it the basic options are "call the cops" or "make them call the cops".
  8. Can we please keep calling the DoD with its actual name and not humor the stupids? Thanks.
  9. I like this... right now I'm using a ras pi 3 or 4 as a file server and it seems to mostly work?
  10. https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Corvega_analog_coupe

    Full Analog System No Electronics!!!! No Computers!!!! 800+ Horsepower 0 to 60 in .5 sec

  11. Missed opportunity to call it TRON.

              ALAN
                        It's called Tron. It's a security
                        program itself, actually. Monitors
                        all the contacts between our system
                        and other systems... If it finds
                        anything going on that's not scheduled,
                        it shuts it down. I sent you a memo
                        on it.
    
    
                                   DILLINGER
                        Mmm. Part of the Master Control Program?
    
    
                                   ALAN
                        No, it'll run independently.
                        It can watchdog the MCP as well.
    
    
                                   DILLINGER
                        Ah. Sounds good. Well, we should have
                        you running again in a couple of days,
                        I hope.
  12. Missed opportunity to call it TRON.
  13. thank you, i'll grab this!
  14. Cool! We made https://www.robots-everywhere.com/cellsol/ in 2020 but I think Meshtastic is further along. However, ours can run on an atmel328.

    We also respect and forward Meshtastic and DisasterRadio packets, but there is currently no reciprocity. What can be done about it?

  15. owo what's this
  16. I miss the internet when it was like this.
  17. Social media's next evolution: state-owned, built by politically connected firms, and working poorly but there's no alternative....
  18. For the same reason why cats sit on your keyboard. Because they can
  19. Formative for me. I read it in 1994ish when I was a smol.

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