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I was in high school right at the time the first CAD systems came in and our school was the test school for the region. Our older drafting teacher didn't want to learn the new system so he asked the class who knew "computers". I had had Commodore PETs at home for a few years and was teaching myself to code. My hand shot up and I was given full access to the new machine to "figure it out". It was my first introduction to PCs (IBM XT) and of course AutoCAD. I still remember, version 1.17b. I was introduced to LISP in AutoCAD, I ended up partaking in regional training for the other schools when they got their CAD systems, and then into a job working with AutoCAD.

In my 20's I started a company developing engineering and architectural add-ons in LISP for AutoCAD, and while we later transitioned into a general software house, those will always be my roots. John's products changed the direction of my life and I wish I had had the chance to let him know that.

When the school region later deprecated that IBM XT 10 years later the school asked me if I wanted it. Still have it along with the original Kurta tablet and Roland plotter.

Right from the top I thought "Why would I risk this breaking my site at random?"... until the last paragraph. There the author states that (outside of the exploration for exploration's sake benefit) there may be potential gain here in comparing the output from this tool to a CSS monstrosity that has not been well managed. I think that could be quite valuable.

Just a note that the bolts problem on other planes is not the same as this one. This plane it seems that the locking bolts were missing entirely, not just loose. Their design requires a cotter pin and castelated nut to disappear and then for them to be completely removed, all 4, before the door can move. They act like a pin locking the door in place so all 4 have to no longer exist vs. just being loose. Of course the final report will tell but it looks like they were just not there. The other loose bolts found do however indicate a lack of attention and inspection in this area on a whole which may have contributed to this slipping through.

Agreed, those are not going to rattle loose. Even if the cotter pins were all missing, 4 nuts would have had to back off fully and 4 bolts would have had to wiggle out, not to mention they would likely be under pressure from the guide pin during flight. Again, the final report will tell all but it really seems to me that they were just not there.

This but on Windows 7 please. It is still my favourite version of Windows.

And still not available in Canada. Sigh.

Giving me memories of tag based Coldfusion days.

Thanks! It was there this morning for me as well. Didn't even have to do an app update.

Where is this available? I have the app installed but I don't see a headphones button, just one that seems to record my voice and then attempts to transcribe it for submission (and fails every time). I'm on Android, App icon is the black ChatGPT logo on a white background. Thanks!

I suspect because it resembles the Firefox logo.

I've since learned that apparently the tape itself is non-flammible, but the glue ON the tape is flammible. The manufacturer was a little liberal in their interpretation of the specs.

"...and the second problem came with hundreds of feet of P-213 glass cloth tape inside the spacecraft found to be flammable."

How does the craft get built and you just discover this now?

The problem is the percentage use is so unbalanced right now (IMO due to Google and Microsoft using their other platforms to drive installing their browsers) that I now run across sites that only function in Chrome properly. A lot of devs feel that "Eh, I've targeted the 90+%, why do the rest matter?" and that is how you hand control of web standards to Google. The usage ratio needs to be more balanced to prevent a browser monopoly, hence people trying to ensure there continues to be a choice.

Have to confess the first couple times my eyes scanned the headlines today I wondered what Beyoncé had done to get in trouble.

My brain did a little twist seeing an ethernet cable going into a C64.

I have an AC-68U but had been keeping my firmware up to date. Fortunately it has been rock solid, including yesterday and today.

My main development machine (of several here) is still on Win7, mainly due to the hassle of having to migrate 10 years of Win dev tools and legacy third party COM licenses to Win10. (the rest of my systems are on Win10)

That said I'm going to have to bite the Win10 bullet soon as several applications are phasing out Win7 support, Chrome being the main one right now. It's disappointing as having grown up with Windows since 3.1 I'm still partical to the compact classic theme (even despite the old grey colour). I still find the Win10 and up UI to be a waste of space.

Oh well... progress?

Thanks for letting me know Monique (and now her husband) have passed. A lot of fond fond memories there.

For those who want to know more I just found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p90FYyTJbs

Can confirm the young and bored portion. We used to do this when camping as a kid. Also if you're careful you can pinch the skin and hold them in place as well.

I will continue to use Open Shell as a replacement until it no longer works.

Submitted March 29th, so likely a gamble on time it takes to get released.

Should also note that this in the US. Worldwide it's still about 72% (but also trending down). I'm going to guess there is something to do with US wallets more easily able to afford Apple products.

I still miss TabMixPlus in my daily browsing. Haven't found a tab manager since that can match what it did for me.

I'm going to play devil's advocate here but that last part is only if you trust the model and data coming out of the AI. Many of the conspiracy minded people I know would flat out say that it is obviously programmed to say what the goverment wants it to (or whatever flavour of argument it is this week)

In short, while individuals in our community might understand more about the underlying process, I'm not sure it would be accepted as more credible to those already skeptical of anything that goes against their opinion?

In time as people upgrade their phones the balance should shift then, with the 4G spectrum becoming less congested. Personally I don't find the speed increase of 5G to be a need as I never found 4G to be slow. I'll be quite content to lock to the 4G bands if they open up more.

I still have several of those HP Touchpad chargers. After I originally read this article years ago I tracked a bunch down when the Touchpad was having its big sell off. A little limited by today's standards but all of them still working really well.

I should have noted that their intent is to cover your past and present, so that if in future they find out that in your youth you trafficed/postituted humans and farmed drugs to fund over throwing a goverment through terrorist activities.... even if all of those were outside the US jursidiction, they can still yank your Visa for having lied.

Bit of an aside story but I'm in the process of renewing a US work Visa (travel into the US for work often from Canada). I was reminded going through the online form last week that there are 3 full pages of questions like: "Have you ever participated in child trafficing?", "Have you participated in terrorist activities?", "Have you participated in overthrowing a government?", etc. etc. All of the most extreme international crimes you could think of.

I later realized that they don't expect any one to answer these truthfully, however if in future you are caught doing (Edit: or having previously done) any of these things the "lied on Visa application" is grounds for an instant revocation of the Visa without all the other possible complications.

Watchig this making of video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPVC4IyRTG8

You may find it's less staged than expected. (though obviously a lot still is as they progress at goal solving). This is very unlike the purely scripted early Spot dances.

>I'd watched bits of it but this confirms that the process involves choreographing every little detail.

Actually if you watch it all you'll see it's not fully scripted. Much of the routine is task based, letting the robot figure out how to do it. Wtch part where they basically say "Go pick up the bag to your left" and it locates, moves to it, and figures out visually how to pick it up. More and more of these routines are goal based, unlike the early Spot dances which were purely coded moves.