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Best phone call I've made in the past few years was canceling my ~$100 Comcast internet plan in favor of my municipality's $50 gigabit plan. A year in and haven't had so much as a hiccup in service.

Driving a few hours north to Wyoming on Saturday, and hoping to land a spot of BLM land close to the center of the path. Bringing a bunch of water, extra gas, sun shade, and a cooler of beer to wait it out a few days.

I'll also be launching a weather balloon before the event in hopes of catching some video of totality from >100k feet. A disc shadow 60 miles wide traveling at 1,500 mph as viewed from 20 miles up should be pretty cool. :)

There are many more Titan I complexes around the US as well, including at Beale, Larson, Ellsworth, and other AFBs in addition to Lowry.

I believe it was an NRO spy satellite.

Yeah. From the docs:

> pauseWhenHidden – whether to pause playback when the tab is inactive. Default true. Note that browsers usually throttle JS in inactive tabs anyway.

> Inspired by an ancient toy...

First words of the article.

This is what my city is doing. They just brought fiber to my home, and I pay $50/mo for bidirectional gigabit. I pay for it alongside my trash and water bill. (Longmont, CO)

I like it! Two feature requests: deep linking to specific cities/coordinates/whatever, and geolocating me so I don't have to use the search bar first thing.

It's difficult to know the target space needed for this rev of the device. Also, it's probably less than 30cm vertically - I'm quite sure some engineers at Tesla know the height of the charge port, even given the differences with the air suspension.

> I'm not following... you're getting emails from LinkedIn even though you haven't signed up? You mean those 'I accidentally clicked a button without reading it and it spammed all my contacts' emails from current members?

As with many others, I get these constantly: "I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn." with seemingly no way to disable them. You can stop them for that one person's 'invitation', but invariably someone else will start the process over again. I have a filter set up that sends all LI email to trash

> Ironically, LinkedIn is the only site I've encountered where non-members get more access than (free-tier) signed in users.

I can't even imagine how this is defensible. This kind of behavior doesn't give me any reason to want to make an account.

Wow - I've seen smaller versions of that photo amid all the New Horizons releases, but I never noticed that you can actually see the volcano erupting on Io!

I totally dig it too, but I wish it counted without highlighting yellow. Neat feature, but a bit distracting.

Like, say, the video description?

"I describe how I made a stop motion animation of a phonograph needle in an LP groove using an electron microscope. I also show electron micrographs of other recording media."

Like the others, net/http with gorilla packages pulled in as needed. Nginx for static files and a reverse proxy for go. Upstart, and that's about it!

> ... especially when it came to right clicks

Just curious, do you have secondary click set to click with two fingers, or to click in bottom right corner?

This HaD article is a bit more coherent and references the linked German article.

http://hackaday.com/2015/02/25/arduino-v-arduino/

Lock pick laws vary from state to state. In the vast majority of states including CA, NY and my own CO possession of a set alone is not enough to prove criminal intent. Of course IANAL and some municipalities might have their own laws.

I usually carry a set in my bag and have not had any issues.

The door close buttons are for when the elevator is in fire service mode. In that mode, the lift only does what the operator (a fireman) tells it to do, for good reason. If they take the lift to the fourth floor, say where a fire is, the doors will only open when the "door open" button is held. Same for the opposite with the "door close" button.

I've launched a handful of latex weather balloons to near-space. They all descend on a parachute and have a target impact velocity of ~2000 feet per minute. None have made so much as a dent in the earth so far.

Or add it to the "simple" wikipedia language.

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_on_a_rubber_rope

I had a day and a half off in DC this week during a business trip, my first visit since grade school. Of course all the museums and monuments are closed due to the shutdown, and who knows when I'll be back.

The G2 also comes in a 0.5mm and 0.38mm version in all colors. As a lefty I prefer the 0.38, but I've found the ball fails more often than the 0.5 so I usually just put up with the occasional smear.

See: https://twitter.com/mojombo/status/379073293505937408

Nathan Seidle, founder of SparkFun (and my boss!) recently talked at a hearing of the House Committee on IP with regards specifically to open source hardware. The EFF quoted him in this article:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/tech-sector-does-its-p...

And it echoes how he feels and how we as a company operate. 145 people strong, $30MM in revenue annually, and not a single patent. All of the products we make are open source. It's awesome.

I'm not convinced that 100KB is a great estimate on file size, but either way you're off by a few zeroes. It's not 270GB per day, it's 270TB. Even if each object were just one byte, that would be 2.7GB. 100KB is one hundred thousand bytes. So it's quite a bit more than eleven drives per day!

SparkFun employee here. Not trying to push products too hard, but if you've already got an FTDI board or cable, you can pick up a Pro Mini for just ten bucks now. That's double the $5 the article claims, but the pro mini comes with power and status LEDs, an on-board voltage regulator and reset button. I use them in most all of my projects because they're so easy to work with, which is far from the case when using an atmega on a breadboard. Plus they're breadboard friendly :)

http://sfe.io/11113

Hydrogen is a great substitute - it's abundant, cheap, provides a bit more lift and if you're aware of the risks and handle it properly it's quite safe.

And if you're in Lyons, CO (not far outside of Boulder) you must check out Lyons Classic Pinball. There are a ton of machines, plus the proprietor is super knowledgable.

http://www.lyonspinball.com

The Pro Micro (http://sfe.io/11098) does have on-board USB hardware that requires no USB-TTL converters, no matter how fancy. We added it to the SparkFun site in late February.

What if a major retailer asked for your ZIP code at the register? This happens to me often and is much more analogous to the situation than a cashier asking where I live.