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howard941
22,428karma·4,690submissions·November 1, 2014
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My article submissions aren't endorsements, unlike my favorites...
My professional interests: Embedded and RF/networking. Droooooones. Bare iron, freertos, lately NuttX. Resource constrained or ARM. Hard realtime. *BSD / linux embedding and BOFHing. New product and sustaining devel.
Amateur radio. Attorney (Fla.)
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No idea. The insurance companies down here are very small and almost all of them are Florida-only.
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Well just this year it went up 13.9% for me, just below the threshold where it would have triggered a review. Also keep in mind that the industry is quite profitable. Large premiums are extracted and …
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An ex parte prior restraint order is about as scummy as they come. No due process, no 1st amendment respect, nada. More than you wanted to know about PTK https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…
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It's not going to be effective for much longer. DeSantis dissolved the governing entity - Reedy Creek Improvement District - and turned its replacement over to his appointed cronies. EDITed for …
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The City and the City by China Mieville. The cities are very close but very far away.
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WTF did I just read?
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Building an S-100 system from kits. Soldering all of the edge connectors to the IMSAI motherboard taught me to solder and the power supply taught me to mistrust big electrolytic caps.
327 pts
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What's the reason for modernization anyway? "Because it's there" shouldn't count. I mean, what's the compelling reason?
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So it has nothing to do with reciprocality but it's simply 10% or the trade deficit, whichever is larger?
3 pts
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in rain, transitioning to vertical landing, with the helmet and primary systems power cycling and likely alarms going off? I'll defer to you because I'm not qualified in the F-35
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IMC plus having to look down at backup instruments will totally screw up your vestibular senses. Punching out seems the right move.