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DaveAuld wrote: Red Dave
His true politics have come out, I always knew he liked Millibean Minor.
speramus in juniperus
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It's no typo.
There are records of snow since 1920, but nothing like this happened ever since.
Even with this 97 the long time average is under 15!!!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Hope you and yours are okay.
Been there before. Glad I had a wood burning stove, and kerosene heater.
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Everything just right, we only used all our wardrobe...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Wait for the population explosion in September!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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That's what the said about the Donner Party.
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Rejoice.
"If you seek to aid everyone that suffers in the galaxy, you will only weaken yourself … and weaken them. It is the internal struggles, when fought and won on their own, that yield the strongest rewards… If you care for others, then dispense with pity and sacrifice and recognize the value in letting them fight their own battles." Darth Traya
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: poor water supply
How can you have poor water supply with 97cm of snow lying around?
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: 4 days with no electricity
A lot of folk around here have gas powered electric generators, though I opted a few years ago for a couple solar panels and about a 1Kwh of battery storage. Used it recently actually to power up the DSL modem and laptop (the phones were still working) while the power was out for a couple hours. Nothing like 4 days though. Reminds me of an ice storm a few years back where some folks were out of power for more than a week.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: A lot of folk around here have gas powered electric generators, though I opted a few years ago for a couple solar panels and about a 1Kwh of battery storage.
How well would that actually work in a winter storm though? Even if it was snow you could sweep off the roof with a broom (and assuming it didn't knock your ladder down) and not a slab of ice you'd need thermite to remove, wouldn't the low sun angle, short days, and cloudy sky severely nerf your power generation rate?
I do wish there was a practical way to keep my modem/router running as long as my laptop without breaking the bank though. In theory one of my 1300/1500VA upses should be up to the task, but they self discharge in 5 or 6 hours with no load other than their own monitoring circuitry. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: and cloudy sky severely nerf your power generation rate?
Exactly. (Though, I can get easy access to the panel to knock off the snow).
Marc
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You have to try it sometime - it's amazing 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Marc Clifton wrote: How can you have poor water supply with 97cm of snow lying around?
Lots of yellow snow? 
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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As you're experiencing, they're having snow-related power cuts in Amman. But fear not! The government has acted: JRTV[^] is showing adverts during primetime, for various forms of contraception (at least according to the in-laws). Presumably to avoid a spike in births next September.
FIL says it is the worst snow he's ever experienced. Sounds like a lot of people are enjoying it to me!
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Curse bitterly for every time you said "No, I'd rather spend $1k on a toy instead of an emergency generator"?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Firefighters mistakenly pump jet fuel on fire instead of water[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Shirley they shouldn't be pumping water onto an aviation fire anyway?
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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You typically apply AFFF to create the blanket over aviation fuel. This is a concentrate of ~3% foam to water mix.
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Indeed. But you also shouldn't be pumping run-off water with fuel in it back into the bay.
Sooo, they use water/oil separators which allow for the water to be re-used.
The question I'm awaiting the answer to is was it (a) a malfunctioning piece of equipment or (b) a mal-function individual operating said oil/water sep unit.
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Hit the source[^] for the long version (with 6809 ASM).
Summary for the lazy:
Quote: We started with a tile-copying subroutine whose core was a hand-tuned, unrolled loop of machine instructions. Then, to buy a 70-percent speed-up:
1) We replaced this subroutine with a very special manifestation of insanity that commandeered both stack pointers and used pulls and pushes, and every single available register, to draw tiles upside down and horizontally broken.
2) Then we pre-processed the tiles so that drawing them would actually fix them.
3) But then – dammit! – interrupts that occurred during drawing could corrupt the reference tiles.
4) So, to protect the reference tiles, we corrupted the screen buffer instead.
5) But that corruption would be visible.
6) So we changed the tile-placement order to repair – on the fly – any corruption that might have occurred, before it could ever be displayed.
7) And it all worked!
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It's been twenty years (or more) since I did things like that! Brings back a lot of memories...
My personal favorite (apart from writing self modifying code used to switch on and off the keyboard caps light - don't ask) was discovering that in some mask revisions of the Z80 you could swap nibbles in the A register in one instruction if you didn't care too much about the instruction set...with only a 4MHz processor, 32Kb of ROM, and 4Kb of RAM, that made a big difference!
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OriginalGriff wrote: My personal favorite (apart from writing self modifying code used to switch on and off the keyboard caps light - don't ask)
I never wrote self modifying code to do that; but the dos mode implementation my dosmode replacement keyboard handler (n-key roll over and polling instead of a keystroke buffer) used to toggle the caps/etc lights crashed NT4 (3.5???) on the school PCs. Took forever to figure out that was the cause; the person who triggered the crash was using pound on the keyboard methods to test my tetris clone and I was trying to debug it from dos on my computer at home. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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With the hidden enhanced features of Hitachi's replacement for the 6809: the 6309, many more great things could be hacked into the code.
The 6309 in a nutshell [^]
-- RP
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Yes, I know he's dead - there's a thread over the page about it. I was looking up if it's Geoffrey or Jeffrey Barnard, when I found the whole bally play is on youtube[^].
Enjoy, there's a great quiz on 'problem drinking' in there.
speramus in juniperus
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Looks good!
I'll have to watch that later when I get home, because this is actually a video that's NSFW for me... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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To quote my Dad, "It took him this long...?" 
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