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Rampage_Rick t1_j5iu70z wrote
Reply to comment by Etiennera in Google to merge mapping service Waze with maps products teams | CNN Business by sovamind
The other upside to Waze is the volunteer editors. If there's an error in the map and the editors in that region are on the ball, you can probably get it fixed in a day or two (the map gets regenerated every 24h so it's not instantaneous)
Getting stuff fixed in GMaps can take a month or more.
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Reply to comment by glabonte in TIL The writer for "Die Hard with a Vengeance" was investigated by the FBI after they revealed that his story's plan of robbing the Federal Reserve through a breached subway wall would have worked by fortifier22
Surprisingly good supporting cast. Patrick Stewart, Matt Craven, and Callum Keith Rennie as I recall (though the fake accent on the latter...)
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Reply to comment by RustyShackleford1122 in TIL The writer for "Die Hard with a Vengeance" was investigated by the FBI after they revealed that his story's plan of robbing the Federal Reserve through a breached subway wall would have worked by fortifier22
Plus all the news anchors are from Vancouver too.
Chris Gailus is in Sonic the Hedgehog. Tony Parsons was in The Pledge and Saving Silverman (and Masterminds, which has parallels to DHWAV plus Patrick Stewart in a mustache!) Tamara Taggart was in a ton of movies in the early 2000s.
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Reply to comment by PurveyorOfUselesFact in The Lights Have Been On At a Massachusetts School For Over a Year Because No One Can Turn Them Off by AStartIsBorn
Since they say it dimmed throughout the day, I'm going to assume that it was a 0-10V control system. Probably each room was on it's own 0-10V channel, daisy-chained between each luminarie. Power for luminaries could come from any number of branch circuits (probably 277V)
Master controller fails, every channel goes to 10V, everything goes full bright.
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Reply to comment by kizwasti in Luxurious space hotels are a classic Sci-Fi trope. But American hospitality giant Hilton recently signed a deal with Lockheed Martin and Voyager Space to build the solar system’s first space hotel onboard Starlab — a space station with NASA funding — which is currently under development. by EricFromOuterSpace
I knew it was in a movie, but for some reason my brain was jumping to one of the Bonds, like Moonraker.
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Reply to comment by Earllad in TIL in 1962 a General Electric engineer named Nick Holonyak developed the first LED light bulb capable of emitting visible red light. The same bulb was used in the 1964 stop animation animated TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for Rudolph’s bioluminescent nose. by undergroundgeek
I doubt it was the first visible-wavelength LED, as that probably didn't put out enough light, and wasn't completely packaged either.
See photo on top-right of page 965: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/8A20CA7B75C337853C5328449851A663/S088376941200262Xa.pdf
Those first-gen production red LEDs sold for about $260 each
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Reply to comment by the_other_sam in Ok to run dryer pipe through 2x6 studs? by the_other_sam
What kind of dryer? Many brands can be modified so the vent exits the side of the dryer.
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Reply to comment by ThePrem in ELI5 Why are airport ceiling so high? by TrShry
Pretty sure that many hotel rooms work this way. If there isn't an A/C unit shoved through the wall then there's probably a chilled-water AHU in the ceiling above the door or bathroom.
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Reply to comment by GalFisk in ELI5: in MS-DOS there were not-interchangeable audio cards and we had to manually select it to get sound, otherwise there was none at all. When and why this stopped being a problem? by 3RBlank
Remember when USB started rolling out around the time of Win95 OSR2.1?