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We're already planning the sea walls: https://www.6sqft.com/army-corps-of-engineers-releases-first-renderings-of-nyc-sea-walls-for-coastal-storm-protection-plan/ After Sandy we devised plugs for the train tunnels passing under rivers...

I'm 60' above sea level and a few miles from the coastlines. Biggest problem with hurricanes is the torrential downpours which overwhelm the sewer system. During Ida the sewer back flowed into the basement. 6 to 8 inches of water, plus I found a dead rat in the sewer trap. :sick: I'm not...

I'm thinking the same thing about the northeast in general. The last few years have had hardly any snow in NYC, plus temps are usually in the 30s or 40s. None of the bone-chilling cold of midwestern winters. Occasionally there are a few days in the teens or 20s, but rarely a long stretch of...

This is one kind of flying I'd like:

Florida is a place I have no desire to even visit, never mind live there. The biggest problem is that there's no real break from the heat. NYC summers probably aren't that much less unpleasant than Florida summers with the horrid humidity we have, but at least I get winters for my body to reset...

That's kind of what I figure. Even assuming this was really the government, whoever was involved is long out of the loop. At this point I'm not a problem. They got the wars they wanted already. Never. Farthest I ever was from NY was Montreal in 1973 but I get your point. At least I was out of...

I got a phone call to that effect. I only flew once in my life, in 1990, for business. In 2002 I was pretty much flat broke. I could barely afford to take a subway ride to Manhattan, never mind fly somewhere. Never had any issues traveling by train. Then again, nobody needed to check my ID...

I posted some stuff on StorageReview about how the US government was responsible for 9/11. I got some death threat phone calls from people who sounded like spooks. I was probably hitting too close to home for their comfort level. I thought it odd that what sounded like explosions right before...

It's moot for me as I've been on the "do not fly" list since 2002. What exactly were you doing that requires so much traveling? Seriously, if I were to traverse an ocean, I'd probably stay there for at least a month.

The curb weight of a Chevette is only around 2,000 pounds. Remove the engine, transmission, and seats, probably well under 1,000 pounds. A few strong guys could lift it. Or maybe they used jacks and cinderblocks to lift them. I actually got a ~1,500 pound boulder out of the vegetable garden that...

I'm not big on buses for long-distance transport myself. A train is worlds more comfortable.

That's obviously what they did. Fuel economy was and is everything when it comes to bus operations. That said, you can get somewhat better acceleration (and probably better fuel economy) by going with more gears. Modern buses typically have 5 or 6 speed transmissions. The MC-7 could have used...

Speaking of slow, here's a road test of a 1969 Greyhound bus: https://www.curbsideclassic.com/vintage-reviews/vintage-rt-road-test-mci-mc-7-greyhound-bus-0-60-in-87-seconds/ You pretty much drive with it floored all the time.

Not just you. In the late 1980s I was banking practically every dime I made hoping to be able to buy a house with cash, and eventually move out of my parent's place. Housing prices were rising faster than I could save. I resigned myself to just staying with my parents (rents at the time were 75%...

My brother has three 1960s cars in various states of restoration-1969 Mark III, 1968 T-Bird, and 1966 Toronado (which I call the Batmobile). He also has the two Mark VIIIs, a 2003 minivan, and a 2006 Chrysler 300C (formerly my mother's until she was no longer able to drive).

It was just a suggestion if you can route the power in such a way that it doesn't interfere with people on the sidewalk. If more people bought EVs, don't you think parking lots, or even curbside spaces, would start having chargers? NYC is already starting to do this. Well, housing prices have...

The Mark VIIIs can get into the 170s stock if you change the firmware to remove the electronic speed limit. Problem is most of them have a driveshaft vibration which is problematic even at 120 mph. My brother's original Mark VIII had that problem. The new one doesn't as far as he can tell but I...

I could ask my brother but I'm pretty sure those are a bit better made. The doors have a nice, solid thunk when you close them. Sometimes I think Cash For Clunkers was done for the benefit of the car companies. Not sure about that. I'll ask my brother. Run an extension cord out your window...

So long as we don't start putting huge tariffs on stuff from China.

My brother picked up a Mark VIII in great shape for $6K. Here are a few pics of it: A good bet for decent used cars at reasonable prices is to buy vehicles which were high-end when new. This car cost over $40K when it was new in 1997. Being that they were high-end, they were likely well...

There's also much stronger support among the under 30 crowd for better public transit. I'm sure given how hideously expensive it is to own a car most would choose not to if having better public transit made that possible. Forced car ownership is the single biggest factor keeping people in...

Yeah, it seems like almost everyone under 30 has a Youtube channel these days which they put half their life on. It makes sense given this that you might act like you're always in front of the camera. BTW, is playing games as popular with girls as guys these days? I always thought it was mostly...

I don't even know what to think of that. I've never had much interest in anything beyond sims because you need to invest a not insignificant amount of time just learning all the rules in these games before you can even start to play. Then if it doesn't resonate with you all that time is down the...

I've certainly put thousands of hours into train simulators but that's about it. I did play SimCity years ago. I'm sure the new versions are even nicer. I have well over 5,000 hours cycling since I started keeping records in 1980, and 77,854 miles total as of yesterday, if you want to consider...

Age is a state of mind. I'm 62 in November and still feel like a teenager, especially when I'm riding my bike. Jimmy Carter just turned 100 today. 40s isn't old. In fact, I'd say nowadays it's late young age. Middle age probably ends around 70 at this point. Then you have young old age (70-80)...

Isn't that similar to when people overclocked their memory? They change one setting at a time until it doesn't POST, then maybe go back a notch or two to ensure stability. As an EE, I'd say the issues with four slots are likely caused by the greater capacitance on the data lines relative to two...

Admittedly this is a great feature. I just wish they would add letting you see the thief's face when they realize the phone they stole is now worthless. My only concern though is this adds to e-waste unless there's a way to unbrick the phone if you manage to get it back.

The matter should be getting a lot of attention if for no other reason than the fact Google led the way towards monetizing search engines. It annoys me no end how Amazon and eBay sellers can pay to be ranked higher in the search results. A search should return results based on relevancy, not who...

You're forgetting one thing. Strobes are omnidirectional. A lot of their light is wasted. LEDs can be focused fairly efficiently. Overall that probably means LED is 5 times as efficient or more in terms of the amount of light delivered to the target. Also, the limiting factor of LEDs for strobe...

Didn't happen with my mother. I kept where she was at 70 in the winter and she never complained about being cold. In the summers if I turned the A/C past about 80 she complained about being hot. This was while she was wearing shorts. If I'm just sitting or lying down, high 70s is tolerable to...

It depends upon your needs. I'd be hard pressed to imagine what I'd need 132TB for. For saving the kind of stuff I do even a few TB is plenty. To put things into perspective the first drive I bought was 8.4GB and it cost $100. That seemed like oodles of storage at the time but I still would have...

Nowadays storage is so cheap and vast it's easier to just keep everything, instead of expending time trying to see what you might not need. To use analogies, back when I first got into computers in the early 1990s storage was like a small apartment. You had to be selective about what to keep...

Exactly why I never have AV software. Every single one I've tried slows the machine to a crawl, especially when doing file intensive operations. It's like the software has to scan every single file in use multiple times. Sometimes I honestly think software bloat is intentional in order to get...

To me the big banks are all the same. From what I've heard Citibank is probably the worst but it's a close contest.

It's mostly commodity drives which you likely wouldn't be interested in buying. I saw prices as low as $35/TB last year before prices started going up. For example, these are all going for $45/TB: https://www.newegg.com/team-group-2tb-ms30-sata/p/N82E16820331840?Item=N82E16820331840...

We might be looking at $20 to $25 per TB if prices normalize to their long-term trend. That puts 128TB at around $2,500 to $3,200 if we're talking commodity stuff. Enterprise would probably be at least twice that. Among the things being looked at to lower price per TB are up to 1,000 layers...

Granted but my point is I wonder how well compilers work at outputting a bare minimum number of commands to accomplish a given task. To me it seems all they do is translate whatever the programmer wrote in high-level language into machine language. It the programmer wrote a convoluted way to...

My guess as a layperson is that MS keeps reusing code which probably dates from the XP days, if not earlier, for large parts of its OS. They just changed the outward appearance of the OS, added some features, but didn't always update their compilers to take advantage of the latest architectures...

Probably costs as much as a new car.

Thanks for the review, not that I'm currently in the market for an upgrade. Just good to know what's out there.

I'd think of it as compensation for all the years of inconvenience they put you through. Also, this is like when someone puts up hacks to get around M$'s extortion schemes. Can't feel sorry for a multibillion dollar company who has screwed over their paying customers for decades, along with...

It depends. If it was in a wallet with someone's name, no. I'd call them and have them pick it up. If it was just bills floating around, probably, but I'd keep an eye out for any news of someone losing a large amount of cash. If I heard anything, again, I'd return it. Last thing I'd want to do...

I'd just keep it. If they can't ship the correct product it's on them. Also, another thought here is maybe what you ordered wasn't in stock, might not be in stock for quite some time, so they made a substitution of an equal or better product. In this case MUCH better. Just enjoy it without...

Sorry to hear about this, especially the loss of smell and taste. I hope it's not long term. Sounds like you're an independent contractor, which means nobody to pick up the slack. Just an awful situation to be in. Getting rest is probably the best thing to do to let your immune system handle it.

Yes. Class of 1985, same as Michelle Obama actually (who went by Michelle Robinson at the time). No, I never met her. MIT was actually my first choice. I even applied early admission. I got wait-listed and ultimately rejected. At that point it was a choice of Princeton or Yale. Princeton was...

That's true for many people. That's why they don't travel until they retire. I honestly didn't have enough money to travel until a few years ago. Before then, being self-employed I really couldn't be away for long enough to travel even if I did have the money. Of course, from about 2011 until...

I'm sort of like that myself but I think having a person to do stuff with would get me out of the house more. I'm not one for "tourist" type stuff, either, but there is a lot of the world to see outside of typical tourist traps.

That's what happened to both my mother and sister. In my mother's case a lot of the nerves were dead by the time she got treatment. I've had this since my late 20s at least but I never had medical insurance. I never even had a proper diagnosis, never mind treatment. I'm 3 years and less than 4...

It gets worse from there. I can't feel my hands at all after I'm riding for about 15-20 minutes. My feet go numb also, which means the CTS spread there. Hopefully you'll respond to treatment better than my mother and sister did. For both, it helped for a while but then it came back. Really, I've...

Just wondering if you had similar outcomes with their SSDs, assuming you even tried them.