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Was this person born blind, or became that way? Usually the ones born with a particular disability adapt to it amazingly well, which is what this sounds like. I'm around 20/200 but I've adapted to it well enough to only use my glasses when I'm watching TV. For everything else I can see "good...

No secret the GOP wants to take us back to at least the 1800s, if not earlier. At one time it wasn't uncommon for much older men to marry girls as young as 12. Not sure what the lower limit on Matt Gaetz's tastes run, but he'd probably be OK with this. Allowing 9 year olds to marry is just...

Trump just picked Matt Gaetz for AG. If Congress is dumb enough to confirm him, I guess his first action will be to get rid of age of consent laws.

I have to do manual duplexing on my LaserJet 1022. The only issue is if pages get stuck together, and then you have to reprint some pages all over again. My CLP500 and Phaser 6510 both have duplex printing.

If he doesn't have a massive coronary from eating too many Big Macs I think Trump will be mentally unfit before his term is halfway up. He has the same signs of dementia I saw in my mother. It took her less than two years to go from mostly functional to not being able to get out much resembling...

If I had the means I'd leave the country now and never look back. For the sake of everyone I hope the worst fears about a second Trump term don't come to pass.

This is the real NYC way to have a slice of pizza:

Trump being elected qualifies as more than a usual change. The Civil War was probably closest to what we can expect in terms of the damage it will create. Frankly, at this point I'd rather split the country in two or three than deal with the possibility of people like Trump being in power over...

Not deadly if it's caught early. Actually what I have is called an ascending aortic aneurysm. The idea is to monitor it (and repair it if needed) before it ruptures. My uncle had the operation done. It may be years before I need it, perhaps never.

Nope. Never had any kind of surgeries unless you count stitches as a passenger in a car accident. 1 month to go until I'm 62. The CAT scan from the hospital did have two incidental findings. One was a hiatal hernia. Both my parents had this. The other was an aortic aneurysm, which at this point...

Yeah, the driver has insurance and fortunately remained at the scene, unlike many other assholes who just hit and run. I love cycling too much to give it up but I think I'll start riding only at times with little or no traffic. 3AM riding is great. I'm the only one on the road for blocks. This...

I saw games 1 and 2 from the hospital. On October 24 around 6:05PM I driver making a left turn without looking ended up right in front of me as I was passing through an intersection. I always check intersections, even when I have the light, as a precaution. It was clear as I started going...

Trump supporter by any chance?

No preference for me. I'm happy if either the Yankees or Mets reach the World Series. Both would have been great. The Mets have a longer drought though (last WS win was 1986). My dad was a rabid Yankees fan. He also played ball for a while (in some neighborhood league). He was approached by a...

I was hoping for Yankees/Mets but Yankees/Dodgers will probably make for a more competitive series.

That might explain why he never sells his old stuff, and seems paranoid when disposing of old hard drives. Only the most determined person with special equipment can reconstruct data from a wiped HDD. It's impossible to do so with a wiped SSD. The data is gone, plain and simple.

I'd be surprised if I spent $10K on everything computer related in my entire life. In the beginning I was getting a lot of my systems from the curb. About the only things I bought back then were storage and memory, plus an occasional expansion card. The laptop I bought recently was my largest...

Same here.

Place of honor definitely.

I'm not really sure what your point is. I'm just talking about price per TB, not whether or not there might be other reasons to go with larger drives, such as needing x amount of storage in y number of slots. If you have, say, 4 slots and only need 16 TB, then it's more cost effective to use 4x...

Only advantage is $/TB. The sweet spot in terms of $/TB seems to be around 2 to 4 TB. Above or below that it's higher. As SSD density increases, of course the capacity range for the sweet spot goes up. It'll probably be 4 to 8 TB in a year or two. For you a 5 year old boot drive is positively...

Same here. At one time I was more of a PC hobbyist who enjoyed tweaking the OS. These days I just want it to work. It's one of the reasons my desktop is still running 7.

Get laws passed which end this type of invasive spyware. It might be semi-OK only if the software was free. Then gathering user information could be thought of a payment of sorts. However, anything MS or Apple make is far from free. If you're paying for software, you should have a minimal...

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.