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I was starting my second season running the Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) at the South Pole, and some of my German colleagues came down ready to upgrade their part of the experiment by removing a slave processor from a VME card cage that read 700 high speed analog data channels from the…

Luckiest moment for me was an early one... Long, long ago, when computers were monochrome and usually textual, I'd been going down to the public library to use a Commodore PET for free. I convinced my mother we should get a computer at home, and when I was 13, we did (I had to put up half the money and she put up the other…

Yep... I wonder if the expiration was accidentally set to 11:59 AM CDT? (not 23:59)

The greatest fear I've had had come true was warning my management that the intended placement of refrigerator-sized line-conditioner/UPS directly under the water-loop chiller (due to mandatory "advice" by the city's inspectors/structural engineers because of the weight of the batteries) was a hazard because of…

One more "no checkmark for Day 11 " comment

Favorite THWACK memory: waking up to all the congratulatory messages and logging in to find out I'd won a prize!

I just entered it _with_ the dashes and got it wrong. :-( Between today and last Monday, I'm not doing well at all. Becoming unhappy with how fussy this new format is. Before, we'd get multiple chances to get it right. Now - one typo and *bam*! out of the running. :-(

Ah. That makes sense. I did the questions, so I'll be looking for mine next month.

Agreed. Many of us work in open spaces. Video watching is not going to happen at my desk.

Still a bust at midnight

I have taken rounds of excess hardware (mostly LCDs and keyboards and mice) that was to be discarded from a place I used to work down to our local hackerspace and used the parts to put together classroom machines for teaching workshops for programming microcontrollers, for learning 3D design software, and more. I put Linux…

Closed?

Yet another not-a-SAM user.

Looking great from what I can see. Well done, all!

I see a change - I went from 236,000 points to 0 points and 23,637th place... 23637th Ethan Dicks 0 Points

Been part of this for 3 years. Won a prize. Far, far from 250K, but working on breaking into the top 100. Thanks, DanielleH​ and wabbott​ and everyone else!