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by 13of40 4y ago
> Several minutes after popping the flash and removing the battery, I still measured more than 100 volts on the contacts, due to residual charge retained on the main capacitor after the flash tube extinguished Can confirm. I was playing
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by 13of40 4y ago
About ten years ago I got invited to do a college recruiting event for my company. All of the opportunities were for weekend visits to podunk colleges in the US and Canada, but there was one week long trip to a couple of colleges in Europe
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by 13of40 4y ago
When I was in highschool I wrote a Tetris game for the TRS-80. My clever hack was that I could make it twice as fast by keeping the state of the falling shapes in video memory instead of a separate object model. In an early version of thi
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by 13of40 4y ago
I know it's an archaic sentiment, but something about everyone being created equal...
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by 13of40 4y ago
Back when the iPhone first came out, one of my friends got one. One day we ended up going out fishing on a boat with another guy and we all left our phones on the dock so they wouldn't get wet, and I signalled to my wife to pick them
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by 13of40 4y ago
You can actually just look to what people were using before plastic became ubiquitous: wicker, cotton, burlap Unfortunately if you live in the US you're starting out at about $50 instead of $5. I think that's a little bit of a H
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by 13of40 4y ago
There are a ton of them in the suburbs east of Seattle. They're hard to spot in person most of the time, but you can see all the trees they've mauled, and sometimes they get hit by cars.
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by 13of40 4y ago
So two words I can't find in this thread are "lawful intercept". If a judge comes down on Apple and says they are required to produce your private content, is Apple going to throw up its hands and say, "Nope, it's
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by 13of40 4y ago
My only complaint against them is I tried to buy a battery tray from them so I could swap the battery between my Rad City and my 48v homebrew bike, and they refused to sell it to me. (Edit: To be clear I went back a couple of months later,
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by 13of40 4y ago
Dang it.
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by 13of40 4y ago
I'm sure someone has pointed this out already, but if you hit the Windows key and search for "lid" there's a setting that lets you make the machine hibernate when the lid is closed. Hibernate is different from sleep in
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by 13of40 4y ago
I wish this were true, but I can tell when someone thinks I'm a weirdo for eating out alone. Just a month or two ago I went to a McMenamins (a pub/restaurant chain in Oregon and Washington) to have lunch and poke on my laptop, an
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by 13of40 4y ago
There was a sweet spot in the mid to late 90s where you could find awesome ancient hardware at Goodwill. Around that time I lived in a town of about 150K people, so it had several Goodwill locations, but there was one where all of the comp
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by 13of40 4y ago
> mouse I was looking at Reddit the other day, on one of those r/flippingamazing type subs, and someone posted a picture of a disassembled mechanical mouse, to show off the wonders of 1900s engineering. I tell you I nearly spat out
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by 13of40 4y ago
IMO the secret sauce wasn't necessarily the precision but the ability, granted by technology outside the GPS system, to put a dot on a digital map versus your PLGR giving you a pair of coordinates that you had to look up on a paper map
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by 13of40 4y ago
One thing to be aware of for Reddit (and perhaps HN) is there are multiple scrapers archiving it in real time, so even if you delete a post from the main site it's still going to be available to anyone who takes the time to look. I wo
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by 13of40 4y ago
For the first question, not a perfect answer, but my family owns a log cabin in the Pacific Northwest, and the logs retain heat. Go there any time of the year when nobody's been around for a while and it's like stepping into a re
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by 13of40 4y ago
A few months ago I ordered a dongle from Amazon to attach a floppy drive to a modern computer via USB. For some reason this weird, niche little thing was eligible for Amazon Essentials same day delivery. Apparently every Amazon warehouse
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by 13of40 4y ago
I live in the Seattle area, so Amazon shipping is pretty fast and accurate, but there have been a few times when things were shipped but they apparently just disappeared in transit. One time it was a car part and it got close enough that i
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by 13of40 4y ago
My memories of the late 80s and early 90s.
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by 13of40 4y ago
It's Monday, and a school holiday. It rained in the morning, but now it's just cold and overcast. It's quiet in the living room. You know the phone isn't going to ring, because who would call? You could walk to the l
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by 13of40 4y ago
I got basically a zero score when I did it for my company (except the separation one, which I guess is analogous to quitting) but when I tried my country I got a pretty good score - 8/10 (Edit: To be clear I'm not a member of a po
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by 13of40 4y ago
I just measured 3ms from a simulated keyboard event (through COM) to presence of the character in the console buffer, so that's OS time + PowerShell time without keyboard or screen time. Unfortunately measuring the same through CMD or
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by 13of40 4y ago
I was going to mention something along these lines. I quit smoking 15 years ago because I realized I just felt dirty, sick, and depressed after a cigarette, no matter how much the addiction primed me to think otherwise leading up to it.
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by 13of40 4y ago
Just for context, I worked on the feature team for a lot of early versions of PowerShell, so I kind of know where the bodies are buried. Here are some empirical numbers, just for the parsing part: 10K iterations of $null=$null took 38 mill
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by 13of40 4y ago
I was shocked to see the TI-99/4a so high up. Just listing a BASIC program on a TI-99 is about as slow as a 300 baud modem. Example: https://youtu.be/ls-PxqRQ35Q?t=178
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by 13of40 4y ago
It might still be a valid test, because PowerShell needs to have a bunch of code in the stack between the keypress event and the call into the console API that actually displays the character. Among other things, the entire command line is
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by 13of40 4y ago
A86 is a great minimalist assembler for 16-bit code. In the humble words of its author: "A86 (with its 32-bit version A386) is the finest assembler available, at any cost under any terms, for the Intel 86-family of microprocessors (IB
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by 13of40 4y ago
One service I used to work on processed business-to-customer and business-to-business emails almost exclusively, so you could see a recurring weekly pattern, bumps throughout the day when the US east coast, US west coast, Asia, and Europe w
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by 13of40 4y ago
It might be worth noting that a BSOD is exactly the Windows equivalent of a kernel panic. Also, this apparently toggles the option in Windows: wmic RecoverOS set AutoReboot = True

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