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by 13of40 5y ago
> the idea that some extremely old human societies built monuments in this way is not actually all that radical Since the stones are still there for anyone to walk up and touch, it's pretty much incontrovertible. Go to Mallorca and
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by 13of40 5y ago
I remember when the Hayes command set started to become the standard, because for a while you could get on a group chat on a BBS and press +++ATH to make the outbound modems hang everyone up. I think there was an AT command to remap that p
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by 13of40 5y ago
I get a bit of a "This food is so horrible and the portions are so small !" vibe from it.
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by 13of40 5y ago
When I read the title, my first thought was about the cryotron: "Tantalum in superconducting state can carry large amount of current as compared to its normal state. Now when current is passed through the niobium coil (wrapped around t
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by 13of40 5y ago
The explanation I heard for it (at Microsoft 20 years ago) was that listing your developers like that was a good way to get them poached by other companies. Crediting people by name is always a bit of a minefield anyway. Do test engineers
606.
by 13of40 5y ago
A few years back I had a Samsung smart watch, and one day I was sitting at my desk and started to feel an uncomfortable burning feeling from it. It managed to give me a little first degree burn on my wrist before I got it off. I rebooted
607.
by 13of40 5y ago
If that's true, the weight of a spare part should correlate closely with its price, yet spark plugs are an order of magnitude cheaper than oxygen sensors.
608.
by 13of40 5y ago
I had a "Bob" a few years ago who was a unique case: He was a very intelligent, experienced senior developer who at some point lost his ability to actually ship. Given a relatively straightforward feature, he went into agonizing
609.
by 13of40 5y ago
Next move in the arms race: Quick-release sign bolts.
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by 13of40 5y ago
2017 BMW X3. I forget what the module is called, but it's behind the panel in the cargo area on the left side.
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by 13of40 5y ago
A year or two ago, my newish car was at the shop, recovering from a fender bender, and I got a call from the police asking where it was. I told them and they said that matched with the coordinates they had. It turned out that the SOS syst
612.
by 13of40 5y ago
Maybe I'm remembering old tech, but doesn't that also have thousands of volts in it?
613.
by 13of40 5y ago
I did some popcorn in cod liver oil the other day. Lots of vitamin A, but it gives the house a bit of a nautical atmosphere.
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by 13of40 5y ago
The interesting twist here is that the programmed target is calculated to be the place where the most damage can be inflicted. A malfunction involving an actual nuclear explosion is likely to happen over somewhere like the polar ice cap.
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by 13of40 5y ago
Not quite the same, but when I was a kid there was an abandoned homestead in Western Oregon (I'm thinking south of Salem, just west of I-5) that had a few living trees. My dad's theory was they were planted there and were isolate
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by 13of40 5y ago
I've had pretty limited experience using CP/M - I think the last time I actually played with it was in the early 90s when some old guy I knew was still using it to run a BBS. As far as I recall it was just as atrocious as DOS and
617.
by 13of40 5y ago
I was at a conference or something one time and saw a talk by Bill Gates, where he said that they'd tried to convince IBM to use a 68000 CPU in the original PC. Imagine what DOS could have been with a 32-bit instruction set and 16MB a
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by 13of40 5y ago
It was written in assembly code: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/master/v2.0/source This is a very old version, but I've seen bits and pieces of the last one they shipped and things li
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by 13of40 5y ago
I'm always astonished that after 30 years and the installation of two giant data centers, this little Oregon town hasn't upgraded its telephone exchange. Anyway, here's an automated ghost from the past: 541-447-0054
620.
by 13of40 5y ago
Same here. I was experimenting with 3d printing stamps (like for ink) with flexible filament from 2-color raster images, and the render time just for that was about 15 or 20 minutes per step. I will definitely need to download this.
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by 13of40 5y ago
I suspect there's a good chance you're going to wake up one day and find that you're an older man, so you might want to prepare yourself for the kind of social change that often comes with that. That said, I'm actually d
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by 13of40 5y ago
In 1995, I was stationed at an Army base about 10 miles from the DMZ in Korea, and for the first time in my life I saved up enough money to build a computer from modern parts instead of scavenging them from thrift stores and dumpsters. So
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by 13of40 5y ago
I think that was also the idea behind the HAM(?) image format, that allowed you to display images with more than 256 colors, by dynamically changing the pallette as the frame is drawn. A similar trick was used to change the location of the
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by 13of40 5y ago
The disturbing thing for me is that I noticed that special atmosphere/patina in 70s photos when I was a teenager in the 90s, but now I can see something analogous in pictures from the 90s.
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by 13of40 5y ago
I think there's also the question of whether a word adopted from Danish by an international standards body in the 20th century automatically counts as English.
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by 13of40 5y ago
PowerShell has been available for Linux and Mac for a few years now. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/instal...
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by 13of40 5y ago
Yeah, and I'm not really seeing the advantage of doing this versus just encrypting the data and storing it in normal filesystem space. Maybe that whoever has to write an anti-evasion for it now has to be able to look in this unallocat
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by 13of40 5y ago
I visited the Israel/Lebanon border a few years back and stood at the spot where Israeli guerillas destroyed the British tracks after World War 2. Regardless of whether you champion or despise their politics, it's something that
629.
by 13of40 5y ago
The hyperbolic part is assuming that each of their 100K employees, and just as many vendors, are complicit in and guilty for whatever bug has allegedly affected OP's mom's computer. "Seriously if any MS folks are reading this
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by 13of40 5y ago
I feel it's strange that this kind of hyperbolic response to a network adapter driver bug is considered normal discourse.

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