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by 8bitsrule 8mo ago
When they always match the detailed evidence?
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by 8bitsrule 8mo ago
Interesting. My experience over a decade was that (expensive) Apple hardware was unreliable or poorly designed ... from the IIsi to the iMac. One exception: the murdered Power clone was great. The iMac vertical screen-stripe fiasco (affecte
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by 8bitsrule 8mo ago
> It’s really easy to accidentally screw things up when e.g. trying to polish some of the rough edges or otherwise make the system function as desired. 'Similar to Windows' System Restore and macOS's Time Machine', th
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by 8bitsrule 8mo ago
Don't overlook (if you can find them) books made for Commodore-64 assembly coders. (Same CPU.) While they won't contain II specifics, there were several that were very helpful with 6502 tricks.
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by 8bitsrule 8mo ago
Good old VLC couldn't be much simpler (or popular). Audio singles, drag-on. Folders of audio files, drag-on. Whatever's in the window can be easily saved as a named playlist. Including internet radio stations (there are thousands)
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by 8bitsrule 8mo ago
It also be processed to remove ingredients that can be sold at a higher price when used in another way.
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
Just found this video ... it looks to sound and work -very- well. (RasPI & Onyx) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ3I76-oJsc
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
History is much more littered with people who aren't getting any - for reasons - who try to solve that problem by criticizing those who are (without harm).
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
I'd rather shoot myself first.
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
For 14 days a month, it's the dark side. That's the whole idea. Astronomy 101.
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
>I've never had it not serve my needs Same here. It may be 'not very good' for highly specialized or complex technical questions ... but I do research across a broad range of (non-specialized) topics daily. I often need to
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
Using Mint, I've found the tools 'Timeshift' (for the OS) and 'Backup Tool' (for the Home folder) to be handy & assuring from the dangers of tinkering and/or an upgrade. Both allow saving their outputs to o
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
Not like the stealing of treasures was a problem ... back in those days.
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
This article would be more useful if it started with an abstract.
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
Very readable explanation of why and how useful a dark-side lunar radio telescope would be. TLDR: As a result of expansion of the universe, over 13B years the wavelength of neutral hydrogen signals has been stretched from 21cm to 'tens
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
G4: " Induced pipeline currents affect preventive measures, HF radio propagation sporadic..." G5: " Pipeline currents can reach hundreds of amps, HF (high frequency) radio propagation may be impossible in many areas for one t
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
> I just want to live on a farm > with solar panels, grow tomatoes > and write code for fun. Back in 2000 I cudda made a song outta that, recorded it to mp3, and uploaded it to Napster. 25 years later? aren't many places to up
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
orange on black was it in the olden times (except on ASR-33s. q.v. https://www.eetimes.com/feast-your-eyes-on-my-asr-33-teletyp... )
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
One of the first times I used a Google product to show me my location (over a decade ago), it showed me a zoomed-in satellite picture of the parking lot right next to my apartment. (It didn't take me long to realize the implications.)
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
GPT keeps using the word 'I' in its responses. It uses exclamation marks! to suggest it wants to help! When I assert that its behavior is misleadingly suggesting that it's a sentient being, it replies 'You're right&
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
Leading word 'How' is automatically removed by HN. In this case that was unhelpful ... like many thoughtless algorithmic actions.
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
Could be distro-dependent. Yep I can use a key to move a window ... depending on where I 'grab' ('alt' works anywhere, 'super' only outside the browser window). But horizontal, vertical resizing requires a THIN
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
>90-100% of their work was in generic outlets like the web browser, terminal, e-mail, and Slack. To be fair, that could cover a lot of people. It does ... for them Linux is a very good substitute for their needs. OTOH, for certain specia
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
>I don't see how you get around LLMs scraping data without also stopping humans from retrieving valid data. I do a lot of online research. I find that many information sources have a prominent copyright notice on their pages. Sinc
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
Window-resize radii seem to be a fixable problem (make it a user setting!) on many OS's. I can only -wish- that my Linux distro's resize radius wasn't -painfully- small. I've probably wasted HOURS fishing around until th
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
One more reason for phones to be modularized. Separate the comms from the (owner-controlled) computer module until needed. Use different CPU module when needed. Swap out battery module.
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
For a long I've wondered when, in the view of the current administration, the US was great the last time. I'm trying to decide when in the 1800s that was.
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
Don't hold your breath. It needs to be illegal for anyone to buy a single-family home that already owns one, and who won't agree to live in it, full-time and exclusively for at least one year. They must also agree to sell it ONLY
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
People with public health care may have a hard time understanding the costs of medical advice and pharma here in the US. We're in deep doo-doo.
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
Thanks to the dedicated work of Edward Bernays... nephew of Sigmund Freud ... and the Creel Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Informatio... When Lucky Strike needed more women to smoke cigaret

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