HocusLocus

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   by HocusLocus 8y ago

   My good friend WA2AAX, now a silent key, told of a visit he once made to the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. During a lull in operation they let him traverse the catwalk spanning the 'dish' (a spherical mesh 1,000 ft diameter
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   by HocusLocus 8y ago

   Cell phones are laughable single points of failure. Everyone brought this upon themselves from decades of bad engineering choices, if you consider resilience an objective. Once upon a time there was a terrestrial network of small autonomo
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   by HocusLocus 8y ago

   less explosive req'd
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   by HocusLocus 8y ago

   At the family printshop my mother experienced some typing glitches, she would sometimes type "simulate" instead of "stimulate" and "muck" instead of "mark". This led to two disasters, which required
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   by HocusLocus 8y ago

   A state of Cold War presently exists in the Middle East between the United States and China... because China needs Iran's oil and wishes to 'colonize' it first. If we tread on Iran we will incur the full wrath of China. You
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   by HocusLocus 8y ago

   Just 'dopamine'. Right. Not 'dopaminepro' or 'ropeadopamine' or ANY MADE-UP word without 24,600,000 results today? NOW WE HAVE ANOTHER software project created by the company that refined the Internet search e
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   by HocusLocus 8y ago

   What do you do when your Texas Instruments Silent 700 printing terminal is hslf-duplex with local character echo, which prints out every character, and you need to be prompted to enter a password? CR to the rescue! XXXXXXXX [CR] OOOOOOOO [C
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   by HocusLocus 8y ago

   Also early computers with monochrome CRTs often shipped with actual silk screen pressed between the case and CRT. It was a trade-off, you'd lose a bit of sharpness but there would be no room reflection whatsoever. The Kaypro 10 was a
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   by HocusLocus 8y ago

   In Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979, Douglas Hofstadter) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach ... the author carved a simple object of wood that orthographically projected the letter
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    by HocusLocus 8y ago

    Radium paint kits for watch hands
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    by HocusLocus 8y ago

    Will bears sell toilet paper in the woods?
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    by HocusLocus 8y ago

    For major cleanup in Windows, spotting file bloat in unexpected/temp places, SpaceMonger: https://spacemonger.en.softonic.com/ Rectangles are cool. (approximate) rect area based on nested folder size is cool. Smoothl
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    by HocusLocus 8y ago

    Every time this is posted I am suckered into exploring it and get excited all over again. The project has been abandoned because apps built on it are supported by too many browsers and OSs. We're just not there yet. Maybe someday.
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    by HocusLocus 8y ago

    Wow I remember Kilobaud April 1979, that introduction to Quicksort with examples in BASIC, copying it down to carry around with me in a little notebook. Shell-Metzer was also popular at the time. I had a TRS-80m1(Z80) and Kilobaud was like
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    by HocusLocus 8y ago

    A whimsical story inspired by IoT, NTP, crypto, grandular chipset technology on ever-smaller scales, and a glitch. Against a backdrop of society of increasingly rare engineers and hypothetical technology for easy 'cloning' of pro
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    Fiction: The Time Rift of 2100: How We Lost the Future – And Gained the Past(tech.slashdot.org)

    1 points by HocusLocus 8y ago|1 comments
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    by HocusLocus 8y ago

    Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 0100?