NikkiA

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by NikkiA 2y ago
Stone - and more usefully, clay - last almost forever, but they're impractical for digital storage, since there's no useful way of imprinting on them that isn't very low density, unlike paper. Unless we could improvise someth
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Looks like a regular size sim, I don't think anything comes with anything but nano-sim slots these days.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
I don't think I'd want to trust tape for more than a decade or two though, as we've seen with audio tapes, iron separation from the substrate becomes an issue a lot sooner than we'd like. Tape also has a problem shared w
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by NikkiA 2y ago
1 line of 80col text per card is pretty awful though, and then you bring back all the horrors of 60s card sequencing but for bigger files. Some kind of 'barcode' encoding, with heavy error correction, would probably be better. I&#
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by NikkiA 2y ago
> It came with 16KB or 48KB standard or eventually, 128KB
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Paper remains the most effective long term storage.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Gemini to me feels to be dying, every time I open lagrange there's another 10% or so of the default bookmarks that are perma-offline; and the sites like geminispace.info have fewer and fewer results
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by NikkiA 2y ago
There was also a so-so 80s movie based on the same premise (but a single high school student) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091472/
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by NikkiA 2y ago
While they were both still in service, there was a famous long-serving cruise package of QE2 from Southampton to NYC, then Concorde back (and another package of the opposite directions) But yes, mostly these days cruises are a circular trip
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Ceramic capacitors rarely die, when people talk about recapping electronics it's the electrolytic capacitors that they're talking about; which dry out.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Self-correction: 'Windows Desktop Update' introduced the html based desktop, between Win95 OSR2 and Win95 OSR2.5, and also brought IE4.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
To be fair to microsoft, Windows 95's desktop wasn't a web page*; Windows 98's was. * Although it was changed before windows 98 with "Plus 95!"
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by NikkiA 2y ago
I would agree, except that a bunch of very notable youtube streamers have made retrocomputing unaffordable by hoarding dozens of old systems, thus making retrocomputing no longer 'cosy' for most of us.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
A year or two after that I had an M4 that after a certain period of uptime would just stop responding to commands, thus acting like a dead drive until power cycled (a reboot was not enough). There was of course a fw update available and it
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by NikkiA 2y ago
> Electric lights are often cited as an example: people have responded to improved light bulb efficiency by installing so many more of them that there has been no decline in the total energy consumed by lighting. I blame GU10 and GU5.3 b
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by NikkiA 2y ago
It's most likely a warning chime telling the crew that the warning chime system has failed.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Given (official*) UK speed limits are always in multiples of 5, using the 8/5 rule would be quicker and work just as well. * There are occasional places where private property has speed limits with weird factors, but they're so ra
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by NikkiA 2y ago
I guess they watched Minority Report and thought 'that'd be a great place to live'
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Type 'python koans' into google and pick whichever floats your boat
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Should never have adopted a project name from a competitor's product name; it's bad juju.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Dozens of on-site staff vs 3 shifts of 1 or 2 people remote monitoring and scheduling a maintenance crew when needed.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Who said it was a good thing? I was pointing out that the GP's strawman was really immaterial because HP don't get sued/arrested because they comply with law enforcement (at the expense of user privacy). Since I know better t
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by NikkiA 2y ago
The IBM PS/1 was the machine I coveted for its beauty, but it was overpriced and underspecced when I could finally think about one; so a generic beige 386-40 it was.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
The most ironic thing, IMO, is that at the time everyone seemed to be holding their breath for Castlewood's 'Orb drive', which promised the perfection of a fast and big storage media. It was delayed so long that by the time i
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by NikkiA 2y ago
There was also the Sony HiFD Which was 200MB and used the same form factor disks as FDHD drives, thus maintaining compatibility. It had a 'click of death'-like failure like Zip did though, and lost the battle during its recall and
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by NikkiA 2y ago
No because HP printers *do* print tracking marks to allow law enforcement to match a printout to a printer if they find abuse material that's been printed.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
There have been thousands of 'Aardvark Computers' around the world, but afaik they have all been support/service companies rather than manufacturers.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
And yet the US still uses Red Dye #3 for example.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
You still only get 10 free 'trial' image generations anyway.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
And then rewrite your init.el every couple of years.

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