NikkiA

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by NikkiA 3y ago
> Getting CP/M up and going looks like more work than would be reasonable for fun. 22NICE is still available and will almost certainly run on a PC-17-02 using the hardware 'emulation'
752.
by NikkiA 3y ago
The local painter/decorator here has a fleet of L200s, some with open beds, some with covered 'van' beds. Every road he or his employees park on is instantly blocked. It's irritating af.
753.
by NikkiA 3y ago
No they're not. Tailwinds apply to the speed of sound too, thus a 200 mph jetstream raises the speed of sound in that jetstream, in that direction, by 200mph too, and thus the speed of sound for the quoted altitude would be 961mph. The
754.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Rats are everywhere, everywhere in the world, if you think you're more than a few metres from a rat right now you're probably either on the ISS or in denial.
755.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I think MSRL had a F# based OS they were playing with around the same time as Midori and Singularity.
756.
by NikkiA 3y ago
And CVS was a huge step up from RCS and SCCS synced via sneakernet, well, it seemed huge at the time, now it seems like a tiny step compared to everything that came after.
757.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Hell, the UMA was considered a downside on the original XBOX because everyone was used to each processor having it's own memory bus, so even though the bus was (for the time) a sprightly 6.4GB/s, it was considered lesser.
758.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I don't know about anyone else, obviously, but my internal monologue is very poorly focused at times, I can be mentally editing code and suddenly think about donuts, or squirrels. Maybe AI could filter that nonsense out based on contex
759.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Anywhere in the middle east, anywhere in south east asia, Grenada, A dozen or so countries in Africa, anywhere in Central America or South America. But it's ok, they don't teach you these things in US schools.
760.
by NikkiA 3y ago
The only replacement for typing I can see taking over would be a mind interface, but even there I have a suspicion that it'll require 'thinking in a different voice' that'll make it almost as tiring as voice control.
761.
by NikkiA 3y ago
But heat IS light, and vice versa.
762.
by NikkiA 3y ago
The human eye might not, but they show up just fine in astrophotography, amateur or professional, all night long.
763.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Sounds like a modern reconstruction of the magic eye tubes that used to be used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_eye_tube
764.
by NikkiA 3y ago
The other day I spent something like 10 minutes trying to find where the actual recipe was in the middle of the text, and it turned out it wasn't even complete.
765.
by NikkiA 3y ago
SO₂ was a byproduct of coal power stations, we started scrubbing it because it was the cause of acid rain.
766.
by NikkiA 3y ago
It still completely baffles me why mastodon's explore / news feed only provides outgoing links, and not some way to post a toot about a news item.
767.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Every 80s calculator that I used used the batteries that are still commonly available, CR2032 mostly, but some CR2025 and such as well. The hard to find batteries (not impossible) tend to be the wierd voltage batteries that cameras mostly u
768.
by NikkiA 3y ago
You'd be surprised at how many calculator apps on smartphones just use floating point and thus get many calculations completely wrong.
769.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Eh, there's room for 'Cadillac Man' in there too, throw in 'Lawnmower Man' and you've got the whole gen-X Man trilogy. Not Encino Man though, that film never existed.
770.
by NikkiA 3y ago
TIL that Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, and Australia are all part of 'China'
771.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Ironically, the best way to combat paracetamol overdoses is to make it well known just how horrible a paracetamol death is.
772.
by NikkiA 3y ago
A lot of non-factory honey includes larvae bits anyway, so shrug
773.
by NikkiA 3y ago
> It smacks of someone trying to be cute but lacking the wit to do so without inducing eye rolls. That perfectly sums up the register
774.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Ambulance admission vs 'Walking injured' admission have different triage queues though, so by taking yourself to hospital to avoid 'going to a bad hospital' you're almost certainly nerfing your care.
775.
by NikkiA 3y ago
It's more about the disease vectors' ranges changing, the UK now has tiger mosquitos living here for a large portion of the year, bringing the possibility of dengue, zika, west nile, and other diseases that it carries, which would
776.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Reaping the rewards of climate change that we've been warning about for decades, but no 'I'll just turn the AC up, lol' continues to be the standard american refrain.
777.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I think it's a PiDP-11, the PiDP-8 isn't quite as red.
778.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I'll go further and say anything longer ago than an hour should show the date + time, with timezone.
779.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I assume my plastic recycling is what my council states - that it is burned (with the exhaust passing through scrubbers) to produce steam which is used to heat local businesses and public buildings, and generate a small amount of electricty
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by NikkiA 3y ago
And ramblin, don't forget ramblin. eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ramblers

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