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by NikkiA 2y ago
The storage device being 'wafer tapes' of 128k would suggest it was to be based on the Exatron Stringy Floppy. Although exatron only sold 75'/64k tapes, Rotronics/BSR sold a 128kB (presumably ~160') format vers
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by NikkiA 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition There's a very good movie documentary about it, which won an oscar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_(1950_film) Also, the following re
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by NikkiA 2y ago
It's not entirely dropped, it's a glottal 'g' that manifests mostly as a slight pause instead of a sound, although you can often see the larynx movement.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
I've always pronounced 'pypi' as pie-pie and assumed it's a homonym pun.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
1979 and the F-14 issue should have been plenty of wake-up for that. It seems people don't learn until it directly affects them.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
To be fair, ISTR that around 2005 there was a group running a pentium 4 at 9.something GHz by liquid nitrogen cooling it.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
but all 'ELSE' is, is functionally adding ": GOTO <line after end of else block>" on the end of your IF THEN
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by NikkiA 2y ago
PiStorm is faster but then you get into nuances of arguing over if pin compatible emulation counts or not, and if not, why would an FPGA emulation.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
> which probably makes sure those implementing security take it seriously. OTOH the government gave all our health care data to palantir a while back, so while it might be serious for individuals, fascist chucklefucks can do what they wa
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by NikkiA 2y ago
I once worked a job that involved training for handling anhydrous ammonia. No amount of training could ever make it feel 'safe', everything about it is 'if you make a mistake, even a small one, it WILL kill you'.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
I personally think Battery buses with SAE J3105 'docking' points at key stops (basically, the stops that are used to loiter to set timing, rather than leaving as soon as possible) is a better solution than the cost of stringing OH
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by NikkiA 2y ago
The trend is the exact opposite way, a federation of smaller and smaller devolved regions.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
How the hell could chromatography even work for him when everything is yellow?
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by NikkiA 2y ago
You're probably suffering rebound headaches at least most of the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medication_overuse_headache
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by NikkiA 2y ago
> Maybe Bell Labs was lucky to be the right place and right time for a lot of briliant people. They also hired literally thousands upon thousands of researchers.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
If you have unused ram, why would you want an app not to use it?
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Well, if he asked for her to look like his 13 (at the time) year old daughter?
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Bezos has been doing a lot of toadying the last couple of weeks, guess AWS needs more customers..
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by NikkiA 2y ago
I type `bcdedit /set "{bootmgr}" path \EFI\refind\refind_x64.efi` so many times a year that it's probably getting close to time to buy a macro keyboard so I can set it up on a macro.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Those were left-over 9600 cases and Steve would probably have told you that Gil was a fucking moron.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
I find the tip of a butter knife, or other blunt-ish table knife, to work better.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
The photons would be so spread out that you'd need a telescope with a primary optic bigger than anything else in the universe. And even then, you'd struggle to capture enough to have any meaningful information.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Yes, also steal ala Glomar Explorer
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by NikkiA 2y ago
This seems somewhat fair, it'll end the 'we can't do anything, even though your 'find my device' shows exactly whose house it is in' reply from the police. Given the size and scope of mobile theft something ne
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by NikkiA 2y ago
It's all pretty much a central system as of this year, your trust will have localised PWAs or Apps, but it all connects via provider IDs and transfer codes to the same NHS backend.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
You obviously don't live in the UK, where the mad dash at 8:00am on the dot to attempt to secure an appointment happened, and the line would be busy until 8:30am when they ran out of appointment slots, if you were unlucky on the re-dia
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by NikkiA 2y ago
We (UK) long gave up our nuclear sovereignty, we've relied entirely upon warheads we rent from the US since the 90s, since 1970 if you consider our Polaris subs and WE177 bombs to have been the same deal - we claimed to have autonomy o
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by NikkiA 2y ago
The north yorkshire moors guide stone is almost certainly somewhere near the (western side of) hole of horcum / skelton tower / levisham bottoms area, probably on the roman road that runs through there between pickering and whitby
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by NikkiA 2y ago
As a hyperacusis sufferer that has never used noise-cancelling headphones, I'd have to say 'unlikely', my hyperacusis came with my anxiety - something many of the people in the article have too - and largely seems to be trigg
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by NikkiA 2y ago
The problem is, everyone says 'I won't follow an order if it is illegal', but it never starts out as big-evil™ 'illegal', it's something trivial, and you tell yourself that you'll do it rather than kick up

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