RetroTechie

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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
1,2,6,7 & 8 Seem to me as potentially (if not with certainty) in conflict with EU consumer laws & therefore not binding. Outside EU, YMMV. Key phrase here: "Local law may limit these clauses". If such terms of use were to
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
> A lot of these pdfs contain steps which are optional or only apply in certain situations. Participants in Ikea speed-assembly competitions would like to know more.
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
> My temperature sensors got a 1500mAh AAA chargeable batteries You meant rechargeable? You seem to know more about Zigbee than about rechargeable batteries.
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
We simply don't kow. On a scale of probable -> less probable, you have: Self-organizing chemicals -> replication -> evolution -> multi-cellular life -> creatures that move around -> intelligent life -> use of tools
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
Does anyone know what (if any) open source assemblers exist, that are written in Z80 assembly themselves? I'm aware of: proprietary ones like GEN80 (my fav way back), M80/L80, at least one open source assembler written in plain
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
> I can only conclude that Windows is basically malware now... Windows has worked like spyware since what, the late Windows 7 days or thereabout? End users should not regard this as inevitable. Or get caught up in the how-it-works-how-to
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
I wonder how many of these small tape recorders still exist in the world today. They used to be ubiquitous back in the day. But surely a big % must have been dumped in the trash or a recycling bin @ some point. Wouldn't surprise me if
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
You'll mean Nina Brink. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Online
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
> Dear monkey, please run, and run far! Where to? Article says they're in a national park already (and even there, hunted sometimes).
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
> If I had to pick, my nostalgia lies with Windows 95 to 98. Ouch.. I truly feel sorry for people who've never had the experience of "switch machine on, wait 1..2 seconds, start coding". All the machine's capabilities
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
"Luft" in German = "air". So English title would be "99 air balloons" or just "99 balloons". (Excellent choice btw, among German-language songs it's an all-time classic)
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
Also, it's only "by hand" if you, the developer, writes it. In this case: "The frontend — lexer, parser, semantic analysis (it’s called mkf) — hands off to two of its own IRs before writing WASM-GC by hand." So th
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
If you're using 4 of them versus 3, wouldn't this require 1/3 more subpixels to achieve the same display resolution in pixels? Or -using same # of subpixels per cm^2- would perceived display quality be similar due to better c
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
Wikipedia says Alef lacked garbage collection, contributing to it being abandoned. But does Limbo have any 'fatal flaws' like that? Especially compared to Go. No doubt Rob Pike is a prolific and capable programmer. But seems like
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
What's missing in comments: In developed countries, people buy (or rent) the things they need. Most financial transactions are recorded, taxed, regulated, and with 3rd parties involved at every step (who also expect to get payed). Car
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
> Curious what others use to store media for home/remote use. A limited selection of CD/DVD/BluRay, a large collection of songs in mp3 & other formats (many ripped from CD myself @ some point, others downloaded), a bun
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
It's not boutique vs large plant. It's base materials (paper mills, steel smelters, plastic etc) that tend to be low in added value, versus higher up the stack (like your examples) that also tend to be higher in added value. Most
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
Better if it targets a wider scope (eg. community-building) than just cleanup.
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
It's a set of properties/attributes commonly referred to as "style" (generic, not the CSS one). Or call it look & feel. So you're saying the site screams "Claude's style!" to you. Not too differen
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
What part of "start a company" requires "grinding 80h weeks"? Sounds to me as inability to delegate. Or implicit in the [acquire VC, aim for high growth] mindset as if that were the only path to success. Companies can
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
> The population problem was solved by some chemical reaction using fossil fuels to create fertiliser so crop yields could increase "Solved"? It helped us become dependent on fossil fuels for food. And more mouths to feed. >
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Ask HN: How about a "Merge Stories" feature?
3 points by RetroTechie 3mo ago|2 comments
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
True, high-tech supply & manufacturing chains are hard to mantain if social structures break down (as is happening already). But you'll probably see large-scale crop failure first. It's simply not possible to grow the world&#x
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
Must be some Terms-of-Services on the websites mentioned, that forbid this kind of thing, right? It's not like the company hired 1000s of workers (each individually agreeing to YT's ToS) and have them dial model weights up & d
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
Netherlands back in the day had signs saying: "Laat niet, als dank voor het aangenaam verpoozen, den eigenaar van 't bosch de schillen en de doozen" (old-ish Dutch spelling. From ~1930). Translated: "Leave not as thanks
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
> So anonymity of written speech is toast. No just use a text-mixer: in goes your text, set parameters to have output match <scapegoat> (or just pick "standard_Neanderthal_3"), out comes text conveying the message you wro
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
I read that as "ignore utility in the near future". Just play around with ideas & see where it leads you. Look out waaayy further on the horizon / out of the box. Probably with the idea that if it's radical enough &a
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
To add: ratio of surface area (skin, sweating/cooling), versus volume/weight (muscle activity, biochemical processes etc). The bigger the animal, the harder it is to keep cool.
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
The tragedy: by the time a big enough % of the public finds their own lives in turmoil, panic breaks out, politics shift, Big Oil & co get shoved aside, chances are tipping points have passed & we're in for the ride no matter
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by RetroTechie 3mo ago
> That kind of scaling and software inertia is just too hard to compete against. What stopped SGI from offering such $199 add-on cards, but with their name on it?

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