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by TMWNN 1y ago
>Airplane could be made today, the central premise would hold up well, some of the skits in it would have to be dropped or altered. In other words, not Airplane! .
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by TMWNN 1y ago
> * Unless you use the Oracle plugin, but you really shouldn't, because most features from it have been moved to the GPL base. Oh? I moved to KVM via UnRAID, but not because of any particular complaint with VirtualBox or the Oracle
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by TMWNN 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w09YzTMY1qk#t=62s
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by TMWNN 1y ago
>If you want almost no-cost currency conversion (2 USD minimum, but you have to convert like 100k USD I think it is to go above that), use Interactive Brokers LLC. They won't let you have an account purely for currency conversion, b
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by TMWNN 1y ago
Prompt engineering, it seems to me, is about the most obvious way to use a computer: Tell it in plain English what you want.
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by TMWNN 1y ago
1995 article by Raskin (page 9) in the Journal of the Computer History Association of California : < http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/chac/CHAC_Analytical_Engine/2.4... >
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by TMWNN 1y ago
I never tried the Colonization mod, but experienced the same thing with Civ IV BTS back in the day.
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Bill Gates's vision for the future of the PC, c1980 – er, Xenix (2002)(theregister.com)
4 points by TMWNN 1y ago|0 comments
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Bye, bye Solaris, it was a nice ride while it lasted (2017)(itwire.com)
2 points by TMWNN 1y ago|0 comments
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by TMWNN 1y ago
>It's a Z80 in a cartridge and was capable of booting CP/M 2.2. But don't get too excited: the 1541 was still the 1541, so it could only run software that had been copied to a GCR disk (no directly reading MFM floppies). T
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by TMWNN 1y ago
Edited by me from original "Elon Musk's Starlink gets govt nod in India for satcom service", or the real original "Elon Musk's Starlink gets govt nod in India for satcom service: What it means for users, pricing and
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Starlink gets govt nod in India for satcom service(businesstoday.in)
5 points by TMWNN 1y ago|1 comments
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by TMWNN 1y ago
> I sort of have two theories. One is that you probably have to be relatively smart to go into the trades. I remember listening to a podcast recently on military recruitment and they said because the military is so modern, they have to d
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by TMWNN 1y ago
The article also mentions exactly once the influx of immigrants, as if the notion that continually importing people—nowadays not from the traditional Anglosphere sources of migrants to New Zealand—willing to work for far lower pay could hav
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by TMWNN 1y ago
>(I managed to synchronize the tape drive properly only once and played "Winter Games") Odd; the Commodore Datasette is about as reliable as a microcomputer tape storage system can be, far more so than the tin cans-on-a-string
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by TMWNN 1y ago
... and much faster. Like *30 times* faster. Even had the hardware bug juancn and classichasclass discuss not existed with the C64, the Disk II is still much faster. It's flabbergasting how good Woz's designs were. Almost on a w
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by TMWNN 1y ago
Context for others: Standalone computer monitors per se did not exist at retail in 1977. The only choices were either televisions, or displays for security-camera systems such as the Sanyo VM-4209 < https://collections.vam.ac.u
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by TMWNN 1y ago
Quoting myself from the prior discussion (with a correction): ----------------- Woz explains why the original Apple II (1977) doesn't support lowercase letters. That's not surprising, in retrospect; of its major contemporaries, th
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by TMWNN 1y ago
Edited by me for length from original title "‘Hollowing out’: New Zealand grapples with an uncertain future as record numbers leave"
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New Zealand grapples with an uncertain future as record numbers leave(theguardian.com)
4 points by TMWNN 1y ago|3 comments
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by TMWNN 1y ago
Published November 2024 by Stephen Miran, head of the Council of Economic Advisors. This can be said to be the intellectual underpinning of the Trump Administration's aggressive moves on tariff and the dollar, and the basis of any pros
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A User's Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System (2024)(hudsonbaycapital.com)
2 points by TMWNN 1y ago|1 comments
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by TMWNN 1y ago
I have never ever skipped a cut scene I have not seen before.
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by TMWNN 1y ago
>MILLIONS ARE TO BE GRABBED OUT HERE AND YOUR ONLY COMPETITION IS IDOTS —Email sent from video game writer to fellow author, c. 2025
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by TMWNN 1y ago
Title altered by me from "Israeli spyware giant NSO Group ordered to pay nearly $170M to WhatsApp for hacking accounts".
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by TMWNN 1y ago
You and entropicdrifter are wrong and defen is correct. Defen said "Spanish colonization had virtually no impact on the ethnic, political, or religious development of the United States", as opposed to the Western Hemisphere. He is
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by TMWNN 1y ago
>TIL. That’s funny because afaik Mexicans refer to the USA as “estados unidos”. Just as bad is that norteamericanos is the popular term for Americans (in the American sense), despite the existence of Canada and Mexico itself on the con
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by TMWNN 1y ago
>It never ceases to amaze me how poorly catechized the majority of cradle Catholics are. The classic example being asking one "What is the immaculate conception?" That said, I have no reason to think that the average Catholic i
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by TMWNN 1y ago
>That sentence is the Apple II hardware in a nutshell! save a chip or two but completely scramble the video buffer? Absolutely! Woz is one of the greatest engineers of the 20th century, and the Apple II demonstrates his talent. But his b
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by TMWNN 1y ago
Thanks for pointing people to Area 5150. Context for others: This, and its predecessor 8088 MPH, uses every single trick in the book and many not written down anywhere to squeeze that kind of performance out of a real 1981 IBM PC 5150 with

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