TomMasz

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by TomMasz 3y ago
Recent photos of the ascent look like the lines at Disney theme parks. One can only imagine how much waste that many people can generate. This seems an overdue requirement.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
His take on Google's search is spot-on. It's not totally useless but it no longer stands apart from everything else. Who in 2010 would have predicted that?
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by TomMasz 3y ago
Same here. I visit it once a day skim a screenful or two and that's it. No comments, no up/down arrows. If they measure more than just pageviews it's not to count for much.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
Parts of Amazon are now pretty much indistinguishable from AliExpress. This is just the icing on the cake.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
Their Pocket Operators are great although, as the article points out, the rest of their audio products are incredibly expensive for what you get.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
Be sure to click on the link at the end of the article that takes you to the story of Emil Chr. Hansen at the Carlsberg brewery. Pasteur's work was important but Hansen was the one who had the most influence on brewing.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
Anyone who took it instead of pseudoephedrine knew this. If not for the crystal meth panic it would never have seen the market.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
I use Netbeans as an IDE for developing on Raspberry Pi Zero since VS Code doesn't support it.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
Evernote was a standout app in the beginning. Sadly, they've done nothing good since about 2014 or so. One misstep after another and now they're pissing off their remaining users. These are the death throes of a dying business.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
Sci-fi lied.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
My body remains on Standard Time all year, DST just messes me up. I can handle the earlier sunset just fine. Permanent DST? Please, no.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
Wow. Back in 2014 I was fighting with product development to default to TLS and make SSL optional. That was almost a decade ago and SSL is still around?
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by TomMasz 3y ago
I've built my own pedals, amp, and guitar. I managed to do all of them in a reasonable amount of time without neglecting the playing aspect. But I've got all the parts for Mu-Tron III clone that have been sitting in the boxes they
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by TomMasz 3y ago
I will never understand why people eat these peppers. I can't imagine any food being so good you'd overlook three and half hours of extreme discomfort followed by an hour of agony to eat it.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
Blackmagic's software is extremely powerful and totally overkill for casual users. But the target audience is advanced/pro users, so that's not an issue.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
My uncle was a Marine in the Pacific in WWII and he was one of those subjected to the canned mutton mentioned in the article. I've had it when in Ireland and a couple of places in the US and it was fine. I'm sure if I'd had t
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by TomMasz 3y ago
How could they not notice this?
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by TomMasz 3y ago
I remember some of the folks in the company I was working at "repurposing" DRAM chips intended for prototyping to use in their homebrew Apple II clones. They had done a group buy of bare boards and DRAM was pretty expensive, so...
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by TomMasz 3y ago
I loved the sound the original Mac disk drives made as they sped up and down. Incompatible with everything else but it was at a time when that didn't matter all that much.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
I got myself into a smaller version of this kind of project when I wondered about an old city building that sat in the middle of a parking lot. It took months but I discovered how to use plat maps, old records, and more that the city librar
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by TomMasz 3y ago
Making espresso at home is one of those things that seems to lead directly to obsession. Keep that in mind should you decide to start.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
I live near the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (aka The Laser Lab) and took a tour one day. They have an enormous bank of huge capacitors (think refrigerator-sized) that they charge off the power grid since t
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by TomMasz 3y ago
Winebottler for macOS ( https://winebottler.kronenberg.org/ ) uses the term as well.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
I heartily recommend Masters of Atlantis , which is funny and relevant to what's happening in the US today.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
There are 2000 globals here, so more like a couple of shedloads. While this is something you'd sort of expect for a product that's been around 30+ years, it really seems like there's a lot of optimization that could happen
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by TomMasz 3y ago
Any movement that coalesces around a single person is indistinguishable from a cult.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
Fritz Maytag was a pioneer of the microbrewery ("craft beer" hadn't been coined yet) industry and took a small struggling brewery and turned it around. Oh, and saved a beer style from extinction.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
I've never not had BBEdit installed.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
I got back on a bicycle when I ruptured a disc in my lumbar spine and had to stop running. My only intention was to stay in decent shape. I've lost 40 lbs. since 2019. Weight loss was not a goal but it still happened. If you expend mor
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by TomMasz 3y ago
Zeal (portable 64-bit) runs on Wine on macOS if you don't need the Mac-specific stuff in Dash.

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