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by Tor3 4y ago
If it was HD then the data is probably gone. Or at least the floppy will have read issues. 720KB should do a bit better. I have recovered data from a lot of old media, CCT tapes, floppies, 3.5" floppies - except that in practice it t
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by Tor3 4y ago
As themagician says. Unless they're of a particularly notoriously bad brand.. I can't remember the name now but I'll recognize it when I see it. Can you see what brand it is?
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by Tor3 4y ago
Ah, wandering shops. Maybe 25 years ago I was walking the streets of Rome, as I had been doing for years on my days off. Maps were left behind years before - didn't need them. That day I was on the Tevere side of the Tiber (well, that
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by Tor3 4y ago
I could buy 3.5" floppies in a Japanese supermarket just a few years ago. Heck, I could buy cassette tape as well.. and I did! :-)
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by Tor3 4y ago
It's not less painful to install and set up an IRIX system with a couple dozen CDs.. (except that CDs didn't often fail to read). In fact it was so tiring that after the first couple of times I would always just copy the CDs to a
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by Tor3 4y ago
EU is not used as a scapegoat except for those who use EU as a scapegoat for everything - there's always someone. The 'scapegoat', if you will, is the Acer contract - and that's not really a scapegoat, it's the real
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by Tor3 4y ago
That contract you mention is basically that you transmit electricity from where it's cheaper until the price balances out at both ends. That's when you stop (unless capacity limits you before that happens). It's a horrible co
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by Tor3 4y ago
"If I was from Norway or Sweden I would demand the national grid to massively invest into the transmission lines to make all the electricity produced in the country actually usable anywhere in the country. " That would be fine if
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by Tor3 4y ago
Norway has been self-sufficient for a very long time, but due to the Acer agreement with EU Norway is in practice forced to export electricity until the price balances out at both ends ( https://www.nrk.no/ytring/energie
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by Tor3 4y ago
Agreed. Nobody knows what it would sound like, but I can't imagine it would sound as someone like myself plucking notes off a fretted guitar. You only have to look at contemporary music outside of Western tradition to hear something wh
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by Tor3 4y ago
No, Finnish is from a different language group: Uralic.
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by Tor3 4y ago
You do exactly the same in Italian - I never found it inconvenient or annoying.
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by Tor3 4y ago
Why should there be large caches hidden under sands? Has there really been anything like the Dead Sea Scrolls elsewhere? AFAIK those scrolls were there simply because the sect who wrote or collected them lived in those caves, or nearby. Wh
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by Tor3 4y ago
(Too late to edit - a small error there. The Logitech cam was of course connected to a USB port on the Pi. The two HDMI connections in question were two ports on the TV, one with the Pi as source, the other with the normal cable box as inpu
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by Tor3 4y ago
I also tried a setup with meet.jit.si for my parents. As you did, I set up a 'permanent' room where everyone in the extended family could connect at any time. Then I set up a Raspberry Pi connected to one HDMI port on their TV, an
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by Tor3 4y ago
The Cosmac ELF.. yes, I too was aware of the 1802, and there are of course other important microprocessors from that time period. But those four covered a lot among themselves - in particular the trio 6502/8080/Z80. But of course
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by Tor3 4y ago
I've only touched one 8085-based CP/M system myself. I don't think they were that common, certainly nothing compared to Z80 and 8080.
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by Tor3 4y ago
I was fortunate and managed to see all five at a similar occasion many decades ago. My image-stabilized binoculars helped a lot in finding Mercury in the glowing sky near the sun. It helped that I was on a work mission to a remote area with
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by Tor3 4y ago
The 6800 definitely is a classic, yes. The classics included at least 6800, 6502, 8080, and Z80. (To some extent 8085, but as an "expanded" 8080 the Z80 dominated.) The four of them powered the most iconic systems at the start of
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by Tor3 4y ago
That reminds me.. someone I know very well managed to sleep past the only scheduled stop at a station near his home, and it was the last train for the night. But they helpfully made an unscheduled stop at the next station, just for him, wh
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by Tor3 4y ago
For hours ? No way. I wouldn't do that, even if I sometimes leave stuff for a few minutes if I'm in a cafeteria I know well, plus etc. etc. But not for hours. At best your stuff would be taken care of by e.g. the cafeteria person
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by Tor3 4y ago
I nearly always "know" how long I have been asleep, unless there's been excessive drinking involved (and that would be long ago). "Normal" drinking doesn't seem to affect this. And for shorter naps (less than t
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by Tor3 4y ago
When I woke up after surgery I felt that 1.5 hours had passed. But in actuality it was something around 4 hours since I went under. It turned out that 1.5 hours before I woke up I had been brought out of anesthesia and after that I simply s
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by Tor3 4y ago
I have only two clear memories from when I was around 2.5 years old. I think they stuck because of an unusual connection. There was a guy who used to come to our door and sell eggs, in huge 24-egg cartons (I didn't count them, I just
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by Tor3 4y ago
I replied to the statement "The state owns the only alcohol store." - the only text in the comment I replied to. And as it's factually wrong, I replied with a comment stating just that. There was nothing about monitoring in t
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by Tor3 4y ago
I went and checked various online papers with comment sections, and the comments have been massively negative to this. This is apparently not something people will easily accept, so it remains to be seen what happens.
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by Tor3 4y ago
See my comment above - you can buy beer elsewhere, unless it's stronger than the typical lager.
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by Tor3 4y ago
You can buy alcohol at the supermarket in Norway, it's just that it's limited to alcohol of 4.5%vol. or lower (i.e. the supermarkets sell beer and alcohol cider and the like).
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by Tor3 5y ago
Can't edit.. that "too" in the last sentence should be "to" of course. Hopefully nobody got confused.
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by Tor3 5y ago
Likewise (tablet). Tried it on a PC. It's close to useless, unfortunately. Too bad, these other efforts elsewhere to create 3D models of ancient cities work fine both on a PC and Android tablets.

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