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by ableal 8y ago
"Self-driving cars also benefit from lidar sensors, and the best ones cost thousands—if not tens of thousands—of dollars each. That's too expensive for an upgrade to a customer-owned vehicle. But the economics are more viable for
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On-chip crystal filters: SAW, BAW and the future of wireless (2013)(edn.com)
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by ableal 8y ago
Possibly something along these lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Official_Preppy_Handbook
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by ableal 8y ago
Are you counting trackballs as touchpads? E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_100 I always found the trackball more usable than the touchpad ...
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by ableal 8y ago
There were a few x86 tablets dual booting Android and Windows, mostly from Chinese brands.
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by ableal 8y ago
In case someone else goes after "[William] Holden insisted that Columbia pay him no more than $50,000 a year", there's a concise biography here: https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Holden
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by ableal 8y ago
Thanks, nice tool, bookmarked. I'll second that "give an authoritative basis" advice. Two minor items that struck me: - Country code, I'd suggest going with alpha2 from iso 3166, https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by ableal 8y ago
That's a good overview, and it made me think of a parallel list of chips that got quite a lot of press but did not shake the world much after all. Off the cuff, Intel would have two solid entries with the iAPX 432 and the Itanium, ther
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by ableal 8y ago
Don't think so, mimeograph stencils are typed or drawn on with a stylus so that pressure pushes aside the wax layer and leaves the underlying thin fabric exposed. Then the stencil goes into the mimeograph to make hundreds or thousands
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by ableal 8y ago
The artwork looks like it was made on stencil duplicator wax sheets (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph ), which is almost surely how the fanzines were printed - the most cost-effective way for runs up to a
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by ableal 8y ago
Powertools Technologies | Junior Engineer | Lisbon, Portugal | Full-time, ONSITE Looking for a junior engineer for work on Electronic Design Automation software tools, scripts and physical design kits. Candidate should at least have (or gra
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by ableal 8y ago
Took a bit longer than usual, or maybe I'm not old enough to notice cycles longer than 30 years ...
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by ableal 8y ago
I had noted those magnetic connectors over at AliExpress, e.g. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Micro-USB-Magnetic-Cable-Qui... Any cons to using them like MagSafe?
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by ableal 8y ago
The best equivalent today is probably the older model MacBook Air (still in Apple's official line up) - new for 800 euros is the lowest Black Friday price around here.
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by ableal 8y ago
> The Macbook Air is heavier (and has more ports) than the Macbook. We could call the latter "Macbook (void)" - void is lighter than air ...
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by ableal 8y ago
Among the insightful humorous essays of C. Northcote Parkinson (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law ) there's one about wording job ads that says: "Only a little thought is needed to convince
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Robert X. Cringely – Remembering Paul Allen(cringely.com)
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by ableal 8y ago
> digging into "outdated" 80's era I'd say that's a good idea. A 30-year cycle (say one human generation) seems to occur in many fields, for various reasons. For instance, some of the first transistors were field
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by ableal 8y ago
Well, sometimes I push the mouse button down on the wrong place, realize it, move the mouse away and release the button elsewhere ... usually that half-click does nothing ;-)
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by ableal 8y ago
A couple of years ago a friend sent me a barbershop quartet video and I spent a few days getting hairdresser ads ...
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by ableal 8y ago
I agree with your detailed disagreement ;-) But I get the feeling that a large part of the audience here is not that aware of those possibilities - I was just pointing in that general direction.
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by ableal 8y ago
> very steady hand I don't know the first thing about helicopters, but the negative feedback circuits that keep things steady in many applications, from power supply voltages to Segways, could help with that. It's a very simple
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by ableal 8y ago
> SuperPaint was by far the best graphics editor I ever used, on any platform. Nothing today even comes close in terms of usability, That was my idea too, but since my experience with graphics editors is ridiculously small, I shut up abo
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by ableal 8y ago
> PSP introduced the concept of raster and vector editing Actually, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperPaint_(Macintosh) is where I first saw that (wiki says released 1986, sounds right.) Funny enough, at first I th
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by ableal 8y ago
> hijacks a term that's been used since antiquity to refer to cotton fiber I thought of the alloy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_gold#White_gold - and the wiki disambiguation page ( https://e
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by ableal 8y ago
App store preview link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1password/id568903335?mt=8 (no additional info, just for convenience looking it up)
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by ableal 8y ago
I went back up top, clicked on the example button, and it yielded https://outline.com/6ps979 "The Fasinatng… Fascinating History of Autocorrect" (From Wired in 2014, totally off-topic, but with a few amusing illus
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by ableal 8y ago
I believe the designation in Russian is "The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". Then things get simplified for English-speaking audience titles ...
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by ableal 8y ago
Hey, there were whole books, like this one from 1992: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash I think Neal Stephenson's opening was that the two big items in the economy were software and pizza delivery ...
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by ableal 8y ago
> I am pretty sure BK's departure has more to do with his performance "The strife of Brian", as the wags at ElReg titled it last week, suspecting the same: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/23

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