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by abrugsch 8y ago
You might like the pics I posted in the sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19513860
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by abrugsch 8y ago
or in regular light... I recently decapped some old chips that were ceramic packages with a soldered on metal cap. A 486 DX2[0] and an old Analog to digital converter IC [1]. the bare silicon was beautiful once exposed..(Pics posted withou
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by abrugsch 8y ago
OH. DEAR. GOD. You are an evil genius
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by abrugsch 8y ago
Oh wow... an endless generation of D.R. would send you straight to the asylum! as much as I love the bonkers-ness of Donkey Rhubarb, it's existing length is quite enough for one sitting! <EVIL> Come to daddy on the other hand...
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by abrugsch 8y ago
yeah this exactly. I was half way through playing QII first time round when I went from Software to a VooDooII. I'll never forget firing a plasma rifle down a tunnel and watching the lighting effects coming off the bolt as it went down
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by abrugsch 8y ago
In 2019 how many apple products have user (or technician for that matter) upgrade-able anything? honest question. I'm not a Mac person and all I see is anecdotal reports of "soldered in RAM here" "fully bonded case there
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by abrugsch 8y ago
>And always thought that people with more knowledge than me would find a lot of flaws. Firstly, anyone who nitpicks on a totally handbuilt computer has almost certainly not built their own, so their criticisms can be taken with a pinch o
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by abrugsch 8y ago
they may be lucky... my first was as you describe, but most of the other parents in our (ante natal) group spent their first few months relaxing (relatively) as their babies were a lot more compliant early on.
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by abrugsch 8y ago
This a million times over. In my first son's first few months I got loads of side stuff done. Now he's 7 and his brother is a toddler and every day is filled with one or other's requirements. from various sports activities (t
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by abrugsch 8y ago
there's definitely a steeper muscle learning curve with a trackpoint but once you get past it they are fantastic to use. I find accuracy higher and less of a jarring transition from typing to mousing. if you get one again, I suggest pe
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by abrugsch 8y ago
>which is why I think it faded away You do realise trackpoints still exist on all new thinkpads and some Dell and HP laptops? the reason they never became popular is that they are ont easy to master as soon as you first use them. the mus
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by abrugsch 8y ago
That I get. I have no desire to keep my parents crap but I also don't want my kids destroying my stuff while I can still enjoy it. There is no expectation for them to "inherit" it just respect that I want to keep it. If they
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by abrugsch 8y ago
was the "room of couches..." trend immediately after an episode of The Goldebergs aired with exactly that scenario? (except the 80's version) also the "stuff we never use" is probably mostly just parents fed up with
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by abrugsch 8y ago
UK glass milk deliveries still exist. We have milk delivered 3 times per week. (that's the cadence of the milk company, not our choosing) and until recently within last 6 months ish) ALL quantities were delivered an 1pt returnable glas
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by abrugsch 8y ago
only the first revision (and the A/A+ until the 3A+ came out) had 256Mb. It was soon upgraded to 512 as one of the first design changes (before moving to the "plus" form factor with 40 pin GPIO header) the early A's even
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by abrugsch 8y ago
I FOUND IT! It was called Techno Trade street view was only good back to 2008 and it was already something else but a search on the address came up with: https://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/techno-trade-fareham
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by abrugsch 8y ago
The reality of the German efficiency myth is actually just lots and lots of bureaucracy. something you'd never truly appreciate until you try living there (as a foreigner no less) for more than a few months... (my cousin explained it t
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by abrugsch 8y ago
But how much is a zero(W) in the new RPF store?
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by abrugsch 8y ago
Fully agree. This is less about the act of trying to sell more pi and make enough profit to run the store but to have a branded edu-zone promoting the scene. And Cambridge is pretty much the only place in the UK where this will work. I don&
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by abrugsch 8y ago
There used to be a random electronics junk and appliances shop in Fareham (I forget the name now, it was late 90's/early 00's) which took on a role as a radio shack disti. I don't know if the town had a tandy when they w
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by abrugsch 8y ago
one word: Microcenter I don't live in the states, but am on a forum of people centered around various projects that (among other things) happen to make use of Pi Zero's the people who live near MC's are always saying how they
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by abrugsch 11y ago
probably the level 256 rollover glitch or killscreen (the basis for the mobile game pacman 256)
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by abrugsch 11y ago
Same here. trying to draw walls just ends up panning the floorplan
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by abrugsch 11y ago
Redgate in the UK do (or did... i don't know if they still do) this for small startups. I went for an interview there once and in one corner of the main office was an area with a few desks where 3/4 person startup was just getting
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by abrugsch 11y ago
well as long as the actual raw value of the components is listed on the customs declaration, each packet is unlikely to hit the import duty threshold (of the UK. can't speak for other countries)
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by abrugsch 11y ago
That calculation seems a little off... I don't know what ADAC takes into consideration for that calculation, but either of the cars in my family operate at around 16 Km/L on long distance, mostly motorway/autobahn (and neithe
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by abrugsch 11y ago
one interesting point to note from your comment, is that a suicide will have indirect knock-on effects on other trains "if they wait for the passengers of the delayed trains". that NEVER happens on UK trains anymore. if your train
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by abrugsch 11y ago
I can't say I've ever hear it in the south west, but in the west midlands (specifically black country area) the 'am' replacing 'are' is a very common construct (possibly because 'ar' is used in the sa
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by abrugsch 11y ago
Define: Slavery
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by abrugsch 12y ago
Atari has made legally dubious accusations based on the knowledge that Minter has no chance of defending them from a financial basis, despite them being all based pretty much on "looks a bit like tempest" which in the game world d

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