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by acomjean 4y ago
"Late Risers Club" on WMBR (MIT radio) is pretty good. They're daily 10-12 EST, but archive the shows for 2 weeks. Its less pure "punk" than it was but (Some DJs have more rock like tendencies...), but its still gre
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by acomjean 4y ago
There is the "Woz" file format for the apple2 (and others). It takes a disk image (flux?) and makes the file bootable in some emulators. https://applesaucefdc.com/woz/ the images it creates are sometimes stu
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by acomjean 4y ago
I think some of the confusion stems from the fact the “medicinal” happened in some places before “recreational” happened. At least that’s how it played out in Massachusetts. It required a prescription, so doctors were saying to take it,
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by acomjean 4y ago
Money can be pretty. Before the euro (last century) a friend had a poster sized version of a 50(?) German Mark bill.
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by acomjean 4y ago
I started using the weather.gov hourly dashboard when I started riding my bike 5 years ago. A couple weeks in and It really was very intuitive to read. I like that it also highlights the sunrise and sunset times.
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by acomjean 4y ago
I had the IBM "Modem and Ethernet" PCMCIA card. And a scsi one to work that zip drive on my notebook. They were awkward, but they worked. for those that haven't seen these thick credit card sized adapters from the last cen
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by acomjean 4y ago
He does remind me of a late 20th century WWF wrestling villain. He's a good player, even if its pretty clear at this point some of his scores are dodgy. Though he did some "in person" https://www.classicarcademuse
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by acomjean 4y ago
I mean these companies have Research and Development divisions. I was at IBM at the turn of the century when they spent 6 billion dollars on research. One of the pushes was to get research to focus on things they could market and make mon
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by acomjean 4y ago
After they discontinued it, Kodak tried another small film format (aps). More traditional cartridge style and let you shoot different aspect ratios. But smaller file meant worse quality than 35mm. The name “APS” lived on when camera manuf
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by acomjean 4y ago
You are not alone. 2 minutes of new yorkers doing the double metrocard swipe. (Contains opera) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KExZw3hh1Ic . And a few going over/under…
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by acomjean 4y ago
I am a not I frequent visitor to NYC (i lived in white plains for a while).. The kiosks always seemed to work fine. So well I hardly noticed them. The cards, I had some trouble with. I felt I wasn’t doing it right till the “New Yorkers vs
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by acomjean 4y ago
Yew tube. (I expected trees..) I’ve seen a few in the series. Less technical but The NES comes to America is pretty good https://youtu.be/Sn5v09L_uDg And the Ultima online tried create programmatic eco system is kinda hys
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by acomjean 4y ago
Me too. Its interesting, I work with a group of visual artists (about 300). Instagram was by far the most popular way for them to share what they were working on. It seems like it was perfect for that sort of thing, but now it feels like
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by acomjean 4y ago
Don't Postgres and mysql already have the Json datatype, that pretty much allows creating Key/Value stores? https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-json.html
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by acomjean 4y ago
My brother gave me one. It’s really quite a nice driver. The insulation is nice and the bits work really well. I find the grip quite comfortable. Much better than the “mr ratchet” driver set I got in the 90s..(one oddly wasn’t. Ratchet dr
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by acomjean 4y ago
I was part of an urban exploring meetup. (We went to an abandoned Christian theme park). But the meetup organizer stopped, and speed dating site took it over. If I remember correctly the members were notified the organizer stepped down
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by acomjean 4y ago
Ah my Civil Engineering student years.. Except my year, because the year before the canoe wasn't right, and the sponsoring professor swamped the thing and took a year off (or so was the rumor), so our class never got to build one.
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by acomjean 4y ago
Its not quite the same but one of the Moving Companies around boston has a rowing club. https://www.gentlegiantrowing.org/sponsor "and approach to moving as a sport, requiring dedication and teamwork. Many Gentle Giant
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by acomjean 4y ago
I always like the Nasa "earth observatory" pages: they have the before and after as a zoomed in image. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150279/devastating-...
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by acomjean 4y ago
>but I kind of expect RPG games with fully AI-generated aesthetics / graphics and stories, I think Dwarf Fortress has the story generation part. The aesthetics/graphics part not yet.. And I think its procedurally generated, bu
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by acomjean 4y ago
Tesla factory employees aren't interfacing with the public, so employers have more say. I'm not sure the actual laws involved but I know certain employers have certain appearance rules. If they don't have any rules, you c
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by acomjean 4y ago
It will probably depend on if the AI has the original image in its training set.. As opposed to trying to determine if a person had seen the original.
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by acomjean 4y ago
People have found inspiration in other works since we've been creating art. In music if you use a snipet of someone else's recording you have to pay them. It wasn't always clear that would be the case, but thats where they l
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by acomjean 4y ago
I have one for home for 4 years and a new one for work. I like them a lot. I had one issue upgrading the OS after installing steam, but they have good support. I really like a Matt screen and these have them. They’re rebranded Clevo m
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by acomjean 4y ago
I agree. As well as framework. Dell//HP and system76 all sell pcs with Linux pre installed. I like the system76 as I enjoy a Mat screen.
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by acomjean 4y ago
Basically they say you are violating their patent. You can license it for $X and then everything is good. If you don't license it we will sue you for patent infringement. The problem is typically defending yourself cost you a lot mo
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by acomjean 4y ago
Any browser that supports "PointerEvents" I think will do it (canIuse indicates its all of the them..). There is a How it works section at the bottom, which is interesting: "Modern browsers expose so called PointerEvents tha
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by acomjean 4y ago
I replaced my laptop fan after it was grinding. The full disassemble/upgrade manual was like 30 pages. It is a system 76 machine which is just a clevo machine. edit (30 pages). (they post they're own manuals on github..) https:&#
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by acomjean 4y ago
Someone broke into my building and stole a bunch of bikes from the bike room (people weren’t locking them up once inside). The few that were registered to park at the university (big silver stickers) were left alone. Often I don’t think t
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by acomjean 4y ago
We had a friend who got into an minor accident (fall really) after drinking and cycling. He was wearing a helmet and he’s become a helmet evangelist.

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