acomjean

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by acomjean 9mo ago
We have some really old Bose speakers my brothers and I bought 30+ years ago at my Moms place. Just listened to them over the recent holidays. Not ann audiofile but they sounded pretty good even now.
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by acomjean 9mo ago
I think you are right. If I remember there were 2 types of silk, and they could use their legs to “listen” to vibrations when something gets caught anywhere in the web. They seem to avoid getting stuck in their own webs. But they do have 8
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by acomjean 10mo ago
>10,000 GIFs half of dancing hampsters. De da dee dee doh! [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20000301193204/http://www.hamste... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampster_Dance I do
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by acomjean 10mo ago
To be fair, he really played down/ backpedaled and shifted right from a lot of positions he took as Massachusetts governor when running for federal office. I thought he did very decent job here in Massachusetts, but was really hard to
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by acomjean 10mo ago
Frustrating. It’s too bad there isn’t standard cells anymore. I did notice my Bluetooth speaker (which had replacement batteries available) also had instruction videos floating around on buying replacement cells and rebuilding the battery
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by acomjean 10mo ago
Excepting slide photos. No real adjustment once taken (a more difficult medium than negative film which you can adjust a little when printing) You’re right about Ansel Adams. He “dodged and burned” extensively (lightened and darkened areas
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by acomjean 10mo ago
>Ultimately you can pick any coefficients you want, and only your eyes can judge how nice they are. I went to a photoshop conference. There was a session on converting color to black and white. Basically at the end the presenter said y
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by acomjean 10mo ago
It doesn’t really bother me. It seems to link to the authors codepen. If you us code pen you can bookmark the snippets. Codepen colorizes the html/css etc. Link rot is a thing though, so it’s not always ideal to have dependencies on t
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by acomjean 10mo ago
Depending on the model you might be able to find it online. My system 76 had a “Clevo” ID on the bottom sticker ( the company that manufactures the computers) I used to buy a replacement fan.
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by acomjean 10mo ago
It was a mess behind the scenes for the music contractor. Seemed badly planned and kinda scummy. The blog: (a long rant) https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-d...
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by acomjean 10mo ago
The devs probably looked at what happened to the music dept at Id as a cautionary tale.
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by acomjean 10mo ago
Notes was pretty decent as a groupware/ nosql platform. Lotus script wasn’t great. I might be biased because my first CS job was to write applications with it. It felt like they basically tacked on the email functionality to to Notes t
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by acomjean 10mo ago
IBM was in a hurry. From triumph of the nerds part 2 ( worth a watch.. they also explain how IBM ended up getting and operating system from Microsoft) https://www.pbs.org/nerds/part2.html https://youtu.be&#x
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by acomjean 10mo ago
We used this Max Power quote at work. https://frinkiac.com/caption/S10E13/786535
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by acomjean 10mo ago
Last century I was gifted a gas powered model helicopter with one of these small gas engines. It had a propeller would fly up, run out of gas and fall back down (it had some larger blades to slow its decent). You started by spinning the p
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by acomjean 10mo ago
>My fear is that eventually all devices will be required to have a government-mandated backdoor installed, They tried to have the back door mandated with the Clipper chip. Governments will try again. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by acomjean 10mo ago
I saw this today where "influencers" were taking real doctors from videos and using AI to have them pitch products. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/05/ai-deepfakes...
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by acomjean 10mo ago
His website is pretty fun. https://grumpygamer.com/ He also blogged the development of tumbleweed park https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/archives.html
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by acomjean 11mo ago
I noticed the ai sidebar. Annoying. But left column browser tabs are back, which is a plus.
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by acomjean 11mo ago
Opening doors isn’t fun. School busses would be un workable with that back door if it was.
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by acomjean 11mo ago
I thought you were going to share the one where Bart Martin and Milhouse team up to buy a rare “radioactive man”. It goes badly https://youtu.be/zw220bx88WA?si=vArVS22Oac02uNK5 I’d forgotten about prank monkey Homer.
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by acomjean 11mo ago
I’m guessing for most people it doesn’t much matter. Most people aren’t writing assembly. They do love an all day battery. I think the competition really helps keep these companies honest.
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by acomjean 11mo ago
The non profit I volunteer at is unreachable. It gives a cloudflare error page which is sort of helpful. It tells me the the site is ok but cloudflare has an 500. It’s been great, but I always wonder when a company starts doing more than
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by acomjean 11mo ago
Yeah, learn with the computer! When I was growing we had an intellivision game console. My parents bought us the "keyboard component" that turned it into a computer. What a terrible computer it was. Turned out it was released
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by acomjean 11mo ago
The llm summary is probably largely based on the Wikipedia summary…
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by acomjean 11mo ago
A lot of times the businesses are long gone when the cleanup needs to be paid for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund
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by acomjean 1y ago
You might end up with ai trying to get information from ai, which saves us the frustration.. knows where we’d end up? On the other hand the logs might be a great read.
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by acomjean 1y ago
They’re weren’t that many that weren’t pre compiled for Linux in the c++ world. Python is bad, but others have issues too. C/C++ often had to compile used “make” which I’ll admit to being better at the conda/pip. I suspect this i
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by acomjean 1y ago
As someone who plays amount of “boardgame arena”, I appreciate this. Having software mediate rules helps bootstrap games. But you still need physical pieces to loose and store. Reminds me of a “digital roulette wheel” I saw in a casino.. wh
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by acomjean 1y ago
Meetup.. the promise of meetup was the organizers pay a fee so the members don’t have too. My partner organized one a decade ago. I’m still a member of a couple but now they’re really going after group members with ads and upsells. It stil

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