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by acomjean 2y ago
I had forgotten about Quantum hard drives.. I bought a Quantum harddrive in the 1990s for my mac like "Tower Power Pro".. It stopped working about a week after I got it with clicks. The first clue something was amiss was the pers
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Seems like it’s back. One of my projects when in bioinformatics was making an alternative search with NIH data. They update pubmed yearly with daily updates after that. It really is a great resource. We link to their pages: eg https:&#x2F
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I mean the US is spending money on US weapons and arms and sending them to a foreign country. We're not sending them cash. The military industrial complex in the US benefits. Not to mention the huge benefit to us that this equipment
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I haven’t found anything yet that fails just on Firefox. But I’ve noticed I have ublock-origin installed on Firefox and when the 2 sites that I had issues with started working when that was disabled…
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I use this “Apple match” service with iTunes. I think the idea was it found songs from cds I ripped and served me the same song from the cloud(without uploading) for a small yearly fee. Though it did spend a long time uploading but I have
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by acomjean 2y ago
I will second p5/processing as a fun tool. It's really a pretty easy and way to get into generative art. P5.js has an online editor which makes it easy. The new nature of code book was updated to use p5 instead of processing and
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by acomjean 2y ago
The announcement video. The desktop is 15 minutes in. (After the notebook announcements) https://www.youtube.com/live/dnCGwii7FqY?si=0ppcg_cjj8I-5P67
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by acomjean 2y ago
The wings say USAF, which is Air Force. Though clearly in space…
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Bill Clinton had the "line item veto" which allowed presidents to get rid of things in bills (spending) they didn't like. Ultimately this power was rejected by the courts as unconstitutional. Congress is supposed to alloca
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I know a guy whose mother came from italy to the US when she was young. He went back some Family over there. He was told “you speak Italian well, but you sound like my grandmother”
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Loved that use of data visualization. Thinking about it, it makes sense to cut the loops out of the CYOA as you want the story to never be infinite and because they’re for young readers never be too long. The charts remind be of “puzzle dep
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by acomjean 2y ago
It was a while ago. But late last century the "line item veto" which allowed presidents to get rid of things in bills they didn't like was rejected by the courts. Oddly Reagan (R) asked for this power initially, but Clinton
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by acomjean 2y ago
This seems like those “choose you own adventure” books from the 70s and 80s. “If you cross the bridge turn to page 40…”. My brothers and I had like the first 30 of those.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own
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by acomjean 2y ago
I learned from a friend, if you are going to need a specific tool and don’t expect to use it a lot (for a single job), buy a cheap one that can do the job at your friendly cheap importer ( harbor freight etc). Renting is ok too. You can s
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It will be harder for new languages and frameworks. The AI Its exasperates the bootstrapping problem. An interesting example is perl which is essentially static at this point (perl 6 was renamed and never got traction). I know from experien
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When I was an undergrad I had an engineering internship with the army Corp of Enigineers every summer in the 1990s. It was a very professional environment. I ended up going to the private sector after (they had a RIF (reduction in force))
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The end of the honda element makes me grumpy too.
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I think is a big part of their budget and a lot of the old machines in their warehouse aren't currently running. Mainframe type stuff and comodore 64s were mentioned. But it must suck to have something valuable destroyed, especially i
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by acomjean 2y ago
I remember seeing "weather.gov" on one of the monitors of a local tv news station. (they had kind of an open newsroom). Weather.gov is a antidote from the add sponsored mess that weather websites are. Of course I suspect most peo
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Its a great museum. They had the ibm displaywriter with the 10" floppies we had in our house (my mom used it for technical translations). https://sites.google.com/a/ricomputermuseum.org/ricm-learnin... The wa
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I like it. Though It seems to pick up other cities as well (I saw one NYC one Paris). Eg: https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2025/bennett-miller/
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If you were wondering why meta was making a lot of donations to the new government (including settling a lawsuit for 25 million with the New president, 1 million to the inauguration)…. I suspect there will be no federeal charges. The rules
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what if they don't know they are bots like in this short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VrLQXR7mKU or any blade runner..
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My cousin worked at a major network porting programs for rebroadcast (they did some minor updates). They got surprised when a few shows they posted on YouTube got some traction (they became news worthy), getting a decent numbers of views a
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As someone who worked on a NIH funded project whose funding wasn’t renewed last fall after 10 years. Those 10 years included a bunch of renewals. NIH projects aren’t zombie and need constant attention. Plus all research done has to be pu
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My mom was born in late 1930s Germany. She remembers being bombed out of her appartment. She came to US and is not happy with the way things are going here.
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My brothers house is near a stream. Beavers showed up about 10 years ago. The change wasn’t bad and pretty minor, but it did change things. He did protect some of his trees. They’re pretty voracious. The town made him move the “hobit ho
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by acomjean 2y ago
Seems similar to when is good, which also has allows passwordless usage. https://whenisgood.net/ I paid to go ad free. We like it though it’s been down a couple times last year..
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If you give after the fact, its a "Gratuity" and allowed. https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supreme-court-limits-scop...
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This came up recently, but generally musical instruments include a license for any music performance with that instrument. Includes: "STYLES, VOICES, PERFORMANCES, PATTERNS, ARPEGGIOS" https://usa.yamaha.com/about_

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