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by allenrb 4y ago
Oh man, I'm pushing 50 and my friends and I played the hell out of this "back in the day". I just sent $10 with a big "thank you" note.
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by allenrb 4y ago
It’s almost as if unregulated financial institutions don’t operate on the same standards as regulated ones. That would be crazy, though, so it must not be true. If you’ve never read about what markets were like 100+ years ago (at least in t
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by allenrb 4y ago
The usual giveaways for "mechanics" are torches and impact drivers, though more than once I've been tempted to use those things on electronics...
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by allenrb 4y ago
Working at an Amazon warehouse sounds terrible in every way, but… did you see those spiral package slides in the background? Might give up my sweet tech job just to ride on those.
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by allenrb 4y ago
Now that’s an interesting teaser! Care to share more, even if it was just a personal project?
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by allenrb 5y ago
Like aftbit, I also learned about excess-3. It's amazing to see what was done to save a few gates back when "a few gates" wasn't just a 74-series chip, but an entire handmade board. But before that, the unidisc blew my m
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by allenrb 5y ago
Hah! I’m old enough for 8-bit “home computers” but missed this sort of thing by a few years. That’s lovely to imagine. Thanks for confirming!
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by allenrb 5y ago
As in, you had a series of sticks, each with one word somehow carved in, and pressed each one against the switches, entered it, and grabbed the next stick? If so, that is amazing.
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by allenrb 5y ago
I’m reasonably sure they got “advances” and “harassment” jumbled up. Ie, both “(unwanted) sexual advances” and “sexual harassment” are things, but only “racial harassment” is a thing. At least, I think so. Sometimes the world changes while
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by allenrb 5y ago
Also, by prohibiting poor people from selling their own organs, it is more difficult for these folks to make ends meet in the short term. That doesn’t sound like good reasoning to me.
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by allenrb 5y ago
Have to admit, clicked on this expecting to learn about some sort of exotic optical fiber.
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by allenrb 5y ago
It strikes me that the workers stayed in place far longer than one might expect today. It’s hard to imagine a crew continuing to work when the floor is buckling, windows breaking from the stress, and so forth. Today, I’m pretty certain ever
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by allenrb 5y ago
Man, this makes my day. I was born during the original production run and, of course, had one of these. Lovely, fun little toy. So when our first child was born and some kind family member bought her one, it put a big smile on my face… …unt
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by allenrb 5y ago
I had one of these, same model as the author and around the same time. Was running some sort of desktop Linux, maybe Fedora? Either way, latency really is the key. It’s hard to grasp just how much quicker even a cheap SSD is for random I&
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by allenrb 5y ago
For a moment, reading only the first paragraph, I was hopeful that the problem of accelerating from subsonic to hypersonic had been solved. Alas, further down it makes clear that a booster was involved. Presumably a small solid rocket that
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by allenrb 5y ago
This is not SCSI as you know it. This is “antique” 8-bit parallel SCSI. The protocols might be related but the signaling is most certainly not.
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by allenrb 5y ago
It sounds like your dad had some sense to him! Personally, I’m capable of deep focus but also easily distracted. In some sense it almost physically hurts to be pulled out of that focus. When it happens too often, I’m “scared” to try and get
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Why This Rocket Went Sideways Off the Launch Pad(m.youtube.com)
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by allenrb 5y ago
I would be enraged by this, as it seems you are. Have you considered a chargeback via your payment card? It seems justified given the lack of clarity and notification email sent after the deadline to cancel.
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by allenrb 5y ago
As a young nerd, I heard many times more than once “AIX” pronounced “aches”. Deliberately, mind you.
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by allenrb 5y ago
How so many educated, intelligent people seem to think that we (as a species, or even as Americans) are so resource-poor that “space exploration” and “improving the earth” yield an either/or decision absolutely mystifies me. You want t
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by allenrb 5y ago
I’ve seen it mentioned over the years that writing the necessary compilers was more than merely difficult. As I understood it, the dynamic nature of load latencies (hit L1 cache? L2? L3? Slow trip to DRAM?) means that some workloads just ca
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by allenrb 5y ago
Wow. Kind of assumed you made that up, but it’s totally legit. See, even Groundhog Day-esque arguments about Apple can turn up hidden gems. Let’s do this every day!
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by allenrb 5y ago
How hard is it to understand that Apple is offering a closed ecosystem, with all of the pluses and minuses that implies? If that isn’t what you want, just don’t buy it. Vote with your $CURRENCY. Personally, the last thing I’ve got time to w
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by allenrb 5y ago
Just speculating, but is it possible that this provides a path to other, more senior federal agent gigs?
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by allenrb 5y ago
It’s almost as if, given information and a choice, people prefer not to have their eyeballs monetized. Of course, if this catches on (and I hope it does), we ultimately run up against “people prefer not to pay for things.” Will be fun to wa
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by allenrb 5y ago
When I was younger, 100W was a light bulb. We’ve come a long way. :-)
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by allenrb 5y ago
Not sure where you’re located, but as others have said, this is not an uncommon or unreasonable salary for a strong developer in certain parts of the United States. You’ll have to work for certain companies in certain industries but if you
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by allenrb 5y ago
Totally agree with all of this. If you actually have the opportunity to make good money and you still wreck your finances through excessive spending, well, that is on you (barring something like a legit mental illness). Big difference betwe
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by allenrb 5y ago
A couple of weeks ago, I found myself on a ladder in a basement, doing a bit of plumbing. And I thought, “Isn’t this odd? Here I am, rather well-off, cleaning out the drain for an elderly black gentleman.” And it was more satisfying than mo

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