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by ansible 2y ago
It isn't too far off from launching biplanes from the Akron / Macon airships. The biplanes had a big hook on top to latch into the trapeze mechanism, which isn't shown in the movie. The other nitpick is that the airship shoul
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by ansible 2y ago
I am an even worse horder than Jerry, to the point of making my most fun games un-fun. I am a bit crazy in how I play games like Divinity: Original Sin 2 (and eventually BG3). I have this obsession with playing optimally at the highest di
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by ansible 2y ago
Some retired people I know are bored. Driving across town gets them out of the house and gives them something to do.
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by ansible 2y ago
Another great resource for crypto news is Molly White's website: https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/ What's amazing to me is reading about what the crypto thieves and smart contract exploiters do with the funds they
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by ansible 2y ago
I also used a flight stick with Descent and Descent 2. I configured the hat switch for strafe up / down and strafe left / right. Later, I also bought a [Logitech Cyberman 2]( https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Logitech_Cy
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by ansible 2y ago
I was strangely obsessed with computing on the go for quite a long time. The HP 200LX was one of the steps on my journey. At the time, I was able to get this really cut-down real-mode version of Linux running on it. I was rather happy with
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by ansible 2y ago
I don't think people can tell what is satire or not in the crypto scene anymore. Someone issue a "rug pull token" and still received 8.8 ETH (approx $29K USD), while telling people it was a scam. https://www.web3is
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by ansible 2y ago
> ... bluetooth keyboard, and a smartphone with an external storage memory device. ... I'd replace this with an old Chromebook with regular Linux installed (very cheap, ~ $20 USD), and a 1TB micro-SD card. All solid-state (no har
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by ansible 2y ago
Yes, these are cool and fun projects, but not something I'd use on a regular basis. I've bought a few old Chromebooks off of eBay recently (for around $20 USD each), and re-flashed the BIOS so that I could install Debian on them.
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by ansible 3y ago
I would have liked to see at least 8 cores for a development board like this.
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by ansible 3y ago
There's still fraud detection / prevention, card terminals, and other various infrastructure to pay for. Someone's going to pay for it, somehow. Also, suppose Stripe did offer a low / zero transaction cost card. What&#x
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by ansible 3y ago
I'm just concerned about battery safety with Chinese EVs. I've seen more than a few video clips of Chinese EVs just spontaneously catching fire (not from an accident). I would be more confident in owning a Chinese-made EV if it co
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by ansible 3y ago
Eh, you sort of had agency with that game. At least in the sense that it is possible you could screw up and it would take a long, long time to get over that. Buying too much of resource A, when you should have saved up money for resource B,
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by ansible 3y ago
Back in the day (mid 1990's IIRC), I read one of the NetApp whitepapers on their WAFL (write anywhere file layout), and that's what sold me on merging the storage layers. The Motorola group I was at was transitioning from Auxpex t
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by ansible 3y ago
You are fit. But there's a difference between that and being at the very peak of human physical and mental endurance. In many ways, it seems harder than climbing Mount Everest, due to the time limits.
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by ansible 3y ago
Yes. I got my start, back in the day, following along a magazine article on modifying an Atari 2600 joystick for use with the Tandy Color computer. Worked fairly well too, though I ended up modifying my Galaxian arcade game clone to work wi
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by ansible 3y ago
I had previously toyed with the idea of marketing "organic" audiophile speaker cables. The ad copy would have been that the cables were harvested from veins of copper dragons that lived in faraway mountains. That the sound would
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by ansible 3y ago
That might work for pre-recorded video, but I don't think it would be stable and reliable for live streams.
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by ansible 3y ago
I was a long-time holdout for landscape-mode physical keyboards. I owned the original ADP1 from Google, which had a decent keyboard. I then upgraded to the Samsung Sidekick 4G, which had an even better keyboard. After fixing the keyboard ma
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by ansible 3y ago
It is an interesting approach I hadn't heard of before. For complex systems though, often reproducing the bug reliably is a large part of the problem. So giving the developers the maximum information is necessary. Any time a "fix
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by ansible 3y ago
So it generates a fully rigged 3D model that can be animated by conventional means? If it can do all that, and you add in motion capture from just a video, and that will drastically cut the costs for all kinds of animation projects. Given t
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by ansible 3y ago
Thanks for the correction Bruce. I was in a rush (never post when you are in a rush, or drunk, or angry) and I was so used to seeing RV64GC that I didn't notice the absence of the 'C'.
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by ansible 3y ago
The previous DVINO was a 5-stage in-order, this Sargantana core is a 7-stage out-of-order write-back with register renaming and a non-blocking memory pipeline. So it is not a full in-order or a full out-of-order design.
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by ansible 3y ago
Here's a pre-print paper I found: Sargantana: A 1 GHz+ In-Order RISC-V Processor with SIMD Vector Extensions in 22nm FD-SOI https://upcommons.upc.edu/bitstream/handle/2117/384912/sarga... RV64GC wit
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by ansible 3y ago
The CoCo3 ran fairly well, though it did run hot. The higher speed variant of the 6809 in the CoCo3 was still fundamentally a 8/16-bit processor. The main upgrade compared to the older versions was a bank-switching chip. You could app
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by ansible 3y ago
It is likely uncompressed video, so that really means just picking and choosing what to keep. Most of it is likely trash anyway.
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by ansible 3y ago
Apparently the guy has some kind of video production company. It is possible that these are raw video files which will take up way more space. Even though this is his business, there's a decent chance that most of it will never be need
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by ansible 3y ago
The FBI seized his computers back in August. He should have bought new hard drives and made a backup of his cloud storage starting back then, if that was so important.
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by ansible 3y ago
Yep, we did both of those back in the day. The bank switching was needed for ROM copies that didn't relocate as easily, or if you were modifying the BASIC interpreter itself. Towards the end of the 1980's I upgraded to a CoCo3, wi
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by ansible 3y ago
Nice. I had gotten started with a CoCo 1 with just 16KiB of RAM. That eventually got upgraded to 64KiB and Extended Color BASIC. That made it easier to copy ROM cartridges and save them to cassette tape. One trick there was to cover over

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