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by controversial97 4y ago
Is there a modern equivalent of rentacoder? A dozen years ago, rentacoder was 99.5% people wanting impossible things for $50 but there were some worthwhile "I want a visual basic app that does this clearly defined task and can be creat
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by controversial97 4y ago
Twenty one years ago, there was announcement that service pack 7 for windows NT 4.0 had been installed on computers on the ISS. NT users on earth had to install service pack 6a then manually install a load of hotfixes to be up to date. NT 4
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by controversial97 4y ago
I mostly either go use the big nice printer at my hackerspace or use a website that usually gets documents to me in the mail two days later, printed perfectly at up to A0 size. Print by mail works out cheaper than printing at home for my ve
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by controversial97 4y ago
I have been reliably informed by someone who has spent too much time building up credit on private torrent sites that downloading torrents is often slow through NordVPN. Also, NordVPN does not support incoming connections to a listening por
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by controversial97 4y ago
Except for Lord Howe Island in New South Wales, Australia, where local time changes by 30 minutes.
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by controversial97 4y ago
With 32GB of RAM, I can have roughly around 3000 tabs open in firefox and 3000 in Chromium at the same time before things go unrecoverable wonky.
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by controversial97 4y ago
I have a low-capacity obfs4 tor proxy, it has been running for a few months and isn't blocked in Russia yet. It has about fifteen users each day, all connecting from Russian ISPs. I set it to only be announced by the telegram bot and o
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by controversial97 4y ago
A combination of capacitance that has to be charged, crosstalk and characteristic impedance discontinuities. The signals move between the cpu and the ram at about one nanosecond per foot. A nanosecond is one full cycle of a 1GHz clock. The
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by controversial97 4y ago
When Orkut was operational as a google project, I kinda liked it but there were two things that were an annoyance. 1) The servers appeared to be overloaded and about 25% of page loads showed an error page where pressing F5 did not try to re
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by controversial97 4y ago
100MHz logic was amazing in the year 1974. In 1975, Cray made their first supercomputer, clocked at 80MHz, with freon-cooled ECL NOR gates.
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by controversial97 4y ago
It would be nice if there was an option to type in text with one character per grid square.
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by controversial97 4y ago
I would like to see a 3D version of the ZX spectrum games Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy. I will never pay $60 for a game and don't own any consoles or a powerful GPU but I'd like to see it done.
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by controversial97 4y ago
I might be totally wrong; It seems likely to me that, due to capillary action, if a hollow undersea fiber gets physically cut then seawater would flow into the hollow center. The ends of the fiber might be at different depths with a pressur
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by controversial97 4y ago
A tp-link UB500 is a small USB bluetooth device, the kind of thing you would buy to connect a bluetooth mouse or headset to a computer that does not have built-in bluetooth. This appears to apply to UB400 devices as well. Here is a tp-link
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by controversial97 5y ago
For people in the UK who would like something similar: Dunstable Downs Radio Boot Sale, 22nd of May 2022, Luton http://www.ddrcbootsale.org/
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by controversial97 5y ago
If things that require client side software other than a standard browser count, then there is the Yagdrasil network and Hamachi.