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by cowmix 4y ago
It was . At the time (31 years ago) I was the magician in my office because I was, somehow, able to find any file on our Novell file server via a content search-- no matter what program originated it.
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by cowmix 4y ago
I was in a computers themed "Explorer Scout" program in the mid-80s (it had some affiliation to the BSA but I'm not sure how) when I was going to high school. One of the benefits of that program was getting your own account o
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by cowmix 4y ago
I had an early 80s Accord with a sticky throttle. I almost wrecked my car many times because of it and I'm shocked I'm even here to type this.
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by cowmix 5y ago
For someone that (in theory) doesn't care about turning a profit, he really loves to put content behind a pay-wall.
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by cowmix 5y ago
Just a note, it takes A LOT of energy (and electricity!) to refine oil into gasoline. In CA for instance, the power it takes to refine fuel could, almost, be used watt for watt to power EVs going the same distance. You can also add in the e
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by cowmix 5y ago
Yup, I heard the same thing. My buddy bought one and he would hose his out all the time.
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by cowmix 5y ago
Will be (or that's the hope).
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by cowmix 5y ago
Back in ~2012 I ran the Python Meetup here in Phoenix. One of the compiler leads for Atom processor attended and he basically told the tale that the Atom processor was being neutered. Intel higher ups were worried the Atom was getting too c
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by cowmix 5y ago
FWIW, Delphi was the fastest/best way to create early Winsock app for Windows. My little ISP (back in '94/'95) used it to create a network installer to install OTHER Winsock apps. It was basically our poor man's Ste
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by cowmix 5y ago
I just bought a 2014 Chevy Spark EV for ~ $6500US with 66K miles. Drives like new - it is an amazing car. If you don't have any charging available to you at your home, it would be a hard car to own otherwise it is the best $$$ I'v
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by cowmix 5y ago
Any democracy is that fragile... if the leader of a party directs (gives cover to) his mob to disrupt official certification proceedings.
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by cowmix 5y ago
Reminded of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJkWS4t4l0k
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by cowmix 5y ago
I personally use Chrome Remote Desktop for type of access. If you don't mind trusting Google for tunneling, it works great.
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by cowmix 5y ago
GeoWorks was great. This document I used to get investors for my ISP back in late '92 was created in GeoWorks (and printed on a dotmatrix printer.) Not too shabby for a 286 with 1M of RAM. https://www.dropbox.com/s&#x2
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by cowmix 5y ago
Display device driver support wasn't that great.
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by cowmix 5y ago
Yup.. I'm 50 and I will attest there is NO DOUBT insects populations have declined. It's crazy.
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by cowmix 5y ago
Better: * can charge to 100% all the time * no rare earth minerals * stable Worse: * not as energy dense * US doesn't make a lot of this type of battery
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by cowmix 5y ago
"Youtube TV", whatevz!
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by cowmix 5y ago
+1
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by cowmix 5y ago
I had no idea, how stupid. This makes me want to get a pair now.
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by cowmix 5y ago
I think Tesla's "battery day" from last year addressed almost all these concerns.
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by cowmix 5y ago
I have sooooo many lost emails due to lost pgp configurations. Encrypted blobs in my mail spools.
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by cowmix 5y ago
Yeah, socat is my go-to for tcp socket scripting.
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by cowmix 5y ago
https://www.motor1.com/news/520409/ford-mustang-mache-gasoli...
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by cowmix 5y ago
They are all considered to be in academia I think so you can put them in that bucket. My impression they all did OK in the compensation department however I'm sure they all could make much more in the private sector. EVERYONE I worked
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by cowmix 5y ago
True. These guys were maintaining (and updating) software for a hardware platform that was 35+ years old.
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by cowmix 5y ago
I mean, it really was a hardware problem. However, the software guys were not pointing any fingers.
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by cowmix 5y ago
They all really, really believe in the mission. Many are well into their 60s and are waiting for JWST to launch to finally retire. It was supposed to launch YEARS ago, so they are (as a group) getting antsy. The project I worked one was mig
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by cowmix 5y ago
So I worked on a contract for STScI (the peeps who wrote all the Hubble software). The turnover there is insanely low. As of a few years ago, almost ALL the people I worked with had been there since the initial launch of the Hubble. Anyway,
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by cowmix 5y ago
When I had my little ISP in the early 90s, Cliff's book was given to every new customer for the first few years.

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