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by cr0sh 7y ago
Wow - that's actually quite polished for a geocities site and time period...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
This is pretty cool - and some of the comments here have mentioned things I didn't know about either (ie "ironing") - so thank you to those people, too. I'm glad they released the work OSS so it can be incorporated into
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by cr0sh 7y ago
If you've ever watched any of the "Mind's Eye" CGI videos (which were just older CGI of the 70s, 80s, and some early 90s set to music) - you can get an idea of what your fantasy might look like in full motion. Most of th
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I think you had a maladjusted TV or something. On a good TV or composite monitor, pixel art should have fairly sharp edges. Most televisions had adjustment controls for various thing (sharpness, contrast, tint, color, etc); so many people d
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Regarding the VLA - is it as "open" as it appears to be from google maps? That is, from what I could see, you can almost just turn off the highway the drive to it, and I didn't see any kind of fencing or whatnot; there also s
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by cr0sh 7y ago
So I take it, should these results be replicated and validated as scientifically sound, that smoke machines will be banned? Because it's the same kind of aerosol with virtually the same ingredients. I'm also curious - and maybe I
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I'm not sure that condensate is the same thing as "oil" - if I am thinking correctly, it's probably closer in appearance to lighter fluid than anything else. Still nasty in large quantities, but not a great loss of monet
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by cr0sh 7y ago
In many cases, probably nothing. But here's what I'd do: Stay away from places where a lot of different people touch a lot of different things - and if you have to touch those things, wipe them down first with antiseptic wipes or
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Something that I was looking for recently, but didn't find, was a set of ASCII art "glyphs" for rendering electronic schematics. I am not sure that there exists any kind of library for this, and what I have seen of such schem
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> This would also solve the problem that e.g. NASA has with each President reversing course. No wonder that the last Moon visit was decades ago when the priorities get completely turned over every 4-8 years. This is also one of the argum
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by cr0sh 7y ago
One would think there'd be a way to combat that ala structuring, like they do with reporting cash transfers of $10k and over. In other words, if you try to do multiple $9999.00 transfers in an attempt to "fly under the radar"
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I'm worried that the (fairly) recent change to the DSM to lump the various forms of autism under the terminology of "autism spectrum disorder" will ultimately lead to more confusion by people as to what autism can be about. W
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I've never been formerly diagnosed, but I'm pretty certain I'm on it somewhere. A decade or so ago, one person, who was a coworker of my wife's, and whom I had met and conversed with - without any prompting or explanatio
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> IE, this person believed that someone invented a free energy machine. That's not false. Many people have invented free energy machines. A /working/ free energy machine, though...that's a different thing.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I imagine this doesn't need to be just about autism. I imagine this is useful when living abroad, for example. Interesting. Other applications would be to such potential things like "meeting an advanced alien species" or
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I would almost say the -the- killer app for CD-ROM was Myst. I know I bought my second PC in 1994 (an Acer 486 DX2-50 with Vesa Local Bus graphics and a CD-ROM drive) just so I could play it (my previous machines as an adult were both Amiga
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by cr0sh 7y ago
There were earlier systems in the 1980s that combined PCs (or equivalent machines) with Pioneer LaserDisc systems (which could be controlled via a serial port) - a somewhat well known one was the BBC Domesday Project: https://en.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Another skill not taught today - how to use a library card catalog. Looking up things in the card catalog, and on microfiche at my local library, was as much fun as locating the book itself. Sometimes, in the course of searching the catalog
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Brick and mortar banks will be gone entirely. I certainly haven't set foot in one over a decade. Don't have a safety deposit box with precious metals and jewels inside? Many, many people do - among other items (guns, cash, dr
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Maybe something like a hash table/array could be used, predefined with the key being the URL and the value being the config, then the function could do something like return the value from the array given the key, with some kind of log
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by cr0sh 7y ago
My brother-in-law went through that with a piece of property he bought in California; it was a house on top of a "hill" (or small mountain?). Two "neighbors" colluded to shut off all easements to the property, hoping tha
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I guess it's ultimately what - if anything - the law in question (or whatever it may reference) defines a "computer" as (legally). Maybe the definition on the books says a computer is a device with a screen and a keyboard, an
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I wonder if pumpkins are considered vegetables or fruits? Squash? Eggplant? Peanuts considered nuts or legumes for "taxation"? Etc.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Technically you're a robot made from meat - a "meat-based machine". You can flip your argument around - at what point do your consider a computer to be the equivalent of a human? At what point does such a machine deserve what
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I'd argue "yes" to all those examples. Books, especially, have always been "data storage devices"; I don't see why a portion of a book couldn't be by reduction. Back in the 1980s, some magazines had a scan
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> This is why a skinny trashy white person in possession of acetone and iodine can be charged with manufacturing methamphetamine. Has this actually happened? You need a few more ingredients in the chain before you get meth out the other
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by cr0sh 7y ago
For something this large, it likely isn't "encapsulated" like a normal chip. I'd almost expect it to be left more or less "bare", mounted to some kind of very stiff PCB-like material (which is probably bonded t
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by cr0sh 7y ago
It's more likely that the code and whatever was used for the DB dates from the 1960s-70s (likely a mixture of COBOL, JCL, and who knows what else), and has fixed-width columns for the data fields, with the password configured to someth
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Not so much the crankshaft (which is inside the engine), but more the transmission and remaining driveline (driveshaft, differential, etc) become the new "weak points". This assumes that the Ecoboost version isn't just a engi
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Also known as "Dead Hand": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand

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