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by cr0sh 7y ago
> ...I think Google is making it worse and worse with each passing day. I was thinking of switching to Apple... As you have noticed, neither one really have consumer and citizen interests at heart. I'm planning on taking the step of
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Basically by buying whatever you are shoving money in to this regime. No matter what and where you buy. Your other option is...what? You can't buy anything electronic anymore solely "Made in America"; that is, where all
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by cr0sh 7y ago
It's not as easy due to network effects. Part of these are social network effects (all my friends use it, plus the apps they use need you to use the same apps, meaning you have to use the same OS or one of the big ones, etc). Part of t
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Just a bit of historical update - most 8-bit machines topped out at 64k of memory (8 bit data, 16 bit address space), but some could do more with extra hardware or "tricks" (paging a special 8k block using a custom MMU or similar)
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by cr0sh 7y ago
None of those look nearly as good as the GITs inspired, Masamune Shirow designed PS/2 serial mouse I own (only as a collector's item - I don't use it). Found it cheap on Ebay years ago. Today I don't even want to think o
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by cr0sh 7y ago
There's an entire sub-space of the mechanical keyboard hobby dedicated to custom DIY keyboards. From what I have seen lately, the focus has been on eliminating the "stagger" of the keys and going more in a grid (but still kee
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by cr0sh 7y ago
If you dig around on Ebay, you'll find a ton of various kinds of Model M buckling spring keyboards for fairly decent prices; usually starting at around $50 USD. You might have to do some cleaning, but that's fairly easy. You'
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by cr0sh 7y ago
IIRC - the Model F keyboard of the old XT was one beast. I used have an XT I rescued from the trash; that thing had a solid aluminum case and weighed a ton. I love my Model M keyboards and my Unicomp - but I would love one of those older ke
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Are there any switches that come close to the feel and sound of buckling spring (aka Model M) switches? I haven't been able to find anything like that; even the stiffest and clickiest and tactilest cherry key switches I've played
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> By this argument, literally no protection or liberty that allows even one child to be harmed could ever be tolerated. [argument]: Considering that a large amount of child abuse is perpetrated by the parents of children, perhaps the peo
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by cr0sh 7y ago
But then you also had the whole "coke vs crack" thing in the 1980s - where crack was a predominantly used drug by ethnic minorities, and cocaine was more likely to be used by "high rollers" who could afford it - usually
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Seems completely broken in Firefox and Safari, and mostly broken in Chrome/Chromium - just what browser does the site work with?
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Specialist shops for clothes for certain professional and industrial careers I've found that the clothing from LAPG to be very well made, and if you are looking for something that can even be worn in the office (business casual),
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Though nobody really knows what happened to him, and I think he's still on the FBI's most wanted list - here in Arizona we have the case of Robert Fisher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_William_Fisher Y
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Because until we find a massive amount of anti-matter I honestly hope this never occurs, or we never are able to contain/store such a mass for any real length of time. Because if we can do it, it will be used for a weapon. Serious
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> rely solely on witness testimony. Bad part about that - even today - is that we know for a fact that what people remember/recall isn't necessarily what actually occurred. Also, as time goes on, those recollections can become
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Hopefully they'll do a better job scanning them, when they do, than whatever happened with Omni magazine - that scan was completely butchered.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I'm going to have to dig up that issue - sounds intriguing! I'm fortunate enough to have a complete run of Mondo 2000 (purchased on Ebay - at the time, I collected and enjoyed a few issues, but missed many of them, too). I also ha
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by cr0sh 7y ago
The (very) amateur deep learning/ml developer in me wonders if these feedback loops in the brain are the key or something to the conundrum that backprop isn't neuromorphic (that we've found, last time I researched this)? That
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by cr0sh 7y ago
If you're going to list Fortran, COBOL, Prolog, Ada, Lisp, etc - I'm of the opinion that you need to list BASIC as well. You list VB - but you don't say if this is VB.NET, or prior VB versions (3,4,5,6)? VB.NET isn't qui
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> There is a used car lot by my work that ONLY sells used police cars, they've been there for at least 20 years, and I just don't know why people would go buy them. Sometimes it's the whole "role playing" thing.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
A somewhat flippant comment, but I'm involved tangentially with the "cyberpunk" aesthetic; often, people involved ask "where is our cyberpunk?" All I can tell them is "Yes, we got our cyberpunk - unfortunately,
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by cr0sh 7y ago
UPS has had hybrid trucks here in Phoenix for quite a few years; I haven't seen any fully electric ones yet, but I'm not really looking, either.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I (and my brother-in-law) saw something a long while back that, while I have a rational explanation for what it might have been - I still don't honestly know for certain. It was late at night and we were in the back of a pickup getting
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by cr0sh 7y ago
See also: https://paperprograms.org
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> It would be cool to get this out of the lab and into the hands of hackers and makers. https://paperprograms.org/
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I have a friend who observed similar emergent behavior in an a-life (gene-based from what I understand) simulation he created, in an environment of "tanks in a maze" (or something like that). The "genes" consisted a simp
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by cr0sh 7y ago
To be fair, Deliverance was a bit more recent of a movie when you left, so one could see why they made such references, unfair as they were and still are (that said, I know for a fact that characters as depicted in the movie do exist, we ju
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Quick comment - I haven't gone thru the entire site, etc - so maybe you are already aware. I saw the free vs paid options - and the paid being "$30" and I was asking myself "$30 for...how long?" - so I went back (be
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Do you own any working digital media from 1969? I don't know if they're from 1969 - but I do own a few punch cards...

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