dan_hawkins

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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
C64 produces too high voltage levels for video signal, way out of spec. So what you're going to see on the screen is very specific to your monitor/TV. PAL, being newer system, is a bit more resilient to signal issues so that could
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
Great article but it's author makes common mistake of people not knowing how CRTs actually worked: specifically Brightness and Contrast controls. In CRTs Brightness potentiometer controlled gain of luma amplifier which affected top lev
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
Ulysses is Irish though.
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
In your calculations of speed you've forgotten about friction of air that at some point would stop further acceleration (terminal velocity.)
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
It's a very common response. Such a suggestion ("you should/have to do this") takes away some degree of freedom of choice from you so automatic response is to resist that. Same reason why people loath situations like &qu
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
> - Support that Big Sur calls itself Mac OSX version 11 I guess there's no "X" in Big Sur anymore ;)
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
> Did this video a zillion takes? Definitely quite a lot - take a look at the floor underneath some of them, shiny patches worn out by constant beatings I guess.
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
Copenhagen hospitals vaccinating more people than scheduled [0] > Hospitals in the Copenhagen area are ahead of their COVID-19 vaccination schedule, according to the Capital Region’s vaccine taskforce. > According to the taskforce, 20
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
You can begin with that recipe: [0] :) [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t6ddIzPy0k
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
> Victors get to rewrite history Robert McNamara makes a great point about that in fantastic documentary The Fog of War.
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
I've read in one of the 9/11 anniversary articles that majority of the people that survived from 2 WTC were the ones occupying offices with the windows facing 1 WTC where you could witness constant barrage of jumpers. Many of them
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
Robert Kubica's crash also brought significant improvements in F1 cars safety.
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
> (not arsenic, though) Iocaine. I bet my life on it!
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
Naaaah, instead of that they've decided to get rid of senior employees with huge generational knowledge. [0] "Proportionately, employees in their 50s were three times more likely to lose their jobs than workers in their 30s, accor
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
so... a room?
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
Aluminum is also non-magnetic like glass. So either of them needs to be coated with magnetic material.
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
Scroll Lock. My keyboard doesn't have that key. It makes using terminals efficiently impossible.
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
I've got a couple of film scanners (like for example Nikon Super CoolScan 5000 ED) but for quick results that should be enough for most people to archive a couple of hundret of slides I tend to use Canon 8800F [0]. I wonder if you can
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
* Indium
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
On Synology you can install iTunes Server [0] and then just use native AppleTV's music player to access your library. [0] https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/packages/iTunesServer
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
If it's never powered down then it should be fine. I've seen a computer in telecom center with a disk spinning for almost 20 years. One day power failure occurred and UPS failed to kick in, disk stopped and when the power came bac
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
Ehm... https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1310434318490034176
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
"Revenge of the Jedi" - you mean "Return of the Jedi" right? :D Although "Revenge of the Jedi" would be awesome!
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
Of course it wasn't as IE Dev toolbar was so much worse than Firebug. For example all unhandled exceptions from event handlers would show up in IE Dev toolbar as originated at row 0, column 0 and helpfully showing you the beginning of
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
When I plan my travel and am looking for ho(s)tels I very often check neighborhood for "shadiness" using Street View.
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
It doesn't. The role of this kind of diode is not to generate energy but to detect faint amounts of light, to achieve that you spend additional energy on the external field.
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
I'm left handed: side of thumb on Option and Command, middle finger on Esc. Voila!
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
Well a lot of my CD-Rs were the cheapest ones possible - a lot of them using infamous organic acid based substrate, very popular with fungi ;)
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
~90% of my 5.25" floppies written between 1992 and 1995 are readable (verified 2 years ago.) As for my CD-R collection from 1999-2005 ~50% got problems reading everything from it.
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by dan_hawkins 6y ago
> I think a lot of fermented products are basically preservation techniques gone sideways. My theory also :) Given historical harsh winters in Europe you're gonna eat whatever there is in the middle of a winter, spoiled or not. Turn

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