digi_owl

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901.
by digi_owl 9y ago
That gets me thinking of how things seems to have creeped up the stack, so to speak. First one have hardware conferences, as the hardware is the platform. Then one get OS conferences. And now one have language conferences, because languages
902.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Growing up in the frozen north gives a nice impression of this. As half the year makes it impossible to farm, the winter months consisted traditionally of anything that could be salted, dried, and/or pickled. But these days we can pick
903.
by digi_owl 9y ago
AM is basically and audio signal applied to a carrier wave, while FM is a whole different beast. Meaning that AM is quite similar to what pass down a speaker wire. I am not a professional, but my impression is that AUX mode basically just p
904.
by digi_owl 9y ago
I am not 100%, but i could have sworn that Woz talked about other members of the club playing around with something similar the day him and Jobs went there to show of Woz's would-be Apple 1.
905.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Yeah i fear that very few acknowledge, never mind appreciate, the kind of long term outlook one develops as a farmer. Lifestock, crops, all that happens over years, not weeks or months like in most industries.
906.
by digi_owl 9y ago
As if Apple was not confusing enough already...
907.
by digi_owl 9y ago
> the Delete key (the one up there above your Enter key) I would have said "to the right of", but then i am one of those dinosaurs that still use a desktop computer with a full width keyboard.
908.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Soy oil a waste product? Hardly. It can be used for all manner of food preparations.
909.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Never mind that biodiesel can be made from something other than soy. Perhaps a weed plant that can grow on lands unsuitable for food crops?
910.
by digi_owl 9y ago
I dunno. Back in the day farmers used a system called crop rotation to maintain the soil. One year they planted crop A, the next they planted crop B, and the next they left it fallow. This was before industrial fertilizes mind you, but leav
911.
by digi_owl 9y ago
I must admit, i am more likely to confuse them with Twitch than Twitter. Never mind that i had actually forgotten who they were at first.
912.
by digi_owl 9y ago
The whole market for such flatlined as smartphones ascended, it seems. Also, these days Vaio is no longer a part of Sony and thus likely can't chase niche markets as much.
913.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Since then Norway has introduced a sentence class that can effectively jail someone for life. Every 5 years after the main sentence the person is reviewed to see if releasing him would be a risk to society. And if deemed such a risk, the se
914.
by digi_owl 9y ago
I seem to recall an article where a guy had spent 30 years locked up for a crime he didn't do. When he went in, there were few to any mobile phones and virtually nobody talked about the internet. So when he got out he had to learn how
915.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Could have sworn that phone radios have a unique identifier independent of the customer id (stored in a sim or the phone depending on the network tech).
916.
by digi_owl 9y ago
I recall encountering the claim that hospitals will mark up the initial bill because they are used to dealing with insurance companies, and said companies will turn over very stone possible to drive the price down. Thus the markup is done t
917.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Toyota's new e-pallet concept, anyone?
918.
by digi_owl 9y ago
And then came the Vietnam war...
919.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Sounds like just about every romcom i have ever endured...
920.
by digi_owl 9y ago
> In the future we will most likely have an distro-specific basic system build and container apps (snap, appimage, flatpak) build directly by upstream on non-server systems. I sure hope not. A better system would be something like NIX&#x
921.
by digi_owl 9y ago
And then there is the whole dependencies shitstorm, were far too many upstreams have a bad habit of breaking APIs etc as they see fit. There are ways to work around it, but it gets messy quickly. And rather than clean up their act they star
922.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Makes me think of the stories of the early days of school computing, and how the admin would give the kids that hacked said computers part time jobs as they had demonstrated themselves both interested and talented.
923.
by digi_owl 9y ago
So basically someone left the test tape in the drive again? https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb371/
924.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Reading up on the N64 hardware a bit gives the impression that it was ahead of its time, more akin to the shader based pipelines of today than the kinds of hardware that was starting to show up on PCs at the time. https://en.wiki
925.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Our ability to read "sex" into anything is astounding...
926.
by digi_owl 9y ago
That makes me think of a line from Sir Clarke in his retirement years, about how he did have access to and used email but didn't care much for the web. For him the latter seemed like trying to drink from a firehose at full blast. If an
927.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Marketing trying to be "bro"?
928.
by digi_owl 9y ago
I find myself pondering the efficiency of removing the gasifier from the vehicle and instead handling it similar to LNG is today.
929.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Bitcoin was from day one built to entice the crossover of cypherpunks and goldbugs. Effectively it is emulating gold bullion using cryptographics.
930.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Btw, i recall Samsung was caught sending audio from around the tv back to their servers, unencrypted, to do voice commands, a few years ago.

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