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by emptybits 5mo ago
Ouch. I also live in a city where bike thefts are … fuck, just part of life. Which is a horrible norm to have to accept. You’re right that a grinder-proof lock does not exist. Having read reviews and listening to bike shop owner experiences
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by emptybits 5mo ago
Piling on with the Brompton love here. Apartment friendly. Car trunk friendly. Motorcycle sidecar friendly. Their hardcase makes it airplane friendly. Theft-resistant, since it's carried and stored next to you more often than most bike
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by emptybits 5mo ago
Aside from AI-proofing, IMO there is value in slow typing or writing. We have to think just a little bit more before putting ink to paper. There is also a higher cost to making mistakes. As a kid, before my family could afford a home comput
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by emptybits 6mo ago
"There is no Star Trek in production or greenlit for the first time in nearly a decade, and the sets for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy coming down means it's truly the end of an era." There are episodes
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The end of Star Trek is now official(screenrant.com)
14 points by emptybits 6mo ago|17 comments
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by emptybits 6mo ago
Thank you! I had a job coding Z80 assembly "back in the day" and grew to love its instruction set so I'm not surprised there is legacy and value to keep stuffing wee Z80ish cores into modern devices. I also found this gem jus
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by emptybits 6mo ago
I assume this is what is meant: | Works Perfectly | Mostly Works | Has Lots Of Bugs -------------------+-----------------+--------------+----------------- Default Install | |
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by emptybits 6mo ago
Just curious what you mean by "fixing the audio"? In GBA emulation or on the hardware? I'm aware that if you need/want PCM audio, there's going to be mixing, probably with a software library, and significant CPU use
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by emptybits 6mo ago
The TI-84+ graphing calculator is still popular and a current model and it is Z80 based. (Though I doubt you'll find a DIP40 socket in one for a swap.)
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VLC media player is onboard the Artemis mission(twitter.com)
7 points by emptybits 6mo ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 6mo ago
TIC-80 is wonderful to play in. Besides being free/open, another advantage over PICO-8 is TIC-80 has native support for Fennel. i.e. you can code within the system editor in Lua OR Fennel (or half a dozen other languages!) You don&#x27
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by emptybits 6mo ago
> Does it really make games more interesting? > If anything, doesn't it add anxiety as you watch the game? > Is anxiety interesting? Yes. Adding anxiety generally makes things more interesting. Think of watching a story or a f
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by emptybits 6mo ago
I had two calls from "Apple Support" very very much like this in the past two weeks. Both times, their claim was that someone was trying to reset my Apple password and they were trying to protect me. Both times, they asked me to g
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by emptybits 6mo ago
"The limiting factor in urine distillation is actually the high level of calcium from disintegrating astronaut bone, a nice example of how problems in space find ways to compound one another." Sobering. One of
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by emptybits 6mo ago
On the audio side, it's not a stretch to imagine cochlear implants (or hearing aids) having an undetectable recording ability.
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by emptybits 6mo ago
Sometimes, intimacy is best. Also, when faced with opposition, planning a defence or attack in private is probably going to be more effective.
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by emptybits 7mo ago
Regarding warrantless searches and access ... reading the text of the bill (OP link) warrants seem to be required. Simple, right? Well, no, this is a recently inserted block of text in the bill (confirm at the link above): Exception
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by emptybits 7mo ago
The title, as submitted, is pretty low key. The actual headline of the article is "Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power" and this is the lead sentence: "Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI t
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by emptybits 7mo ago
I'm in BC. The astro-nerd in me would have preferred to see permanent Standard Time instead of a permanent +1 offset. Instinctively, I think morning light is important to our biology for a daily reset and the solar cue of "high no
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by emptybits 7mo ago
Thanks. I had to be reminded about that phrase "honor culture" and, yes, I've heard that definition before. I was focused on how I think an "honourable person" behaves, which is ... IMO ... someone who behaves well
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by emptybits 7mo ago
Thanks. Your link gives more insight into "why submit now?" Appreciate it.
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by emptybits 7mo ago
Can we get a "(1999)" date on this, please? Only half joking becuase I see Common Lisp and, sure, I upvote ... but honestly, what's the purpose of this HN submission without context? SBCL is obviously fantastic but let's
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by emptybits 7mo ago
> It's like an honor-based culture at scale. Except the basis of that culture would not be honour, would it? A critical mass of people scrutinizing and reporting others' actions might lead to a compliance-based culture. It&#x27
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by emptybits 7mo ago
Yup. Any LLM recommendation for a product or service should be viewed with suspicion (no different than web search results or asking a commission-based human their opinion). Sponsored placements. Affiliate links. Etc. Or when asking an LLM
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by emptybits 8mo ago
I'll just throw some more ES5503 DOC love here. It's also the audio chip in the Apple IIGS. In 1986, having a stock home computer playing 32 simultaneous hardware voices (without software mixing), each with hardware pan ... was re
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by emptybits 8mo ago
Solid reason, thank you. Yes, Lisp 1 for the win in many cases. Now... there's also the wonderful Fennel possibility which distracts me when I'm bikeshedding. ;-)
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by emptybits 8mo ago
I'm grateful for the author's "other options that were considered" section with eight alternatives to S7. But Embeddable Common Lisp (ECL) is the only one listed that he doesn't write a few sentences about, to contr
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Study: Older Cannabis Users Have Larger Brains, Better Cognition(news.cuanschutz.edu)
41 points by emptybits 8mo ago|54 comments
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by emptybits 8mo ago
See I can understand this. e.g. a family asset for children, a property to build a retirement home on, a hunting property, or simply a real investment.
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by emptybits 8mo ago
1. Author lost me at his first sentence: "Like most people, I’ve had my identity stolen once or twice in my life." I am careful and aware of this possibility, but AFAIK I have not experienced this, nor have "most people"

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