flyinghamster

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by flyinghamster 8mo ago
If I'm going to a brick-and-mortar store, if I go online at all, it's only to check stock/availability or look up a product's specs/foibles. No, $STORE, I don't want to create an account. No, I don't want
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by flyinghamster 8mo ago
Except that Jo-Ann Fabrics was most definitely not walking dead when it was LBO'ed. I'd call this one vampire capitalism rather than vulture.
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by flyinghamster 8mo ago
My own experience with men's jeans in recent times has been that the waist size is accurate, but the fit type is critical. I won't fit into any type of "slim fit" and "regular fit" needs to be one waist size up
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by flyinghamster 8mo ago
Here we have a problem: Hollywood tropes. Shows like The Big Bang Theory aka "Blackface for Nerds" make it nearly impossible to even talk to normals without sounding like Sheldon F. Cooper.
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by flyinghamster 8mo ago
Indeed, a theme throughout his works to the point of directly saying it was to beware things that are of a deeper art than you possess.
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by flyinghamster 9mo ago
World Community Grid at https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ is also running, though it has had struggles since moving datacenters, and it seems their external stats are still out of commission. I've recently decided
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by flyinghamster 9mo ago
Old greybeard here - I went the other way, learning 6502 assembler on an Apple II before I learned C. Having that 6502 experience when I first took a C class helped me immensely.
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by flyinghamster 9mo ago
See also, Crucial exiting the marketplace. That one hit me out of left field, since they've been my go-to for RAM for decades. Though I also see that as a little bit of what has been the story of American businesses: "It's to
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by flyinghamster 9mo ago
An additional data point is that Midewin's bison area is surrounded by a double fence - a barbed-wire one to keep the humans out and a stout steel one to keep the bison in.
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by flyinghamster 10mo ago
Also, you were far more likely to get actual documentation back in the day. You're never going to get a detailed first-party technical reference for today's Apple computers (at least not without being Big Enough and signing a moun
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by flyinghamster 10mo ago
Data accuracy can be a problem. It lists 115 counties for Illinois, which is news to me since Illinois has 102 counties. For example, Kenosha County is in Wisconsin, not Illinois.
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by flyinghamster 10mo ago
That varied by region. When cable came to my town in the early 1980s, HBO and Cinemax were part of the local cable provider's basic package. That lasted until the next provider bought them out.
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by flyinghamster 10mo ago
That is fair, though they at least walked back some of those, and self-hosting is still very much a thing if you prefer not to deal with configuring your system through Someone Else's Computer.
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by flyinghamster 11mo ago
It just seems insane to me that this mentality has been allowed to take root. I live in an area where kids on bikes are a regular sight, any time the weather is even halfway decent. Just last year, I came across a brother and sister riding
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by flyinghamster 11mo ago
I'd wonder if Hitchhiker's would have some issues with Douglas Adams' estate, given his involvement.
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by flyinghamster 11mo ago
You might want to reconsider Bosch (or be careful about which model you choose): https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-wont-connect-my-dis...
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
I had a copy of that as well - I forget whether it was a Christmas gift or if I bought it. The demos were neat, but I was lacking in ideas when I had time to play with it, and the Apple didn't go to college with me. But if I were going
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
You and me both, and that became a cycle with each new generation of technology. I remember that FidoNet (and Usenet, for that matter) had a lot of that ham radio ethos, with commercial messages most unwelcome. But once the internet got too
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
> Recently a local news station in Maine reported a story of some middle schoolers calling their friends with landline telephones. This reflects on another problem: the sorry state of journalism and willingness to turn press releases int
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
One of my old builds was a Phenom II X2 550 Black, where I found that I could either overclock it, or unlock two more cores, but not both. I chose the cores, and it ran that way for a long time. That was one of the best bang-for-the-buck de
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
Keep in mind it goes further than that. US customary volume units don't match up with British ones. One British gallon is about 4.5 liters, where a US gallon is about 3.8. Quarts, pints, and cups follow, but fluid ounces are another th
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
Also, premade mixes are a godsend if you or a family member needs a gluten-free diet. I haven't (yet) noticed any shrinkflation, but I've certainly noticed that the King Arthur gluten-free muffin mix is noticeably more generous th
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
It has been done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XLZ4Z8LpEE The old Teletype in question was a Baudot machine with a 60 mA current loop, rather than ASCII and 20 mA loop for the Model 33.
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
And in addition, DEC made its name in the 1960s by selling computers at unprecedented low prices. A complete PDP-8/S system was quoted at $25000 in 1965 [0], equivalent to over a quarter of a million dollars today, for a computer that
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
When my dad's old Sony KV-25XBR bit the dust, he replaced it with a 32" Toshiba flat-screen CRT. That thing was a chunk indeed. In my opinion, even though it was really quite a good set, you're absolutely right about NTSC loo
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
I'm guessing the author doesn't speak Spanish. :)
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
The sheer number of hoops one has to jump through before even getting the image says to me, "Nope." What a shame, because I was just as impressed with that floppy as anyone else.
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
People who got too serious about communism tended to get eliminated by Stalin, and then the people in charge of the elimination (Yagoda, Yezhov, Beria) were in turn eliminated in later purges.
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
> I'm not into retro gaming (they are unforgiving and often not very fun) and I can't think of anything else to do with it. I've thought about some basic home automation tasks, but these old machines draw so much power it
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
"Just get LTSC" isn't really an answer when it isn't legitimately available to us plebes.

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