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by flyinghamster 2y ago
If by "toy" you mean R/C aircraft, that's usually not even gasoline, but a mix of methanol and nitromethane, no lead in sight (and these days you'll find a lot more R/C stuff that's battery-powered instead
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
So far, since their 1990s era Hollywood buy-in, I've bought one and only one Sony product, a pair of noise-cancelling headphones. I've been very happy with them, but only because they sound fine without any fiddling, which would r
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
See also, Winston Churchill. https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/ It's especially instructive to call up the list of fakes from that page (it isn't directly linkable due to JS stupidity).
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
I actually wanted to reply to the downstream comment, but it didn't give me a Reply link for some reason. In any case, I've absolutely noticed how even a Raspberry Pi Zero, taken back 40 years, would be a supercomputer beyond anyt
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
I never even got into ebooks in the first place, precisely because of the DRM and "your so-called purchases can still get yoinked" problems.
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
Aha. I noticed that the /s/ link hits the login wall even if I use old.reddit.com.
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
Looks like Reddit is diving further down the enshittification rat hole. Link is behind a login wall, at least for me.
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
Not just the Romans, but anyone over 50, particularly in urban areas, got dosed with plenty of lead as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
ComEd, the main electrical provider in northern Illinois, actively encourages homes and businesses to install solar power and offers net metering to solar-equipped customers. https://www.comed.com/smart-energy/my-green-
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
Speaking only for myself, I had a loving, trusting relationship with my parents. It was my peers who taught me not to trust (edit: also school administrators).
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
Last time I tried it (quite long ago), I recall having some audio issues. Maybe I should try again... that was back when my old audio interface (that only ever worked on XP, since they never released production-grade drivers for Win7) final
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
I really miss Foobar2000 on Linux (I've tried it a few times with Wine, and was never impressed vs. running it natively on Windows), so this looks like it might be just up my alley - especially since it has custom tag support.
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
There are a number of northern Illinois cities that have their own utility grids. Off the top of my head I can think of Naperville, Princeton, Rochelle, and Peru, with the last three having their own power plants. Rochelle's municipal
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
Very old US light switches often had both AC and DC current ratings, and the DC rating was noticeably lower due to the arcing problem, even with fast-acting snap action. My grandfather worked in a Chicago office building that had 110V DC se
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
Chicago, too, particularly on Metra (the commuter rail network). The longest line is the UP Northwest line, about 63 mi/102 km to the far rural town of Harvard, Illinois. Or, if you're heading to Indiana, the NICTD South Shore Lin
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
I'd say they started getting into their swing in the 1950s, if my father's Yashica-A twin-lens reflex is any indication. That camera produced absolutely gorgeous shots in square format on 120 roll film.
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
A good way to demonstrate the problem is by trying to use a music-making app through a Bluetooth headphone or speaker. That delay completely kills the ability to stay on the beat.
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
For me, captcha hell is very random, and when it happens, it's things like "pick all squares with stairs" where I have to decide if that little corner of a stairway counts (and it never seems to) or "pick all squares wit
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
Indeed, 40 years ago, if we weren't getting our news from the TV, we quite often got it via weekly news magazines and Sunday newspapers.
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
As always, don't count on it lasting. Nevertheless, it's a welcome move from WB, even if I've already fallen out of movie watching. I'm quite surprised they did it region-free.
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
I always thought it was crazy that Xerox had all this ahead-of-the-time technology in its labs, yet when it released a commercial PC, what we got was the 820, a me-too CP/M system that came out just in time for the IBM PC to steamroll
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
I never really got into that, since by that time I really couldn't get into TV shows anymore - or indeed, for pretty well all of my adult life. And yet, your note reminds me that the landline phone network is pretty well dead as the do
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
One thing I started doing a few years ago is that, any time I check out a git repo, whether it's on github or anywhere else, is clone it to my NAS and then clone from there to whatever I'm building it on. Aside from guarding again
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
In Chicago, the "L" network also has stretches that run down expressway medians, along with the elevated lines and the subway sections downtown.
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
The main use I see for smart bulbs is to put wall-switch lamps on timers. Then again, that could be done with a smart dimmer instead. Too bad so many of these "smart" devices insist you talk with a server in China (or anywhere oth
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
Decades ago, my junior college's parking lot was lit by low-pressure sodium lighting. I recall the light being an absolute monochrome yellow, to the point that you had to be careful to remember exactly where you parked your car, becaus
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
In my town, when they replaced the old mercury arc and high pressure sodium lights, they picked a pleasing neutral white for the side streets that's far better than the bluish-white mercury arcs they replaced, while using 40 watts each
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
I started using Ansible a few years back to set up VMs (or Raspberry Pis) with a consistent environment. Once I wrapped my head around it, I've found it very nice for any situation where I need to treat systems as livestock rather than
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
One thing you might find helpful is to prototype things with GNU Radio and a GRC flowgraph. I'm not sure that would be useful for running on the ESP32, but you could at least tinker around with signal processing tactics that you could
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
My condolences. Between QModem, Telix, ProComm, and all the rest, I'd put QModem at the top (but all were good). I didn't get online until I was away from home, but wasted no time getting there once I had the opportunity. At that

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