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by forinti 2mo ago
As awful as Amazon has become, I still use it for the same reason I started using it many years ago: books. It's the one place I can find all the books my kids need for school. You search with an ISBN and always find exactly what you w
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by forinti 2mo ago
That's just not going to happen. You have to go out in the rain or heat, pay for parking, maybe not find what you want, pay 30% more than online, so online still has advantages. What baffles me is that e-commerce sites all tend to get
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by forinti 2mo ago
I've seen computers brought back to life after flooding by lying in rice for a week, but they weren't turned on when the water hit (and not all survived).
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by forinti 2mo ago
You didn't hold on to your Pentium 4 long enough. :-)
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by forinti 2mo ago
I've been using computers for more than 40 years now and the one component I have never seen fail is RAM. All the other bits in a computer I've seen fail.
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by forinti 2mo ago
I just looked up the price for Acornsoft ISO Pascal in 1989 and found a listing with 69 pounds, which would be 188 2026 pounds or 220 euros. It consists of 2 16KB ROMs (and a floppy version).
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by forinti 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure this is not the first time we've created a god in our own image.
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by forinti 2mo ago
I used punched cards in a university entrance exam in 1991. We would poke holes to mark the answers. They were identical to the IBM cards in shape and size but there were perforation lines to help you punch out the answers with a pencil. It
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by forinti 2mo ago
> During a short stint compiling manufacturing statistics for the US Census Office, Herman Hollerith grew frustrated with the organization’s manual process of counting questionnaires. Go out to the world and do something, however boring
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by forinti 2mo ago
Perl is still in every Linux. I just checked one of my Oracle installs and there are 725 .pl files. So it seems that is it still relevant.
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by forinti 2mo ago
When I had cats, I couldn't leave the bedroom door wide open, because that would give them space to come running into the room and jump onto the bed (sometimes on my face) at early hours.
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by forinti 2mo ago
A characteristic of most of Latin America is that the Police and the Army were created to protect power, not the people, and there hasn't really been an effort to change the mentality.
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by forinti 2mo ago
It might be a bit tough getting the permits from the EPA.
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by forinti 2mo ago
I'll take 32KB, a 6502 core, and 2400 baud of bandwidth.
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by forinti 2mo ago
Will they get targeted ads? GPUs, RAM, spacious data centers near you!
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by forinti 2mo ago
Kelly is nice if you know the odds.
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by forinti 2mo ago
You could buy a board called Integra-B to expand a model B. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT07uPRRPfU A few games required some extra RAM. Update: Actually, there were other boards. I remember one particular advert for a
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by forinti 2mo ago
It's impressive how fast it boots up on a Pi. I've tried all the OSs for the Pi and RISCOS is way faster than all the alternatives.
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by forinti 2mo ago
I was looking for info about connecting a Beeb to a Linux machine as a terminal, and found this guy using a modem for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QLcx2bvMbA I'm going with a RS423 to USB cable.
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by forinti 2mo ago
I think programmers in general do not give much thought to the level of engineering required for a task. Mostly, there's too little, but there are many cases when there's too much. I see people writing tons of tests for corporate
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by forinti 2mo ago
Some words also came into Portuguese from African slaves who were Muslim. And also from the Lebanese who immigrated to Brazil in the XX century.
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by forinti 2mo ago
Sometimes, rarely, you find a bit asphalt in Brazil where you have to drive on the left and often it is signalled as "mão inglesa", which is something like "English flow". Recently I discussed with some friends the relat
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by forinti 2mo ago
Voting should always be universal. The moment you exclude someone, you add the possibility of excluding more people.
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by forinti 2mo ago
I agree. There's one Da Vinci with the Vitruvian man on the back. The back should complement the front, right?
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by forinti 3mo ago
I've been tasked with justifying the renewal of software I would never choose to begin with. It has occurred to me that I could easily use AI to make up the required text. I guess AI is a new form of alienation and also a new light on
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by forinti 3mo ago
The ones I know are completely brown. They put their four front legs together, two by two, and sort of point at you. I was told that they are aggressive because they are well fed because they feed on the sap from the bananas whereas most sp
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by forinti 3mo ago
In South America there's a very aggressive spider that lives on the bananas (genus Phoneutria). Spiders usually shy away from humans but these attack and have a very nasty venom. I wonder if the heat will take nasty critters to Europe
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by forinti 3mo ago
Universe #23: keep solar systems far enough that they can't make war on each other.
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by forinti 3mo ago
If you found that movie interesting, check out The Second Mother (Que Horas ela Volta?) which is a Brazilian movie about a maid and her relationship with the middle class family that employs her.
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by forinti 3mo ago
Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.

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