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by geocrasher 1y ago
I agree. And I do my best to do exactly that.
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by geocrasher 1y ago
The 286/12, with its 1MB memory, 60MB RLL Hard drive, and 5.25" floppy... oh and the VGA card and 14" 256 color VGA monitor, and the Panasonic KXP-1180i. It was October 1988. My Dad's boss financed it through the company
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by geocrasher 1y ago
15+ years ago I fought piracy at a company with very well known training materials for a prestigious certification. I'd distribute zip bombs marked as training material filenames. That was fun.
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by geocrasher 1y ago
It's wireless!
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by geocrasher 1y ago
Context: Discussing a first century Roman politician
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by geocrasher 1y ago
As somebody who had to withhold a burst of laughter when hearing "procurator" mispronounced as "procreator", I approve of this article before even reading it.
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by geocrasher 1y ago
I use search engines (Google) and when they (it) fails to provide me the responses I need, I turn to ChatGPT. For example: I recently upgraded my video card, and I run a 4K display. Suddenly the display was randomly disconnecting until I re
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by geocrasher 2y ago
My T420 has a couple of upgrades: Memory (16GB) and SSD (250GB). That's it. It's bone stock otherwise. When my buddy's laptop screen cracked, we had a hard time finding a new one. He took my T420 to work every day for a few m
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by geocrasher 2y ago
EDIT: I left out an important detail! The teacher of the programming class was actually a student who was apparently quite gifted, and guess whose computer the program was installed on? Right. I also remembered another detail: Apparently th
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by geocrasher 2y ago
Early 90's, 386/16's in the computer lab in high school. I wasn't taking any of the classes but had access to the computers at lunch. I was teaching myself Borland Turbo C++ at home. Guess what these computers had instal
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by geocrasher 2y ago
The subject of Kerala resulted in one of the most memorable conversations I've had with a doctor that wasn't about medical stuff. My late wife had to have an emergency procedure and her regular doctor was not available, and so she
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by geocrasher 2y ago
What is the significance of a reproducible build, and how is it different than a normal distribution?
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by geocrasher 2y ago
I have a partially assembled QMX+ sitting on my bench. I need to get it finished. I'll let somebody else talk about why this firmware update is somewhat earth shattering for the ham radio community and why the QMX itself is a huge deal
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by geocrasher 2y ago
I see adminer misused in malware on WordPress sites way too often. It's too bad its reputation is tarnished that way.
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by geocrasher 2y ago
I've never been in this position so take what I say with a grain of salt. Get a job- anything where they will hire you and pay you. Use that to bootstrap yourself out of your car and into any kind of housing. Anything at all. Work tha
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by geocrasher 2y ago
I've been playing since about 1989 with FS4. It's come a long way in the last 35+ years! FS2024 is so incredibly immersive that it is almost unimaginable. With modest gaming hardware, you can play at 40fps at 4K. It's nothing
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by geocrasher 2y ago
Ducted fans are by nature less efficient than propellers. This is one reason that the next big leap in engine efficiency may come from what are essentially unducted fans.
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by geocrasher 2y ago
I'll never forget the TI-99/4A. I was 8 years old, in second grade in Southern California. We had a "computer lab" which was a mobile building with 13 or 15 TI-99/4A's, and about half of them had color TV'
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by geocrasher 2y ago
Nothing in particular, it just did what it was supposed to do quite easily. I didn't have the opportunity to load test it and the small VM it was one would have been a bigger bottleneck, I think.
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by geocrasher 2y ago
Last year a coworker mentioned Caddy, so I decided to set it up on a spare box just to see how well it worked with WordPress, PHP etc. It did okay. I didn't do any big tests with it but it seemed to work well enough, and was super simp
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by geocrasher 2y ago
My understanding is that it is standalone.
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by geocrasher 2y ago
Yeah based on the downvotes I got I'm understanding that this is an unpopular opinion. Truth is, I've been in the web hosting business for over 25 years and the number of actual domain name related scams that I've personally
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by geocrasher 2y ago
Not a scam, just related businesses. There aren't too many scams in the domain business (I'm sure somebody will point out a few in the comments. Schroedinger's law, I think it is?) because it's governed by ICANN and fish
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by geocrasher 2y ago
You are alive. And your prognosis, if I am to understand correctly, is overall good. This Sunday marks the fourth anniversary of my wife's passing at just 46 years old. She had unending nausea, and major motility issues. They also thou
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Dynamic generation and overlaying of graphic windows (1982)(patents.google.com)
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by geocrasher 2y ago
You may be right. I read this on the late Sheldon Brown's website, and it stuck. References: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/tancrank.html Left-threaded pedals and cranks are reputedly an invention of the Wright b
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by geocrasher 2y ago
you have a point. how about this. s/writer/storyteller/
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by geocrasher 2y ago
This is exactly the case.
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by geocrasher 2y ago
I taught my son to ride using training wheels. He rode around for a few days and asked me to take them off. So, I took them off. And when I came back outside from putting the tools and training wheels away, he was riding his bike as if he&#
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by geocrasher 2y ago
An excellent read, no doubt. I've actually read it a couple of times. Ben Rich was a great writer.

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