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by glxxyz 2y ago
It was 9 pin not 9dpi, yes it looked awful. 24-pin (2 rows of 12) was a pretty big improvement, even more noisy though.
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by glxxyz 2y ago
A coin with a heads bias is more likely to land on heads no matter how it's thrown. A coin with a same side bias is more likely to land on heads if it's thrown with heads facing up, and more likely to land on tails if thrown with
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by glxxyz 2y ago
I swear I used to be able to switch off my alarm clock while still fully asleep
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by glxxyz 2y ago
It depends which items. They're not designed to be re-assembled but some pieces will re-assemble just fine. You have to be careful as it's easy to strip the screw holes e.g. in particleboard. I'd try to remove any shelves, do
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by glxxyz 2y ago
Most of it is not meant to be disassembled at all, e.g. bookshelves with those circular cams and screws into particle board. Flat pack assembly is just a cheaper way of getting the furniture to you, if you move or sell it, keep it whole. I
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by glxxyz 2y ago
Billy are great and easy to customise to fit- I made a wall of black shelving in a bedroom and shelves for a built in closet with them (before IKEA started doing closet furntiure). I've found that they don't re-assemble well, they
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by glxxyz 2y ago
I bought a simple square pine table (I think it's 'Ingo') for maybe C$50 about 15 years ago. We used it as a dining table for a few years, then when we moved and bought a fancier marble tulip table it was shuffled out to the
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by glxxyz 2y ago
It implies there's damage but it's a bit ambiguous: "English Heritage [...] said curators were investigating the damage" (investigating to see if there was damage or investigating to see how much damage?) "Wiltshire
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by glxxyz 2y ago
Exactly this- modern concrete high rises generally have much better sound isolation than stick framed
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by glxxyz 2y ago
6 stories (here) = Wood framed building = noise from neighbours above, below and beside
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by glxxyz 2y ago
“Experts have said that she survived the fall because she was harnessed into her seat, the window seat, which was attached to the two seats to her left as part of a row of three. That was thought to have functioned as a parachute which slow
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by glxxyz 2y ago
I didn’t say ‘never’, these stories are generally exaggerated, for example: “Investigators believed that the fuselage, with Vulović pinned inside, landed at an angle in a heavily wooded and snow-covered mountainside, which cushioned the imp
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by glxxyz 2y ago
Stories of people surviving falls from planes 'without a parachute' are inevitably somewhat exaggerated- they survived a fall with a partially functional parachute. Her injuries were horrific and it's incredible that she and
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by glxxyz 2y ago
I blow the leaves off my gravel driveway that winds through woodland. I got 2 Ryobi electric leaf blowers free with different cordless tools and so I dual wield them as I walk down the driveway a few times every fall. I don't care abo
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by glxxyz 3y ago
I'm in a similar zone and replaced (delivered) propane with a ground source heat pump 2 years ago. Constant temperature indoors (3C warmer in summer than winter) with plenty of AC capacity to spare. Breakeven is about 5 or 6 years.
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by glxxyz 3y ago
I was half-expecting it to be about this strange book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_Uses_for_a_Dead_Cat
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by glxxyz 3y ago
I was at a company where we were forced to migrate from a simple lightweight internal tool to Rally, against my advice. It was much worse, and we migrated back within a year. Waste of everyone's time, and our issues got completely mang
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by glxxyz 3y ago
In the Commodore PET Sematary?
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by glxxyz 3y ago
"Woking (WOH-king) n. Standing in the kitchen wondering what you came in here for." The Deeper Meaning of Liff, Douglas Adams & John Lloyd
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by glxxyz 3y ago
Yes lots of things in that ad ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ2z1be2EXQ ) are impossible with the UK teletext they're trying to emulate, generated by a Mullard SAA5050 (there were others). It also takes a whole chara
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by glxxyz 3y ago
Certain people still insist on joking about it being a 'meal' almost every time I drink one though.
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by glxxyz 3y ago
I've come to hate hops over the last 20 years or so as overpoweringly flowery and/or bitter IPAs and pale ales have become more popular. I like just enough hops to balance the sweetness of the malt. For me hops are like salt in fo
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by glxxyz 3y ago
They don't incorporate the nitrogen at the pouring step, Guinness (and other stouts and ales) are force 'carbonated', stored and dispensed under a 75% nitrogen/25% CO2 blend, whereas most draughts use just CO2. Guinness
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by glxxyz 3y ago
Llamatron, Revenge of the Mutant Camels and Colourspace by Llamasoft (Jeff Minter) in 1991-2. I still have the Llama poster somewhere.
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by glxxyz 3y ago
I was too subtle, sorry
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by glxxyz 3y ago
Looks fine in Chrome's desktop mode on a phone.
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by glxxyz 3y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by glxxyz 3y ago
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence."
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by glxxyz 3y ago
That was how the headline sounded to me too.
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by glxxyz 3y ago
That's why portable CD players added 30 second anti-skip or whatever, basically read a big chunk of the track into RAM so that the read head skipping around didn't affect playback. Tapes were definitely more stable.

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