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by greenbit 4y ago
Seems to be about Capcom arcade machines, 239 pages with lots of technical content. Nice pics of humongous 1980-era circuit boards. A nice addition to your file hoard if you're into retro computing.
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by greenbit 4y ago
Curious about power requirements. I'd guess, seeing all those old school MSI DIPs it takes 5V .. but how many amps ?
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by greenbit 4y ago
And hopefully the other ends of those two were top-most, so it could end there. If not, there could be even further collateral rework.
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by greenbit 4y ago
To a hammer, everything looks like a nail?
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by greenbit 4y ago
How ironic that these days there are many millions of computers chock full of nifty devices like that, that are dedicated to individual users, that are all buttoned up so tightly with multi-user protected operating systems that it's vi
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by greenbit 4y ago
There was a well known cheap tool retailer that had a voltmeter adequate for this kind of measurement for less than the price of a good coffee. I think they even had a coupon for it, making it practically free for a while.
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by greenbit 4y ago
Dry skin is a reasonably effective insulator against the kinds of voltages typically produced by wall warts, i.e. less than about 24V. But wet skin, especially if there's salt involved, is considerably more conductive. As a kid I had a
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by greenbit 4y ago
The preferred method seems to be to fry the potatoes in hot grease, then salt the hell out of them. Unsuspecting humans readily gobble these up. With repeated application, death by cardiovascular disease follows within decades.
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by greenbit 4y ago
At first I thought this was click bait, too. But actually.. TL;DR take: Hospitals and labs contain deadly pathogens in regions of lowered air pressure. Sophisticated electronics monitor pressure and control the evacuation system accordingly
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by greenbit 4y ago
My TL;DR take on this: thinking of proteins like rigid little single-purpose parts might fall short of the mark. Proteins are kind of wiggly, and nature can easily multi-purpose a given molecule. Backed up with lots of references. Good read
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by greenbit 4y ago
"The tiny elite (countries, billionares, intellectuals) ..” Hold up. Intellectuals? How many 'intellectuals' own personal helicopters, mega-yachts, mansions? Or hey for that matter, even regular old homes?
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by greenbit 4y ago
Nah, it's gravity. Money attracts money. It coalesces into dense lumps, a few thin clouds of gas, and a whole lot of very empty space.
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by greenbit 4y ago
Like Arrakis, only crazy cold instead of crazy hot
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by greenbit 4y ago
Was trying to make sense of that solve, but couldn't see any algorithmic thing happening. Either that's the craziest method I ever saw, or it's just a reversal of a random scramble. Regardless, none of that takes away from th
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by greenbit 4y ago
I know it's irrational but now I'm looking forward to 1732050808
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by greenbit 4y ago
Why didn't 1,618,033,998 get this much buzz?? Is there a rational explanation for this?
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by greenbit 4y ago
You know, "2 out of 3 ain't bad"
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by greenbit 4y ago
And of course Sir Isaac found time to fit alchemy and mathematics in between the daily activities of subsistence farming. Oh wait ..
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by greenbit 4y ago
So you're saying, for example, that after plowing how many billions into fusion research, when they finally crack it and can produce continents-worth of power from pennies worth of sea water, they won't actually start giving elect
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by greenbit 4y ago
Yeah, that's nuts. That's way beyond where even the 'detailed design' phase should go. I've been on projects where DD has delved to the level of identifying individual classes, and I think even that's a bit of
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by greenbit 4y ago
The one thing waterfall did that I think was actually quite a good thing, at least for larger scale problems, was 'preliminary design'. Experience shows it's really important to get 'the bones' of your system right,
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by greenbit 4y ago
Maybe with an offer to be top of the list of who gets notified when the aliens are first detected ..
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by greenbit 4y ago
Wasn't this an episode of Black Mirror?
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by greenbit 4y ago
Why does even the thought of 'disabling' animations have to be cast in the context of an accessibility issue? What about those of us that see no need of user interface elements that flollop about doing some kind of 'me Me ME!
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by greenbit 4y ago
That's so 90's
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by greenbit 4y ago
Well, maybe you can't double what you've got, but one way to measure past the 50% mark would be to try to halve what remains on the table.
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by greenbit 4y ago
Because we can't get hold of dry ice to do a proper job of it? This seems to vary by state.
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by greenbit 4y ago
I'm willing to give Amazon a lot of slack given who they are and what they're attempting to take on, as long as it's entertaining, i.e. I've set my expectations pretty low. The thing making it disappointing for me though
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by greenbit 4y ago
The Adventure was Excellent?
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by greenbit 4y ago
I wonder how much the misapprehension that FPGAs somehow emulate is due to the fact that the way we configure them looks so much like code. VHDL is ghastly, but I prefer it over verilog bc verilog seems to actually try to look like C. I thi

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