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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Stanford's Forsythe DC had a Tandem mainframe just inside the main floor area. It was a short beast standing on its own about 1.5m / 4' tall, and not in a 19" rack.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Tapered on and off 16 medications over the past 20 years, including just about every SSRI, SNRI, and TCA. One dose of Paxil (paroxetine) was enough to give me "mild" serotonin syndrome hyperactivity, plus disassociation like it wa
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
It's a worthy investment because it's not a retail throwaway item. Also, it comes with a business OPNsense license with 1 year of business updates. After that, it can either stay on that series, run the FOSS version, or one can pu
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
> ASUS B650E/X670E mainboard No, no, no. Fuck ASUS and you don't understand the use-case. I acquire gear through gray markets just fine because I'm not paying zillions for commercial channel parts. I can get a 1 port 400 G
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
What happens when... 0. The police ask for ID, you provide it, and they search your now unlocked phone without your consent? 1. Your phone battery dies and you need to provide ID. 2. A perfect digital static copy of it is created, say from
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Don't use tantalum or electrolytic capacitors, lead-free solder, BGA-packaged ICs, exposed (non-stainless) steel, paper, or plastic, and most problems are mitigated by design. And use good halogen- and bromine-free fiberglass PCBs. The
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Worse, it was sort-of (in)compatible with the PC just enough to be troublesome. 50 of these were donated to my high school because an elementary school couldn't use them and didn't want them, and my high school didn't want th
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Instead of buying 2 EPYC 4004 (4584PX) with marginally useless server features, I stuck 2 Ryzen 7000 (Ryzen 9 7950X3D) in uATX H13SAE-MF server boards with ECC RAM. They include IGPUs, but whatever. They work fine for load testing 100 and 4
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
I found one of the most fun CS-augmented stats courses gradually built a stats library bottom-up over the time period of the course using simple constructs to solve lab assignments.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
C++ STL/Boost and/or Python probably already have such a beast that could be adapted/cannibalized for some use-cases.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Salt, mulch, barriers, and/or poisons like glyphosate.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
How did this not get more votes? About top ten fines of all time. They got caught laundering drug money, allowing multi-million dollar cash deposits at local branches.
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Tell HN: Covidtests.gov shipping old, expired tests
2 points by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago|3 comments
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Yep. I remember it for the PCjr but forgot about original PC support for it. PCjr's also supported ROM cartridges. I think the core problem of the PCjr is it was trying to be all things to all people by being part PC, part low-end comp
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Unfortunately, there are too many people now who believe they are liberal and tolerant but don't know what it means since they preach and practice exactly the opposite values. It's sad because they spit on gains of the sexual, gen
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Victimhood supremacy combined with provincial identity reinforcement discourages well-rounded education, liberal values, and dismisses classics as "old white patriarchy". The author fails to realize they are no longer a liberal no
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
> Is the book less important, less valuable, because of who wrote it? That is the underlying thesis of their protest: old white man bad.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
It's a submarine story pushing the "lack of diversity patriarchy is to blame" trope.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Yep. And before ID requirements, it was the poll taxes. Like robbing a bank, the penalties for fraudulently voting are so extreme (52 USC 20511) that no sane person should dare to entertain it. As such, it's simpler and encourages exer
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Nope. Anyone want to buy an (Oculus) Quest Pro. It's barely used! ;@)
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
0. Don't use a garbage retail or ISP-provided, closed-source router. Here's one option: https://shop.opnsense.com/product/dec740-opnsense-desktop-se... 1. Suggesting turning off IPv6 is ridiculous security th
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
If I then said "it's me," that would be an obvious echo. Or if I instead said "it's not me", that would a contrarian echo. So I'm just going to say: it's probably not me, the last time I checked, but
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
How dare you use creative, nonlinear play in such a stuffy, formal crowd. Off with your head.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
There is probably no single "Satoshi" individual, but that was their avatar "API boundary" with which to interface with the rest of the world. It was probably a scheme to financialize fintech (with an emphasis on tech) b
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
I wrote an (unreleased) Bash-based framework for Docker container- and exo-Docker VM-based LFS builds. Dir listing: https://pastebin.com/JrPkftgr Dockerfile (it's still missing throwing away intermediate layers b/
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Nope. It's a launchpad not meant solely to follow blindly. The point is trial and error experimentation along the way. Can I switch the order of these packages or enable dependency X? It also helps to have a fast x86_64 box with zillio
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Yep. Recompile all the things with different USE flags.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
While Nix/NixOS solved RPM dependency hell and side-by-side multiple concurrent version installation issues, it created its own problems. The problem with Nix/NixOS is everything is too isolated to be configurable or usable, and s
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
It still could be useful in Ukraine to make use of all the blood and meat Russia sends everyday... 1000-1400 casualties every day or ~435k/y. They send specialist drone operators and even FSB and carrier naval units to the front on ess
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Note that Vancouver Island has absurd numbers of black bear but pretty much or at zero brown bears until now. I'm wondering if they're u. a. stikeenensis, gyas, dalli, or merely the terribly-named horribilis.

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