hyperman1

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by hyperman1 5d ago
I found a bag full of bricks on a trash sale, for €10. It turned out to contain 90% of a 7745 train, and a lot of other train stuff. The seller rescued it from a container, where a family was cleaning out a deceased's house. They on
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by hyperman1 12d ago
Very well said, and I'd like to extend the idea much further: Old reddit, Windows debloater, youtube adblock, ... There are plenty of services that turned into customer disrespect, but people do huge efforts to keep them a bit less ab
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by hyperman1 12d ago
I had a tandy of that era, with i think 64K ram. The incompatibilities were big enough that almost nothing could run.
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by hyperman1 12d ago
I'd say: Shortages after the world wars, combined with the teething problems of new technology made customers acutely aware and capable of repairability. That lesson is now forgotten. It also wasn't universally true. E.g. the st
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by hyperman1 13d ago
80186 Was not IBM PC compatible. It had e.g. a PIC, DMA and timer built-in, and these were incompatible with the chips in a 8086 based IBM PC. There were a few new instructions, too, mostly closing holes. You could left or right shift wit
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by hyperman1 20d ago
We had an apartment building complex where the inhabitants were fighting the owners over the elevators. The owners claimed the elevators did not always break down. The inhabitants challenged them for a game: go from bottom to top and step
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by hyperman1 24d ago
I got an IT consultant looking at our Linux laptops, and his opinion was that the Belgian implementation of the CRA basically made Microsoft security tools obligatory: No other product survives auditors and your company will have to carry t
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by hyperman1 1mo ago
Around here, public toilets have roll holders containing 2 rolls. 2nd is unreachable, but when the 1st is empty, it falls out and 2nd drops in its place. Janitors just fill the 2nd roll if missing. I am hoping this is normal around the wo
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by hyperman1 1mo ago
A corporation can own another corporation. So if you set up a loop of corporations owning other corporations, and the loop spans multiple countries, you can end up with a corporation ultimately owning itself. I vaguely remember IKEA tryi
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by hyperman1 1mo ago
Cool. Didn't know that. Maybe, after all the intermarriaging of royal lines, we should just call them european royal houses.
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by hyperman1 1mo ago
The king is already mostly ceremonial. He seems mainly a stabilization factor for the country when both halves get a bout of separatism once more: He is the ultimate person every major politician talks to when nobody wants to talk to each
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by hyperman1 1mo ago
It's German, not British. When Belgium was founded, the fear was it would immediately try to join France. So when a French noble was offered the throne, he actually said no, quite a blemish for the young nation. A surplus German nob
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by hyperman1 1mo ago
Every popular language has a cultural part to it. Java was famous for its enterprisey verbose code, even if nothing in the language requires it. PHP tends the opposite way, writing organically grown underengineered messes, even if the lan
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by hyperman1 2mo ago
I'm not a drawing person. I wish I could draw a lot better. I used to try once in a while, and the results were universally bad. So a few years ago, I took a drawing course, and pushed it as fas as I could. The results were the best
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by hyperman1 2mo ago
You have to read the news from someone, and each one has its own bias. State news has a well known failure mode as propaganda. But commercial news turns out to have its own failure mode, where emotion inducing content has bigger gains for
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by hyperman1 2mo ago
The reason of copyright has always been to protect the current powers. To promote usefull arts has always been a whitewash. Here's e.g. wikipedia on that topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright
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by hyperman1 2mo ago
"To protect the children, ...."
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by hyperman1 2mo ago
If this happens without clicking I agree, the software is not covered under any EULA and you're allowed to do whatever you want, right?
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by hyperman1 2mo ago
Seconded. I talk to my cats, to the software I'm troubleshooting, to my tools, sometimes even to my dishwasher while filling it. Presumably none of them cares, but every reaction is a training, so I want to train in the right directi
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by hyperman1 3mo ago
Doing this brings you close to OSI, which famously failed by being overcomplicated. The current design was implementable by zillions of cheap humans running cheap hardware. I always wonder if the internet is thesurvivor of the networking c
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by hyperman1 3mo ago
It might be more of a weakened immune system thing. Everyone gets small lightning strikes all the times, but our defences stop it before it gets too bad. So when defences are failing, you see a long string of random unlucky stuff happenin
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by hyperman1 3mo ago
As an EUian,I've never given one care about my credit rating. I don't even know if I have one. They can cause a long drawn out court battle, and abuse your data. Noyb is the real-world example here. Most companies depend on not
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by hyperman1 3mo ago
I did read the book, and know enough people who did. Now I may have weird interests, but that describes basically half the inhabitants of this site. BTW, as non-USAian, I never saw Cosmos and never heard of NDT.
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Murdoku – Murder mystery meets Sudoku(murdoku.com)
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by hyperman1 3mo ago
There was a time where Hawking's A brief history of time gave a decent overview of the universe to beginners. Does anyone know how well it holds up today and if anything better exists?
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by hyperman1 3mo ago
In the EU, anyone can legally get a second hand LTSC license. See e.g. https://en.windowsnoticias.com/Where-to-get-cheap-and-offici...
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by hyperman1 3mo ago
I've always wondered if adding your own dots would throw it off
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by hyperman1 3mo ago
One part of this is how hard it is to translate the impact to now-scientists. E.g. 2 degrees temperature raise did not sound bad to me, untill someone explained to me this is from ground to space, and the actual raise is double or triple th
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by hyperman1 3mo ago
In my corner of the world, credit cards were for buying stuff on the internet and travelling outside the EU. Now the net has evelved enough to accept our normal means of payment. I always feel insecure when using a credit card.
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by hyperman1 3mo ago
I love my Roomba 600 so much that I bought a new Roomba a few months ago. Unfortunately, it is a strictly inferior product on just about any point.

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