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by imglorp 1y ago
Memory unlocked. Around 1980, our local, government mandated, public access program for cable TV would loan out the first over-the-shoulder camera he showed, along with the sorta-portable battery VHS recording rig. White balance was always
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by imglorp 1y ago
I've come to realize that viewing the world through the simple lens of laundering causes dumb systems to suddenly make sense. Silly rabbit, you thought these industries were there for the normal public? Gambling: https://www
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by imglorp 1y ago
The MX-80 was a wonderful piece of hardware, all function. It was tractor fed but had a regular platen so you could line up letterhead with friction feed. No drama about low ink or something warming up or some bad encoding or another transf
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by imglorp 1y ago
Amazing, I gave it a recording and it gave an analysis. Do you know how to hear the generated sounds? Pressing the buttons shows a "playing" console message but there's no audio.
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by imglorp 1y ago
Texas has shown no interest in life support critical. They prioritized operator profits over uptime. Hundreds died as a result. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
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by imglorp 1y ago
And before that, maybe the Apache "Mouthful of water run" which among other things enforced nasal breathing when training. https://indigenousability.blogspot.com/2017/11/apache-runnin...
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by imglorp 1y ago
For a happy minute I thought we were talking about the malloc() debugger. Such a useful little tool back in the day. Allocation was a disaster back then. https://github.com/kallisti5/ElectricFence
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by imglorp 1y ago
> world leading disposable pen company literally uses "standards x 1.5" as their baseline Curious, what's this referring to?
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by imglorp 1y ago
Plus the idea that if you pay someone to "purchase" and "own" (their terms!!) content, then it's yours forever. Unless, of course, they renegotiate something upstream and subsequently remove the content from your &
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by imglorp 1y ago
Yes, and also don't try to anticipate everything by implementing features that won't be used soon, ie "just in case". If the soon turns to never, any unused feature is basically dead code and represents future costs and
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It's working.
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It seems developing a new engine a relatively rare, difficult, expensive, and risky endeavor in aviation. Notice none of the aircraft companies make their own, right? It's CFM, PW, and RR. But Boom has a bunch of propulsion engineer op
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by imglorp 1y ago
Don't forget the first mass produced consumer modems were 300 baud, and yes we're ignoring the model 37 teletype at 120 baud. Then 1200 baud came soon after for a huge improvement. Of course we're talking terminal, BBS, and C
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by imglorp 1y ago
Or don't listen to Vogon poetry.
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by imglorp 1y ago
And DuckDuckGo, Petfinder, MusicBrainz, Yahoo!, and TicketMaster. The Swiss army chainsaw saw some things.
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by imglorp 1y ago
Rural broadband mandates were just welfare for the big carriers. There was never intended to be any results or accountability. Consumers have been paying into the fund since 1997 and for that we got richer carriers and a pocketful of bupkis
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by imglorp 1y ago
The other way around maybe? They think the employers are going to line up to pay billions for AI workers in order to avoid paying trillions in benefits to human ones?
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by imglorp 1y ago
We (the US) had a very successful, carefully designed system that seems to have been an unstable configuration. It was neither hammer and sickle nor single megacorporation: it was balanced on a hill between both. The combination of (1) che
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by imglorp 1y ago
Cool UI, but I was just thinking about the old physical split flap displays. They have one advantage over most other large display systems: they hold their state and remain legible when the power goes out.
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Ocean-2 (wave power generation prototype) [video](youtube.com)
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by imglorp 1y ago
Maybe not just spoken language. I would suggest sign language has a similar bit rate as spoken. The evidence is that a sign interpreter conveys about the same information in a conversation in the same time.
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by imglorp 1y ago
I didn't understand anyone voting for that in particular. Policy questions of all sorts, we can all discuss: that's called democracy. But when someone promises to end your participation, you have surrendered all agency to them whi
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by imglorp 1y ago
You might think shoppers finding their product in a store quickly would delight customers and pay for itself quickly. But it seems instead of stores simply depending on the sale, they also now demand impulse purchases, which mean they want
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by imglorp 1y ago
They've ended/sold/traded away many of their licensing agreements. Many things they used to have are gone. It stinks because some of the things they tossed are mundane, but they add to the depth of the catalog if you're
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by imglorp 1y ago
The repeal of Citizens vs United was one major dagger in the lung of democracy. A stock ban is some nice grandstanding but if they were truly serious, they'd remove money from politics.
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by imglorp 1y ago
Reader mode works on this site.
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Not just porn and abortion, but the US is also targeting political speech now. The moral nuts are overlapping with the corporate and government interests such that the public loses. Several examples: government employees are being vetted fo
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by imglorp 1y ago
Pay by usage (tokens in, tokens out?) is the most transparent. In subscription plans, users who aren't using 100% of their subscription subsidize other users, which is opaque and not really fair.
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by imglorp 1y ago
Rally co-driver/navigator seems reasonable, given its augmented senses like gps and radar. One part "90 degree right in 200m" and one part "OMG, sheep, dodge left".
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by imglorp 1y ago
Or a current sensing transformer around its power cord.

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