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by jbuzbee 7y ago
I'm in Centennial Colorado - Several years ago we voted to allow commercial companies to lease the city's fiber. As a result, I now have symmetric gigabit fiber from a company named Ting running into the house for around $89 a mon
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by jbuzbee 7y ago
Still have mine. And what I learned from it hasn't become obsolete yet. Those were the days of writing everything in assembly language, trying to cram your program into what now seems like a tiny amount of memory. I recall that memory
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Tesla driver again dies in crash with trailer, Autopilot not yet ruled out(electrek.co)
42 points by jbuzbee 8y ago|29 comments
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Xnor’s saltine-sized, solar-powered AI hardware redefines the edge(techcrunch.com)
3 points by jbuzbee 8y ago|0 comments
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
I did't see a video if them in action in the article, but there's more than on on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jvKaM7R5iY
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
A couple of things that I recall. Any commercial activity was severely frowned upon. No adds, promotion, etc. Anyone remember the "Green Card Lawyer"?[1] Raised quite a stink with his spamming usenet for business. And I recall th
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Loon’s Balloons Will Fly Over Kenya in First Commercial Telecom Tryout(spectrum.ieee.org)
4 points by jbuzbee 8y ago|0 comments
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
With acoustic modems on both sides. Can you hear the old-style modem connect screech now?
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
I recall there is a known "tomb" of a ceremonial ship next to the great pyramids. They started displaying its twin back in '82 (amazing exhibit [1]), but have left the other in place. I also suspect that the Egyptians have a
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
And I believe all were built by Lockheed Martin?
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
That thread says: "BerryLan works great on the Model 3 but not the ZeroW" Anyone know if that is still the case?
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
Oh yeah. I ran gopher. But once I Installed Mosaic I never looked back. I knew the http web would be big but I vastly underestimated how big. Hindsight and all that...
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
> Linux can be made to run — just barely — in as little as 4MB of RAM Back in the day, I remember running SLS Linux[1] on a 4MB PC and that included X11. Of course, a 4MB swap partition on my 40MB drive was a requirement. [1] https:&#x2
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
I tried both the built-in wifi and a Realtek dongle
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
Just tried with a Raspberry Pi 0 - No luck. "SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported" On the roadmap, or is this just a driver issue?
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
The New York times did a fascinating article about Potter's Field on Hart Island[1]. One story from the article I recall is of a woman who died in her multi-million dollar apartment in the Dakota building in Manhattan and how she ended
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
High Security? I suppose it depends on context. But for real high security facilities, a visitor is not getting past the first guard desk without an ID check with the visitor's name being on a list that is maintained via secure communi
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
I see a lot in Colorado and have been seeing them for a couple of years
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
Back in the day, I seem to recall having to binary patch LILO every time I installed a new kernel to tell it what partition to boot. I suppose that dates me...
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
I'm in Centennial CO. We also voted in municipal fiber broadband a while back. My neighborhood is slated to get 1GB symmetric from Ting for $89 https://ting.com/internet/town/centennial
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
I also read that a lot of native American tribe names came about when early European explorers asked one tribe, "What is the name of the tribe that lives over there?". The local tribe would respond, "We call them the other pe
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
My father, now nearly 87, was born in the deep south 70 years after the end of slavery. If you think about it, as he walked down the streets of his little town at age 10, every single black person he saw over the age of 80, would have been
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
The wording on many of these ads is odd. In hindsight they are clearly written by a non-native english writer, but perhaps the Facebook audience is used to awkward writing by their peers?
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
Google finance is bad now. Very bad. Anyone have a good replacement? I went back to Yahoo for a while, but it's pretty awful as well. Slightly better than Google finance, but it's not a high bar to reach...
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
My father ran a newspaper and he said that the state school for the deaf trained linotype operators. It was a good job for them because the high noise-level wouldn't be an issue.
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by jbuzbee 8y ago
My father ran a small-town newspaper and tells me that the printers unions were very strong. When he finally did away with the linotype machines, the operators were guaranteed lifetime employment. When my father finally retired decades late
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by jbuzbee 9y ago
> It’s borderline unusable internationally. The T-Mobile plan has worked fine for me in both Australia and the UK, even for navigation.
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by jbuzbee 9y ago
There's something about Hopper's paintings. I can usually immediately identify one before I see any caption. I don't know what it is. But these... Another side altogether. Thanks for the post!
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by jbuzbee 9y ago
I'll tell you what I'd do if a car dealer pulled this on me. After all the normal haggling was done: "$80 a year? Fine. I plan to hang on to this car for 10 years. If you don't take an additional $800 off the price, no d
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Bitcoin conf stopped taking Bitcoin payments because they don't work well enough(cnbc.com)
147 points by jbuzbee 9y ago|92 comments

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