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by jsymolon 5y ago
Might even include zippers into that also. Basically: reduce reuse recycle The point being materials science gave us a lot of materials that are better performing for a lot of use cases. Consider the amount of single use plastic in the medi
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by jsymolon 5y ago
ala, "Ringworld" by Larry Niven, in which, City Builder rule ended after the Ringworld was infected with a superconductor eating bacteria in a plot by the Puppeteers https://larryniven.fandom.com/wiki/City_Bui
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by jsymolon 5y ago
Sweet ! :~$ sudo ddcutil detect Invalid display I2C bus: /dev/i2c-1 EDID synopsis: Mfg id: AUO Model: Serial number: Manufacture year: 2009 EDID version: 1.
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by jsymolon 5y ago
I found that Modern Perl to be quite good. http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/
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by jsymolon 5y ago
Stop switching and split the difference. 1/2 to the summer and 1/2 to the winter.
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by jsymolon 5y ago
> Rewrites in general are usually a terrible idea, unless the original is horribly broken (and beyond fixable). I would say, it depends on the ROI. For example, my current millstone, is a 20 year c++ program written towards the c++98 spe
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by jsymolon 5y ago
New machine based on the C64, nearing production release. https://www.commanderx16.com/forum/index.php?/about-faq/
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by jsymolon 5y ago
> Compilers for C, Pascal, and other languages of the time were hundreds of dollars If you knew where to look, Tiny C was published in early Byte magazine (late 70's?) and Small-C published in Dr Dobbs, May 1980. I get nostalgic and
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by jsymolon 5y ago
The corollary is the same thing happening which caused Apple to move to the Intel CPUs, basically, Motorola being unable to squeeze more performance out of it. On the other hand, with the volume of units that IBM Compatibles had, it may hav
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by jsymolon 5y ago
> overwhelming response here was negative, presupposing greed and lack of privacy of everyone Because the history of other platforms which have done this, shows that ads didn't go away. Cable TV, full of ads. Satellite Radio, not t
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by jsymolon 5y ago
Agreed, and many thanks to the developers. My pain is browsing over VPN is extremely slow. Probably my fault as getting Desktop (Debian) happy with all the certificates is painful.
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by jsymolon 5y ago
> go to a Family Dollar ... Double check the expiration date.
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by jsymolon 5y ago
" ... I noted this phenomenon in describing how ice cream underwent stealth inflation late in the Bush Administration, when the venerable half-gallon container was disappeared and replaced with 1.5-quart and 1.75-quart lookalikes.&quot
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by jsymolon 5y ago
Shades of "software dongles"
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by jsymolon 5y ago
eh, 1st 1/2 great. 2nd half ... really falls apart
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by jsymolon 5y ago
no twitter https://sheas.blog/papers/The_Challenge_of_Using_C_in_Safety...
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by jsymolon 5y ago
Operational Budget vs Capitalize Budget, for one. Build something new, affect bottom line directly vs maintenance. Blame the tax structure for placing an emphasis on new.
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by jsymolon 5y ago
> fresh broccoli is better than frozen broccoli? Stir-fry for one. Frozen release "tons" of water that just slams the heat to "0". Fresh, dump it in and it cooks without adding water.
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by jsymolon 6y ago
I have a couple of Vendor supplied programs that run on MicroFocus COBOL in a Linux environment. The product line supports IBM mainframes and a few other platforms, so I assume it's easier to target the mainframe first and then the oth
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by jsymolon 6y ago
Aside, I use a very large clear glass bowl to kill the nest. Flip it over the hole, leave it for a little over a week and the nest will be dead. It has to be a clear bowl to trick the wasps to think that they can still get out otherwise th
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by jsymolon 6y ago
> water mains that transfer water to the city from upstate are well over a century old. ... They just wait for them to fail, then replace the small part that failed. At some point, all the older parts will get so old that it fails freque
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by jsymolon 6y ago
> it is a wasteful On one hand, what a marvelous thing it is. On the other, what a waste, single use of silicon, battery and LCD that'll go straight to the landfill.
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by jsymolon 6y ago
Constant hardware upgrades.
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by jsymolon 6y ago
the ColdFire SOCs (system on a chip) are still available and of newer "stock" vs chasing down original 68xxxx chips. I'm not too fond of emulators and like to work on actual hardware although the FPGA 68k cores are interestin
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by jsymolon 6y ago
I usually end up replacing the jack (female) in the laptop first due to rough handling. The plug wiggles and doesn't make a good connection.
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by jsymolon 6y ago
Lot more bandwidth with fiber.
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by jsymolon 6y ago
A game of skill is a game where the outcome is determined mainly by mental or physical skill, rather than chance. Considering that you can get a robot that will beat RPS 100% of the time, I would consider that a yes. https://newa
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by jsymolon 7y ago
Don't forget to add in the additional flight hours on equipment as an additional cost vs sitting.
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by jsymolon 7y ago
chuckle , Classic case of the documentation doesn't match the "code".
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by jsymolon 7y ago
xeyes 2.0 For those who don't know xeyes. Same thing, little X window widget that looked at the mouse pointer.

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