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by krallja 5y ago
Yep. Now I see that the House Speaker is criticizing the FAA for not informing the Capitol Police.
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by krallja 5y ago
I've been trying to get people to pronounce it as "positive," like a disease. "Yeah, I'm Disney positive. I was Apple positive, but got over it in February. Don't hardly know anyone with CNN positive."
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by krallja 5y ago
Army didn’t think to inform ATC of what they were up to?
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by krallja 5y ago
> the current wave of intolerance comes from the left Banning Critical Race Theory, teaching kindergarteners about gay people, and removing certain books from school libraries are all being done by the far right, today, via legislative b
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by krallja 5y ago
I would agree with you, depending on the day of the week.
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by krallja 5y ago
“Bok-bok-bok-b’CAUSE,” one chicken said, when asked why it crossed the road.
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by krallja 5y ago
One very important concept of journalism is getting a fact “verified.” Often you need either an incredibly trusted source or multiple sources. The journalist should not have reported it. But their fact checker committed a grave error by all
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by krallja 5y ago
> ultraconservative investment vehicle Which pays less than 1% APR. Over six weeks. On a purchase of $271. Congratulations, you saved 31¢.
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by krallja 5y ago
Because that is fraud and you will go to prison.
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by krallja 5y ago
Have you tried talking to your manager?
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by krallja 5y ago
Rachel doesn’t. This was posted by ‘picture.
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by krallja 5y ago
Try EMPTY.BAT from CMD.COM, or EMPTY.PS1 from PowerShell. A zero-byte executable doesn’t work on macOS either. This article is about command shell behavior, not UI shell behavior.
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by krallja 5y ago
Big Mess O’ Wires has a Floppy Emu that can use SD cards to load floppy images, it works great.
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by krallja 5y ago
I’ve been watching this Youtube channel for a few months, and this is the first “breakout” video he’s had. Apparently a lot of people still remember Miniscribe, and use lots of negative adjectives to describe them!
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by krallja 5y ago
Y10K compliance. https://longnow.org/ideas/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-di...
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by krallja 5y ago
It depends on the state. Most of the ones that do exist are concerned with things like “do you have seat belts? are there rear view mirrors? do the turn signals work? is the check engine light on?” Classic/antique vehicles are also oft
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by krallja 5y ago
Read the LWN article. The problem isn’t PCs at all - it’s virtual machines, and embedded machines, that hang at startup, waiting for any entropy at all. Of course you could say the bug is in the hypervisor, or the embedded board designer, b
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by krallja 5y ago
I have found retro computing to be a good antidote to this. If you loved computers in the 80s, you’ll probably love coding for computers from the 80s with the benefit of source control and a real text editor for your assembly language progr
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by krallja 5y ago
> In the 1920s, improvements in vacuum tubes made this combination of Alexanderson alternator and magnetic amplifier obsolete. This left the magnetic amplifier to play only minor roles, such as for light dimmers in theaters.
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by krallja 5y ago
> Researchers soon constructed what was called core memory from dense grids of magnetic cores. And these technologists soon switched from using wound-metal cores to cores made from ferrite, a ceramic material containing iron oxide. By th
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by krallja 5y ago
> In the mid-1990s, the ATX standard for personal computers required a carefully regulated 3.3-volt power supply. It turned out that magnetic amplifiers were an inexpensive yet efficient way to control this voltage, making the mag amp a
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by krallja 5y ago
Long press > Not Interested.
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by krallja 5y ago
> 50tb? MoogleBook researchers have forgotten how to count that low! This links to a Youtube video, an explainer is at https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/10/30/5tb/
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by krallja 5y ago
I’m having a hard time getting into “Spoony Bards…” because it spends so much of the first couple chapters trash-talking the SNES in generic terms.
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by krallja 5y ago
Fallacy of the Inverse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent
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by krallja 5y ago
Side note, but this is a really great technology history site. I have already read the blog-style articles which created it, but I also ordered his book “The Switch,” and look forward to reading it this summer.
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by krallja 5y ago
Generally speaking, if you can smell it, it’s not good for you to inhale.
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by krallja 5y ago
New York City isn’t even the capital city of New York State.
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by krallja 5y ago
I was talking about the 68k, not the 6.8k, but that’s very exciting news to me! Love it when a vintage chip reenters production.
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by krallja 5y ago
It’s cold in the winter.

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