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by krallja 5y ago
Nicole.express is one of the few blogs I check daily. It’s very fun to learn more about RGB graphics, JAMMA edge connectors, and 80s Japanese business blunders from a connoisseur.
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by krallja 5y ago
With an eZ80 and color screen, it’s much more like a feature phone without a SIM card than a pure calculator.
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by krallja 5y ago
They’ve been charged with conspiring to launder, not stealing, the $4B+ in bitcoin.
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by krallja 5y ago
Actually, it’s the shareholders, who have to bear the costs of these expensive lawsuits from the parents of these irresponsible children! Won’t anyone think of the shareholders?
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by krallja 5y ago
I hope your address bus is three nonads wide (3^3 bits = 128MiB address space). It would be thematically even better if you used ternary logic, but I’m not sure that FPGA can handle more than two voltage levels.
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by krallja 5y ago
FogBugz calculated “daily task” times based on the site’s time zone. If this was set to a timeline like Chile, the daily tasks processor would crash in a loop, until the next day, which did have a 00:00:00. This caused horrible alerts to pl
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by krallja 5y ago
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... is two years older
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by krallja 5y ago
One of the sure-fire signals of a startup getting old and successful is when the IT department declares a standardized account name template for new hires like firstinitial.lastname(.optional_number). So far I’ve only worked at places where
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by krallja 5y ago
On iOS it shares: Nine Letter Word #5 29 seconds 0 hints
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by krallja 5y ago
It’s at the top, now.
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by krallja 5y ago
“beats” in the sense of “the beatings will continue until morale improves,” right?
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by krallja 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronomicon but written by the authors of C
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by krallja 5y ago
I hope it’s a lot! Vaccines are literal superpowers. You give your body a tiny injection from a vial, and BAM suddenly you’re invulnerable* to attack!* * partially * from one specific family of microorganism
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by krallja 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_in_video_games#Histor...
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by krallja 5y ago
- F9 to enter setup - 4 to switch to Local mode - Shift+S to save setup - F9 to exit setup - Type something. Say hello! - Ctrl+H for backspace, Ctrl+J for a linefeed, Ctrl+N or Enter for a newline Also, the "VT100 connected to an IBM P
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by krallja 5y ago
I was trying to figure out which Commodore products the 6509 was used in.
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by krallja 5y ago
It wouldn’t work on a genuine Hayes modem - those would only listen for commands if there was a pause, +++, another pause, and then the AT command. Hayes’ patent was actually on the pause itself (in-band signaling was already well-known), s
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by krallja 5y ago
TIL. Thanks.
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by krallja 5y ago
Github can point the PR at that branch and those commits won’t show up anymore.
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by krallja 5y ago
Japanese family names go first. e.g., GRAHAM Paul.
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by krallja 5y ago
Nintendo partnered with Ricoh to put a Z80 in the NES, like Coleco and Sega, but Ricoh didn’t have the license to produce Z80s and didn’t think they would be able to reverse engineer it quickly enough. But they did have a reverse-engineered
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by krallja 5y ago
> doctors and lawyers only have to get the license once Doctors have to recredential over their whole career. Used to be every ten years, but some specialties are moving to annual “quiz-sized” credentialing over once-a-decade cramfests.
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by krallja 5y ago
Ctrl+Cmd+Space brings up an emoji picker on macOS, you don’t have to paste anything
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by krallja 5y ago
How do you know what to search for if you don’t tail the logs first?
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by krallja 5y ago
Excitement has a $52 gas fee.
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by krallja 5y ago
Yes, eventually. CO2 is referred to as a “well-mixed greenhouse gas” because its concentration is relatively stable across the entire surface of the earth. https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/blog_held/6-transient-response-to-...
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by krallja 5y ago
Air moves.
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by krallja 5y ago
When the PhD is conferred.
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by krallja 5y ago
Elementary school :-\
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by krallja 5y ago
Reminds me of Reverse-emulating the NES (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17214269 OT, but Youtube managed to cram 5 ads into this 11-minute video. We are way back into the sad decline of CATV.

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