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by krallja 5y ago
Machining (specifically, lathing) is an even earlier example of improving precision feedback loops. See “Machine Thinking” on Youtube, very well produced and entertaining.
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by krallja 5y ago
I love taking on-call over the holidays, because with nobody deploying anything, there’s a much lower risk of being paged!
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by krallja 5y ago
Oops, yeah, you’re absolutely right.
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by krallja 5y ago
The data on a page are the results of running a function on the inputs of that page, not connecting to a database or anything. view(coins = coins_with_prefix(query.page_num)) so, the site operator doesn’t need to go buy 2^256 bytes of hard
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by krallja 5y ago
They also make a fully discrete kit: https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/652
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by krallja 5y ago
Providing Java for free (no matter whether open or closed-source) was a big strategic blunder for Sun: it commoditized CPU architectures by providing an abstraction layer over them. Write once, run anywhere! The problem was, Intel chips wer
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by krallja 5y ago
DRY
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by krallja 5y ago
I’m amazed the PDP docs didn’t have the corresponding octal included in the assembly listing!
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by krallja 5y ago
I have a BlueSCSI for booting my Macintosh SE. It boots in seconds, which was definitely not the case when I had 20MB of spinning rust. Also, Finder in System 6.0.8 supports 2GB volumes just fine — but shows it as “59,592K in disk 2,0
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by krallja 5y ago
I bought a new TV about the time this article came out. I think I’ve watched maybe a dozen shows on it via the tuner. Every single other thing has been either optical media, gaming, or streaming. The replacement I bought this year will prob
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by krallja 5y ago
Some of my highly recommended uncommon subscriptions: Cathode Ray Dude (really obscure 90s tech nostalgia) Techmoan (obscure old tech nostalgia) Jeremy Fielding (engineering) Hand Tool Rescue (antique restoration) Machine Thinking (history
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by krallja 5y ago
Yes, but all I remember being taught about the fourth valve was that it was “the same” as playing the first and third, but with better temperament. So you can play a C with it, or even a B if you also press the second valve.
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by krallja 5y ago
I played tuba for six years in middle school and high school, which has the same valve fingerings as a trumpet. I don’t think anybody ever explained your first sentence to me. Was I supposed to just figure it out myself? My music theory was
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by krallja 5y ago
Or the Zilog Dual Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter.
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by krallja 5y ago
Either way the salmon don’t survive the process
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by krallja 5y ago
They’re both 16-bit processors, but other than that appear unrelated. I like my Udamonic Scamp 3, but I was a little disappointed when I finally realized I could accomplish basically the same thing by putting FlashFORTH on a $3 Arduino Nano
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by krallja 5y ago
> Now, imagine if the State of Massachusetts had defunded its libraries and banned anyone from sending books behind prison walls—that remarkable evolution might never have occurred, and the world would have lost one of its most important
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by krallja 5y ago
The current transaction fee is about $2.19. Nobody can use Bitcoins for microtransactions because the fees are worse than credit card networks, PayPal, etc.
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by krallja 5y ago
Who is padding their CVs? The ... regulators?
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by krallja 5y ago
Not a hypothetical: https://pagesix.com/2021/10/11/amazons-jeff-bezos-has-date-n...
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by krallja 5y ago
Youtuber Usagi Electric is one person who is building a vacuum tube computer. Ben Eater has a kit and Youtube series to build an 8-bit breadboard computer from common TTL IC chips.
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by krallja 5y ago
What, exactly, is the enforcement mechanism of NFT? Do they come with a military or police force to do violence against those who disagree with your Internet Claim Check?
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by krallja 5y ago
There are now cheap backlight+better LCD mods for the GBC, though. Backlight LCD >>>> ambient light LCD.
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by krallja 5y ago
And he doesn’t swear, so you can show it to curious kids without worrying about expanding their vocabulary in ways you didn’t intend.
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by krallja 5y ago
An orbit must travel through the last point of impulse: in this case, a few meters above the ground. That’s why they need a second stage.
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by krallja 5y ago
F = ma. For a constant mass, 10g is essentially the acceleration.
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by krallja 5y ago
It’s not the electronics, it’s the fuel tanks that need to endure the highest forces.
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by krallja 5y ago
I’m certain AOL had a Mac client in the 1990s, but I’m not sure when the first Mac AIM was released. This exploit wouldn’t work on the Mac version, because Macs at the time were 68000 and PowerPC-based, so it seems quite short-sighted to de
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by krallja 5y ago
How many war ships does Tuvalu own or operate?
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by krallja 5y ago
NandGame? https://nandgame.com/

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