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by krallja 5y ago
German measles is more commonly called rubella
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by krallja 5y ago
Tamagotchi and (allegedly) Furby too
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by krallja 5y ago
Western Design Center (who still manufactures 65C02S’s) has a series of development boards based on the 6502: https://www.tindie.com/stores/wdc/ Of course, they’re way more expensive than an Arduino Mega, which is
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by krallja 5y ago
There’s also no way to set the horizontal position of sprites other than waiting for the scan line to reach the position you want and yelling “NOW!!!”
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by krallja 5y ago
NewEgg also has a 1GB DDR2 for under $10. It's just not immediately available like a supermarket checkout stand.
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by krallja 5y ago
I agree. I didn’t realize before we made the stop that there were still people living there. It felt gross for all the reasons you describe, plus the Salton air.
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by krallja 5y ago
FYI, there’s actually gravity on the Moon and Mars. We haven’t done studies to determine if it’s enough G for successful propagation of the species.
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by krallja 5y ago
I had my family stop by a few years ago because I had heard about it in a What-If? https://what-if.xkcd.com/152/ I wouldn't recommend it. The route we took was through a residential area. The neighbors did not see
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by krallja 5y ago
Thank you for sharing!
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by krallja 5y ago
The RCA 1802 used silicon-on-sapphire in its fabrication to make the (CMOS) microcontroller radiation-hardened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_on_sapphire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia
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by krallja 5y ago
I wonder if the rest of it is in Excel or Powerpoint?
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by krallja 5y ago
The new ones have rechargeable batteries, color screens, USB, and Python. So, only a decade out of date.
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by krallja 5y ago
This is from the discussion of “First new VAX in 30 years?” a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27765522
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by krallja 5y ago
Yeah, I watched the whole video straight through with my mouth wide open. What in the heck!
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by krallja 5y ago
https://www.cruxweld.com/blog/quality-weld-inspection/ TLDR: x-rays, ultrasonic testing, and liquid penetration tests
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by krallja 5y ago
Zachtronics games scratch this itch for me
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by krallja 5y ago
That’s the problem, isn’t it. The 2011 Turntable was free, but couldn’t monetize it, so it shut down. Commercial music needs to be paid for somehow.
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by krallja 5y ago
Agreed. Tim Berners-Lee bless the collectors and the archivists.
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by krallja 5y ago
Oddly, France got this way before the US, in the TI-83 Premium CE Edition Python in June 2019. Don’t let the name fool you - it’s the French equivalent of the TI-84 Plus CE in this article!
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by krallja 5y ago
The programmer’s key came with the original Macintosh, letting you hit NMI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_key
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by krallja 5y ago
Previously seen in “The NYC Subway System Runs on OS/2” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20181866
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by krallja 6y ago
It’s a press release, not a blog. It is designed to be quotable by newspapers verbatim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_release
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by krallja 6y ago
No, not in Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC. FMV for an entry level software engineer is at least 15% higher than that.
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by krallja 6y ago
Seems right
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by krallja 6y ago
what does this line of ForwardCom mean ``` uint64 r0 > >= 1 ``` If there were no space between > and >= it would be ordinary looking C-minus-semicolons.
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by krallja 6y ago
Joel Spolsky agrees: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/11/26/exploding-offer-se...
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by krallja 6y ago
Use geothermal heat pumps in cold climates.
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by krallja 6y ago
Quack was one of the built-in alert sounds for System 7
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by krallja 6y ago
Charging someone’s credit card 12 times a year has a definite cost. Having the funds ahead of time is also worth more than earning the funds one month at a time.
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by krallja 6y ago
There were through-hole ARM ICs, but they are no longer in production.

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