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by krallja 3y ago
Absolutely!
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by krallja 3y ago
The Gameboy is not a Z80, it's a separate 8080-descendant sibling. The NES had zero modification to the 6502 core, except that the binary-coded decimal flag was hardcoded to always be off (to avoid infringing on the one patent that MOS
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by krallja 3y ago
Western Design Center (Bill Mensch's firm) still offers physical 6502/65816 and supporting chips, too: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Western-Design-Center-W... (Most of his money is made in licensing t
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by krallja 3y ago
Ace Hardware’s POS didn’t work with _any_ NFC EMV cards for a while, not just Apple Pay / Apple Card.
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by krallja 3y ago
Nothing, what’s matter with you?
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by krallja 3y ago
Even light will eventually be absorbed by some surface and become heat.
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by krallja 3y ago
My portable induction stove runs its fan for a minute after I shut off the coil.
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by krallja 3y ago
Consider your deaths as penance for not automating construction.
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by krallja 3y ago
If the federal government set the tax, the states and cities wouldn’t get any of it.
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by krallja 3y ago
A big flat screen. Indianapolis had both curved (Children's Museum) and flat (Indiana State Museum) IMAX theaters for a while, but the Children's Museum got rid of theirs and put a dinosaur exhibit in the old dome.
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by krallja 3y ago
Or, as has happened more times than I can count, someone picks up and then the line goes dead?
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by krallja 3y ago
If you like to push buttons, I have tried these 2 options: 1, Kim Uno: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/kim-uno-get-or... - it is basically an Arduino emulating all the hardware of the KIM-1. Battery-power
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by krallja 3y ago
A few jobs ago, we didn't bother with a separate CI server, for exactly this reason. We just had the output of the local test run appended to our commit messages.
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by krallja 3y ago
They're like $100… aren't they?
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by krallja 3y ago
Apple made compatibility cards, and even made The Power Macintosh 6100/66 DOS Compatible - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UclHrIIaYA
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by krallja 3y ago
Yes, Trello was spun out from Fog Creek in 2014 and acquired by Atlassian three years later.
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by krallja 3y ago
Michael finally left Atlassian last year. Based on the Trello sale I have to imagine he was there mostly for fun not money.
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by krallja 3y ago
What about Cockfosters?
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by krallja 3y ago
The punchline, I suppose, is that we did switch from MSSQL to Mogile and, eventually, S3. But we still had the code to sometimes store attachments in the DB because that’s how we shipped complete backups to customers!
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by krallja 3y ago
No, I killed Wasabi https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9777829 FogBugz and Kiln were acquired by a private equity firm five years ago.
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by krallja 3y ago
We still had about a dozen developers combined on FogBugz+Kiln at the very end. The plug-in API was very bad for performance and security, especially in a multitenant cloud application. That led a team to experimentally reimplement the enti
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by krallja 3y ago
I was at the strategic offsite where we decided to go with .NET. Java wasn’t installed on Windows by default. The original version of Wasabi, known as Thistle, was written in Java, by the intern in the class before Aardvark’d. It transpiled
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by krallja 4y ago
My favorite "arduino-apocalypse" is CollapseOS: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=collapseos
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The Soggy-1000 turns a page(leadedsolder.com)
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by krallja 4y ago
Haha, love it. Sure, you're losing a few percentage points of efficiency, but not THAT much, as long as you're within a couple dozen degrees latitude of the equator (COS(X) ≈ X for small values of X). And if you're far from t
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by krallja 4y ago
The cost of the panels is already such a small fraction of residential install cost. My panels were definitely under a buck a watt (maybe 15% of the total cost). The installation cost (i.e. paying for a team of a dozen guys to dangle in har
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by krallja 4y ago
You put the lightning inside by using a mystical combination of poisons (dopants) and engravings (rubylith).
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by krallja 4y ago
Good grief, talk to your account rep.
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by krallja 4y ago
> you can't even take your customer's CC info to another merchant account Blatant FUD. https://support.stripe.com/questions/export-customer-card-da...
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by krallja 4y ago
Only 50 years away!

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