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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
I certainly have an appreciation for a well crafted font. As a programmer I am super picky and opinionated about the font I use for coding. I can have a very visceral reaction to one font over another. (For instance, I require really good c
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
There’s an LED on them
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
G-15 is just the tint color (the gray/green). It’s not the material. I’m pretty sure that only way you’re getting glass lenses from Ray-Ban is if you get the high index prescription lenses.
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
With the 3 and newer you can boot from USB drives instead of SD cards. It’s a bit of a faff to set up but it works great. I had to do this when I was doing some long-running I/O intensive operations and it was basically killing the SD
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
I’ve owned many Pis through the years. Always for personal/hobby stuff, but they have been workhorses all the same. I ran a Pihole server on an ancient 1A for several years. It was considered underpowered but worked great. I’ve run Hom
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
I’ve seen a few 404 Media articles on here as of late and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the high quality of the content.
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
Yup, this. The Cure tried really hard to make ticket sales for their latest tour as fair as possible. “Verified fan” sales only, resales disallowed (except where required by law), not allowing dynamic “Platinum” (aka airline ticket) pricing
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
While getting tickets for The Cure was a shit show because of Ticketmaster, the fan to fan ticket exchange ended up being wonderful. I lucked into really great tickets at face value the day of the show, and I was able to resell my “still go
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
I clicked the link and the page was almost completely covered with this overlay: > Thanks for reading The Times. Create your free account or log in to continue reading. Without any further context, it was a funny juxtaposition.
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
There’s a lot here I agree with. I dread text entry on iOS and it never seems to get that much better. It seems in many ways to have regressed in iOS 17 as well with things like invisible/near zero contrast text selection, hit detectio
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
It’s pretty remarkable that they attempted to perform this live. Fairlight CMIs weren’t exactly renowned for their reliability. As legend has it, there were several mishaps during setup and the gear wasn’t working until minutes before the p
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
I’m a big PSB fan. Their subversive mix of clever lyrics, dark humor, and leftist politics under the veneer of highly commercial pop and dance music has long appealed to me. I’ve also been a long time visitor to this site. I can always cou
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
That was delightful. Reminds me of a Google Maps hack from back in the day that tracked Sir Mix-a-Lot’s trip through the Seattle area as documented in the song Posse on Broadway.
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
My Gmail account is the same way. I constantly get people using it as a throwaway email address for various dating sites, commerce sites, and porn sites. After enough annoying emails, I’ll typically change the account’s password or delete i
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
If you don’t have a full size spare, you generally always want to put it on the back. (Even if it means swapping tires around if you blew out a front tire.) You don’t want to compromise steering by putting it on the front wheel.
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
I’ve also been somewhat scarred by having a previous boss who was on the older side. He only became a manager because of an ego thing where he “didn’t want to report to someone half his age”. He ended up being a terrible manager and basical
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
Just for anybody that’s interested, here’s a ton of information about the G5 dev kits for the Xbox 360. https://www.xenonwiki.com/Alpha
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
Calling it the Xbox 3 would have been super confusing given it was the follow up to the original Xbox. 360 wasn’t a bad name — at least not compared to the One (which _was_ the 3rd Xbox iteration) and One X followed by the terrible Series S
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
I don’t do PowerPoint presentations often, but whenever I do this is basically what I do. Blank template, just enough text (in the default font), sparse animations/transitions (reserved only for slides when exposition is useful for cla
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
I’ve used quite a few hardware dev kits in my time. These early dev kits are prototypes —- released long before the hardware or industrial design is finalized. They are made in small batches, often by hand (with bodge wires everywhere), and
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
JetBrains makes damn good stuff. I do C# professionally and even though I use Visual Studio for the bulk of my work, it’s built in refactoring pales in comparison to what JB’s ReSharper provides. (Yes, VS has been catching up but it still h
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
Bing doesn’t do a lot of query filters properly. You can put a phrase in quotations and it’ll give you things that … aren’t that.
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
The stories were something I really liked and they were a great break from the monotony of the usual lessons and a nice diversion. With the latest updates, you don’t get a single story (at least in Japanese) until you’re like at level 37. T
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by logbiscuitswave 3y ago
I’ve been using Duolingo for Japanese and at the level I’m at it’s not even providing any more explanations. It’s just “here’s some phrases, remember them”. The now locked comments sections (which is where the real learning seems to happe
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
The battery isn’t typically charged by the PSU — it’s often just a regular lithium coin cell. It’s a backup for when it is unplugged so the clock doesn’t reset and CMOS settings aren’t lost.
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
I remember coveting a friend’s MT-32 setup, but when the GUS came out it was gold. It could do amazing wave-table synthesis in an affordable card. The first time I played Doom with the GUS-rendered soundtrack I was blown away at how great i
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
It was definitely worse on old hardware, and with the many old and unrefurbished computers that are likely inflicted with capacitor plague, you’re likely to blow something up if you power one up that’s been sitting idle in someone’s basemen
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
This picture from the Japanese IME article on Wikipedia is a pretty good demonstration on typical use: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IME_demonstratie_-_Mats...
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
There’s a stroke order but the rules are pretty easy to learn. Outside of calligraphy, nobody will likely care if you get the order wrong. There’s also shorthand ways to write kanji called ryakuji. Yeah, kanji can have lots of readings. The
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
This was a really great and well-explained article. For an article that went deep into hardware internals, it somehow made it all make perfect sense. Kudos to the writer. It’s pretty fascinating just how “dumb” the keyboard is and how keybo

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