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Pet Keys – Series 2001 Edition(masswerk.at)
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I remember the glitch well. And I did wonder why they wouldn't fix it. (Is there a story behind this?)
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It's somewhat hard to believe that this (forming lumps and adding membranes) does not affect the material properties as building material, especially, where various flavors of concrete are all about the grade of the cement. (Concrete i
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But, how and why do you jump from what is to all assumptions an interesting surface material to building structures? Also, most capacitors are phono-sensitive, meaning they react to contraction and tension and all kind of vibrations, which
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I guess, this would fail fail on any material properties we use cement for in various flavors of concrete in the first place. Also, the building material is concrete, not cement. Cement is just one ingredient. (It's kind of sad that a
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To illustrate the difference, the Ahlener Programm , the first political program of Germany's conservative party (CDU) after the war in 1947, originally stated: > The capitalist economic system has not done justice to the national
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Well as a classic example, you could debate "the unemployment rate is going down – is it good or bad?" (well, the Phillips curve…) and ask with Horkheimer/Adorno, if the entire notion of discussing this in terms of a relative
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That premise is open to debate, there are Western countries with different systems. E.g., most Western European countries have a system called "social market economy" (which is not [exactly] capitalism).
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In fact, this is what psychoanalysis and the notion of the unconscious (as opposed to "subconscious processes" ) was all about. (And it's also, where the "talking cure" found its leverage.)
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I mean, if done right – there are dedicated sciences for this –, it's a panel with two samples. To me, the notion of an A/B test is all about tossing the scientific basics over board, in order to get a rough estimate, which we wil
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> I can understand why engineers are predisposed to see instantaneous A/B statistics as self-evidently positive This is the crucial misunderstanding: in actuality, you are running a panel. (There is no such thing as an A/B test
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> We could have three states… "With the advent of mass-produced binary components for computers, ternary computers have diminished in significance. However, Donald Knuth argues that they will be brought back into development in the
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by masswerk 3y ago
For me on FF 115.0.2 (64-bit), the "how it looks like" pane was stuck, and only revealed on mouse-over what is instantly visible on Safari Desktop. On reload, the same state is still visible for a short period, before it's re
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This is a bit of a spin, though. There are huge concerns regarding non-disclosed NSA cooperations, circumventing parliamentary oversight, as well, e.g., on the side of the Neos cited in the article. (This is actually the major vector.) Conc
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During the Cold War, even information that we would now think of as open source intelligence, like newspaper and magazine articles, was valid SIGINT. The closer you came to the dividing line between the blocks, the more probable it was to f
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Legally, spying in Austria is only illegal when Austria itself is concerned. (Technically, there is no damage done to the public good in espionage against a third party. As Austria is technically/officially without allies, there are al
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by masswerk 3y ago
Even in the worst of cases, these were popular machines and you can buy one at ebay.jp about anytime. It probably becomes much more of a problem with hardware closer in time. E.g., it's a 486 machine, the network is probably ARCNET, be
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Back then, it was an important aspect of ads that they were self-contained, pleasing stories. They sold products by becoming a cultural reference. Also, the rather abstract, but still charming scene (the girl walking by the chairs, and wand
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Apparently by Handy (Jam) Organization (ca. 1967). Compare: https://www.panix.com/~footage/titles.html Also, yes, the forgotten art of editing and layout by photocopy…
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What I really meant was that it depends on the context. Imagine a family gathered around the TV set, with some rather conventional (as in "boring") series or the multiple hours long Saturday evening show. Where – in the absence of
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For a TV intermission ad just perfect. (On the other hand, nowadays, some YT ads feel much longer.)
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It's actually bi-quinary. Inside the ALU, numbers are represented by two fields: an odd/even field with two dedicated signals for odd and even, and a field of 5 quinary "Q#" signals for 0/1, 2/3, 4/5, 6&#x
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I came to say about the same. The IBM 1401 was really the next after punch card appliances and specifications owed much to those. On the Bull Gamma 3: http://www.feb-patrimoine.com/english/gamma_3.htm The Register had
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I think, it's a bit difficult to name a particular origin like HyperScript. The idea has been around for a long time. It's actually close to the core of what JS is all about. I personally remember writing a small library for gener
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Here are some more detailed images (mind the clear key caps with inlays): https://www.retromobe.com/2019/10/sharp-mz-80k-1979.html The keys can be a bit "squeaky", though, and, at times, I find the curso
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I guess, it may be difficult to find a suitable machine targeting mid-sized manufacturers with small production runs, nowadays. A replacement and retraining everybody involved and re-editing the data may just no be worth the investment, as
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Arguably, 8-bit BASIC is type-safe, as well. :-)
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The Z80 and most of the 47xx logic chips are still manufactured, though. (Small RAM and ROM chips may become a problem, in the near future.)
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Yes, there was also a later version of the MZ-80, the MZ-80C, which featured a more conventional keyboard. But, I think, the original one is quite beautiful (while, admittedly, not that usable) and it reminds of a time, when it wasn't
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Also, it's really unfair to the ransomeware folks! They need to make a living, too!

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