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by myself248 7mo ago
And pickup trucks, for some reason.
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by myself248 7mo ago
Thank you! In the alcove on the right, I think I'm seeing 66-blocks, breaking out the phone lines that must be routed to each machine. Two blocks stacked, each with a fanout of wire on the right side.
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by myself248 7mo ago
My kingdom for a MicroSD card with Optane inside.
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by myself248 7mo ago
You know what they say. Man with one clock, always knows what time it is. Man with two clocks, never quite sure...
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by myself248 7mo ago
I've always been cautioned against ultrasonic cleaning of boards that have crystal oscillators, and indeed it's in most XO datasheets. I've also heard that one shouldn't trim the leads of a through-hole XO before solderi
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by myself248 7mo ago
Paper. Not even kidding. With any other media, you have to hope that the drives are still available. Paper routinely lasts hundreds of years and we all have readers built right in.
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by myself248 7mo ago
It's surprising that it can't be done programmatically, since "minimize the color difference above and below this super obvious line" seems like it should be a pretty straightforward success criterion.
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by myself248 7mo ago
Alternately, run OpenWRT on the APs themselves, and then you just need one provisioning protocol.
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by myself248 7mo ago
This is brilliant! The techniques remind me of a lot of my Toughbook modding, back in the day, which I did not document nearly enough. I still have the shell of a CF-17 that's just begging for new guts... but I'd have to aim for s
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by myself248 7mo ago
It's essentially random at any given moment. If I peek, mine will say it's running anywhere between 700MHz and 3.4GHz. Sometimes I think it goes even faster, but only if it's weirdly cold at the time.
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by myself248 7mo ago
Upgrading and Repairing PCs 4th edition even says directly, that some shady resellers will put a heatsink on a chip that they're running beyond spec, but that Intel designs all their processors to run at rated speed without one.
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by myself248 7mo ago
> in the early 90s. They were only powerful enough to control external equipment like synthesizers. Tell that to ScreamTracker!
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by myself248 7mo ago
> I could also speculate that the overlap between Linux kernel developers and automotive and industrial embedded systems is pretty low. Agreed. > So the high bug severity in the CAN driver could be developers contributing patches from
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by myself248 7mo ago
I think branding and reputation basically encapsulates all the build quality and support and stuff you mentioned. Non-technical consumers will see this, decide that it's probably better than a Chromebook, and be right. There's a c
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by myself248 8mo ago
Last time I went looking for LFL's, the map data quality was terrible. There's no way to flag a defunct location as defunct, since only the "owner" can edit their own entry. If they don't respond, it's a perman
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by myself248 8mo ago
The simulation needs an "Amazon factor" slider, which randomly makes: * All breadboard wires have some resistance * Some breadboard wires have very high resistance * Some breadboard wires have intermittent contact, recalculated ev
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by myself248 8mo ago
> I’ve been meaning to go through his old notebooks, as he took detailed notes on everything, to see if there is anything left from that era. Please do! Ephemera like that can tell more sides of the story that didn't make it into t
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by myself248 8mo ago
Podcasting distributed by NNTP would be so much more efficient than RSS and HTTP, too!
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by myself248 8mo ago
Right, but point is, assume the "backbone" never got fast enough to have a million subscribers all doing that at once. I remember a subscriber T1 costing 4 figures per month, and I don't think it's because the copper pai
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by myself248 8mo ago
And imagine if telecom had topped out around ISDN somewhere, with perhaps OC-3 (155Mbps) for the bleeding-fastest network core links. We'd probably get MP3 but not video to any great or compelling degree. Mostly-text web, perhaps more
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by myself248 8mo ago
I don't use Arch either, but both of those links show as visited in my browser! What a concentration of knowledge. It's not always my first click for a given problem, but it's often my last.
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by myself248 8mo ago
I download the Kiwix copy of the Arch wiki every year or two, as my offline source of linux knowledge in case I find myself offline for some reason.
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by myself248 8mo ago
As always, motivated minors will trivially bypass things. Only annoyed adults, who don't see the point in pursuing a bypass, will supply their actual ID, which is what will eventually get breached in the inevitable yet-another-breach.
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by myself248 8mo ago
Thankfully all factory networks are airgapped from the internet, so it's a non-issue! Right?
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by myself248 8mo ago
> being able to join many communities from a single login. That's one of the features I hate most about Discord, the difficulty of having separate identities in separate places! You can set a "display name" for convenience
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by myself248 8mo ago
Wait 'til you learn about avgas!
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by myself248 9mo ago
....it's available in the Western hemisphere now?! The page mentions Mexico! I've been wanting to play with Toosheh for YEARS since I first heard about it, but I understood that it was only carried on a bird in the mideast! When d
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by myself248 9mo ago
And simultaneously gimped the theft-alert use case. I embedded one into my labelmaker, which is a notoriously high-theft item on jobsites. I can still track it in case I leave it behind, which is great. But if someone steals it, they get an
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by myself248 9mo ago
Right? Nokias had the equivalent of today's "case" built right into the design of the unit, plenty of durable plastic around the vulnerable parts -- the phone would've been considered unfit for sale if it couldn't s
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by myself248 9mo ago
Define "residential connection". There is no such thing. A connection to the internet should be equal to any other connection to the internet, modulo BGP peering. Noone has a right to dictate what services I run or don't run,

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