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by pan69 5y ago
Same here! Hearing that coming out of a pc speaker was mesmerizing. Our M24 broke down at some point. My dad took it away to get repaired and just left it there, he said "it couldn't be fixed, they said" :( Another game that
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by pan69 5y ago
The Commander X16 isn't "fake retro", it actually IS retro. Retro literally means "imitative of a style or fashion from the recent past". Real old computers and technology, like the Atari 2600 you mentioned, is &quo
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by pan69 5y ago
The first PC we had in our home was an Olivetti M24, an 8086 running at 8Mhz. This was around 1987 (I think). Then I got my own 286 (also Olivetti) so naturally I have an affinity with early PC's. In the past two years I rebuild, from
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by pan69 5y ago
You might still have to live on that hill because you might not be able to afford anything else. Entire countries are in situations like that, take e.g. Bangladesh: https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/bangladesh-country-underw
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by pan69 5y ago
I think they are talking about digitally recording as in motion capture. That probably doesn't happen for a lot of movies he's in.
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by pan69 5y ago
When the voting system is that binary, yes.
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by pan69 5y ago
I've started using Restclient, a VS Code plugin [1]. It allows me to easily add test scripts/requests to my normal GitHub workflow and share them with team mates. [1] https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclie
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by pan69 5y ago
> ...as a teenager, I caused the death of a friend and that accident has marked my life. I had largely blocked it out until this mission in Thailand. Whoo. This guy must have gone through so much mental stress during this time.
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by pan69 5y ago
Then you upload it somewhere else and share that.
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by pan69 5y ago
I assume you work 5 days a week? Can you not go to 4 days a week and spend 1 day working on your side project full time until it has enough merit? If you do, make your day a Wednesday, not a Friday, otherwise it just becomes part of the wee
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by pan69 5y ago
Table of Contents? I have no relation with this site but when I see "toc" I think that.
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by pan69 5y ago
> If not for the threat of China... The military industrial complex will always have a bogeyman ready.
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by pan69 5y ago
Very interesting. I'm just learning about VGA. On the oscilloscope, I assume the front and back porch is clearly visible on the left and right hand side. What's the fuzzy bit on the left, just before the picture starts? Edit: and
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by pan69 5y ago
I loved listening to the Stack Overflow podcast with Jeff and Joel. It was kinda crazy that they were doing a podcast like that while they (Jeff mostly) were building it and coming up with the name, etc. Still have all the mp3's somewh
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by pan69 5y ago
> There is a core group annointed by someone legendary who doesn't really participate much, a senate of old guard who run things in the background, some quirky legacies who are tolerated but marginal, a few social queen bee types wh
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by pan69 5y ago
> Between May 1964 and the summer of 1969, the Plain of Jars was heavily bombed by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) (see Secret War) operating against North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao communist forces.[6] The USAF dropped more bombs on Laos, pri
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by pan69 5y ago
I used to record programs of radio for my C64. We had a radio station that had a computer show and would broadcast software. :) Edit: The software that was broadcasted was usually made by listeners or shareware. I.e. it was not illegal soft
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by pan69 5y ago
I agree with you. Sometimes things break, such is life. What I don't fully understand is that when people choose to outsource a critical part of their infrastructure and then complain when it happens to be down for a bit. It was a trad
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by pan69 6y ago
I do these walks on weekends. Doing 25k steps usually takes me a little over 3 hours (3 and ~20 mins). I walk the exact same route each time. When I work in the office, on such day I usually do about 10k step. I wish I had the time to walk
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by pan69 6y ago
I don't think this has anything to do with the treatment of IT folks. It has more to do with the time frame validity of certificates. If your certificate expires every month you will have a system or process in place to deal with that
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by pan69 6y ago
This is exactly the reason I'm using Fastmail. I can BYO my own domain.
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by pan69 6y ago
> Nuclear energy is the Amiga of energy sources. > Ahead of its time, it was unjustly rejected and persecuted by the ignorant masses. There is a documentary by Adam Curtis that basically describes this scenario (except for the Amiga p
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First ever 3D animation (40 year old 3D computer graphics pixar 1972) [video](youtube.com)
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by pan69 6y ago
Time-box it = Same amount of work in less time
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by pan69 6y ago
An SQL query walks into a bar, goes up to two tables and says; do you mind if I join you?
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by pan69 6y ago
If I remember correctly, Eclipse used to have (still has I guess) a feature were it would store code changes in a local history independent from your version control.
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by pan69 6y ago
For those who are interested in buying a genuine IBM Model M, there's a website for that: https://www.clickykeyboards.com/
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by pan69 6y ago
So, looking through this website, why are the pictures so minuscule? Are they not trying to advertise their product? Kinda weird. And what about the weirdly designed numlock/caps area in the top right hand side on most of these keyboar
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by pan69 6y ago
> My guess is that, he wants to promote his favorites and he wants me to leave on my own. Do you want to be promoted? If so, if you can not address this issue with your boss in a professional manner, why should you be promoted? To me it
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by pan69 6y ago
Source code isn't worthless, it's just not as important as the developers who wrote it because those developers can write a next, much better version, of the same software with the domain knowledge they have acquired writing the p

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