picofarad

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   by picofarad 5mo ago

   I think the point was that the five-year-old will get bored of the documentary, so it's not merely the phone that's addictive, it's the content that the apps have on them.
2. 152.▲
   by picofarad 5mo ago

   I wonder if minidisc can be used as a tape drive on a c64... ATRAC doesn't mess with audio fidelity much at all, and c64 tape bitrate has to be real low, right?
3. 153.▲
   by picofarad 5mo ago

   CenturyLink started on somebody's porch. The original party line was tied together with barbed wire fencing between farms. I also run a PBX. and a PBX behind a VPN firewall.
4. 154.▲
   by picofarad 5mo ago

   You do raise a valid point. 30 years ago was 1996. So, a Nintendo 64 would be overkill, but a Super Nintendo would be fine, right? And a palm pilot would be overkill, but something like a Texas Instruments TI49/A would be fine, right?
5. 155.▲
   by picofarad 5mo ago

   distcc-pump And, I forget what the toolchain setup is called, but on gentoo its literally just `emerge -1av <toolchain-thing> distcc` on machine with beef and just `emerge -1 distcc` on athlon... I found out how to do it consistently
6. 156.▲
   by picofarad 5mo ago

   I'm not a new Hacker News user. I just had surgery and I don't feel like getting up and looking up my password. I've always heard that learning ANSI BASIC or any basic, Q basic, Microsoft basic, any of them, first; usually le