pontifk8r

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First Human Victim of H5N5(komonews.com)
16 points by pontifk8r 11mo ago|1 comments
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by pontifk8r 11mo ago
I got MP/M working on the softcard back in the day. Never really had an application for it though.
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by pontifk8r 1y ago
I really enjoyed S.L. Sanger’s book “Hanford and the Bomb: An oral history of World War II” - but it’s out of print now and used ones? Sheesh!
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by pontifk8r 2y ago
Make your own with padding cement. Put the stack of bills in a vice and coat one edge a few times with the cement. I did this for a nephew as a unique gift. Some people being paid with these are suspicious.
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by pontifk8r 2y ago
Not in the last four. Switzerland & UK, two years ago.
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by pontifk8r 2y ago
As a US person who has, You need to experience euro train travel. The whole experience, from booking using an app to waiting for a train. You’ll find the apps are good, the schedule information accurate and up to date. The apps don’t do stu
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by pontifk8r 2y ago
After my daughter went through two laptops in high school (1st: "I closed a pen in it and broke the hinge" 2nd: "Dad! Someone ELSE knocked it off my desk") I found an ex-state-police toughbook, it even had a carrying han
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by pontifk8r 2y ago
anyone implement the game of life on this yet, for a particular line length?
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by pontifk8r 3y ago
How many kids do you have, dad engineer?
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by pontifk8r 3y ago
Seems like they could use something like GammaPix from https://www.imageinsightinc.com/ with their existing drone's CCD camera to estimate radiation levels.
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Intentional beach glass == bad, unintentional == good?(boston.com)
3 points by pontifk8r 3y ago|0 comments
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General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker(cpldcpu.wordpress.com)
237 points by pontifk8r 3y ago|182 comments
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Vermont Attorney General's dog sniffs out electronic storage devices(vtdigger.org)
49 points by pontifk8r 3y ago|59 comments
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by pontifk8r 3y ago
I think I recall Alice and Bob also being mentioned along side Louis Reasoner in SICP problem sets in ‘81 or ‘82… (Edit) well, according to Wikipedia, the cast of characters for SICP doesn’t include Alice and Bob. In those years the book di
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by pontifk8r 3y ago
Deleo's Autobody was down there near the Good News Garage, that guy was ALSO a character, and Mr. Deleo had a very distinctive voice. I was hoping that one day they'd have him on to answer autobody questions. Had my '72 Plymo
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by pontifk8r 4y ago
Cover letters. “Respond to requirements with qualifications and specific examples”
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VT Spends $5M on Statewide Accounting Software for Schools: “Full of Glitches”(vtdigger.org)
2 points by pontifk8r 4y ago|0 comments
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by pontifk8r 4y ago
Our expectations have also changed over the years. Despite the perception of a downward spiral in quality, cars have, in general, become much better. Remember when fuel injection was exotic (well, you probably don't). My first car, a 1
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by pontifk8r 4y ago
I believe Patrick Winston used to say this... (actually, "It's only AI until we know how to do it.")
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by pontifk8r 4y ago
Thirty+ years ago was a time of big changes. There were a bunch of companies competing for the "supermicro" and workstation business, both in hardware, and software. If you wrote that kind of software, you might have done it in C.
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by pontifk8r 4y ago
This commercial product uses the CBRS frequency allocations, which they (and others) point out is already built into commercially available devices, like iPhones. Is there not an OpenBTRS or Open Air Interface way of utilizing CBRS?
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by pontifk8r 4y ago
child: "When will Daddy be home?" parent: "Any minute now..." child: "I choose THIS minute!!!!"
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by pontifk8r 5y ago
Pretty sure that's not what happened. Gabe had a different view of how PCs would become a bigger part of entertainment (this is in the 90's, when watching video on PCs was heresy!), starting with PCs in the living room. He tried t
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by pontifk8r 5y ago
Try this modern take: https://youtu.be/-F-IHvF5OCA BTW The series is totally worth watching.
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by pontifk8r 5y ago
Seems like you should have been fully vested from any original grants by now. So, 8 year vesting, plus the low salary? Hope you are learning things that will position you for success in your next role.
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by pontifk8r 5y ago
We all need a special version of this document we can bring to health care provider visits, something to the effect that they agree to inform of and get consent for any products or services that are Not covered by insurance BEFORE they are
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by pontifk8r 5y ago
Here's the SC126 single board computer with CP/M in ROM (flash). https://www.tindie.com/products/tindiescx/sc126-z180-sbc-mot... with a Z180 running at over 18 MHz. Much faster than any Dynabyte, Norths
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by pontifk8r 5y ago
Computed GOTOs in C are just pointer arithmetic and casts.
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by pontifk8r 5y ago
I'm correcting you: Unless he makes less than $40,000 in salary, the capital gains tax rates are going to be lower than the tax rate for ordinary income. The chart in this article reveals more: https://www.investopedia.com&#
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by pontifk8r 6y ago
When tearing down some of this technology, there's almost an undercurrent "how this works is a mystery today" -- but the humans that still worked on some of these micro-marvels are probably still alive. Have you had success i

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