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by progre 3y ago
The wonderfull Cash-chip was embedded into Visa debit card issued by the bank. It also had "Valid in Sweden only" printed beside it, on an othervise internationally recognized debit-card. I know of at least one person who had to s
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by progre 3y ago
Thank you for the, uh... Warning.
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by progre 3y ago
Some beekeepers where I live put strips of rhubarb stalks in the hives to treat varoa. Not sure how effevtive it is though.
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by progre 3y ago
I think mine was called "MyKit 100", no Radio shack branding. There was a small booklet with circuits and connection lists, like 1-12-14 meaning that you where supposed to put wires between those connections. Absolutely no explena
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by progre 3y ago
I had one as well, but I recall a variable capacitor used for tuning.
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by progre 3y ago
For a pcb. No components.
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by progre 3y ago
It's more of a blog post explaining the thinking behind the change, right? Or, looking at it from the other side, most posts here are advertising in one way or another.
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by progre 3y ago
"299"
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by progre 3y ago
While I'm no fan of Uli's business practises, he does expose the fact that the uniqueness of a lot of gear is way overstated. And we havent seen actual innovation from the likes of Moog, Roland, Korg since the 90:ies maybe. So i
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by progre 3y ago
Yeah, Bobs cousin, Bill Moog
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by progre 3y ago
See also: https://grimeton.org/en/ An old military guy told me that Grimeton station was unofficially used to send messages to submerged subs well into the 1980:ies
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by progre 3y ago
The problem with markdown, as I understand it, is that it's not possible to correctly render without reading the entire document. I think the gemini format is attempting to make it possible to basically render the document line by line
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by progre 3y ago
Lots of people are saying that now
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by progre 3y ago
If the car is still a wire would be cheaper and more effective I think.
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by progre 3y ago
This is satire
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by progre 3y ago
Yeah, but humans do lots of stuff just for fun too. It was a serious question. I see this "probably ritual" a lot when reading about old things. I get the feeling that this comes from some older Hobbsian "brutish and short&qu
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by progre 3y ago
Howcome everything old we dig up get this "probably ritual use" stamp?
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by progre 4y ago
You'd need managment to really get what you are doing for that not to be career suicide. Because you will look like a slow ass developer, and since there is rarely problems you'd be mostly invisable. Compare that with devs or te
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by progre 4y ago
How are the developers supposed to debug things if they can't see the real data? Prod environments gets problems that never ever crops up in dev environments because the test data in those evironments are bounded by the developers imag
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by progre 4y ago
> 4. Pegular expressions Good one. PEGs feels like having a parsing superpower compared to regexes.
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by progre 4y ago
Sure you can, but last I tried (admitedly a good long while ago) the exe included everything except that fucking Visual Studio DLL that everything requires.
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by progre 4y ago
Italy are marketing themselves as "Cultural Superpower" since a few years. Having lots of UNESCO things plays in to that I guess? But apart from the marketing, Italy really has a lot of stuff worth protecting.
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by progre 4y ago
The shower curtain towel is genious.
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by progre 4y ago
>tightly knit to workers movement Most popular movements had/has their own study orgamisation. In rural Sweden it's just as likely to be Vuxenskolan, the study branch of the agrarian movement (Centern, 4H, hushållningssällskape
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by progre 4y ago
I think most people mean "don't roll yor own and use it in production " Writing your own crypto for fun should be encuraged.
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by progre 4y ago
I think we are still in the early days of software. No need to sit around in nostalgia, the software revolution is still happening.
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by progre 4y ago
I think its a pretty nice language. Those extra bits of syntax that makes it "not a lisp" are mostly around defining "not list" kind if data structures. I find it practical.
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by progre 4y ago
This thing is featured in the book Zero History by William Gibson https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_History
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by progre 4y ago
I work with Poles all the time. There definetly is a huge market for IT type work in Poland. Lots of contracting in the rest of Europe since Poles are still quite cheap but in the EU.
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by progre 4y ago
https://youtu.be/NUC2EQvdzmY

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