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https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/games-list-2023 Games written in ten lines of vintage BASIC. (Not related to the article but its title.)
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(OT, 2006) https://thedailywtf.com/articles/No,_We_Need_a_Neural_Networ...
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We are at an interesting point in computer history IMO. Microcontrollers are getting fast enough to keep up with most things happening inside the first (or first few) generations of personal computers. Before, you had to use FPGAs. Now, peo
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Inconvenient opinion in the adware-fueled tech world, but ad income isn't a stable or safe source of income, and it's likely they're feeling that, and therefore jacking up the price for the engine. The big tech companies them
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Here's a well-known one that is actually a full-blown circuit simulator: https://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html If you go to e.g. Circuits -> Combinatorial Logic -> Full adder, you can see that digit
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I sometimes search for stuff I've published on my own blog. For some reason, Google often doesn't deliver, but e.g. Duck Duck Go does. Example query: hitachi mb-h2 data recorder repair Expected result: pages from [my nickname].com
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I clicked about 75% of your links and they all had a large number of subs and views. No offense intended obviously, but modded down because it seems a bit off-topic. (I can unvote if you can edit your comment to exclude major YouTubers :p)
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Why are there so many somewhat toxic comments on this article?
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You can write under any name you want, depending on your intent. If your intent is to deceive, you probably can't. Here's an example of a literary forgery ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_forgery ) wher
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I injured my ACL by riding a bicycle over a slippery manhole cover, no car involved. ;)
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Maybe you're used to looking at B&W stuff and effortlessly figuring out what the scene is depicting, but for me at least it's very hard. Adding a little color makes it much easier. In that regard, it doesn't matter to me
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> lead free solder has been much more damaging for the environment because of all the e-waste it created. We're getting quite off-topic here (I guess I should have used different examples), but I would be interested where you got th
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The material containing lead is very unfortunate. I have no doubts that (if it indeed turns out to be a superconductor) humans will use it anyway in any context where it provides even a slight benefit (cf. just in the lead department: leade
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TIL about #embed. Awesomeness! And in hindsight, why didn't we get this earlier? :D
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I don't care either. They'll probably fix it at some point if they themselves get annoyed by this behavior. But TBH, very few people will be inconvenienced by this at the current time. I have exactly one C to C cable in my house,
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Power Delivery ("PD") requires chips inside the cable's connectors to work. The chips provide information on the cable's capabilities. No chip, then standard voltage, standard current only. Thunderbolt is 40 Gbit/s
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I don't read a lot of papers TBH, so YMMV. I liked the Meltdown & Spectre papers from https://meltdownattack.com/ . What did I like about these papers? The content I guess. :p Come to think of it, the accompanying w
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3.3V IO, boring. -3-
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Used it for the first time a couple months ago. * Plays original copies from your computer's DVD drive (which may be a bit slower to respond than original hardware though) * Plays Grandia III very well on my 2012 laptop (3rd-gen i5 and
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by qiqitori 3y ago
Two days late, but as there have been a few submissions about compilations of the blogs featured in the comments attached to this post, I guess I might as well throw in mine too. https://blog.qiqitori.com Mostly retro stuff, but
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I think inexperienced developers fall into the trap of implementing whatever they are told to, probably to show that they can. I think it's important that developers think about what they're being requested to do, and suggest alte
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Were you able to diagnose what's wrong with your ZX81? Usually it's a simple problem, it just takes a while to diagnose. BTW, if you do want to get rid of it at some point, it would be nice if you could sell it on ebay or locally.
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I'm somewhat acquainted with the German deposit system. While I don't know if littering decreased after it was implemented, I saw a lot of people leaving their bottles and cans in parks on purpose so bottle collectors can get them
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Here's my professional opinion. Why aside from Excel/Google Sheets? What's special about blood test results? If you don't quite know how to make spreadsheets do what you want, it's probably best to just learn that.
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> When her ancient iPad finally died, she tried to add the gmail account to her new replacement iPad. However, she couldn’t remember the password in order to login. There are of course no details on how exactly the iPad died, and it&#x27
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The RP2040's PIO is awesome. Here are two retro-related projects I did in the last ~year. You can capture video in a weird format with PIO on one core, and output it with PIO (in a standard format like VGA, or even DVI) on the other co
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Watching the video linked in his previous tweet ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIY5ZVktiGs ) I finally understood what the author was talking about. Are there a lot of people who use plugins with ChatGPT? Are there any int
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Repost from an earlier comment on a similar story from three months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34832544 This feels like a shameless plug, sorry. I sometimes do volunteer work at a (mostly personal) computer m
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Well, they got it wrong...
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> The five-mile stretch of energy-saving street lights saves 2,100 kWH per week, which would amount to approximately 21 hours of ironing, or four hours of watching TV on a plasma screen. Irons are rated at around 1 kW (and that's no

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