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by readingnews 2y ago
Clicked the link without looking (shame on me), did not realize X/twitter/whatever was trying to disable the back button. People still do that? Wow. It really makes me wonder how people think about "free" services, proba
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While I agree with: >> Fools and their money, etc etc And certainly Mc is not what it used to be (the MC-1700 receiver for example, was great)... you are slamming an "empty box" unfairly. It has: - A light, well, ok, pre
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by readingnews 2y ago
How things change... I recall having a subscription (had one of those friends who always seemed to know what was coming out right before it came out) right when they started publishing, what was that, 1994? It was so cool. I just viewed the
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by readingnews 2y ago
That is not as easy as it looks. My granparents had a number of tops like that (not German, but same style you threw it with a string)... none of the kids could get them to work, and (comically) none of the adults could get them to work eit
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by readingnews 2y ago
I ran a company building electronic devices, so I had a lot of parts (LCR, transformers, chassis, screws, wires, connectors, misc) What types of storage do you use? I used to use those plastic bins that you see a lot of. I sorted
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by readingnews 2y ago
Looks cool. if you are interested in analogue sounds and synths and like to make your own, this website is a good place to start. https://musicfromouterspace.com You can buy kits there which are similar to OP. I have not purchas
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by readingnews 2y ago
I am no astrophysicist, but he notes: “Hi everyone, my name is Daniel, and I’m an astrophysics professor at UCLA. I’m only being paid $70,000 for this academic year,” McKeown says in the video. McKeown, listed as a lecturer on U
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by readingnews 2y ago
ACM, come on, stop spreading disinformation. You know well and good nothing travels at the speed of light down the wire or fiber. We have converters on the end, and in fact in glass it is the speed of light divided by the refractive index o
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by readingnews 2y ago
Honestly, not making this up, I have no idea how any of you have time to read. Last few books I read (non-{technical,programming,electronics}) were in college. Perhaps a few for fun, mostly for class. I work all day, when I am done with wor
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by readingnews 2y ago
Actual research into this area is needed for us, but I am always left wondering, why are we not doing research into what packaging is better for us? Are glass bottles OK, or does the coloring leech out? I am guessing clay pots were fine for
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by readingnews 2y ago
≥≥ Unlike other countries in the US you can call yourself an engineer as a job description without any restrictions, so far too many people have taken on that job description, even if it does not make any sense. This is one of my pet peeves
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All of your examples could be negated, I will just do one as an example: Apple did not spend 20+ years developing the smart phone thinking "I hope this research pays off". The same for the rest of your examples. Bell Labs, OTOH, w
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You will not "recreate" it, as everything now is short term shareholder profit/dividend driven. As others and the article notes, they held the long view on innovation. We could really use a large number of bell labs today. It
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by readingnews 2y ago
Wow, how much fun times my friends and I had with Glider. We probably could not possibly thank you enough for making something that caused us to spend so much time together. If only I had more rubber bands...
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by readingnews 2y ago
So many dead links... so many links going to AOL or CNN or domain-squatters. Heck a lot of links on the first page are empty. On the flip side, like so many others here, I had a friend who went overboard with his. Automatic reloading syste
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by readingnews 2y ago
I still have a roll of punch tape, I think for a PDP11, that says "Lunar Lander" on it, and I have no idea who to give it to.
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IMHO, the real problem is that there is zero value to go to bby. The sales teams are either not to be found, or know nothing. Checking out is a nightmare of "where is anyone to check me out?" and the place looks like a dump (the t
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It is nice, but it looks like it was filmed with a flip phone camera. Try this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rryu85BtALM
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Right? Is that a thing? I see a fair number of articles like this. "Check out this awesome piece of history. I took a picture with my Motorola V300 with 0.3MP camera circa 2004, reduced it using shareware of questionable quality from V
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by readingnews 2y ago
Perhaps we can just: ln -s .plan ~/public_html/now/index.html Sure, we can run it through some template or use awk, but what the heck.
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I am still baffled at how I can not use a VOIP number to register, even if it accepts TXT/SMS. If I have a snappy new startup and we go all in VOIP, I guess we can not use (or pay to use) OpenAI?
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by readingnews 2y ago
He was also a regular guest on the Woodwrights Shop with Roy Underhill, and both of their hand plane collections are quite nice.
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>> and you have to deal with medical doctors, who assume that a terminal professional degree conferring upon them a title they appropriated from academia means they are experts in all fields. Dang, I do not like Doctors as much as the
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Does the Verge even proofread? In a linked article ( https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/9/24152987/apple-crush-ad-pi... ) they claim: >> Watching a piano, which if maintained can last for something like
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Replace woodworking with "any hobby you want to pursue". I find that a lot of people go to work thinking they enjoy it, and wake up later and realize it is just "work". This leads them to go off and figure out what they
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by readingnews 2y ago
I admire your bravery of posting to something like HN for people to pick at it (there are always positives and negatives)... Personally, I think there are a number of hard questions to answer surrounding fact checking, it might be wise to g
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by readingnews 2y ago
Every time I see these I always think of my roll of punch tape that has "Lunar Lander" written on it that I can not possibly use as I have no access to a DEC. Should the title read "earliest known Digital video game"? I
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by readingnews 2y ago
I find this very interesting, as my path is nearly identical, with the added note (like some other replies) that I just can not stand 60s-70s rock any longer... but I find my musical interests are much wider, and I am listening to more new
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by readingnews 3y ago
I am having a tough time... I am a systems administrator who also has experience teaching and coding, but I am looking at systems admins / engineering positions only. I consider myself highly experienced in Linux / Unix. A few yea
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Of all the things on the list, the third item RJ45 Join Adapters Is one that has saved me (and others I work for) so many times. How many times have I been in some building/area without my network tool bag with two male RJ45s

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