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by rootbear 5y ago
For me it's the displays. Old laptops had terrible TN panels and are painful to look at today. It makes them near useless even for basic web browsing.
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by rootbear 5y ago
I had the same thought. It takes time for even a fast charger to "top up" an electric car, so taking a half hour or more for lunch seems natural. They might even serve tea...
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by rootbear 5y ago
I believe that's how the MGR window system, from Bellcore, worked. I fiddled around with it briefly on an old Sun Workstation many years back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManaGeR
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by rootbear 5y ago
This chart is awesome. I agree about understanding the theory. My best friend is Hungarian and I could not get the 'gy' sound in his name (Gyuri) right until I read up on just how it's articulated. I read up on Finnish before
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by rootbear 5y ago
The raw cost of Alecensa is around $18,000/month, if I recall correctly. Medicare covers all but $800 of that, once the copays are spent.
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by rootbear 5y ago
My sister (age 67) was diagnosed with exactly this a year ago, except she's stage 4. She's on Alecensa (alectinib) and is doing well, all things considered. Her left lung doesn't work very well, but she's dealing with it
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by rootbear 5y ago
I still have a verizon.net email address (managed by AOL) that I use exclusively for sites that are likely to spam me. The torrent of political email I got at that address before the last election was amazing to behold.
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by rootbear 5y ago
I've wanted to do something similar to your project of having a sensing unit in each room, or at least each level, of my townhouse. What do you use as the "presence" sensor? PIR?
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by rootbear 5y ago
The music is a strange, interesting riff on the Aquarium movement of Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals , not the usual Apple modern pop stuff.
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by rootbear 5y ago
I personally think there's a lot of room for improvements that would work in nearly all English dialects. The "ough" mess, for example, could stand some clean up. But in general, yes, there is too much variation in English ar
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by rootbear 5y ago
Since William Gibson coined the term in Neuromancer, it has become a common, if ill-defined, word for some sort of portable computing device, especially in a cyberpunk context.
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by rootbear 5y ago
I'm a big fan of Adafruit and the Pi, and I recently bought one of these "CyberDeck" add ons, but I'm annoyed that Adafruit chose to appropriate a generic term, cyberdeck, as the product name. This happens all the time,
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by rootbear 6y ago
We used to speak of a great Unix systems programmer as someone who could write device drivers with cat and have them compile and run the first time.
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by rootbear 6y ago
I never had any of the classic 8-bit home computers. I built a CP/M system from an Ampro Little Board, connected to the Heathkit H19 terminal I put together. The downside of that was little commercial software, but I mostly used it for
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by rootbear 6y ago
I've downloaded the Geroch paper and will give it a look, although it's probably over my head. My college physics classes were a long time ago. I nevertheless remain dubious that unrestricted causality violations are possible, but
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by rootbear 6y ago
This is the problem I have with most discussions of a practical Alcubierre style warp drive. They generally don't address the causality violations that are inherent in ANY form of FTL travel. But if it could be useful as an efficient s
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by rootbear 6y ago
The original series was a bit fuzzy on just what role the matter-antimatter engines (and dilithium crystals) played in making warp drive possible. From the Next Generation era onward, the idea was basically that a matter-antimatter engine w
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by rootbear 6y ago
Space qualified processors are very expensive to develop and produce. They are optimized for use in space and manufactured on an entirely different process than commercial chips. All of this is to ensure reliability in the harsh environment
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by rootbear 6y ago
Agree on nested functions. Gcc has them as an extension but the last time I looked, clang did not. A pity.
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by rootbear 6y ago
I think this is part of what's behind the surge of interest in retrocomputing. As you say, those old 8-bit systems could be understood in their entirety by a single person. I know it's part of what has drawn me into the world of A
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by rootbear 6y ago
I know the feeling!
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by rootbear 6y ago
Scion was in Reston, Virginia, but Chuck was a professor at the University of Maryland as well. He eventually quit UMD to work at Scion full time. He's the reason I got the job, he was one of my UMD profs. The MicroAngelo was easy to p
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by rootbear 6y ago
My first job out of college was at Scion Corporation, who made the MicroAngelo S-100 graphics boards. I did Z80 programming for the firmware. They were nice boards but very expensive so I never got one for myself. The company nearly died wh
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by rootbear 6y ago
More than CAD work. I'm a little out of the loop these days, but as of a few years ago, Nvidia cards were greatly preferred for all 3D work, including animation packages such as Maya. The Nouveau drivers just don't cut it for that
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by rootbear 6y ago
I am reminded of the entertaining DEF CON talk I watched a while back with the awesome title, "Adventures In Smart Buttplug Penetration Testing."
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by rootbear 6y ago
Our CS department newsletter once had cartoons featuring snakes illustrating both adders and half-adders, the latter being the victim of an ax.
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by rootbear 6y ago
From some long-ago SIGGRAPH presentations, I recall it as "Physically Based Rendering Toolkit".
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by rootbear 6y ago
I agree. I had the earlier HP 95LX and loved it. The 100LX and 200LX were definite improvements and I sometimes regret not having upgraded.
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by rootbear 6y ago
I'm wondering how KITT feels about this. Did he and the Hoff have a spat, so Hoff is dumping him? So many questions...
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by rootbear 6y ago
Interesting suggestion, thanks. I live in the Washington, DC, area and NIH is right here, so...

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