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by salgernon 4y ago
See Also, "The Truth"[1] by Terry Pratchett pp144 "'Yeah, King of the Golden River,' said the dwarf." Pratchett's character employs people to collect the "night water" - they get paid for collect
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by salgernon 4y ago
It doesn't work anymore - but for a while you could ask Siri (also via Stanford) "do you know shrdlu" (you'd have to type it into the correction box) and it would respond with something to the effect: "Wasn't S
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by salgernon 4y ago
Clarus dates from the 24bit address space era, and we lost that a long time ago. But she transcends.
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by salgernon 4y ago
From the fiction side, Walter Miller's 1959 _A Canticle for Leibowitz_ [1] was written from the perspective of Benedictine Monks preserving knowledge - without truly understanding it - post apocalypse. In _Earth Abides_[2] by George R.
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by salgernon 4y ago
I don’t know why I keep coming back to this - maybe because he reminds me of people in my life that have had similar problems. He was 75 when he was first cited, not 83. He was given a chance to mitigate the code violation and he refused, w
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by salgernon 4y ago
Because there was presumably no or minimal fine for violating this civil ordinance, should he have complied with mitigating the violation. There are then penalties for continuing the violation. So should the state have just given up? At wh
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by salgernon 4y ago
The part where when he was cited 8 years ago and told that the fine was $250/day for non compliance. It’s about 90k per year.
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by salgernon 4y ago
This being a court case it was pretty easy to locate the property and neighborhood - houses there are 750k to 1M. He could’ve settled this 7 years ago, since the majority of the fine was a $250 per day non-compliance fine.
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by salgernon 4y ago
I keep seeing comments to the effect that this poor duffer was just fixing his car - but that is disingenuous. If he fixed these things they wouldn’t be there. This is simply a case of an obstinate hoarder complaining about being called out
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by salgernon 4y ago
There’s some interesting reading from the creator of a Mac Floppy emulator on sourcing the obscure (DB19) connector it uses - and his setting out I do a new production run. This [1] is kind of in the middle of the thread - but still interes
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by salgernon 4y ago
>> then removed the grip fin and modified the magazine to accept 30 rounds. What an oddly specific comment.
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by salgernon 4y ago
There is a phone app, I think it was called “MeowTalk” that purported to machine learn cats vocalizations. With two of our younger (4yo sibling tabby) cats it seemed to “translate” their infrequent meows as “I love you” “I want to play”, so
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by salgernon 4y ago
I was #12386 at sun - circa 1990 but I don’t remember the exact date. The day I showed up I was given a cardboard box of VME boards with a sun 4/400 chassis, an Ethernet drop and and a SunOS tape and and left to myself to make it work.
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by salgernon 4y ago
What if the piano had a piece of tamper tape and the landlord saw it the next time he was doing work for the tenant. The students thought it was fishy, but there was no time line associated. (Or for that matter, the tenant may have gotten
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by salgernon 4y ago
Mitsubishi (and others) in the 80s,90s had 4 wheel steering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steering#Four-wheel_steering https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/a1871191/four-wheel-steering-demys
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by salgernon 5y ago
MIG for mach
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Smash Martians(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by salgernon 5y ago|0 comments
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AppleScript (2006) [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)
69 points by salgernon 5y ago|50 comments
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Underground Submarine Base of Balaklava (2011)(englishrussia.com)
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ZEK: Take Roam-Like Notes in a Line Editor, Written in Zig(github.com)
21 points by salgernon 5y ago|1 comments
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WKRP Song List(docs.google.com)
2 points by salgernon 5y ago|0 comments
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by salgernon 5y ago
plugh
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by salgernon 5y ago
In the 90s, Berkeley Systems sold a screen saver package that included a module called “Mondrian” - but were sued by his estate and had to change the name.
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by salgernon 5y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, both of you! (If not more by now.) Obvious in hindsight and no snark on being corrected. I'd honestly forgotten the -19 nomenclature. So, I guess I was right to be in a panic about making my flight after
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by salgernon 5y ago
I was terribly frustrated by the google results for "covid test to fly domestic". The "hoisted" response was: "Get tested at least 5 days after your last close contact and make sure your test result is negative
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by salgernon 5y ago
I grew up with analog televisions - there was no latency and it was very forgiving of atmospheric noise. When I first got Tivo, I thought the latency made it unusable (until I realized that I was no longer flipping channels, but rather nav
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Technology Simply Explained(github.com)
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Infocom – BBC Micro Live 1985(youtube.com)
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Create 3 Educational Robot(edu.irobot.com)
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An open hardware, extensible 65c02 based computer(planck6502.com)
5 points by salgernon 5y ago|0 comments

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