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by sbaiddn 4y ago
:D I was on my phone. Seriously though, I never tried HN. Should work.
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Depends why you want the machine. I doubt you want to re-live 90s TV editing, so all that stuff is out. Full machines with graphics are expensive. Luckily I got my fuel for $200 back in '09. I scored a V12 from a broken machine at the
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
You know, there's an after-market upgrade to 700 Mhz (and 4 Mb cache?) for lower speced O2 without using expensive SGI parts. Kinda hacky, but it seems to work. If you google it you'll see what it is. I dont have an O2 so I dont r
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
IRIX 6.5.30. I have a bunch of software that runs on it that I prefer to modern equivalents.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
When Im done I might put an entry on sgi forums. Ill post a link on HN. Just use the O2 as a very powerful "dumb" terminal that keeps you from wasting your time. Its a great little machine.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Im slowly making my 500 MHz 4 Gb SGI fuel my main workstation. I added a sata card to replace the spinning rust, and a gigabit ethernet. Swapping out the fans and the PSU to silence it and Im throwing my Ryzen workstation into my closet. Wh
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
I think they're running the emulator on a primitive machine to get needed instructions that are otherwise unavailable?
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"Because a religious group in North Carolina did that, the power station powering the town with a drag show got shot up, " [arrest report needed]
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Thanks, but its not that bad. I just wrote it all down in case it helps someone else in the future. Many parents I know have it much worse than us, including a couple whose kid is facing 20 years in jail. Merry Christmas!
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
I wasn't going to write it now because it's Christmas Eve; but I have a moment to type this. Back story: My wife and I are super old school when it comes to food. Organic as much as possible, processed very little. We spend a lot
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Edit - Replied to the wrong comment
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My 13 month old son is allergic to everything. Eggs, diary, tree nuts, lots of fruits including avocados. Obviously peas and peanuts. I don't need rules that encourage adding allergens to foods that previously "contained traces&q
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
By law a lot of motorcycle controls are standardized both to ensure sane controls (think suicide clutch) as well as standardization (1 down 4 up). Riding a motorcycle involves all four of your limbs having a dedicated control (left arm clut
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Pretty long. Itd take 120 years for relative prices to double, compared to 7 years doubling at 10% inflation. Also, 0.6% is probably noise or error
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
15-20 includes externalities (or politically caused delays) that are difficult to price. Building a nuke and running it while piling the waste in the parking lot runs at less than 10 cents/kWh. Probably less than 8 cents.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Honest question: why does this matter to you? The vaccine doesn't stop transmission, that's widely acknowledged now, and can't establish herd immunity (unless you plan to vaccinate deer). It doesn't affect you at all so
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
TL/DR Lasers are pretty inefficient. How much energy did it take to make 2.05 MJ of lased light? Does this breakthrough have a reasonable path to to make more electrical energy than it puts in?
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That means that I have to go there to drop it off and wait Im line to get served. If I print the label myself I can just leave it in a box in the store without waiting in line, or better yet, give it to the delivery man next time he comes a
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Ya but the bigger the bridge the better the monitoring. I used to use one that fell daily, but its not a bridge your average Yinzer crosses even on a yearly basis. It just doesn't really go anywhere except a couple thousand homes. The
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
"There is an interesting epilogue to this story. When Heisenberg derived the uncertainty relations several years later, he used the resolving power of the microscope to derive the uncertainty relations" Loved this part. They are p
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"Thats just your opinion man!" Ugh. The triteness is the worse part.
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Let me guess. A university or a museum. It's.. not pretty. A wannabe portico that is more reminiscent of a jail hallway. Its lined with buttock crushing benches to "rest". As you (necessarily briefly) sit on this bench, at no
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Its a wrought steel truss in the shape of a basic geometric construction. Impressive for 19th century civil engineering. Perhaps. Perhaps not. Compare that to Notre Dame. Also really very tall, but with no iron skeleton, no continuum mechan
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Right.
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World war 1 was the suicide of Europe.
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I never bought into the "eye of the beholder" on aesthetics. I might not understand a particular aesthetic. It might be impossible to formulate logical rules to decide what is beautiful. But beauty is objective, nonetheless. Be it
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Which is a monstrosity.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Depends on the SUV. A Ford expedition, and other full size SUVs most certainly were not descendants of station wagons, but of covered full size trucks. Love my wagons, btw. Id love to have a subtle sport wagon.
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Ironically, given battery availability as the limiting factor in EV adoption, you are far better off for CO2 emission using the one big battery in an EV to power dozens (or more!) hybrids!
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Wow. What decay from the excellence of a country that once picked presidents from the Poincare family.

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