schlauerfox

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by schlauerfox 7mo ago
Yes, but it's doxxing to post a callsign with a US license. Hello!
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by schlauerfox 7mo ago
https://www.bls.gov/k12/teachers/posters/pdf/how-bls-collect... This says statistics, i've seen unsourced articles saying that they pull Unemployment Insurance numbers as part of it which are part o
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by schlauerfox 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput... Specifically he claimed he owned the copyright on a photo he didn't directly take. PETA weighed in trying to say the monkey owned the copyright.
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by schlauerfox 7mo ago
I'm ignorant of most C64 stuff being an Atari kid, but I did find this pretty impressive (it's a cheat) with seemingly 9 sprites at once. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4twUyt-MY
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by schlauerfox 7mo ago
Hopefully.
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by schlauerfox 8mo ago
Not that you are casting shade, but to clarify in defense of a former professor of mine who worked on the FPGA avionics at Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the helicopter was designed for 5 test flights, and completed 72 before the rotor dam
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by schlauerfox 8mo ago
Here is a gift to you, I found this on the Internet Archive. it's a cassette dramataziation of Asteroids and Yar's Revenge. I'm not sure how many other people on earth would care fellow Atari-knower, but it's a wonderful
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by schlauerfox 8mo ago
"Free" in English has more than one meaning. this has led to an attempt to be more clear by using 'libre' or 'gratis' loanwords to differentiate (see libreoffice, liberachat), but this isn't universally ac
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by schlauerfox 9mo ago
Smoke Emitting Choke?
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by schlauerfox 9mo ago
I really enjoyed this game when I played it at Ground Kontrol in 2015 and Two-Bit Circus in 2019(?). Neat data project. I'm kinda surprised they don't add something like Stern Insider app or swipe cards to it, but it's very 8
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by schlauerfox 9mo ago
Sounds simpler than this thing https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...
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by schlauerfox 9mo ago
You are not correct according to Reuters. "The new schedule also recommends U.S. children receive a single dose of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, rather than a two-dose course. Recent studies have concluded that a single dose is n
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by schlauerfox 9mo ago
Another reference, first hand account, for the later SEGA perspective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_Wars_(book)
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by schlauerfox 9mo ago
This apparently is something that came about after the Atari days where games were social activities in bars and home console advertising features boys and girls. When the NES came out, it was marketed in the US as a toy so had to mold itse
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by schlauerfox 10mo ago
I was in hollywood, california last night and saw a waymo come to a weird 5 way intersection, stop past the limit line on a red light in or past the crosswalk at the right turn lane and go into it's sign active attract mode. I think th
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by schlauerfox 10mo ago
Pirate button: "Ask me about LOOM" You mean the latest masterpiece of fantasy storytelling from Lucasfilms™ Brian Moriarty™? Why it's an extraordinary adventure with an interface of magic, stunning high-resolution, 3D landsca
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by schlauerfox 10mo ago
It seems like if there is an obvious misuse of a tool, one has a moral imperative to restrict use of the tool.
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by schlauerfox 10mo ago
This is on purpose, the industry was forged by someone explicitly trying to get rich off of a public resource. https://podcasts.apple.com/mz/podcast/part-one-robert-maxwel...
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by schlauerfox 10mo ago
The Emoji ones top and bottom or the animated banner?
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by schlauerfox 10mo ago
There is an explosion of decompilation projects spawning new ports, but was there something that enabled better decompilations? I see it across many retro games.
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by schlauerfox 10mo ago
I had a couple senior FPGA classes with a JPL engineer who had worked on F-Prime, it was awesome to see the project and learn embedded from it. I think he suffered layoffs shortly thereafter when JPL did a big RIF. I'm grateful they pu
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by schlauerfox 10mo ago
It's so strange when it obviously hits a preprogrammed non-answer in these models, how can one ever trust them when there is a babysitter that interferes in an actual answer. I suppose that asking it what version it is isn't a val
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by schlauerfox 11mo ago
Mine had the machines, then ripped them out, over the cost to them the regional bank they deal with imposed and other excuses. Coinstar (some) gift card is the only no-fee I've found in my area, but then you're stuck with a gift c
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by schlauerfox 11mo ago
I love a good puzzle solving club. Some of my favorites: https://www.themastertheorem.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplex_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindTrap
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by schlauerfox 11mo ago
Landfills more likely, they'll tear down the malls and leave bare land, the plastic from all that consumption will last forever?
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by schlauerfox 11mo ago
The glow was done in-camera with a prism, the reflective tape was retroreflective so the light source would go into the prism, bounce off the quartz reflector material and into the camera lens, hence the dust coming off the sticks and the l
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
According to a Steve Jobs interview, it was VisiCalc driving Apple II sales that set them apart from competitors.
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
I'm fortunate to live in Los Angeles where we have KCRW and KCSN. Matt Pinfield is back on the air and of course Nick Harcourt was previously of Morning Becomes Ecclectic. Music discovery is enriched by these public radio stations, I h
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
Vinegar Syndrome is on film base/stocks that are cellulose acetate, they break down into acetic acid. Films after that period are estar base which is polyethylene terephthalate and very stable for archival. In fact if it jams a film pr
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
Bought a used iPhone 7 for a specific project requiring a supported OS (iOS15) and having a hardware security module and the phone worked fine for that but Microsoft Authenticator refused to install below iOS 16 for no obvious reason.

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