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by schlauerfox 1y ago
US has a curling team too. I wish the US had better olympics television coverage, but it's become mini athlete docs, a little of US performances and it robs us. There's this too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
That makes more sense in light of what came about, a massive industry wage suppression scheme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
Or maybe those just got better at hiding?
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
Microcontrollers and PLC are historically different fields that have some overlap as the fields converge somewhat. PLC come from relay logic and so learning Ladder Logic and playing with a cheaper Automation Direct PLC might be good if you&
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
"The Landlord" is a short comedy masterpiece. He's so much better restrained as a straight man/foil than a lead clown. Zoolander, Anchorman.
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
I live in America so 'moral rights' aren't a thing, but in europe it appears to give artist/creators rights over how their work is portrayed. How our legacy is carried forward of our own likeness or our work is a moral q
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
We used to install the server-side exchange connector on windows small business server. It was an involved process to get working, but pretty reliable. Also interesting is some comments from former RIM employee, turned woodworking youtuber
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
in the 80s AVG built a robotic Andy Warhol but he was enthused about it. Abraham lincoln is an American icon. Not sure someone who still has family in living memory is the same category despite being a sort of icon for a big corporation and
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
I know most productions now run so tight they rent their stuff, so once the edit is done and shipped most of the raw footage is all purged. No outtakes or extra footage exist. Actors prefer this for their image, studios will not pay to stor
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
I really enjoyed the original Valve's Portal BBS you could dial into Aperture Science and read on the history. The writers at Valve really wrote some great silly backstory about a shower curtain company developing quantum portals, as s
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
and today that doesn't even cover a top end GPU.
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
Unless you're very wealthy, chasing the AAA game peak performance on PC is becoming unattainable. You can easily get an Intel Arc B580 card for ~300 to play at 1440p regular settings, but to take advantage of the highest quality at NVI
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
I was so much more comfortable when I realized it's just Pascal's wager, and just as absurd.
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
There was a time that printed checks had to use special laser toner called MICR Toner that was magnetic so the magneto readers could machine read the check bottoms routing and account numbers, but that went away when the Fed just ran it all
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
CGP Grey, a youtube channel, has a video on some of the problems of the postal codes and addresses from earlier this year that I learned about alternates to my familiar US based system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K5oDt
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
That's a crime the Valley Relics Museum couldn't get the Spaceship. It has done a really great job saving what can be saved of Los Angeles San Fernando Valley history. If you're ever near the Van Nuys airport check it out. Fr
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
Depends on the kind of certificate you need.
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by schlauerfox 1y ago
Some of my favorites are the purile humor of FrankJavCee and the Simpsonwave excellence of DANKMUS.
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by schlauerfox 2y ago
There's also a bot account on mastodon replacing garfield word bubbles with song lyrics. sometimes it's pretty substantial.
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by schlauerfox 2y ago
I'm going to put this here in case I'm right someday: Chia Permuto.
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"he’d forgotten to write the bootstrap loader" He didn't load the whole program from the switches on the face, just the bootstrap that would let them feed the paper tape through the teletype/paper tape reader that was co
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by schlauerfox 2y ago
AI generated article maybe based on the X press release post? Most AI is based on out of date training data.
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by schlauerfox 2y ago
I met Billy Mitchell briefly in 2015 at the now defunct Museum of Pinball in Banning, CA. He was promoting the world record for most people playing pinball simultaneously we participated in. I asked him about his depiction in the documentar
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by schlauerfox 2y ago
Pretty sure that is misleading, i'm no tax lawyer but gift rules only apply to friends and family. Buskers have to report income from performing, waitstaff have to report voluntary tips given to them and while there's probably no
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by schlauerfox 2y ago
If the end user wants to accept bitcoin, they will publish an address one can directly transfer to. It is peer-to-peer, so no need for a service.
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by schlauerfox 2y ago
If you want to go the other way and bring your old Mac to the internet, there is FujiNet. Also if you do have an old Mac, remove those old batteries, they leak destroying the motherboard.
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by schlauerfox 2y ago
Reddit is heavily astroturfed and product placed.
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I was at the SCaLE22x linux expo in Pasadena last week and there was a company Replit that has a tool where you type the website you like and it was pretty decent. They said someone came by and in a prompt alone created a GPDR compliant coo
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by schlauerfox 2y ago
I found an old link to my GeoCities page in an old bookmarks.html, but it wasn't included in the archive.
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Yeah, I leaned from an old "Bruno Furst" memory course, but it's fairly widespread to use the same system, because you can create visual mental pictures from combinations of the sounds into a word dictionary that links to num

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