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by somat 2mo ago
Would they be different? They launched 16 days apart. I always assumed they were mostly the same core hardware. hm... rereading the wikipedia pages now...
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by somat 2mo ago
Remember the Mike Rowe Software incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MikeRoweSoft.com
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by somat 2mo ago
It is the other way around, When people want something they are willing to pay more for it. The manufacturer wants to sell to the person that will pay the most. While the person wants to buy from the manufacturer that charges the least. As
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by somat 2mo ago
I like to think that doom: the dark age is the quake 1 sequel we never got, I mean it has the doom name, probably for marketability reasons, but thematically it fits quake the first better, and it really fits if you include what quake was s
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by somat 2mo ago
See also: operation plowshare. The idea was you could use nuclear bombs to dig canals. Or make harbors. Or really any large scale earth moving project. The U.S. did one test shot, a shallow buried bomb intended as a cratering charge. https
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by somat 2mo ago
On mowing actual grass, I love thinking about the algorithm while mowing. Turning(the reduction thereof)is often the most important part. removing awkward corners for later passes is critical. The other is, if you are like me and don't
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by somat 2mo ago
That is my plan, I have (had, you have to let it go) an old account from when it was a just username, never bothered "updating" it to the email account, I tried to convert when Microsoft said they were dumping all the old accounts
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by somat 2mo ago
crude oil is also just organic solids. err... liquids.
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by somat 2mo ago
Salutes, I had just redone the firewall and forgot to check external access, Works for me herp derp. I guess everything is fine. sigh Should be up now.
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by somat 2mo ago
Mine is hard to get to(ip6 only) but was started around the idea of a shared postgres database. ssh applicant@register.public.outband.net The web page https://www.public.outband.net hosted on the same box, if you can see it you
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by somat 2mo ago
Running X open as a sort of shared network attached monitor is pretty fun, granted it is only really useful as a sort of large control room style display as all window operation have to run via cli tools. But it is neat for anyone to just b
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by somat 2mo ago
That was pretty great, Many times when someone does not like something they are unable to unable to articulate why. That video is a master class in how to critique a thing. I couldn't compose my way out of a wet bag, but I wonder if at
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by somat 2mo ago
As a child I made several crypto disks out of cardboard, draw a 3 inch circle, give it enough segments to fit your alphabet, 32 is easy and gives you room for the capitals and some punctuation, draw the letters twice on each segment inside
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by somat 2mo ago
On desktop,I use a NFS home dir to a freebsd(zfs) fileserver. But I have to admit, that is not so much concern about the filesystem quality as I want a good(backed up, raid) storage system, and rather than trying to build good storage on al
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by somat 2mo ago
Stamped steel has most of the properties cast iron has with regard to seasoning, the main difference is reduced heat retention. I prefer stamped steel, lighter, stronger, won't break. But it does turn cooking in it more like cooking in
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by somat 2mo ago
Pyrex was one of the great customer betrayals. Corning built the brand to promote a specific blend of glass with it's specific properties. Successfully enough that that blend, borosilcate glass became synonymous with the brand, Pyrex.
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by somat 2mo ago
I use obsd as a desktop system, I would not necessarily recommend this to anyone, you give up a lot, but obsd is my ultimate comfort system, it is small but full featured. I feel I understand the system far more than I ever did linux, which
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by somat 2mo ago
Yes, but the audio plugin ecosystem also insists on using rotating potentiometer like controls everywhere, these are fine when there is actually something physical to grab, but always feel awkward when trying to map it to a virtual control
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by somat 2mo ago
I never really "got" sim tower growing up, I liked sim city but bounced off tower. It only clicked years later when I read that it was an elevator simulator that got fleshed out a bit, Knowing this I enjoy it quite a bit more toda
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by somat 2mo ago
I vaguely remember some sort of stunt where they had got hold of two 3 meter dishes paired them with off the shelf wifi radios, mounted one on a pickup truck and drove out across a dry lake bed. 53 miles before signal loss is what I remembe
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by somat 2mo ago
Fair enough but they don't get hot, nearly any glue would work, Being plastic, I would use CA(superglue). After failure I like to do a postmortem teardown, it has never been the LED proper, usually it is the capacitor in a capacitance
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by somat 2mo ago
A page like this, with minimal styling, the whole point is the author does not care, the author expects the user's agent to style the document optimally for it's dimensions., the optimal in responsive design. this was the original
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by somat 2mo ago
REST is an inherently human technology, almost superfluous for API(emphasis on Programming Interface) usage. I guess it does not strictly have to be, especially with our modern LLM's But REST can best be summed up as "ship the hum
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by somat 2mo ago
The Samuel Vimes Boot theory of economic unfairness comes to mind. Oh wow, it has it's own wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
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by somat 3mo ago
Oh man, list comprehensions, that's me. I get inspired, caught up in the flow, write some eldritch horror of a LC. 30 seconds later "What in the name of saint Lovecraft does this even do?" (sighs) Rewrite as a loop. I mean, I
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by somat 3mo ago
Euphemisms are weird, what was originally intended as a way of saying a thing without actually saying that thing, becomes the unspeakable thing in the first place. and the original meaning fades. The one I like is why do we use birds to ref
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by somat 3mo ago
The first steam engines were vacuum engines, fill a cylinder full of steam and as it condenses it sucks the piston down, Watt's improvement and patent was on a separated condenser unit so you did not have to reheat the whole cylinder e
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by somat 3mo ago
Reading the constitutions of both states in order to pin down exactly where the problem is, the Wikipedia article is sort of vague. The Nevada document specifically references "thence in a North Westerly direction along the Eastern bou
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by somat 3mo ago
It is close, and if you consider Washington as a district there is a meridian exactly 77 degrees west somewhere in there. But I am here eyeballing maps and if the "Washington meridian" is considered the point of the capital it is
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by somat 3mo ago
My current favorite boundary dispute is between California and Nevada. California entered the union in 1850 and it's north-eastern boundary was defined a specific way(120 degrees west of Greenwich), Nevada entered 14 years later and it

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