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by squeedles 10mo ago
I believe that HD (and Lowes) massively subsidizes their delivery ops simply because they don't want to cede the space to Amazon. It allows them to under-stock the stores but still maintain a reasonable range of products. However ea
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by squeedles 11mo ago
Good article, but the reasoning is wrong. It isn't easy to make a simple interface in the same way that Pascal apologized for writing a long letter because he didn't have time to write a shorter one. Implementing the UI for one
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by squeedles 1y ago
I do this as well, but put in about an inch of water with a few drops of dish soap. Instant wasp kryptonite. I have a few extension tubes so I can just lean it up against the house and watch as they are sucked in coming in or out. It i
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by squeedles 1y ago
I happened to buy an Atari 800 at the peak of this and was amazed at the metal castings that surrounded everything. That little 6502 could survive small arms fire! That shielding was far beyond anything else at the time. And you make a g
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by squeedles 1y ago
Well, if it was that way, it certainly isn't any longer. They keep adding new alien races, storylines, and sectors of the galaxy, and some of my best ships were franken monsters with tech from a half dozen races. There is a core st
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by squeedles 1y ago
I played a ton of EV and EVO back in the day and still have them on a Basilisk II VM, but Endless Sky has really captured the spirit of EV (because everyone who made it also loved EV) and offered it up in a modern incarnation. https:/
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by squeedles 1y ago
Why is this in the least surprising? It's just the natural successor to what everyone used to do with the trade magazines thirty years ago. Back then you filled in a profile questionnaire to get a free subscription, so every baseme
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by squeedles 1y ago
Thanks for that. We seem to have lost sight of the importance of "commercial biodiversity" in the past 40 or more years of continuous M&A concentration. Happily, I saw a little discussion of it in 2008 when the advocates of
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by squeedles 1y ago
Seconded. Big fan of network optimization rail games like the Empire Builder series, but Mini Metro is just simple fun!
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by squeedles 1y ago
One week too late for me. Didn't feel like scratch building a new machine and finding a low TDP mobo with a bunch of SATA ports. Wanted to go Synology but dragged my feet for months watching this play out. In the meantime, I became en
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by squeedles 1y ago
That's exactly how periodicals worked for a hundred years. A letter to the editor that is published in the next edition. That's how I always mentally viewed blogs and expected most niche sites to eventually do that. In fact
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by squeedles 1y ago
Multiple nethack ascender here (~50x in 20yrs). I usually play in the traditional November tournament (originally devnull, now tnnt). Never set aside the time to learn any of the other roguelikes mentioned in the article, but wanted to me
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by squeedles 1y ago
Reminds me of xroach back in the day. First time I moved a window and they ran around I nearly plotzed.
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by squeedles 1y ago
Of course I cc one file quickie programs all the time. What I am talking about is a whole directory of source files, and just "knowing" which ones are out of date and building the object files manually. I still remember years ago
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by squeedles 1y ago
That's one of the reasons I loved Ansible from the moment I saw it. As the OP points out, traditionally machines accumulated ad-hoc changes over a long period of time. Describing the "known good" state and running this &q
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by squeedles 1y ago
Never MUDed, but November (and now June) are my nethack months going back about two decades. Actually started playing about fifteen years prior to that (hack on SunOS 4 machines) but didn’t get good for a while.
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by squeedles 1y ago
They turned it around by not being GE anymore. The stock trading as "GE" now is just GE aircraft engines, aka "GE Aerospace". The healthcare stuff went to "GE Healthcare" (GEHC) and power systems went to &
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by squeedles 1y ago
Thanks for the history! Been driving past that plant for almost 40 years going back and forth across the state. I was surprised when the article opened with what it said was the worlds first transistor radio, because I always thought that
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by squeedles 1y ago
As an engineer I always had just blamed nebulous “MBAs” as the reason we can’t have nice things, but the Gelles book makes a very strong case that it was Welch specifically that changed the rules of engagement to what they are now and follo
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by squeedles 1y ago
Recently read The Man Who Broke Capitalism by David Gelles which is an excellent review of the Welch years, how he worked, and how he sent his minions out across the corporate world to wreak havoc. Wonderful read and really provides perspec
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by squeedles 1y ago
Been doing engineering software since late 80's and this article hit me in the feels. I always wondered what the obsession with Harvard Graphics was in the early versions of PP. Now I understand. Never had to ship software on 9-tra
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by squeedles 1y ago
Alas, thought the original article was going to have some juicy details about the vector hardware. But since it was a survey of games inspired by the original, I feel compelled to mention "Maelstrom" by Ambrosia. For my money, t
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by squeedles 1y ago
It's a MAME cabinet, with an all purpose set of controls.
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by squeedles 1y ago
Google has reached out to Nextcloud and offered to restore the permission. Wonder if the decision was motivated by the technical arguments or if the antitrust trial and various mentions in the press were a persuading factor.
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by squeedles 1y ago
You are of course correct. The game is neither S100 or Multibus, but a similar cage. And I was misremembering the Sun2 as 68020 when it was actually just a 68010 -- which I could have verified if I only looked at the picture that I post
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by squeedles 1y ago
Wow! Great deep dive! I haven’t seen S100 boards in the wild since we retired our rack mounted 1980s Sun 2 decades ago (also 68020-based)
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by squeedles 1y ago
Quite so, and I think he does address that, but those are all second level factors, along with activity level, exercise, and their effect on your caloric requirements. He puts together a bunch of excel spreadsheets for tracking many facto
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by squeedles 1y ago
As this article shows, there are incredibly complex feedback mechanisms around weight and metabolism, but thermodynamics are still fundamentally a thing. After he died last year, I ran across this engineering and accounting approach to weig
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by squeedles 1y ago
I'm wondering about Wednesday April 15, 1840 -- "Much flatulence" Sometimes history provides too much information to future generations.
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by squeedles 2y ago
Just decided to do it one day. Had done some utility sewing (bags, pillows, odds and ends) since I was little so knew how to at least thread a machine and straight stitch. As mentioned in a previous comment, shirts mostly have the same b

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