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by ssl-3 1mo ago
I've been a consumer of electronic goods for several decades, I have returned many things to stores, I've installed televisions professionally, and I've had one or more missuses. Is there any merit to pinning me down on this
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
"Trivial" to me means looking up the FCC ID of the device and seeing what kinds of RF emissions it is supposed to radiate. Or, still trivial (but more expensive): Point a spectrum analyzer at it and see what kinds of RF emissions
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
> If I take the time to bring back to life a more period correct system with an actual IDE floppy drive would it read the disks more accurately? It's worth noting that floppy drives (with rare exceptions like the LS-120) do not usua
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
You win. Whatever game you're playing, you're the victor. Congratulations!
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
Yeah, that sounds great. It does not match reality. It's trivial to find modern televisions that don't follow VESA's mounting hole patterns.
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
archive.org is astoundingly great AFAICT, but we don't have any way to know what the intention of the anonymous funds-multiplying donor might be.
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
The cost of returning the thing to the store can be high. The packaging can be precarious; what was once stapled cardboard is now taped, what was once a neat and rigid rectangle is now kind of floppy and misshapen and getting worse every ti
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
It was an old (circa 1890, ish), 2-story industrial building made from concrete. The whole thing was big by gaming cave standards, and quite small by modern industrial standards. Another section of it once had equipment that was driven by
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
Perhaps. I think these words have somewhat flexible definitions, and that thought process leads me to some rhetorical questions. Questions like: How many channels can a mod file[1] have? Does that number of channels this file has change
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
Or option C? I'm spitballing a bit, but it looks like an absolutely-correct antenna for your clock might be a Symmetricom 140-615. There's a couple (literally two) on the ebay right now that look minty-fresh; they're not the
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
We had LAN parties like that once upon a time when we had a space that supported it. Friends of friends would show up. Not everyone knew everyone else and this was fine. Cold drinks of every sort were available at the carry-out next door,
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
The legend and map colors seem strange, too. I haven't really put my finger on how or why (and I'm not going to spend much time on it), but: Everything seems dark and desaturated, as if the the only clue we have (color!) for matc
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
I had a problem, and that problem is resolved. Thank you for all of your kindness and assistance on this matter. My gratitude for your effort extends beyond all imaginable boundaries.
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
Thank you! That works. Here's a URL for the demo for those who -- you know -- like to click on links and see stuff happen: https://deepmind.google.com/science/weatherlab
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
Negative. Clicking on any appearance of "Try WeatherNext 3" brings me to this nonsense: WeatherNext 3 is being integrated into the Google products and tools that billions of people rely on – like Search, Maps, and Gemini. The m
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
I'm not seeing that kind of demo. I just see a video, a bunch of future-tense words about what could be done by someone, and the requisite hype. Link? edit: The link for the demo is as thus, https://deepmind.google.com&#x2
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
They kept the LCD dot matrix character display, the dual-color status LED, and the chassis. All of the other original guts remain in-place; it's completely reversible and no new holes were made. I agree that rebuilding is an awkward f
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
Oh. Right. You just introduced the concept of non-anonymous (to the orphanage) matching funds. I didn't think of that. More money for the orphanage means more orphans can be taken in. That's good, right? But since the extra f
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
Not necessarily, no. Evil has no boundaries.
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
Even when their matching donation is anonymous and the direct influence is zero, the orphan crushing facility wants the orphanage to be successful. The orphanage's rising success serves to limit the supply of orphans. This means that
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
It's OK for a donor that provides matching funds to wish for, and to be granted, anonymity. It's also OK for primary donors to be suspicious of this for any reason that they choose, including no reason at all. Maybe the matching-f
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
And then, we can inextricably link it to a new cryptocurrency -- let's call it BotCoin -- and make Sam Altman pay for it!
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
It's universal for us, right now. But that doesn't mean that it will stick around. History shows that when we figure out a better way to do stuff, we tend use the new way going forward and the old stuff tends to get forgotten.
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
Speaking for myself, but: I think it's just lack of market demand. I used to give people data on a disc -- first floppies, then CD-R, and eventually DVD-R. It got the job done, was often much faster than sorting out how to do it over
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
That's exactly what I want from a website that's full of static information: Motion.
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
I mean: I've been using price comparison websites since we've had a web with enough prices to compare them, and they always find some way to fail. And I don't possess the hubris required to think that I always know where to
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
You've got a good approach. Also: What banana plugs did you wind up with? I've been looking for usable, insulated, stackable banana plugs that work with 12 AWG wire for over a decade. For a lot of my audio things, I can get b
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
I mean: That sample was only demonstrative of shopping for dish soap . :) I often get some seemingly-good results in the non-shopping research department, where I'm exploring science and physics; things that don't generally cha
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
As a realistic construct: When I tell a bot to find the best value per volume for a reasonable quantity of unscented Dawn dish soap [so I can buy that], then: It often makes a complete mess of this seemingly-simple operation. (And yeah, th
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by ssl-3 1mo ago
It is interesting to note that Kobalt 24v power tool batteries don't have any internal over-discharge protection. I guess this can make them better-suited for flying telephone use than some alternatives. ;)

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