systems_glitch

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by systems_glitch 2y ago
I think this is really understated. After developing a facial twitch and realizing I was consuming more than 1000 mg of caffeine a day, I switched to decaf once the particular project was over. No one told me it's physically addictive
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by systems_glitch 2y ago
It is a common misconception that Mormons are not allowed to consume caffeine, the limitation is actually on "hot drinks," which is interpreted as having meant tea and coffee specifically in the time it was written down. They stil
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
Not patented, trade secret.
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
99% of everyone who's just a consumer, I'd guess. Probably the only time people change over is when there's a DNS block on something from their ISP (work, school, commonly do that).
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
That's my wife's experience, teaching at a smaller state college. They offer a math course so remedial that it's not allowed to count as hours toward graduation (it does of course count toward full-time status). There's
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
> Yes, bad and ineffective teachers exist, but in my experience those teachers are the most generous with grades. That tracks with both my personal experience as an undergrad at a major state university, and my wife's experience wi
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
I bet it'll still manage to serve ad pages instead of NXDOMAIN, though. Actually that's what will get them to patch up.
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
Confirmed, I have all of the datasheets/appnotes you posted first page pictures of!
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
Indeed, believing we are in control is one of those things humans seem to like.
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
Friend in college died of some super fast cancer at 21. Navy cadet, high speed, PT superstar. We don't like to think of it that way but it's often just a roll of the dice. Some cosmic ray flips a bit and the immune system was taki
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
Thanks for the uploads! I will check today but I believe I've got hardcopy of the datasheets/appnotes you have -- Burgess also grouped design docs into binders, so I have his originals. It's a habit I started carrying over to
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
Read one of his other posts, no family history, no tobacco use, not a heavy drinker. Live every day, folks. That promise of finally getting to do what you want after you retire is cheap and hollow.
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
Same, we had steam tunnels that you could get into if you were careful -- both not to get caught and not to get burned. Mechanical rooms that were often unlocked. Weird spots between buildings where additions were made.
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
I came across the R65F11 I have from Burgess Macneal, who was using FORTH in the early 1980s to build a digitally controlled audio mastering equalizer. For various reasons it never became a commercial product, but he'd saved all of his
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
I keep wanting to do a project in FORTH and even have started a couple, but always end up punting and going to something else (usually assembly, they're vintage computer projects). I do have a Rockwell R65F11 FORTH microcontroller-on-a
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
Always liked NetBeans better anyway :P
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
Yeah, this is usually the kind of thing I end up implementing on a first pass for something where I don't want to just use a library (usually "for fun" hacking projects).
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
Sweet, it finds my friend's arcade the next town over! Looks like he's gotten a new table since the last time I talked to him :P
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
I hadn't seen the rectangular ones (just the chorded circle ones) until I bought a bunch and received these: https://twitter.com/systems_glitch/status/169651986595858851...
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
Cool! DSL replaced LNX-BBC for me some time in 2005. Glad to see development has resumed. In a similar vein, I think there's a Slackware-based release of Slax again! (posting this from a ThinkPad T61 running Slackware 15)
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
Ah, yeah, wasn't clear to me. I think most people are probably too busy or don't know where to get started to bring a claim themselves, though. Ideally, the people we pay to represent us in government would actually represent our
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
Yeah I don't know how we're supposed to have good faith conversations about nontrivial issues if we as a society can't accept that sometimes valid arguments about an issue run counter to personal politics.
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
Not for me personally. I already have too much to be doing to waste my time going to court. Plus, we all know what eBay does to people who upset them: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/ebay-inc-pay-3-million-co...
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
I didn't realize it's required for mobile banking, I don't use it. I can see why that would've made people complacent about it. Ironic about the first step in resolving KYC ID leakage being acquiring more KYC ID images..
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
I do when I can. For AT&T I was able to just go to the store and do it. For eBay, we had to acquiesce as they were holding sales payouts hostage.
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
I have no problem showing ID to my local bank though. They at most photocopy it and put it in a paper file, which maybe goes into Docstar or something. I don't trust $big_tech_site to actually a) do a good job securing it and b) not ju
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
Yeah, when did that become acceptable?! I've had a bunch of sites request a photo or scan of my state-issued driver's license, like that's just OK to ask people to send to them.
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
From an absolute "can this be correlated?" perspective, sure. From a "is this data easily mine-able" or "if someone gets this data, will I care?" perspective, not so much.
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
Doesn't matter if there's no way to tie it back to the individual; that is, the information on whose temperature is never available to the reader.
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by systems_glitch 3y ago
Yeah I carried my vaccine card for a while, I never had to get a test of any sort for entry, but did have to get my temperature taken a bunch.

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