technothrasher

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by technothrasher 5mo ago
"they are broken, yet accomplishing the goal." Are they really either of those two things? Natural systems have no "goal", they just are. If they change, they change. If they stay the same, they stay the same. Because
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
> And I never, never, NEVER want to write another line of BASIC code again in my life. Awww. I downloaded the ECMA-55 standard from 1978 about a year ago and wrote an interpreter in C to be compliant with its "Minimal BASIC".
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
I've discovered this when trying to get rid of low value stuff. If I put it up for free, there's usually either no response or a bunch of "I'll take it" and then never showing up. But if I put some minimal price o
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
I had the opportunity to purchase a 550 Maranello for $75K about ten years ago. I should have done so, as it would have been a great investment. I would have had to scramble to find that kind of cash though. But I did have quite a few go
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
I once flew on a flight from ORD to ROC where I was the only passenger. It was very, very weird to be in a big empty cabin all by myself. The flight attendant just came and did the safety briefing sitting next to me. I asked her why they
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
I believe Stephen Wynne, the man you're referring to, still owns the new DMC company, and he did even produced a concept car of his Alpha5 model. But since 2022, there hasn't been much activity. His classic DMC parts sales side
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
I've got the same last name as a sitcom character from the 1980s. I used to get so tired of people pointing that out. Luckily nobody really remembers the show anymore, let alone the character. But, yeah, it usually sets off my spidey
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
I've got a life long friend who's full first name is Josh, derived from the Japanese name Yosh. People often try to call him Joshua and it annoys the hell out of him.
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
Notepadqq is a decent crack at a Notepad++ clone for Linux, but it is no longer actively maintained.
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
Yes, I know the four main methods of decaffeination. The haters have gone down this road with me many times. Why can't people just let me drink my decaf? It's like they can't enjoy their caffeine unless everybody does. It&
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
"While caffeine is the major individual component of coffee, the study suggests that it may not be the primary driver of these health effects." All you haters that give me grief for drinking my daily cup of decaf can shut up now.
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
I'm just down to Creative Cloud now. It's the only thing I still need Windows for. Everything else runs on Linux or there is a suitable alternative. So I've got several Debian machines running at home and at work, and one
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
Massachusetts has had fair pricing laws for grocery stores for years that I suspect already de-facto ban "dynamic pricing". It requires grocery stores to ring up the item at the lowest marked or advertised price, or the item is f
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
> "The Human League" which George makes up in Seinfeld as a fake charity It was actually The Human Fund. The Human League is an English pop band, most successful in the 1980s with their hit single "Don't You Want Me&
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
As I recall from my game of many, many years ago, I got the amulet to the surface and was greeted with, “Oops, that’s the fake amulet. Go back down.” I’m pretty sure that’s the last time I played it.
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
When I was first poking around with Tor, I wondered how many of the "Get guns in Europe", "Hard Drugs here", "Credit Card Numbers for sale" and such links were honeypots. Luckily, not being interested in any o
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
My father used to sell occult devices by mail order back in the early 1960's under the name "Metaphysical Cybertronics". He had a Cybertronic detector, which was very similar to the Scientology E-Meter, a Cybertronic Destiny
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by technothrasher 5mo ago
Should this be called "Is my monitor's blue your monitor's blue?"
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by technothrasher 6mo ago
The rats that the cats are keeping out of the stores are a much larger source of pathogen transmission to humans than the cats are. Not only do rats carry many more dangerous diseases than cats, but both can also transmit toxoplasmosis to
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by technothrasher 6mo ago
The old prescriptive vs descriptive linguistic battle rears its head once again.
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by technothrasher 6mo ago
This reminded me of the “Isotope Storage Lab” in the basement tunnels of the University of Rochester medical center annex. I always thought it sounded cool when I would walk by it… until I learned of the horrific experiments conducted at th
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by technothrasher 6mo ago
I managed to score eight NeXTcubes from a small company getting rid of them one time about 1997. Similarly with all the manuals, boxes, software, etc. I wanted to share the treasure, and offered the extra to a bunch of my friends. Only I
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by technothrasher 6mo ago
It's always feels funny to me when taking the Acela between Boston and NYC that you go screaming along at 150mph... for a small portion of track in Rhode Island. The rest of the time you're going much slower. It's almost li
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by technothrasher 6mo ago
Either all of my old mechanical clocks with moon dial are wrong, or it's 29.5 days.
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by technothrasher 6mo ago
The game I played for hours on the Apple ][+ was "FantasyLand 2041". It came on six double sided disks, and I was bummed to find out after quite a lot of game time that disk six was corrupted. I then found out many years later th
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by technothrasher 6mo ago
Unfortunately, probably not. As they could simply invoke the fifth under the claim that they might incriminate themselves under some state law.
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by technothrasher 6mo ago
Basically my whole family have signed our bodies over to the local medical school. They make all the arrangements and pay for everything as soon as they're notified upon death. They'll normally give you the ashes upon cremation
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by technothrasher 6mo ago
> We're increasing tolls on the straight again. They're increasing tolls on the strait again. This strait isn't particularly straight.
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by technothrasher 6mo ago
Eh, that same group of American folks also say that NYC is a violent crime ridden hell hole. I'm a rural guy who actively dislikes cities, but even still I've never actually felt unsafe in the time I've spent in either NYC o
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by technothrasher 6mo ago
I just asked my college aged kid. He said pretty much everyone does their written homework on their laptop, but many will use their phones to do the reading.

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