theodric

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871.
by theodric 6y ago
I was in my 20s 8-18 years ago and despite any sort of stability or decent employment I was still sexually active with female partners. I had a smartphone before most people knew that was a possibility, and essentially unlimited porn. I don
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by theodric 6y ago
That assumes a tremendous amount of scheduling freedom on the part of the average retail worker or office drone, which I do not believe to be a correct assumption. Business Opens At 8 (or 9) is so ingrained as to be unlikely to change. Trad
873.
by theodric 6y ago
Likewise. A dual C2Q Mac Pro, Nehalem and Westmere Xeons, and a Sandy Bridge NAS. Newest non-embedded x86 in the house is probably my 2017 MacBook Air. I did buy an M1 Mac, but why would I replace our perfectly performant desktops that we o
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by theodric 6y ago
Not only can you make a gun easily, 3d printed or not, you can even bootstrap (I don't just mean handload) ammo now. Criminals will hella have hella guns and the cat is too far from the bag to put it back. Even individual manufacture i
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by theodric 6y ago
Switzerland is shall-issue for semi-auto and may-issue for full automatic. Gun crime is microscopic. Culture plays a major part.
876.
by theodric 6y ago
Light in the evening when you can use it, rather than during the day when you're stuck on conference calls. Also, 'standard' offsets to GMT are fairly arbitrary anyway. We're not going to get employers to change operatin
877.
by theodric 6y ago
20MB is microscopic for a 486! I had an 8088 with a 10MB drive and a 386SX laptop with a 120MB 2.5" drive, and neither was particularly special!
878.
by theodric 6y ago
Linky? I have a use case but only found much pricier units.
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by theodric 6y ago
Indeed, Asus moved from MIPS to ARM between the RT-AC66U and RT-AC68U, and the various *pkg repos have since dropped support. MIPS may as well be dead.
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by theodric 6y ago
GPU is not a prerequisite unless you're into gaming or ML. For someone like me, a GeForce 8800GT is sufficient, but I'll take all the cores and RAM I can get.
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by theodric 6y ago
The Kaypro II is a case study in how I would design a computer if I were a competent person with enough technical skills to be successful outside of tier 1 ops or management. It is built from folded steel, the keyboard housing shows signs o
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by theodric 6y ago
I can't speak for anyone else, but I miss the early Web mainly because I was young, had my life ahead of me, and everything was an unknown frontier to be explored. Do you remember how f'in hard it was to find stuff online back whe
883.
by theodric 6y ago
I had a touchbar Pro and I now have an M1 air. I would go for the Air. The touchpad is slightly too big on the Pro and the palm rejection is insufficient, leading to unexpected mouse movements and occasionally unintended selection and mass-
884.
by theodric 6y ago
I suppose it's what you do with it. I use about 6GB of an 8GB system, with the rest allocated to buffer cache. Firefox, VS Code, terminals, mapping software...I can't use 16GB unless I spin up a VM.
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by theodric 6y ago
HP t620 PLUS. Ignore what the manufacturer says, it'll run 32GB RAM. I have a USB3 card in mine for more hard drives. ESXi with 5 VMs running all the time. Power consumption is like 6-12W for the base unit, plus whatever your drives an
886.
by theodric 6y ago
Get an upconverter
887.
by theodric 6y ago
There was this, but it's broken since ages https://www.google.com/amp/s/brkirch.wordpress.com/2014/11/0...
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by theodric 6y ago
Mine is an '82, and currently disassembled on the bench awaiting the arrival of my Digi-Key order so I can replace the old Rifa smoke generators before they pop, but this was all in prelude to trying my hand at Turbo Pascal on the th
889.
by theodric 6y ago
I love my Kaypro, but CP/M is a very business-oriented OS and most of the software is quite dry.
890.
by theodric 6y ago
Odds on this being some Amazon spin-doctor, or (less conspiratorially) a pick-me vying to be craned out of the warehouse and made a spokesdrone?
891.
by theodric 6y ago
You go into the public sector to serve, and you get mediocre pay and tremendous stability and generous, long-lasting benefits in exchange. Nobody's twisting your arm. Feel free to live in a dumpster in SV and make $400k building the ne
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by theodric 6y ago
Everything started to fall apart when the horses seized power
893.
by theodric 6y ago
It also needs to be sunny 24 hours a day. Solar requires storage. Batteries are non-renewable.
894.
by theodric 6y ago
How about not having five nines, and just finding a way to live within that envelope?
895.
by theodric 6y ago
Respectfully, i think this is a naïve position, given the Zeitgeist of the last few years
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by theodric 6y ago
It's likely that this one is cheaper and more accessible to many, many people, including those in developing countries, since it doesn't rely on sourcing quasi-obscure hardware like the HAT
897.
by theodric 6y ago
As someone who's not a fan of most of Tech's trends over the last sixteen years: good. Let's go back to lightweight, information-rich, performant interfaces.
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by theodric 6y ago
I threw my M1 MacBook Air in a snowbank in -11°C last night, let it chill for 15 minutes, then ran Geekbench and Cinebench Here's GB: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/6487568 Cinebench was 7709, about 900
899.
by theodric 6y ago
I was home-schooled from 3rd grade onward, and I didn't miss public school one whit. Fuck that noise.
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by theodric 6y ago
My wife likes me so

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