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by timbit42 3y ago
My Toyota Prius does this with its NiMH traction battery. The battery is now 18 years old and only starting to show its age.
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by timbit42 3y ago
> Amiga was a startup that was I understand set to work around the lack of a product development pipeline in Commodore This is false.
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by timbit42 3y ago
Do you mean causing it to happen earlier or to cause it to happen faster after it begins?
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by timbit42 3y ago
Is there a Smalltalk that runs on the JVM?
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by timbit42 3y ago
China has a lot of big cities along the coast that will flood as the oceans rise.
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by timbit42 3y ago
I've never found any of Josh McDowell's books convincing. I think they only provide confirmation to those who already believe.
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by timbit42 3y ago
Yes, but Sony created the Betamax standard while JVC created the VHS standard which won.
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by timbit42 3y ago
My dad has fixed old pendulum and wind up clocks for years as a hobby. He also fixes old tube radios. There are half a dozen to a dozen clocks around his house at any time. Some have IIII and some have IV. I can't say I've seen on
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by timbit42 3y ago
I've seen many clocks with either.
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by timbit42 3y ago
It's not difficult to install Windows 11 on an old machine. There are ways around the installer.
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by timbit42 3y ago
You can keep upgrading Windows indefinitely. You don't have to have TPM to install Windows 11.
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by timbit42 3y ago
Less than 1% of people want to do those things with a printer.
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by timbit42 3y ago
I think the question was if the original IBM PC in 1981 had been locked down such that the BIOS couldn't be cloned.
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by timbit42 3y ago
If the IBM PC hardware (and PC/MS-DOS) was locked down, it would have lost its advantage and would have had equal footing with the alternatives, the Apple Macintosh, the Atari ST, the Commodore Amiga and the Acorn Archimedes, all of wh
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by timbit42 3y ago
The braces.
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by timbit42 3y ago
So we're moving back to what Yahoo! was originally?
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by timbit42 3y ago
When LibreOffice split off from OpenOffice, most of the devs went to LibreOffice. It has made a lot of progress since then. OpenOffice has only released some minor updates since then. One big difference is that while OpenOffice can open MSO
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by timbit42 3y ago
... or at least every morning.
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by timbit42 3y ago
Algol 60 and Pascal had 'BEGIN ... END' to handle multiple statements in a block, but Ada and Wirth's successors, Modula-2 and Oberon, removed them except to denote where code begins in a PROCEDURE. It is much cleaner. Poorly
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by timbit42 3y ago
They either don't line up vertically, or take extra vertical space.
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by timbit42 3y ago
What has the turning radius of the Titanic? The Prius doesn't.
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by timbit42 3y ago
In those days, you had to have a decent job to afford a personal computer.
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by timbit42 3y ago
No, if you need to print photo quality, take it to a photo centre. There is no need to buy an inkjet printer. If you need color but don't usually need photo quality, buy a color laser.
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by timbit42 3y ago
Many people never move their laptop from their desk.
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by timbit42 3y ago
Because of SNAPs. Linux Mint is better as it doesn't have SNAPs.
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by timbit42 3y ago
You can't know whether to trust it until you know why it happened.
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by timbit42 3y ago
Which one is worse?
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by timbit42 3y ago
Who do you want decide that? Someone unelected?
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by timbit42 3y ago
White Lightning is essentially a big library of graphics routines written in assembly that loads into RAM. They can be used from BASIC or from the included Forth. There are versions for the C64 and ZX Spectrum. It can handle up to 255 softw
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by timbit42 3y ago
Wouldn't having two flywheels spinning on opposite directions cancel out the gyroscopic effect? There were some flywheel buses in Switzerland that used flywheels. They charged a bit at every bus stop so they had enough energy to make i

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