ursusarcanum

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by ursusarcanum 3mo ago
Now do printers and MacBooks.
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by ursusarcanum 1y ago
Rossman is the wrong guy to irk. He has money and spite, has caused a lot of deserved grief to companies that play dirty tricks.
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by ursusarcanum 4y ago
I’m pretty sure the photo is the first one on the web, not the first on the Internet. I ftp’d a bunch of images for the Amiga in ‘90 and ‘91, including scanned photos.
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by ursusarcanum 5y ago
The vast majority is plant matter. It wastes a lot of energy to chase prey. Plants don't move much. Last I read it was on the order of 80% plants, with a lot of insects being most of the meat.
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by ursusarcanum 5y ago
The original of this Microware OS-9 was my first exposure to a "unix like" operating system in the 80s. It was pretty amazing that a mutli-user, multitasking operating system kernel can fit in 8k.
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by ursusarcanum 7y ago
I think it was also a brand of computer - specific cassette tapes for cassette storage. I was briefly confused at why such retro storage was chosen.
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by ursusarcanum 7y ago
I remember "Neptune All Night" on PBS from WHYY that night. It was one the first things I ever videotaped. It was awesome seeing the images coming down.
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by ursusarcanum 7y ago
It is probably telling of being online too long that lead me to feel the title was wrong. I went into this thinking it would be an analysis of blocking and character orientation in Wiseau's The Room.
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Reverse engineering an ancient wireless security keypad using RTL-SDR(fatsquirrel.org)
189 points by ursusarcanum 11y ago|21 comments