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by waltbosz 2y ago
This reminds me of a silly nerd lie I like to tell non-technical people: "Did you know that capital letters take up 4 more bits of storage than lowercase letters?"
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by waltbosz 2y ago
I've always had difficulty falling asleep and I often notice when I enter this state and I get excited because it means I'm about to fall asleep. I'm excited because the frustration of still being awake is over. Also, sometim
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by waltbosz 2y ago
I thought it tasted like quinine/tonic water or maybe grapefruit rind (the ingredient in the Beverly soda from Italy). Coin batteries sometimes have a bitter taste coating which is similar to the Switch cart.
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by waltbosz 2y ago
I love that magic trick, but wouldn't that significantly thicken the cardstock flipbook ?
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by waltbosz 2y ago
My cousin worked at a place where he would stream for 8 hours a day on tiktok and sell trading card packs and other collectables. I guess it was a bit like home shopping network. But his streams were kinda goofy and playful. I didn't r
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by waltbosz 2y ago
Ctrl+ /S
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by waltbosz 2y ago
You have to obtain the Item Shop upgrade, then buy the "Sign in with Google" item from shop, then sign in, then you can save your state to your Google Drive by pressing Ctrl+/S.
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by waltbosz 2y ago
Love the glass of wine.
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by waltbosz 2y ago
When I created the website for the Ultimate Simpsons Doom II mod, I published it at tripod.com. It's still there 22 years later https://waltersgameboy.tripod.com/simpdoom/ I miss the old Internet.
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by waltbosz 2y ago
It's fun trying to get LLM to answer a problem that is obvious to a human, but difficult for the LLM. It's a bit like leading a child through the logic to solve a problem.
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by waltbosz 2y ago
The lowercase formatting reminded me of my uncle who used to write exclusively in uppercase. His reasoning was that lower case letters were superfluous. Also something about how uppercase letters were invented to distinguish between royals
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by waltbosz 2y ago
At the same flea market, there was a stand selling pages ripped from a book (I think it was a dictionary) and fed through a printer to add a picture to the page. I found the concept interesting, but the pictures they used were mostly bad. T
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by waltbosz 2y ago
This reminds me of a recent flea market experience. There at some stand was boxes of old used post cards and 100 year old family photos. Photos of people posed on a porch in their Sunday best. Or just mundanely standing around a car not eve
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by waltbosz 2y ago
I remember Plato as a kid in the 80s. My mom wrote software for the at the University of Delaware. I remember using the touch screens. there was this game where you could drop a flowerpot on Mickey Mouse, and a game where you'd brew a
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by waltbosz 2y ago
I recently had burst of vintage digicam nostalgia. For her birthday, my daughter received a toy digital camera that instanly printed photos on thermal receipt paper. It's great fun, and the print quality has lovely B&W dithering. H
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by waltbosz 2y ago
That build tool UI looked really slick. I don't have much experience with 3D modeling tools or building games. Is this UI uniquely innovative?
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by waltbosz 2y ago
Mine have never turned into nightmares, but once I become aware that I'm dreaming and try to take control, the dream seems to fall apart and I wake up. I've had the sleep paralysis and crossfade that you describe. But it's ne
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by waltbosz 2y ago
I love that my pondering comment generated so much discussion. Much more technical than I can fathom. Another thought that occurred to me, we humans are short lived and trying to think about the length of time such a message would take to t
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by waltbosz 2y ago
One fun thing think about is that these two galaxies are only aligned from our perspective in the universe. Viewed from a different location, and they're just two normal galaxies. Also, imagine having the technology to send signals thr
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by waltbosz 2y ago
I've done similar stuff. Concat a zip (that keeps throwing false positives) to a jpg and scanners will treat it like a jpg. Then write a script that chops off the jpg to access the zip. All this so I could automate a web a app deploy.
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by waltbosz 2y ago
In the 1990s, I walked alone to to school starting at age 5. School was 0.8 miles from my home.
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by waltbosz 2y ago
> the 30-minute launch window will open at 4:00 p.m. CT Is that correct? They're launching in the afternoon this time?
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by waltbosz 2y ago
there once was a prof most pedantic rejected my poem's semantic he asked for a limerick and received not a hymn trick he acts like I sank the Titanic
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by waltbosz 2y ago
Bot posts a question Humans reply in earnest Lone man suspects fraud
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by waltbosz 2y ago
American here. I first heard the word conkers from Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy, but this was pre Google, so I just figured it was some scifi word. Then I learned that it was a game from an episode of Kipper the Dog, in which his cheeky f
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by waltbosz 2y ago
I've replied to a couple political ads with, "Who is this?" For federal office, I've never gotten a response. For local office, sometimes I get back, "I'm a volunteer for candidate xyz." Once or twice the
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by waltbosz 2y ago
Before the Disney acquisition, go.com used to have a fun chat room service that I used in my teens. This was late 90s.
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by waltbosz 2y ago
Reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode in which thieves steal $1 million of gold. Then to avoid capture, they enter suspended animation capsules and sleep for 100 years. Only to awake in a world where gold can be manufactured and has no valu
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by waltbosz 2y ago
I wonder when Adams came up with the idea for the Agrajag character and storyline when he had written that line in book 1. Or did he decide to make Agrajag the bowl of petunias whilst writing book 3.
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by waltbosz 2y ago
Just this morning I was wondering if one could cure their hypertension by getting an artificial heart to circulate their blood more efficiently. I mean sure you could also treat with weight loss and regular exercise, but it's a fun tho

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