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by watersb 3y ago
These are good suggestions, thanks. I have to consider if fifty bucks is worth the expense of following a procedure of insisting on my rights under current industry regulations.
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by watersb 3y ago
I'm in the middle of a problem with an item either mid-delivered or not delivered, with unresponsive retailer. I started a dispute with my credit card company, but yesterday they emailed to tell me that they had "concluded their i
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by watersb 3y ago
I found the password to my luggage!
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by watersb 3y ago
It reminds me of the sensory overload of casino slot machines. Makes my head explode, and I just walk away. But many people just can't. The overload is a rush for them.
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by watersb 3y ago
Nuclear Waste Transport rail car, nearly operational as of 21 September 2023: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/new-railcar-designed-tran...
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by watersb 3y ago
My wife's mother claims to have actually experienced this many years ago: AM radio from a tooth filling when driving close to a broadcast tower on a family road trip.
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by watersb 3y ago
SVG would be the 21st century PostScript, yes. But... Output of SVG in actual print can be quite unpredictable. Of course, I'd stick to a particular implementation, and just aim for it to come out right. Should be pretty simple. Back w
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by watersb 3y ago
I read Hillis' book on the Connection Machine, back when he first published it. I was studying AI at university at the time, and had just discovered the back-propagation method for training neural nets. Thought CM might be good at that
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by watersb 3y ago
> I live in that village [Galisteo], and hear the (Southwest) Chief's whistle/horn in both directions. I hop on at Lamy, either to Raton or LAX, depending on the trip. If only there were still a stop in Folsom, I'd walk
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by watersb 3y ago
I still use my iPad 4 every day. The YouTube iOS app stopped working a while ago, I suppose the backend API changed. But YouTube still works via Safari on the iPad 4. I generally keep JavaScript turned off in Safari on that old tablet; I th
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by watersb 3y ago
I wondered if I were remembering correctly: an SGI O2 RIP for a huge HP inkjet poster printer. An advertising agency had such a setup for in-house production. 1998.
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by watersb 3y ago
Oh, do I share the fun with those without grey hair... RIP = Raster Image Processor, often a standalone computer acting as a front-end for a printer. It accepts jobs, runs the PostScript, and converts it to a format native to the printer. A
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by watersb 3y ago
Postscript is really easy to generate from shell scripts; I wrote a little thing that did labels for our (physical books) library. Not sure what I'd use for alternative. I'm sure there are many little modules that would help. Or I
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by watersb 3y ago
Apple is removing a number of scripting environments from OS X, so they won't have to maintain them. Not sure if they can remove Perl; it's tangled up in standard C libraries I think, and would be hard to kill.
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by watersb 3y ago
The Boox Tab runs Android. I don't have one, but I use the Android app Termux on my stock Kindle Fire tablet. It's a rather complete Linux on Android. Not emulation. CLI environment just works, and I've been able to run GUI a
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by watersb 3y ago
I'm surprised that discussion of Federal web design doesn't simply use 18F's design guides. https://18f.gsa.gov/guides/
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by watersb 3y ago
My original iPhone 2007 uses an ARM7TDMI.
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by watersb 3y ago
Good points: local governments are often out of their depth when it comes to significant infrastructure projects. > local governments simply can't afford to retain large staffs of highly specialized engineers. They may hire extreme
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by watersb 3y ago
I suppose that this meta-flag won't work with musl libc.
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by watersb 3y ago
> An English watershed is a line or ridge separating the waters that flow into different drainage areas, but in America it’s a slope down which the water flows, or the catchment area of a river. The original English meaning of watersh
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by watersb 3y ago
Very nice!
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by watersb 3y ago
> This was in 1952... sightings of Elvis being alive. Remarkably, rumors of Elvis being alive persisted until 1977!
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by watersb 3y ago
I wonder how much of an outlier we may be, shuffling around on dry land, when most of the biosphere of our planet is in the ocean. Higher gravity certainly means higher pressure gradient, more pressure per vertical meter of ocean. And high
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by watersb 3y ago
The first 3D sitemaps I can recall was a 1996 public demo project from an engineer at Apple. He came up with RDF in order to describe the site structure enough for it to be rendered in a QuickTime-3D application.
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by watersb 3y ago
Wow. AtariAge Forums were a great resource for gathering all things of retro computing, some of which ended up contributing to collections such as BitSavers and Trailing Edge. It's where I initially discovered wonderful work by volunte
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by watersb 3y ago
Girls. Everything after that was just a blur...
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by watersb 3y ago
Mad props for OS9 on an 8-bit microprocessor. The Motorola 6809 was a nice architecture for UNIX-like systems... if we accept the 16-bit memory address space.
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by watersb 3y ago
(a reference to his age, 99, and a common tactic on his game show, "The Price is Right", of bidding some dollar amount and 99 cents -- bids exceeding target value were disqualified)
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by watersb 3y ago
Alas, the show was not canceled during broadcast live, on air. It was a pre-recorded program. Some interesting ideas in using the camera: a dialogue, two actors, taking turns. One speaks, and then the camera zooms in on that actor’s face as
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by watersb 3y ago
> strips of a Silicon Valley Bank credit card under the SSD to support the PCB. Good to know it's still useful.

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