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by watersb 4y ago
Good times in the 2000s with the Tripath amplifier chips. Vinnie Rossi took them out of mass-market Technics surround sound boxes and created some really nice amplifiers. Then he rolled his own, using batteries to drive the amplifiers, inde
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by watersb 4y ago
I can't tell exactly from a quick scan of Cringeley's commentary... but I get the impression that a "dry copper pair" the single-pair POTS equivalent of "dark fiber"... with the critical caveat that a dry coppe
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by watersb 4y ago
Then there's harmonic chant, an American composer David Hykes. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL7DCiqr-NKC1Ok9mBQICCl... I got really into this technique for a while, and now the kids these days think it's a
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by watersb 4y ago
This is a fantastic list. So happy I got to sing, as a student, along in a huge group anchored by Tõnu Kaljuste's Estonian Chaber Chorus. Popular conductor Eri Klas was very patient, loved working with students, and I am forever gratef
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by watersb 4y ago
ABSOLUTELY. I am not plugged into a community of musicians these days, but in college and the decade afterwards we were hearing, performing music written by contemporary composers. Choral music, mostly. But cello concertos, crazy harpsichor
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by watersb 4y ago
X-Plane has been amazing forever. Obsessive.
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by watersb 4y ago
They are meant to be user-serviceable, with common hand tools. You can take it apart and put it back together. It's a cage-like drum that rotates on horizontal axis, much like any front-loader. But it's a top loader; the cage has
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by watersb 4y ago
> As demand for vanity diplomas from expensive liberal-arts schools declines, for example, elite universities with more prestigious names and larger endowments can simply increase advertising for their lower-tier programs that accept ne
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by watersb 4y ago
Clothes washer: Staber My repair guy would bring other techs over to my house to see our Staber washing machine. Nothing else comes close. https://www.staber.com
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by watersb 4y ago
Am I the only one to be put off by the fact that the value for filter performance - clean air diffusion rate (CADR) - is stored in the second value of the list structure? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR_and_CDR
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by watersb 4y ago
I disagree. Bog-standard functionality like a login form on a web based service should at the very least have a version that uses HTML. (I wrote a web app in 1998, pushed the team to adopt shiny new HTML 4.0 and Java, but all the front e
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by watersb 4y ago
Turns out, the Australian Outback is a great place to observe deadly magnetars: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASKAP
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by watersb 4y ago
Are they counting the people who have paid off their auto loan? Our car payment is zero at the moment. Though I am trying to keep a slot in our budget for the eventuality of the next car purchase. Hopefully 10 years out.
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by watersb 4y ago
Thanks for the mention of "Unix, Plan 9, and the Lurkibg Smalltalk"... I hadn't seen it before. I've been thinking a lot about Plan 9 lately, but undertaking a new implementation is almost certainly beyond me. Previous H
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by watersb 4y ago
No mention of the Dylan programming language in the article. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Dylan Bauhaus OS was new to me.
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by watersb 4y ago
Okay, you can "Buy it now" for $500... But I suppose you'd need an OS license from IBM to operate the thing? Or does Linux boot bare metal on z/Systems? (Initial Program Load, sorry. One does not simply "boot"
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by watersb 4y ago
Last I checked, my urine was almost entirely made of chemicals.
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by watersb 4y ago
Rather expensive by my standards these days. When I was a starving student, I would not have hesitated to buy it from that corner in the back of Cody's Books. Springer runs occasional sales up to 40% discount about once a year, but a d
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by watersb 4y ago
Really wish I could dig up the old HyperCard stack that first released Tech Note #31. I was so excited when I found it in the Resource Fork of one of stacks on the Apple Developer CD... Thanks to Wikipedia contributors and to Archive.org!
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by watersb 4y ago
Alyssa Rosenzweig is doing the heavy GPU engineering. https://rosenzweig.io/
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by watersb 4y ago
No. No, they did not.
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by watersb 4y ago
Is Cheese Board still in business?
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by watersb 4y ago
Yes! There's a vegetable farmer here, does most of his profit at a farmer's market in a town across the valley, we would buy the box of whatever was left for $20. He would drop it off on his way home. Was a good deal for him, and
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by watersb 4y ago
When I lived in Minneapolis, police encouraged a bike registry; they'd send you this serial number sticker plate that affixed to the frame rather well. No doubt many flaws with that, I don't know if it helped. But I got a sticker.
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by watersb 4y ago
Not quite bikeshedding... Sheffielding?
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by watersb 4y ago
Last night I dreamed I got lost and didn't have cell phone. I went to the library, asked to use one of the computers they have for library patrons. I was able to use Google Maps, but I couldn't get in touch with a friend who lived
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by watersb 4y ago
> extremely concise code (as long as you don't apply mainstream coding standards/style) I'm interested in this aspect! I discovered that I was able to write short scripts in PowerShell in a style I find readable, or I can
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by watersb 4y ago
One audio track per cylinder is a bit of overkill... :-)
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by watersb 4y ago
I used that Java app to clean up about a dozen of my vinyl records! It was the best for transient pops. For general grunge removal, that's best done by cleaning the record as best you can; heavy post processing tends to screw it up. Le
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by watersb 4y ago
Not wallpaper, exactly, but (unless this has changed recently), you can run the screensaver as your wallpaper. /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents&

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