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by wkjagt 6mo ago
Oh yeah that's not so recent either, but it helps that it's a desktop version. Yours has 4 cores, whereas for example my 7th gen i7 (Kaby Lake) laptop only has 2.It's about 10 years old, but still enough for everything I use
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by wkjagt 6mo ago
Maybe it says something about the people taking cocaine and go swimming with sharks.
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by wkjagt 6mo ago
Juggling has a very special place in my heart. I met my wife through juggling. We were both staying at a youth hostel in Ireland, and the owner introduced us to each other because she'd seen us both juggling, and said we should juggle
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by wkjagt 6mo ago
Why autism?
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by wkjagt 6mo ago
For real? I am a juggling nerd, but didn't know that was a thing. I gotta go find my people now.
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by wkjagt 6mo ago
Slang for rationalists, apparently, according to another comment.
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by wkjagt 6mo ago
I am not the person you're asking, but they were a thing in The Netherlands at least. Not super common, but they did exist. Typically they sold other related things too, like diabolos, flower sticks, etc. This was a while ago, before A
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by wkjagt 6mo ago
It's crazy how much you don't actually need to look at your hands. I learned juggling a long time ago, and I remember discovering this. It feels like you become good at predicting from the top of the arc where you need to place yo
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by wkjagt 6mo ago
Balloons are pretty small before you inflate them, and you're not inflating them, just stuffing them with rice.
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by wkjagt 6mo ago
Which generation? Just i7 by itself doesn't mean much. I think the newest are like 14th generation? The X220 is only 2nd generation ("Sandy Bridge"), about 15 years old.
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by wkjagt 6mo ago
Creator posted it as Show HN last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603966 Current post is by someone else
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by wkjagt 6mo ago
Maybe it's someone's old project idea that they never got around to finishing, and OP randomly found it and posted it here. Maybe it was never meant to be shared.
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by wkjagt 6mo ago
I have become oversensitive to this, and my brain is probably generating a lot of false positives. I don't think it's necessarily the case here, but I've wondered if people who use LLMs a lot take over some of its idiosyncras
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by wkjagt 7mo ago
I use a 27 year old Pentium 2 laptop with Windows 98 for a hobby project. And I keep asking myself: why does this thing feel so fast? And it could be even faster if I replaced the HDD with a CF card.
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by wkjagt 7mo ago
Funny coincidence. I was just (as in just now) looking for a graphics driver for my old Pentium laptop to get Windows 3.1 to work at the full 800x600 resolution.
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by wkjagt 7mo ago
On my phone I always zoom in on the vote buttons as far as it will let me so each is as big as my thumb.
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by wkjagt 7mo ago
I am not necessarily against AI, but in this case, I also lost interest at that point. I love reading about reverse engineering, and to me the first part of the article felt like it was leading up to that. But then it ended with what to me
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by wkjagt 7mo ago
Oh boy, I do miss the days of things being under construction. It meant people were actually constructing things.
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by wkjagt 7mo ago
I so miss the days when software was like this. I recently got a 386 laptop that needed loads of repairs. I'm almost done with the repairs, and I will definitely put Lotus 1-2-3 on it (along with dBase, Word Perfect 5.1, and Turbo C).
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by wkjagt 8mo ago
Yeah the Commodore 64 did something similar. I love that era of hardware.
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by wkjagt 8mo ago
The 6502 doesn't have separate io addresses so you need to fit all devices in a 64k space, not just ROM.
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by wkjagt 9mo ago
This gets posted just infrequently enough that I remember that I've read it before but forget why those emails weren't delivered, so I read it every time :-)
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by wkjagt 9mo ago
I'm due for new glasses, so any laptop use is now a careful equilibrium between "text is burry" and "text is too small".
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by wkjagt 9mo ago
How do you know when holding on to things you won't use again becomes hoarding? Is it a volume thing? I have a bunch of stuff I keep around for nostalgic reasons. More than the average person I think. But it's pretty contained and
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by wkjagt 9mo ago
Could be an Eizo EV2730Q? Only square screen I know of.
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by wkjagt 9mo ago
Does anyone know when it started to be "ok" to disguise ads as search results? And I don't mean making them look more similar, but including them at all, even as the top results. I'm genuinely wondering how this started
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by wkjagt 9mo ago
Same here. I made a custom router (debian, nftables, dnsmasq, etc and python code to manage it all over ssh) and I spent way too much time on it to replace it :-)
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by wkjagt 9mo ago
I did the same with an old Thinkpad but somehow found it relies too heavily on the mouse. I might still go back to it because I love how far they've taken the "everything is a file" idea and would like to experiment more with
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by wkjagt 9mo ago
I went through the exact same process, but with the 6502 (Ben Eater's videos, and then another SBC of my own design after). It's helped me become a better programmer too. Example: pointers in C now feel very natural instead of som
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by wkjagt 10mo ago
Maybe Microsoft knows Windows is terrible and won't last forever, so their short term goal is to exploit their marketshare as much as possible to grab as much cash as they can until the market moves to something else.

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