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by xattt 1y ago
I went to a smaller school in a large school system, and our chess club was one of our school’s only “competitive” teams. That, and the annual Avogadro competitions.
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by xattt 1y ago
There is probably some math to do about the availability of free radicals from bleach versus a set period of sunlight at a certain time of year, in a certain part of the world.
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by xattt 1y ago
“Could have been a memo”
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by xattt 1y ago
> people with cognitive disabilities Does… does my phone addiction and inability for self-control qualify as this?
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by xattt 1y ago
Hence belling the cat
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by xattt 1y ago
I do find it sad/ironic/interesting to note that the router that started it all is no longer supported. Not to bell the cat, but some sort of symbolic build for the WRT54G(L) should still be possible… right?
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by xattt 1y ago
So tokens and kopeks? Because there were no mag stripe systems in 1970s. > https://www.ebay.ca/itm/174311087766
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by xattt 1y ago
OCR has also been getting incrementally better and has been surprisingly good if you have the handwriting for it.
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by xattt 1y ago
Are GitHub commit timestamps stored as Unix epoch time? If so, could we get similar timestamp accuracy when working with historical source code from systems like UNIVAC?
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by xattt 1y ago
Is this not so that they could divide openly-collected data and sell this to researchers? Kinda like Libby, but for biology?
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by xattt 1y ago
I roll 12. Employ AI shudders as my words echo through its memory banks: “Record flagged as disputed”. A faint glow surrounds my Employ ID profile. It is not complete absolution, but a path forward. The world may still mistrust me, but the
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by xattt 1y ago
People seem to confuse writing in a blog with writing in a personal journal as part of self-therapy. Think “long-winded” posts on Livejournal. It’s hard to engage in good-faith discussions because individuals may not have thought about the
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by xattt 1y ago
Yeah… the common connection thing is what’s at play here. This is why high-stakes introductions are done through people you know, to show that you can be trusted lest you be a social outcast.
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by xattt 1y ago
> … gigantic Atom I did see mention of Ponte Vecchio. It seems like Intel is getting closer to its Larrabee vision of massive MP low power chips (which were 486 cores in the shelved 2010 project).
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by xattt 1y ago
I extended the lifecycle of my 2013 vintage x64 QNAP (which lost support status around 2018 or 2019) by installing Ubuntu directly. The QNAP “firmware” was just an internal USB flash drive (DOM) that lived on a header that contained QNAP’s
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by xattt 1y ago
Is there anything tongs can’t do?
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by xattt 1y ago
Fly-by-wire aircraft have changeable “flight laws” that correspond to different levels of computer intervention to mitigate situations incompatible with controlled flight. Think of it as various stability control modes in a modern car. Lik
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by xattt 1y ago
Was Vista your first major OS? The overdone gloss seemed to be a spiritual copies of all the Windowblinds themes, that were themselves inspired copies of Aqua.
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by xattt 1y ago
Also forms a U for utility.
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by xattt 1y ago
Can self-driving cars be framed as robots? An electric car would have no issue sustaining this level of power; a gas-powered car doubly-so.
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by xattt 1y ago
Can you link to the Palm OS 5 PalmCards? That seems like brain surgery.
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by xattt 1y ago
The EL backlight on the IIIs had a loud coil whine and was a gannet with batteries.
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by xattt 1y ago
A little tangential, but I wonder if the decrease in ball lightning sightings is related to a decrease in particulate matter in the atmosphere as a result of less open-flame burning (hearths and whatnot).
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by xattt 1y ago
I don’t know his experience with academics but if the stars aligned, he would be an amazing university lecturer.
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by xattt 1y ago
I’ve found a big performance boost by running: sudo rm -rf /
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by xattt 1y ago
One reason, beyond cart theft, is aesthetics. A grocery store at Bayview Village, an upscale mall in Toronto, uses this system to stop cart travel outside the grocery store parking garage. Mall management considers carts trashy and that the
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Why the replacement for 16-bit installers was itself a 32-bit program (2015)(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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by xattt 1y ago
I expect this headline from The Inquirer (rip) but not THG.
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by xattt 1y ago
This would be an awesome background for a smart home dash!
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by xattt 1y ago
A bigger question might be is whether the sum of replacement parts is worth less than the sum of the part.

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