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by xattt 2y ago
I’m a tech literati in a fairly tech illiterate field. My co-workers think I’m some sort of wizard when I show them basic Excel skills. Still waiting for my breakthrough.
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by xattt 2y ago
Thank you for clarifying. The Fujinet site doesn’t quite show whether the connector is one for all computers. I’ll have to keep digging around so I can revive a ZX Spectrum!
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by xattt 2y ago
In the context of H5N1, this gives some new insight of the likelihood of the virus jumping species. Birds are everywhere, squirrels in urban environments moreso.
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by xattt 2y ago
I’m still not quite sure what FujiNet is and how it is the last peripheral for your vintage devices. Gives me Zombo.com vibes. (1) https://zombo.com/
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by xattt 2y ago
I thought GPS was generic and NAVSTAR was the “brand”.
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by xattt 2y ago
If you can imagine this, can you imagine the forms of sensing-by-proxy that’s possible that’s kept under wraps by various Skunkworks orgs?
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by xattt 2y ago
I always thought it was because OG hams had some sort of regional accent and would say hamateur.
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by xattt 2y ago
Why not both?
729.
by xattt 2y ago
Usually, cars are worth more than 10K and they are often left out in the street!
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by xattt 2y ago
Not only anime, but other types of animation as well. :)
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by xattt 2y ago
That’s different. One is fear of the unknown, the other is a precautionary fear of what could be.
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by xattt 2y ago
Memories of GOOG411! And probably same purpose of this. (1) (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOG-411
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by xattt 2y ago
I feel like this is splitting hairs and moving goalposts. The pro side will always have some sort of explanation why it’s 10 bps or less without a way of actually proving it. This is a frustrating article.
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by xattt 2y ago
People typically own vehicles for more than one year.
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by xattt 2y ago
Listen to a podcast at double speed. Assuming a normal talking speed of 150 words per minute, 300 words per minute of written word is not 10 bits per second.
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by xattt 2y ago
Sproutcore.js was the framework used for early day iCloud. It was super snappy and got implemented for the Web UI on Transmission.
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by xattt 2y ago
I was surprised to see an polyene antifungal listed as an ingredient in a package of shredded cheese yesterday. It appears it has been a trend for a while. With talk of antimicrobial resistance as well as greater awareness of the gut-brain
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Fungal Bungle (2014)(slate.com)
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by xattt 2y ago
Obesity goes hand in hand with hypertension, so this is a double-whammy for organs with particularly sensitive microstructures (like eyes but also kidneys).
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by xattt 2y ago
I’m on mobile, but has anyone checked the source or inspected the resources as to where they’re being hosted? Is there a neocities profile tool? edit: there is. Site create date is March 2021. https://neocities.org/site&#x2F
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by xattt 2y ago
> The summaries are just not very good, and any sort of LLM writing is a tacit acknowledgement that people don’t really care what they are writing, an that no one is really reading that writing very carefully.) I tend to write emails agg
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by xattt 2y ago
Author conjured a primordial black hole by working on an Nokia and was never heard from again.
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by xattt 2y ago
In 2007, shortly after Palm announced the Folēo, Peter Rojas of Engadget fame posted a “Dear Palm” letter that called for the Folēo cancelled [1]. A few days later, Ed had forwarded the letter to the executive [2]. A few weeks after that, t
744.
by xattt 2y ago
You’re missing the fact that Intel wanted to differentiate itself from the growing IA-32 clone chips from AMD and Cyrix. 586 couldn’t be trademarked, but Pentium could.
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by xattt 2y ago
He makes a note that he observed “negative resistance”.
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by xattt 2y ago
I anticipate the development of a free-market mechanism in which organizations will establish themselves to assume the role of the FDA in certifying vaccines and providing guidance on preventive medicine.
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by xattt 2y ago
If you ever watch taped broadcasts of 1970s and 1980s daytime television, half of the ads are for some form of laxative while the other half was for some meat-heavy or sugar-laden ultra-processed food.
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by xattt 2y ago
> POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!!! This page welcomes all varieties of race, gender or anyone interested in its contents. If you are offended by anything that seems politically incorrect, don't write to me. I do not care to be annoyed by fa
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by xattt 2y ago
I’ll stop you there and say there are videos. They just happen to be of naturally-occurring phenomena and captured by inept operators who don’t subscribe to Occam’s Razor.
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by xattt 2y ago
Back in my day, we called “commercial fixed-wing drones” RC model planes.

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