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by zrobotics 1y ago
I mean, I keep a physical vintage winXP machine around for games of that vintage because I find they don't tend to play super nice with modern hardware on windows either. I haven't switched my main personal desktop away from win10
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by zrobotics 1y ago
In certain competitive environments framerate is definitely limited. Here [0] are the rules for Fallout 4 any% speed runs, framerate must be capped at 60FPS. AFAIK that rule applies to all games in this engine due to physics behavior. I don
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by zrobotics 1y ago
How would consoles be any more immune to computer vision based cheating? Instead of feeding the output to a spoofed keyboard & mouse, you'd just be feeding it to a controller input. I'm not really seeing any difference in tech
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by zrobotics 1y ago
Keysight now, agilent followed HP's lead and spun off the unprofitable instrumentation division. Almost like expecting what is essentially an R&D division to be as profitable as medical electronics is a mistake. Although they have
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by zrobotics 1y ago
Ask a greybeard electrical engineer, at one time they were making the top grade test and measurement equipment. Older HP gear still brings a premium compared to other vendors, but we're talking stuff made before 2000-ish. They absolute
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by zrobotics 1y ago
I was going to chime in that I've been really happy with my HP Prime calculator, I purchased it in 2015 when I went back to school mostly because the TI calculators are absolute overpriced garbage and I wanted a calculator that did RPN
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by zrobotics 1y ago
But there are tons of small businesses that use IT MSPs. That's how it used to be done for companies that aren't large enough for a full-time IT staff member. Take for example my friend who works in a ~15 person office in a specia
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by zrobotics 1y ago
Do they need to post sources for every possible municipality? Los Angeles is actually a very definitive source on them being bad for sanitation systems. LA is a pretty young city, they really don't have any terribly ancient sewage syst
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by zrobotics 1y ago
/s OP is bringing back the sinister hand...
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by zrobotics 1y ago
Yeah, NEC only requires 1 outlet within 3 feet of each sink in a bathroom, and 2 sinks 6' apart could share 1 outlet. Bathrooms are the really the only place where the NFPA hasn't extended the required number of outlets, and I wou
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by zrobotics 1y ago
Umm, GFCI isn't an arcane thing, they've been around and required in bathrooms since the 70s [0]. People may not know the acronym, but they 100% are familiar with the outlets with the two little buttons that you sometimes have to
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by zrobotics 1y ago
FYI for anyone that uses wet wipes: please don't. If you have to, ignore any marketing they have about the wipes being flushable. They absolutely are not, and cause major issues for sanitation operators. Even the ones labeled septic sa
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by zrobotics 1y ago
Was definitely sad to see the temu style spin to win ad as a popup. It's a sign they must really be hurting for money to take that kind of ad deal.
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by zrobotics 1y ago
Send them an email asking for a quote. For a small business like this, I'd expect they can probably ship it to you but the complexities of quoting shipping internationally means they don't have it on the site. Yes, shipping APIs a
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by zrobotics 1y ago
I actually specifically made a trip to Milwaukee 1/3 for the Harley museum and 2/3 for ASS (that acronym was definitely deliberate). I've enjoyed my visits to ax-man surplus [0] in Minneapolis enough that when I heard about a
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by zrobotics 1y ago
Bookmarking this, I can't believe I didn't know about this place when I lived there (although that was long enough ago they might not have been open).
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by zrobotics 1y ago
I'm pretty sure I've commented this before, but it's just too ridiculous not to share again. About a year ago I needed to convert ~25k png images to webp. I happened to have them on a Windows machine, and I don't know po
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by zrobotics 1y ago
I was about to write an incredulous comment accusing you of licking receipts, but I thought I'd look into it first. It does appear that just handling thermal paper can expose you to BPA [0]. Such a shame, thermal printers are the only
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by zrobotics 1y ago
I used to work night shift and tried a few different things. Maybe the super-premium blinds block more light, but IME the most effective solution is blackout curtains. You'll need to hang a curtain rod that's wider than the window
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by zrobotics 1y ago
Damn, this might finally get me to retire my 83 Mazda b2200. I've king thought this size trick is about perfect, and the old Perkins engine in my truck is getting really tired. Mostly commenting so I have this in my history to refer to
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by zrobotics 2y ago
Not wanting to pry, but are those motorsports decals paintable? There's definitely a niche there if you can do paintable graphics, I have at least 2 motorcycle tanks that I'd love graphics for. HMU @ my username at Google mail if
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by zrobotics 2y ago
I mean, the software conversion part is the easiest part. Do you have any experience with printing at scale? Printing and binding the books is probably 90% of the effort and knowledge in this business. Plus, the machinery and space alone ad
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by zrobotics 2y ago
How is that different? Apple 'throttled' the phones by reducing charge amperage and reducing battery capacity in software. TBH I think what Google did here is also bad, this should definitely trigger a system popup with an opt in&
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by zrobotics 2y ago
One thing to consider is that most of the blue-collar workers who would have an easier commute into a city center due to WFH will have their job negatively affected by office workers not also traveling to the city center. If you do faciliti
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by zrobotics 2y ago
One thing I didn't see brought up in the sibling comments about vapor is that the real hazard of using leaded solder is small particles which can end up on clothing or your hands and later ingested. It is definitely a hazard to be awar
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by zrobotics 2y ago
My main concern is, if an attacker has the ability to nmap against my private IP range, they're already in the network and I'm already pwned. Am I missing something here? Plus, with this tool running I would lose the ability to ru
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by zrobotics 2y ago
I could do a undergrad essay on how the dealership model is bad for the manufacturers, which would boil down to how Indian motorcycles failed (which was also due to mismanagement). However, the VW scouts are an absolute abomination that sho
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by zrobotics 2y ago
What tesla salespeople? They're pretty well known for flaunting the dealer model. I've never bought a tesla, but from the friends that have bought one one of the big plusses is you don't talk to a salesperson at all, you buy
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by zrobotics 2y ago
I mean, the adult life you describe doesn't sound different from my brother, and growing up we moved once. Edit: my brother grew up into a child abusing POS by neglecting his kids, but let's looks at statistics VS anecdotes since
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by zrobotics 2y ago
It's presumptuous to claim child abuse, since we fundamentally know very little about the situation. I wouldn't say it's abuse, but it's certainly depriving the kids from learning how to develop socially. They aren'

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