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by zwieback 3y ago
Me too, I think my parents still have their Selectric at the ready in their study. My mom used to fill out carbon-copy forms a lot on this thing and my dad wrote a book on it. It's a rock-solid machine.
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by zwieback 3y ago
My youth: Z80, 6502 Micros I used: 8051, PIC, AVR, MSP430 Mainstream CPUs: 68000, x86 DSPs: TMS320Cxx (no SHarc?) Missing from this list: NIOS II and other soft cores and anything ARM. Maybe they are not supposed to be here.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Yes, came here to say this. I like driving alone but want to fall asleep almost instantly. Pulling over and taking a 10 minute nap is helpful.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Maybe because EDA users think in terms of hardware description languages like Verilog. When I realized that they have to start with things as basic as clock edges and registering signals it dawned on me that that mindset also lends itself t
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Detailed miniature models of historic computer(miniatua.com)
87 points by zwieback 3y ago|18 comments
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by zwieback 3y ago
Much as this makes me happy (I started at hp when this thing came out) I have to say that a phone is not the same as a PDA or other embedded device. A lot of the difficulty of developing on a phone is that the appstore model and ubiquitous
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by zwieback 3y ago
Rasberry Pi and some other SoC-based embedded boards allow on-board development but it's never as much fun as it should be. At the end of the day I prefer some mixed model where I run VSCode or similar on the PC and download/remo
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by zwieback 3y ago
For kids of my generation in Germany (born 1966) fountain pens were mandatory, pencils and ballpoint pens were not acceptable for schoolwork. This was a mixed blessing, while it was nice to write with a fountain pen they didn't really
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by zwieback 3y ago
I couldn't get into The Road either and I know others that feel the same. I've always wanted to try a different McCarthy but haven't yet, maybe this will give me the final impetus.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Everyone who wanted one has one and whoever wants one now gets their friends' cast-offs or duplicates.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Thrift stores.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Wow, I had no idea, thanks for the tip. I've been snatching up old PYREX in thrift stores when I heard the new stuff is no good. Now I know...
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by zwieback 3y ago
This seems like a pretty good take [PDF] from the Kansas City Fed: https://www.kansascityfed.org/Economic%20Review/documents/93...
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by zwieback 3y ago
Greedflation, copying what other companies do and preparing for expected new supply chain problems all contribute to profit-price spirals.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Zungenwurst, can't get enough of it
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by zwieback 3y ago
I still wonder what the TAM for these kinds of headsets is, even if they are Apple quality. Nausea and dork factor might limit to a fairly small clientele.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Some good memories for me hp, VMS, OS/2, spent a lot of time on those. Also good to see Geoworks in there, I seem to remember getting a $10 "working model" to play with back in the day.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Put yourself in the position of an elite school and it makes a lot more sense: who would you rather get, the student who gets decent grades and worked a part time job during high school or the kid of parents who can afford these signaling a
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by zwieback 3y ago
The interesting bit here is that the partner got a job in tech "right away" and she had to look for a long time. Without that partner - how much fun would it have been?
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by zwieback 3y ago
I thought this was one of the better contributions to the "AI will take our knowledge worker jobs" discussion.
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Planet Money episode made by AI (sort of)(npr.org)
2 points by zwieback 3y ago|2 comments
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by zwieback 3y ago
That stopped for me when I got those big plastic boxes that totally enclose the compost. I don't live in super potato friendly climate though
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by zwieback 3y ago
Yeah, tomatoes are the worst, at this point I'm like rain man OCD about picking up any tomato that falls. If you let them grow they become just medium size medium flavor supermarket tomato bastards.
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by zwieback 3y ago
I usually get the online version for free from my public library via Overdrive
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by zwieback 3y ago
I'm about to eat some shelling peas I foraged on the edge of a grass field (yeah, we grow grass seeds as a crop here). The peas were last years crop so not exactly a weed but effectively the same thing.
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by zwieback 3y ago
This is why I still love the New Yorker: touching on urban foraging, industrial agriculture, native wisdom and Amish people, this article had so many chances to go wrong but ended up being a delightful read.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Our state tree. And it's not even actually a fir, just pretends to be one.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Yeah, it was meant as a joke but I guess I was too subtle. I still get why NF is doing it though.
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by zwieback 3y ago
My daughters have been freeloading on our Netflix even though WE TOLD THEM NOT TO DO THAT. So now they'll get booted off without us having to be the bad parents texting them that we want to use it now. No complaints from me.
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by zwieback 3y ago
thanks for the detail! I'll give it a shot. I do like my onions a bit firmer but sometimes an onion jam is a good thing

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