Jeema101

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by Jeema101 3mo ago
Illustrates the importance of 'crossing the T' in naval warfare before there were turreted guns. :)
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by Jeema101 7mo ago
Alexa play 'Nena - 99 Red Balloons'...
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by Jeema101 1y ago
I don't think people are 'more concerned' - it's just that the sinking of the Titanic was (and still is) a shocking and compelling story. It was the largest ocean liner in the world, on it's maiden voyage, supposed
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by Jeema101 1y ago
Okay but why stop there: why not also hand-wave a new operating system and hardware architecture into existence for it to run on while they're at it? I mean it's only 60 million lines of code [1] after all. Should be able to kno
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by Jeema101 2y ago
Objects at the top of the screen are drawn after the mid-screen interrupt. Objects at the bottom of the screen are drawn after the end-screen interrupt. Thus the code and hardware work on different halves of the screen. I'm wondering
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by Jeema101 2y ago
It's back in the main exhibit now AFAIK. They completed a 4th hangar some years back and towed it back there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WptDcLKTYSM
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by Jeema101 2y ago
I assume you're referring to old people when you say 'vulnerable populations', but the problem is that old people are not always the only ones that get affected during flu pandemics. During the Spanish flu pandemic, for exam
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by Jeema101 2y ago
He is barely coherent most of the time, but several of his ideas do resonate with people and are easy to understand: 1 - Other countries in the world have taken advantage of the US 2 - Illegal immigrants have changed the country for the wor
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by Jeema101 2y ago
I recently ported an old Pascal game to Free Pascal. I had never really used Pascal before this particular project. Learning the language was interesting, but there's a lot about it that seemed pretty irritating, the main one being th
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by Jeema101 2y ago
The 'computed COME FROM' is even more interesting than the regular one due to it's ability to violate causality by coming from a place in the code before it was ever computed. That of course makes migrating from Intercal diff
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by Jeema101 2y ago
For a while I kinda wanted to buy a used Buick Reatta as a project car because it had the same CRT touchscreen technology. It's extremely cool if you're into the 80s retro futuristic vibe.
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by Jeema101 2y ago
Cadmium was also widely used in the past as a galvanic coating on iron and steel parts to keep them from rusting. And unfortunately when and if it oxidizes, it can become powdery and easily airborne. I mess around with old electronics and
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by Jeema101 2y ago
It's very strange - some people are lucid and mobile up until nearly the end, and others are 'out of it' for a long time. My mother was mostly delirious and bedridden for the entire last month of her life before dying from c
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by Jeema101 2y ago
The article seems to contain a lot of hand-wringing about upper class' beliefs allegedly harming lower class families, but I don't see any mention about the main change in the labor force since 1960 - namely the participation rate
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by Jeema101 2y ago
Relevant xkcd (and personal favorite of mine) since no one else posted it yet: https://xkcd.com/91/ :)
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by Jeema101 2y ago
I think an aggravating factor in the software world (that's maybe not as prevalent in other fields), is that developers tend to want to use the latest and newest technologies, even if said technology is not really appropriate for the t
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by Jeema101 2y ago
Interview from one day ago with the original author of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIoYM_p3HX4 Interesting takeaways: * The game was developed for the company that the author worked for in 1984 as a demonstrat
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by Jeema101 2y ago
Oh definitely. Love Galactus.
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Ask HN: Is this the norm nowadays for big tech customer service?
4 points by Jeema101 2y ago|1 comments
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by Jeema101 3y ago
The article seems to allege that Roth IRAs are being used as illegal tax shelters by using them to purchase assets at below-market value. It states: "Thiel paid $0.001 per share — yes, just a tenth of a penny — for 1.7 million shares
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by Jeema101 3y ago
Well 'year' can mean two different things though: 'calendar year' or 'solar year'. Your calendar year birthday would be March 1 since one full calendar year has elapsed. But Feb 28 is the nearest day to one ful
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by Jeema101 3y ago
One of my favorite movie monologues of all time is the speech Slim Pickens' character gives to the crew when he realizes that their mission isn't an exercise. It's so delightfully absurd: https://www.youtube.com&
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by Jeema101 3y ago
Very similar thing happened to me, except with Spectrum. Called to complain after they increased my bill. The only option they gave me was to sign up for ACP, which they said I was automatically eligible for strictly based on my address.
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by Jeema101 3y ago
Oh man. There is this building in the city where I live. It's SO uncompromisngly gray and ugly that sometimes I think maybe it's actually a parody of this particular style. It kind of looks like a prison from the outside too...
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by Jeema101 3y ago
I was told by the armchair generals on the internet that the infamous tank battle scene in the movie 'Fury' was totally unrealistic specifically because the opposing tanks fight at such close range. Yet here we have a video from a
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by Jeema101 3y ago
Just get an old car and buy some tools and teach yourself. There's a ton of information online. For a lot of cars, you can find step-by-step instructions or walkthrough videos of common procedures. I would start with some easier proc
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by Jeema101 3y ago
There was also Sente (another Go term) which was used as the name of another company founded by Nolan Bushnell (the founder of Atari). I think he was an avid Go player.
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by Jeema101 3y ago
Oh boy, I can't wait to make my first 1au high div! (with overflow set to scroll of course)
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by Jeema101 3y ago
Here's an interesting fact that I didn't know until very recently: the original 40-PIN DIP Z80 is still made today, by Zilog: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/zilog/Z84C0008PEG... I g
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by Jeema101 3y ago
This is a great example of basic functionality regressing due to the bloat of modern technology stacks. Blinking cursors have existed since the original IBM PC and before. Yet for some reason, now a blinking cursor is a problem that causes

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