coobird

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Diatec, the company behind "FILCO" and "Majestouch" has closed down. (Japanese)(diatec.co.jp)
2 points by coobird 5mo ago|1 comments
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by coobird 5mo ago
Pine (パイン) is likely a contraction of pineapple (パイナップル), as the Japanese word for pine is matsu (松=まつ) and I don't think many Japanese are familiar with the English word for it.
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AMD Announces the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2(phoronix.com)
51 points by coobird 6mo ago|0 comments
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by coobird 11mo ago
Hi, author of Thumbnailator here. Just FYI, Thumbnailator itself doesn't delegate processing to native processing -- it's just a wrapper around Java's Image I/O[1] functionality. In other words, it delegates the compress
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Will you help build our new visual identity?(meta.stackexchange.com)
3 points by coobird 1y ago|3 comments
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Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred for Case-Insensitive File-Systems(phoronix.com)
14 points by coobird 1y ago|2 comments
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by coobird 1y ago
I probably still have some LEDs and transistors in my parts bin that (my dad) bought for me from that Fry's. Fry's really made me feel like a kid in a candy store -- all the PC software and hardware along with electronics parts to
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by coobird 1y ago
That was my local Fry's and I wouldn't touch any returned item with a 10-foot pole given the stories I heard about them, despite them being on discount. This was back in the late 90s before social media, so it must of been word of
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Upgrading a Brand New M4 Mac Mini - Flash Replacement [video](youtube.com)
3 points by coobird 2y ago|0 comments
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by coobird 2y ago
(Shameless plug) With Brainfuccuccino[1], you can embed your brainfuck programs right into Java, so you get the "best" of both worlds ;-) [1] https://github.com/coobird/brainfuccuccino
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Microsoft's Paint 3D was once the future of MS Paint, but now it's going away(arstechnica.com)
4 points by coobird 2y ago|0 comments
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by coobird 2y ago
IIRC, the Athlon XP processors also had these contacts, but it required an additional step to fill a gap dug between the contacts with super glue. (Probably possible because previous processors used a ceramic package while the newer ones us
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Japanese billionaire Maezawa cancels moon flyby mission(reuters.com)
12 points by coobird 2y ago|5 comments
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by coobird 2y ago
> What is this obsession with the past and the early days of computing? The reason why people don't cherish these types of things is they are rational. Technology is about tomorrow. It's not about yesterday This reply hanging o
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by coobird 2y ago
This. If you want to see a world without fair use, check out the Japanese Wikipedia pages -- it's noticeably lacking in pictures and images than the English counterpart, likely because the latter was written by those in the U.S. It&#x2
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Owning Computer Stores in the '90s [video](youtube.com)
3 points by coobird 2y ago|0 comments
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by coobird 3y ago
Same situation here in Japan -- all devices logged out of Facebook and cannot log back in.
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by coobird 3y ago
Indeed.[1] I recall using it as my main search engine at altavista.digital.com before they moved to get its own domain at altavista.com. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista
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by coobird 3y ago
Note that the Hokuriku region is where the large earthquake struck on January 1st and at least some of the places listed has been affected. One example is the "Royal Squid" on page 31 -- the website says that they're going to
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by coobird 3y ago
Larger buildings tend to better withstand the large quakes. Building codes have been revamped after large quakes in Japan, so large commercial and public buildings tend to be the safest ones. They also are used for temporary shelter in natu
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by coobird 3y ago
My thought as well. If every project started to make their README filled with HTML (gah, why does Markdown allow arbitrary HTML...), I'd end up crying on the CLI as I frantically search for how to build the project in a sea of <p&gt
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by coobird 3y ago
This. Also doesn't help that many ordinary Japanese think that getting arrested basically equals they're guilty. So much for due process. That said, the 99% conviction rate is a bit misleading in that the prosecution rate is prett
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Kioxia Researchers Demo Hepta-Level Cell NAND Flash(tomshardware.com)
21 points by coobird 3y ago|17 comments
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Asus Unveils the Tinker V as Their First RISC-V Board(phoronix.com)
5 points by coobird 4y ago|1 comments
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by coobird 4y ago
Indeed. When someone says ワープロ, electronic typewriters are what come to mind, just like what the Japanese Wikipedia page[1] shows. The word ワープロ馬鹿 probably wouldn't make much sense to those under 30, as they're very unlikely to ha
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Bad Apple but Played in Conway's Game of Life [video](youtube.com)
2 points by coobird 4y ago|0 comments
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Is the DeLorean DMC-12 actually unreliable?(youtube.com)
2 points by coobird 4y ago|0 comments
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The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia(arstechnica.com)
5 points by coobird 4y ago|0 comments
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by coobird 4y ago
The United States also had something similar -- the Mark 18[1], designed as a very large fission bomb in case the first thermonuclear bomb failed, had four critical masses of uranium-235 in its core. Even one of the implosion lens detonatin
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by coobird 4y ago
The warhead(s) and decoys[1] are deployed in outer space[2]. I believe missile defense systems in this phase will use ground-based equipment like radars, and interceptors themselves use optical and other sensors to discriminate the warhead

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