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by crb3 8mo ago
Go carefully there. Kynar tends to wilt at soldering heat. Press insulated wires together when they're still hot and suddenly they can be kissing; a 1-diameter short is easy to overlook when you're inspecting your work. I find it
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by crb3 1y ago
Try 1972; taped out in 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_timer_IC
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by crb3 1y ago
So it was double-forks, not pitch-forks, all along?
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by crb3 1y ago
That's Keith Baar; I looked it up. Keith Barr focused on musical technology at MXR, Alesis and eventually Spin Semiconductor. His legacy is MXR pedal effects like the Phase-90, the MidiVerb digital reverb series and the Spin FV-1 digit
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by crb3 1y ago
> The 8088's chief virtue was that it was readily available at a reasonable price; That, and it had a compatible suite of peripheral chips, while the M68K didn't... Something I vaguely recall an Intel FAE gloating about soon af
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by crb3 2y ago
If you come across a CZ230S, be aware that you can exfiltrate all 100 of the fixed voicings through SysEx. I got that far, saving those tables to disk; my plan, when I ran out of time and attention, was to SysEx in one of those settings to
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by crb3 2y ago
Thanks, CVS.
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by crb3 2y ago
It's off the shelf at my local CVS (e: and has been for weeks). I looked.
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by crb3 2y ago
My anecdata is that, though it's not as effective as pseudoephedrine, phenylephrine actually is effective in an inhaler, and a helluva lot better at clearing up a stuffy nose than "scents and essential oils". Of course, a c
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by crb3 2y ago
Lancaster CA is high desert.
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by crb3 3y ago
The laptop is a Gateway MX8711. I tried the Exe-Gnu 64bit live-USB and it refused to boot, so I shrugged and booted it into the 32bit flavor. Inherent or model-specific (or offended at only having 2G DRAM to play in), it wasn't worth m
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by crb3 3y ago
Browsing is slow but not that unusable. firefox-esr is in the repos; I prefer palemoon but I'll take what I can get. Gnumeric is faster than LO; both are in the repos. The Broadcom blobs for that Gateway machine are sadly out of date,
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by crb3 3y ago
Commenting to something said within the linked article: 32-bit Devuan (with Trinity Desktop aka KDE3.5 on maintenance) is still available at http://exegnulinux.net/ with Devuan/Debian repos. I'm happily running th
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by crb3 3y ago
Disagree. I'm a ham; my kids aren't... but they grew up with me using Morse (my computers talk to me when they boot up, and when a 'kitchentimer' goes off, and...) so they were naturally exposed to the paradigm. Maybe th
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by crb3 3y ago
And (guessing here) you'd be SOL if there were already 9999 Susies registered when you tried to sign up. Me, I'm gonna treat it like a firstnick.lastnick format when it arrives at my account. I figure "crb3.cdp1802" is v
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by crb3 4y ago
A quick search on 'Ampro' turned up https://www.elite.parts/ampro/little%20board$z80 which might do. My first CP/M computer was an Ampro Little Board 1A, sold along with a floppy carrying CP/M-2.2 +
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by crb3 4y ago
Unless they're talking about layers, with the function prototypes and function calls being declarative, and the next layer down being where the code is actually written out. Even that doesn't really work, though; main() usually ha
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by crb3 4y ago
We get that half dozen as what we call 'ghost calls' -- the caller has hung up by the time the outgoing message ends. It might have something to do with my putting SIT tones at the beginning of that outgoing message. If their auto
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by crb3 4y ago
Except for (the complicated mechanical mess that is) Black & Decker, the cheap ones I've encountered don't have any one-time-only control mechanism, they just cycle the thermostat if left on long enough, which means the heatin
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by crb3 5y ago
Haven't seen it in years, but I still remember naming the cat: "Script or Five? Which hurts less?"
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by crb3 5y ago
Old.reddit.com still works -- just use it. So far they're smart enough to realize that some folks like an information-dense display in their browser, rather than a fluffy echo of Yahoo's purple plague. I watch slashdot via http
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by crb3 5y ago
I've read that Malda wished a 'dot' TLD was available back then so it could be 'aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot dot'.
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by crb3 5y ago
mpg123 -C -Z *mp3 works for me.
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by crb3 5y ago
Maybe what's needed is explicit Agree and Disagree buttons, with indicators, to skim off such pollution of up/downvotes-as-QC?
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by crb3 5y ago
They could have used matte black tempera (Sanford's IIRC). Back in the day, I played around with (analog) photocopier rendition of pen-and-ink drawings and found that large black inked areas developed faded centers. Coating the ink the
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by crb3 5y ago
That's how I read it too; and then the link could be seen as an elaborate QSL card.
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by crb3 6y ago
That's when you go out there with a shopvac with a long extension tube; they're already gathered for you. Maybe finish with a long shot of insecticide, then just plug the intake hose into the exhaust port and let it sit for a few
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by crb3 6y ago
I'm using 11CSciCalc on my MotoG7power. It's good (at least for keyboard layout and key-function -- haven't had occasion to try out its programmability for compatibility), but without the tactile feedback of the real buttons
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by crb3 6y ago
Try putting that track into your random-shuffle collection; you might get some more miles out of it that way. That's what I do for my housework music: whether it's in a pocket mp3 player or 'mpg123 -C -Z *mp3', it's
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by crb3 6y ago
I get this by writing in minimal-markdown text, then pushing it to HTML and reading it in a browser. The reformatting breaks the prior spacial relationships of the words; swapping the text editor for the browser framing breaks the context.

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