dogman1050

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by dogman1050 6d ago
I can't beat the famous 1k JavaScript version either. I was better when I was younger. https://nanochess.org/archive/toledo_javascript_chess_3.html
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by dogman1050 27d ago
I have Prime, but I can't imagine installing the Amazon app either. The website works just fine.
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by dogman1050 1mo ago
TIL the word "alidade." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alidade
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by dogman1050 1mo ago
This is exactly why I don't use it and have it disabled. The arrogance of that message is stunning. I use Aves and it works just fine.
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by dogman1050 2mo ago
I'm with you. I get great joy knowing that the machine on my wrist started out as rocks (ore) and was refined and fashioned into something that keeps time with very little energy input. Just keep them away from some modern devices, lik
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by dogman1050 2mo ago
I appreciate the sentiment and prefer to use websites instead of installing another stinkin' app. I'll even enable desktop mode if necessary. Mobile apps have one advantage that I can discern: fewer clicks to get to what you want
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by dogman1050 2mo ago
In the late '90s I worked for a startup that was building a video server based on a massive custom SIMD engine, each processor having its own disk drive in a RAID 3 configuration in totality. Our integration lab had a 256 proc system,
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by dogman1050 3mo ago
The Tesla Live Camera/Sentry Mode feature is watching by design in the name of security. What they actually do with the footage is anyone's guess. And any car with a panoramic camera can do the same.
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by dogman1050 3mo ago
Also the name of prog supergroup Transatlantic's first album, SMPT:E, a play on the band members names.
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by dogman1050 3mo ago
Yes, I had a flurry of them over the past two weeks when clicking the comments link. Comes and goes even on the same post. Running Chrome on Android with script enabled.
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by dogman1050 3mo ago
For me in particular, hard disagree. Had a challenging and fun career until it turned into the same problems, different year. Retirement lets me pursue wide interests, interact with a more diverse group of people, and generally be a better
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by dogman1050 5mo ago
No Amtrak in South Dakota.
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by dogman1050 6mo ago
I love that it has a standard RJ45 ethernet connector.
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by dogman1050 6mo ago
Having used only various ESP and RPi types, I found the article informative and the comments moreso. AI slop or not, a list is a good place to start.
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by dogman1050 6mo ago
I hear this expression said with the incorrect "could" more often than than with the correct "couldn't." I attribute this to one of the following: - the speaker is using wry sarcasm, although the inflection is usual
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by dogman1050 7mo ago
In the 1990's NASCAR driver Geoff Bodine got interested in the lack of success of the US bobsled teams, so he coordinated the application of racing technology and training to the sport. It took about a decade, but they had success. The
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by dogman1050 7mo ago
I love this expression. Initially a hardware guy, my motivation was driven by poverty and the parts I had on hand. This quickly turned into, "what can I build with what I've got on hand?" Even after bring able to afford the
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by dogman1050 8mo ago
As a manager, my job was to make sure they were working on the right thing. If they didn't carry their weight, I either reduced the impact by assigning them necessary-but-boring tasks to offload the high performers, or PIP'd them
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by dogman1050 8mo ago
As a poor engineering student, I couldn't afford one of these, but I could afford the TIM-1 chipset at $35, wire wrapped it up, and borrowed a single-line ascii terminal from a buddy. It's hanging on my lab wall next to other obso
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by dogman1050 9mo ago
Delivery robots may not work out well in Philadelphia. https://apnews.com/general-news-fc26378306a44d62bc9eb14b122f...
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by dogman1050 10mo ago
For me, the failure of Fe is all the races are run on street courses with few high speed turns and no elevation change through the lap. That, and they sound like an NBA games with more tire squeaking noise than the propulsion system sounds
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by dogman1050 10mo ago
When it happened here, I instinctively threw the flaming pan out the adjacent open door into the yard. We ate something else that day.
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by dogman1050 10mo ago
It's wrong in Einstein's name, twice.
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by dogman1050 10mo ago
My name is so common that people laugh and say, "come on, what's your real name?" There are two of us in our little town. When the other one robbed a convenience store I started getting calls from friends who thought it was m
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by dogman1050 10mo ago
I discovered just yesterday that Verizon home internet blocks archive.is. Changing the router DNS from their default to openDNS fixed the problem for me, so it looks like they made only a nominal effort to block it.
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by dogman1050 11mo ago
I've been looking for something to do with the bag of 1N4001 diodes I trash-picked decades ago. There are 1,000 pieces minus the dozen or so I've used in projects. The 50V PIV and slow switching speed limits their application, bu
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by dogman1050 11mo ago
I had a brush with the PS/2 and OS/2 back in the day. IBM offered the PS/2-based Personal/370 on the platform with a card that could execute S/370 SW. My team built the I/O channel card for connecting 3480 tape
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by dogman1050 11mo ago
My best power tool tip, learned years ago, is "go pee first" meaning that you'll be less careful if you're trying to hurry through the cut because you need to go to the bathroom.
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by dogman1050 11mo ago
I replaced a blown Phase Linear 400 with a Behringer A800 amp for less money than the replacement output transistors would've cost. The PL400 was well setup, but the A800 sounds better to these old ears.
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by dogman1050 11mo ago
Good stuff. I don't IOS much, but I've had a "days since <date>" shortcut on my phone homepage for some time. Today shows 411 days.

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