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by drewzero1 1y ago
Try buying a decent toaster, I've found exactly the same. $20, $30, and $50 options all using the same internal mechanism with a different style of shell and minor changes to the control circuit, or $200-$1k models that are mostly mark
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by drewzero1 1y ago
I've also been saving up for a self birthday gift from AliExpress, parts to build a custom watch. Looks like I missed my chance on that one too. Though if this trade war continues escalating I have a feeling a watch will be the least o
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by drewzero1 2y ago
This thought experiment reminds me of Mark Twain's novel "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", in which the main character is a 19th-century American man transported back to 6th-century Britain. He used his expe
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by drewzero1 2y ago
My DCP-7020 is going on 20 pretty soon here. Don't want to jinx it but it's been the reliable workhorse of the home office.
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by drewzero1 2y ago
The funny thing is that the laser printer is much better for people who print once a week or less, because toner doesn't dry up and clog the printer. But for the price/quality it's hard to justify buying a new one.
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by drewzero1 2y ago
Not sure how it is in Ottawa but here in the US Midwest distances are frequently measured in units of time. I might say I'm an hour from Green Bay or two hours from Madison, though I don't remember the actual mileage. That said, i
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by drewzero1 2y ago
Some time in the mid-2000s my dad showed me a website he'd found called Screams of Wheat which purported to show a pitched-down video of ultrasonic wheat screaming while being harvested. I always thought it was just a joke to troll veg
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by drewzero1 2y ago
> Can't help but see some parallels between this and current Scarlett Johansson vs. OpenAI debacle. I think that's why this was posted... I saw it referenced in a comment on that thread.
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by drewzero1 2y ago
Interesting, in cars the terms "generator" and "alternator" are used to refer to a DC device (dynamo?) and an AC device, respectively. Cars used DC generators for their electricity until the 60s/early 70s (depending
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by drewzero1 2y ago
Right, I feel like between that and seeing it a lot over remote desktop I've never really appreciated the quality of the original. I always liked the wallpaper set from the windows 9x era because they were designed to look good in low
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by drewzero1 2y ago
For a moment I confused it with the one from W11 and wondered how they got all the folds so smooth and uniformly spaced.
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by drewzero1 2y ago
A large percentage of people in my area eat venison regularly for at least part of the year. We already have controls on place for CWD so I have to hope that would catch any similar cases before someone eats the meat.
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by drewzero1 2y ago
I took it to mean they're not worried about themselves catching it, but more about the implications if this disease were to spread more. How bad could it be if it started infecting more than just the eyes? How fast could it spread betw
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by drewzero1 2y ago
I've seen it often on Hackaday over the years, and while they probably could do it all with a 555, I certainly couldn't... My specialties are software and mechanical stuff, for everything in-between I shove in an Arduino and hope
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by drewzero1 2y ago
There's a bit of a meme among electronics hobbyists that for so many projects with an Arduino, somebody in the comments says "I could've done that with a 555”. It's a very common chip with a wide range of uses from arcad
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by drewzero1 2y ago
Yes, and haven't had issues with it recently... Was there some bad news I missed?
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by drewzero1 2y ago
What's wrong with Ting?
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by drewzero1 2y ago
The only person I ever heard call them "hard disks" was as a joke in a cartoon[1]. Non-computer people I knew called them stuff like "little floppies" to distinguish them from the big 5 1/4" ones. Windows used
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by drewzero1 2y ago
"Who is General Failure and why is he reading my disk?"
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by drewzero1 2y ago
I found one of those in a folder at work a few months ago and was surprised how extra-floppy it was. I grew up with mostly 3 1/2” diskettes and some 5 1/4” disks, so the "floppy" name always seemed like a bit of a stretc
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by drewzero1 2y ago
I have them, love them, and have kept them outside before. I've found their mouths are too small to eat fully-grown mosquito larvae, but as long as they get there before the mosquitoes do they will gladly eat the eggs and young larvae.
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by drewzero1 2y ago
Occasionally I allow my (toddler/preschool) kids to play 'Kindercomp' in DOSbox on my computer. It's got a mode that prints the letters you type across the screen in different colors, which seems to be the fan favorite b
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by drewzero1 2y ago
This is timely for me, and something that's been on my mind, as my grandmother passed away about a month ago. (Tomorrow would have been her 83rd birthday.) I find myself thinking a lot about funerary traditions and the ways they can br
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by drewzero1 2y ago
Or give them away, or leave them in a little free library for someone else to enjoy. In my old neighborhood somebody else had similar taste in scifi and (as far as I could tell) we traded Asimov books back and forth through the book box in
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by drewzero1 2y ago
My personal favorite is the articulated locomotives, especially the Klein-Lindner system: http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/klienlindner/kli... It probably took me about a week to get a full idea of
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by drewzero1 2y ago
I don't know how many nights I've lost track of time reading through this site, mostly in the 'unusual locomotives' section.[1] (I'm in a rail modeling group where some of us are really into the oddballs, so it come
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by drewzero1 2y ago
Unless you're talking about the PHP function[1], the generally-accepted spelling is 'Israel'. 1: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.is-real.php
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by drewzero1 2y ago
I really like the palmtop form factor. When I was using a Palm Pilot the one thing I missed most was a built-in keyboard. Several years ago I was looking for a pocket-sized retro PC and ended up choosing the HP OmniGo 100[1] over the 200LX
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by drewzero1 2y ago
Resource limit reached; archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240413001045/http://ascii.text...
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by drewzero1 2y ago
The hopelessly optimistic side of me thinks this might be just the thing we need to spur massive improvements in mass transit, when big employers discover that it's cheaper to chip in for some commuter light rail than it is to pay ever

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