eichin

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by eichin 4d ago
Yeah, Concord grapes are based on Fox grapes; when the new Welch's headquarters opened on Baker Ave they included a plantation started from cuttings from the original farm (which is just a house now but they still maintain their own gr
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by eichin 7d ago
The Sotsu "Flip Action Elite" (I think that's the product name? it was in a recent mrwhostheboss thin tech video) is exactly that: 3840x2400, 16", 450 nits, 14.3mm thick, and definitely had "slice the top off a lapt
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by eichin 19d ago
Back in the early 1990s, mice were fragile enough that Apollo salespeople were trained to be able to do their demos keyboard-only as backup (at least for tradeshows) and that was just generally how interfaces were built. It wasn't an
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by eichin 21d ago
And we haven't solved "alignment" for corporations either...
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by eichin 21d ago
I've just been collecting monospace fonts, and have a bit of elisp to cycle through the collection when I'm bored with the current one. (Sometimes that's enough to conclude that no, really, the original was fine and I go bac
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by eichin 26d ago
There's a similar "horror burrito" circulating on bluesky and my first thought was "now we know how to produce images for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin... " (
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by eichin 26d ago
Even with the label absent - you wouldn't serve cake with "tomatoes" and "salad", so that would be another hint of something being horribly wrong
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by eichin 1mo ago
I still can't find pics of the boards (other than on ebay :-) but https://seltzerbooks.com/alta.html has quotes like "To get a sense of the relative size of the RAM in AltaVista Search, consider that a typical per
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by eichin 1mo ago
mmm the early Dell 2U servers (2003 or so?) didn't have very good linux support, so the fans always ran at full speed. I think the happiest I've ever seen people about a kernel upgrade was (2.5 era?) when it got fan support for
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by eichin 1mo ago
Reminds me that AltaVista's servers ran in 4G of RAM (there were famous, at the time, pics of the circuit boards - DEC was rightfully proud of this, 30 years ago) and that a modern AltaVista should run on a decent laptop :-)
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by eichin 2mo ago
Is anyone else getting "mongodb is webscale" vibes? (Except 16 years ago that was a lot smoother, because it used some sort of "render this conversation" engine...)
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by eichin 2mo ago
it's sold as harder to copy (and easier to revoke when you're doing layoffs - which shouldn't have been a really challenge for card-based systems, they're just old and didn't keep up.)
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by eichin 2mo ago
Even the Microsoft Kin lasted 48 days (I thought it had been cancelled on launch day, but digging back it was just the tech press saying "This was a mistake from Day One" which is certainly true, but not the same thing :-)
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by eichin 2mo ago
800VDC at (merely) hundreds of amps is a high-end electric car charger. (Those are a lot easier to shut down individually, though.)
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by eichin 2mo ago
Or to the drug-assisted VR scene in Minority Report. (Though that's even darker...)
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by eichin 2mo ago
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7487913... via https://bsky.app/profile/jfoust.bsky.social/post/3mrqa6o24as... says that they're having attitude control pr
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by eichin 2mo ago
They should be close to the end of the checkout stage, then it'll take 4 weeks to get in the right orbit and another 2 weeks of inspection ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_boost_mission#Boost_oper... has an e
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by eichin 2mo ago
At least in the US, no, not many, and the fish itself is very import restricted to keep the toxic parts from reaching the market. Hmmm.
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by eichin 2mo ago
it's a little weird but most of the sub $50 ESP-32 boards on waveshare include an MP3 player as one of many demo bits of code (primarily because it shows off code for "read from microSD card" and "drive the DAC".) I
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by eichin 2mo ago
Monitoring "space weather" (paying attention to the sun/solar flares/CMEs etc) is important to keeping our earth orbiting satellites functioning. (That's without getting into what a modern "carrington event&qu
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by eichin 2mo ago
Textual? https://textual.textualize.io/
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by eichin 2mo ago
ugh, I had some text book that used R for a scalar value and (edit: \u{MATHEMATICAL BOLD FRAKTUR CAPITAL R} here) for a matrix that was related to the scalar and I had to go back and re-learn a month of material once I figured out that the
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by eichin 2mo ago
BASIC is older than most people realize, but it's still half a decade younger than Lisp.
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by eichin 2mo ago
The description of Gallus Gallus ("Red Junglefowl" but also described as the "original chicken") mentions it being an introduced species in Hawaii (but also that it's interbred with "feral and domestic chickens
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by eichin 2mo ago
Thanks!
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by eichin 2mo ago
The only ones getting paid this time around had registered copyrights (in the US at that.)
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by eichin 2mo ago
what's getting built is more like Asimov's Spacers/Solarians, though. (Vastly reduced population wielding thousands of robots each)
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by eichin 2mo ago
and "cookie clicker" is already taken :-)
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by eichin 2mo ago
Only vaguely related: is that tiny receipt printer at the end of the article real or is it itself a mockup? (It appears to be smaller than any of the ones I've come across, and google image search was unhelpful.)
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by eichin 2mo ago
The anecdotes I picked up in my early driving days suggested that red being more visible also meant it was more visible to traffic cops and get more attention - and thus more speeding tickets even for relatively small violations. (No ide

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