flyinghamster

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by flyinghamster 8d ago
> Will old domains resell for premiums like low-background-radiation steel? See also: any number of user-contributed sites that were bought by big players and basically parked. Does anyone even go to mp3.com for any real reason other t
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by flyinghamster 14d ago
Rim brakes are even worse when you're riding a recumbent with 20" (406) wheels. Nothing like being over an hour from home and having a rim give out after hitting a bad bump. I'm very grateful that my trike has drum brakes and
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by flyinghamster 15d ago
My father had one as well, an old Magnecord unit packaged into a wooden case with transport and preamp, with the preamp having one of these tubes. Nevertheless, it was also fitted (perhaps by the dealer) with a proper VU meter. I learned th
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by flyinghamster 15d ago
The trick will be making sure that the entire room isn't also well-fried.
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by flyinghamster 21d ago
Not just hard, but expensive as well. That's where the net really falls down. It's trivial to reach an audience of millions with text, but when you move to audio the data transfer starts to balloon, and if you're serving vide
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by flyinghamster 1mo ago
You're not kidding. I read this in the late 70s, and it's a bit of a gut punch to revisit it now, on the very day of the story, in a world where smart homes are somewhat there and nuclear saber-rattling is once again the theme of
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by flyinghamster 2mo ago
Until recently, I used it routinely for VMs, and it worked solidly and reliably. There is a ZFS storage backend as well, always nice to see since I've loved to use zvols for VMs, even when I did VirtualBox on OpenIndiana back before ZF
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by flyinghamster 4mo ago
I have yet to even get started with ESP32, mainly because software-defined radio is my main use case. Once you start getting into absurdly high sampling rates, you start to need a lot of horsepower, and that's where the more powerful S
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by flyinghamster 4mo ago
I've been doing some heavy SDR lifting with a couple of my Pi 5s, and my own experience is that the active cooler works extremely well, and more often than not the fan can be shut off and it will work well as a passive cooler.
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by flyinghamster 4mo ago
I was ranting about the demise of American manufacturing as I was entering the workforce forty years ago , and it seems that nothing has improved in that sphere. Sure, dismantling General Electric produced a supernova of shareholder value,
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by flyinghamster 4mo ago
Back in the early 2000s, that scene was HOPPING. A whole bunch of mods were around, some of which seem to have disappeared, particularly Armored Warfare Evolved. A couple of things happened (at least to my perception): a bug cropped up in t
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by flyinghamster 5mo ago
Seeing all the gigantic and very-high-priced Pavement Princess Pickups clogging dealer lots, it's plain that the auto industry in general didn't learn a damn thing. It's easy to point fingers in all directions, but it always
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by flyinghamster 5mo ago
I'm of two minds on this. In peacetime, I'd consider something like that to be unreasonable and harmful, not that I'd ever even consider setting foot anywhere on the Arabian Peninsula. But, if anyone has noticed, World War II
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by flyinghamster 6mo ago
It seems that way, but it's been flooded with politics for all my adult life. Steve Jackson Games, the Clipper Chip, software patent shenanigans, the public domain stolen from 1976 to 2019, endless thinly-disguised censorship and contr
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by flyinghamster 6mo ago
My high school had a /34 running RSTS/E, with roughly a dozen terminals on-campus, mostly in the lab. Even in 1980, I recall my teacher warning about Y2K, though not yet named as such. Fast forward 20+ years, and I would set up SI
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by flyinghamster 6mo ago
Even better, it was a classic zombie brand revival, and it seems like the vast majority of the trusted names of my youth have followed this path.
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by flyinghamster 6mo ago
Dave's site has an article on Fry's: https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-frys-electronics/ They only had one in Illinois, about seven miles or so from Micro Center, and it was one of the earliest to fol
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by flyinghamster 6mo ago
Yes, and unlike what has been done in the Prius, these were large-format cells. The patents on them ultimately ended up sold to a Chevron subsidiary, which would only license the technology under absurd terms. They assumed that lithium-base
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by flyinghamster 6mo ago
And the silly thing is, as ridiculous as they are for mouse click/drag or touch use, those kind of dial controls are actually reasonable when coupled to a scroll wheel (like you can do in GNURadio). But Apple has never wavered from &qu
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by flyinghamster 6mo ago
Seriously, why not just link to the Reddit thread instead of this? It seems like every damn site has become a Torment Nexus.
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by flyinghamster 6mo ago
Ah, I see. So still a dick move, then, even if I never use it in the first place.
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by flyinghamster 6mo ago
> I remember when Google disabled call recording in Android, so you no longer could record scammers. Citation needed. My Pixel 7a with the latest updates has settings for call recording in the phone app. Since I never screwed around with
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by flyinghamster 6mo ago
It's also something you want to look for if you're buying an SDR. Getting one with a TCXO will eliminate frequency drift, and the better-made SDRs will also have little or no need for frequency correction.
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by flyinghamster 6mo ago
I was a big fan of msged on my Net 115 point. https://github.com/jrnutt/msged BinkleyTerm was another favorite of mine, but I'm not sure of this version's lineage: https://sourceforge.net/p&#x
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by flyinghamster 6mo ago
As with so many old things, it's still alive, but it's down to the die-hards. I still miss it, though - I participated in Net 232 (Champaign-Urbana) for a while, then Net 115 in Chicago. We had some great gatherings back in those
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by flyinghamster 6mo ago
That's happening piecemeal in the US as well. Any "landline" phone service at this point will be coming from a box hooked up to your internet service, quite the flip from the old days of dialup internet.
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by flyinghamster 7mo ago
That's a nice reconstruction. My old dead-tree Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has an essay in its foreword that covers the evolution of English in reverse order, ending with texts in Old Anglo-Saxon. The further back, the more al
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by flyinghamster 7mo ago
Strange that the Balance was largely reliable. I recall one or two hiccups, but nothing that caused me lost work. There were other machines floating around, but they were pretty much reserved for faculty/staff/grad students, and u
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by flyinghamster 7mo ago
Eeeeeep. I was lucky that my big CS courses were done on a Sequent Balance 8000 equipped with six NS32032 CPUs and room for six more. Yup, SMP in the mid-1980s. That machine positively flew on loads that would bring the neighboring Pyramid
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by flyinghamster 7mo ago
If I'm going to a brick-and-mortar store, if I go online at all, it's only to check stock/availability or look up a product's specs/foibles. No, $STORE, I don't want to create an account. No, I don't want

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