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by hackshack 8d ago
An LS-120 mechanism (see "SuperDisk"), being designed for much higher density, can sometimes read the data.
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by hackshack 1mo ago
Canned fish are tiny now compared to 5 years ago. They shrank to bait size.
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by hackshack 2mo ago
Many of us are sysadmins at home. Home Assistant, home NAS, home DVRs, etc. Consumer NASes are in tension against the DIY hacker / homelab people who often run these things. These NASes are just complicated enough to be consumer unfrie
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by hackshack 2mo ago
Oh no! That keyboard was incredible. Very compact, built in TrackPoint (tm) pointing stick, and option to use USB dongle or Bluetooth. It was the perfect KVM / server rack keyboard, and uniquely great as a VR headset keyboard. I rememb
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by hackshack 6mo ago
USB-C has a mode to run analog audio over its cable, called "Audio Adapter Accessory Mode." It uses the D+ and D- pins for Right and Left, and SBU1 and SBU2 for Mic and Ground. Texas Instruments explains the scheme in a document,
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by hackshack 7mo ago
This person scraped phosphor out of a broken fluorescent tube and made several experimental CRTs: https://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/crt/crt6.htm From the site: "The cathode ray tubes that I am describing here are crud
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by hackshack 8mo ago
Between this, and icon-only toolbars and ribbons, I think we're reinventing Chinese, badly. Ideographic characters can often convey meaning succinctly. My vote is to either go back to picture icons, or use Chinese characters with local
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by hackshack 9mo ago
"Remembering the Kanji," by James Heisig, will set you up real good. I recommend this to anyone who starts in with the 3000+ character thing. It is fundamentally different from rote memorization that they would have you do at scho
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by hackshack 9mo ago
You're on to something. I tried this too, a few months ago, with offline Ollama/Magistral on Mac. "You're a dungeonmaster for a single player adventure game, with me as the player..." It lost track of things almost
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by hackshack 9mo ago
+1; thanks from another satisfied user. I have an annual SOLIDWORKS plan, but SolveSpace is my go-to for quick stuff. It makes CAD fun. There is a clarity of design behind the software that gives it a zen-like feel.
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by hackshack 11mo ago
radmind had this philosophy. https://radmind.org It let you create diffs of a filesystem, and layer them with configurations, similar to containers. Useful for managing computer labs at the time.
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by hackshack 1y ago
Consider checking out this fellow's project. He's making an e-ink text editor: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5jL92TrQ803IKtdFwmUC...
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by hackshack 1y ago
A keyboard with the keys pulled and replaced in the Dvorak "LH" (left hand) layout might be worth a try. Years ago, I had a hand injury for several weeks and this got me through. Took about a week or two to type reasonably well. I
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by hackshack 1y ago
I struggled for years with touch-typing on QWERTY. I remember the "hovering" action that you described. After switching to Dvorak, within months, I naturally began touch-typing. I suspect it is due to it being home-row-heavy, with
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by hackshack 2y ago
The work of these two (Duane Blehm and John Calhoun) formed my initial opinion of the Macintosh. A fast monochrome environment where you could blit entire images as quickly as sprites. World class audio - Glider 4 had a twangy bass soundtra
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by hackshack 2y ago
A pleasant surprise - the KDE version works "out of the box" on my 2015 MacBook 12" (A1534). This is an unusual machine, and Linux distros tend not to support its hardware out of the box. Chimera even sees the internal SSD, t
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by hackshack 2y ago
The vintage Apple A9M0330 (“the IIgs keyboard”) came to mind. The keycaps have a smaller, raised central part. This gives smaller tap targets with a generous space between each cap. Feel is linear. This keycap design helps prevent your fing
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by hackshack 3y ago
This reminds me of the Calculator Construction Set story. I like its example of a builder (engineer) working with a curator (boss), and solving the problem with toolmaking. Engineer was building a calculator app, and got a little tired of t
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by hackshack 4y ago
Agreed - they deliver a very flexible, cost-effective, performant MCU. Downsides (to me) are toolchain and power consumption. Has the Arduino toolchain been enough for home automation? I’ve been playing with Zephyr, but when I’ve gotten dow
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by hackshack 4y ago
About once a month, I dwell on this. Modern web pages can easily be 20MB. You can do a lot in 20 megs. Re-reading Apple’s “Thoughts on Flash” tonight, I was surprised at how many times Apple mentioned vendor lock-in. JavaScript is definitel
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by hackshack 5y ago
This is why I moved to the Duck 3-4 years ago. I became tired of clicking past Page 1 of my Google results, all content mills and SEO farms. DuckDuckGo is just a front-end to Bing, though, and as of mid 2021 I've begun seeing more and
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by hackshack 5y ago
Data point. Old fart who switched to Dvorak eons ago, at age 16. It felt natural after 1 week, and felt more efficient than the ‘qwert sometime between weeks 2 and 3. I suspect young age greatly affects take-up speed. Good on ya for taking
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by hackshack 5y ago
Kino. They were the best Soviet band.
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by hackshack 5y ago
I agonized about this for years. I wanted a proper server, not something embedded or a Pi with a rat's nest of cables, that would still fit in a credenza in the living room. Ended up getting an HP MicroServer Gen8 and absolutely love i
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by hackshack 5y ago
This. Possibly my best computer "upgrade" was switching to Dvorak at 16 years old. Took about 2 weeks. It makes all keyboards much more comfortable, especially laptops. I would recommend Dvorak first, before starting down the path
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by hackshack 5y ago
Thanks to HN, I checked it out on my PS5 tonight. Very impressive. The thing that immediately jumped out at me was the 24fps target. The demo has a cinematic feeling, and thus the 24fps framerate feels “correct.” Compared to 60fps, you can
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by hackshack 5y ago
Blender's 2.9 release was what did it for me. That team is on fire. I'll hype Krita's 5.0 release (still in beta) - it has the same "turnaround" feel. Thanks, everyone, for plugging the donut tutorial link! Checked
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by hackshack 5y ago
This is incredibly frightening. I’ve seen data rot up close, and as a former data janitor, I can sympathize. My advice is to control everything down to the wall socket. I considered the Synology boxes for my home NAS, but my “spider sense”
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by hackshack 5y ago
A bit off-topic, but as a FreeBSD newbie: This summer I switched my ~6 home servers from CentOS to FreeBSD and absolutely love it. Trigger event was trying to set up a dedicated Linux VM for Ubiquiti's UniFi controller software. I was
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by hackshack 5y ago
Long time e-ink hacker. This is cheerful news. I'm a paper-fiend and adore my reMarkable 2 as a paper replacement. But let's get down to brass tacks. Points to the PineNote vs. reMarkable 2: 1. PineNote has 128GB storage whereas R

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