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by ja27 25d ago
Keychron K3 Pro, red switches, RGB, stock keycaps. I find low-profile more comfortable for my hands but has enough key travel it feels right. It's close enough to the MacBook layout that it isn't too hard to switch back and forth
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by ja27 4mo ago
I've seen maybe five big Meetup groups here that were pretty active pre-COVID get abandoned and looking for a new organizer. It's sad. We had a big thriving Microsoft focused community here with multiple Meetup groups and multiple
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by ja27 6mo ago
We did a "restart party" at our hackerspace a few years ago. Definitely could have used a good stock of capacitors. Probably power cords. Not sure what to do with all the very specific USB-C etc. ports that break.
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by ja27 8mo ago
I remember talking about waiting for it to be ready in 1991.
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by ja27 8mo ago
Interesting. It's always been odd to me that FLL was all autonomous and no driver control then FTC and FRC focus heavily on driver controlled periods.
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by ja27 9mo ago
https://archive.is/SxxXj
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by ja27 9mo ago
I was just thinking today how I miss my DSL (Damn Small Linux) setup. A Pentium 2 Dell laptop, booted from mini-CD, usb drive for persistence. It ran a decent "dumb" terminal, X3270, and stripped down browser (dillo I believe). Wa
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by ja27 1y ago
https://archive.is/YZIg0
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by ja27 1y ago
Article is from 2020. They're all but out of the launch business now but claim to be continuing research on it. There are a lot of skeptics that it would ever work (at actual orbital velocity). https://arstechnica.com/s
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by ja27 1y ago
Exactly. There are thousands of other venues to share political news. Go there.
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by ja27 1y ago
Addressable LEDs (strips, rings, panels) are really cool to play with too.
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by ja27 1y ago
Yeah I fried a RAVPower USB-C PD supply with one of those.
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by ja27 1y ago
My wife taught as a fine arts adjunct off and on at a large state university. Between gas, parking, and (relatively cheap) childcare we lost money every semester she taught.
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by ja27 1y ago
One of my favorites. Also the one where Wally insists his towel gets cleaner every time he uses it: https://br.omega.com/dilbert/311.html There's one somewhere where they're eating lunch and I think Wally ask
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by ja27 1y ago
and the discussion from five days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687966
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by ja27 2y ago
Adios then
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by ja27 2y ago
A Trader Joe's moves in
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by ja27 2y ago
WordPerfect for classic MacOS came out in 1988. It always felt like they bought someone else's product but apparently it was an in-house port.
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by ja27 2y ago
The nice thing about picking up older laptops is that the upgraded models don't really hold as much extra value compared to what they cost new so if you keep looking you can get a pretty maxed out machine for not a lot more than the mo
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by ja27 2y ago
My local one closed two months ago to move to a smaller location. Won't open again until at least spring. They still had an iOS 5 book on the shelves from 2011.
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by ja27 2y ago
This wasn't super creative, but way back in time, I was on a local tinymud and a number of us starting writing bot NPCs for it. I built a bartender bot that eventually would remember drinks, tell jokes, and more. One day another bot ca
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by ja27 2y ago
I was going to comment this but he actually mentions Michael Hickey in the article. He says he banked $60k towards building a tiny home in 146 days living in his car, doing Doordash etc., and posting/streaming a lot of social media. I
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by ja27 2y ago
Am I missing something? How did he get Ollama / phi to access the internet to evaluate that site's text?
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by ja27 2y ago
I helped man one at a Brickworld. Lots of chasing down little plastic soccer balls all over the floor. The whole thing just makes sense as a software dev. There's an input standard, output standard, and I guess a processing rate expect
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by ja27 2y ago
I saw someone on Twitter that left hers in a seatback on a flight. They'd show up on Find My every day for almost two months before they died. She talked to the airline multiple times about someone checking her seatback and several tim
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by ja27 2y ago
Heart attack from arguing with OM on 75m
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by ja27 2y ago
The flight path looks like they were approaching for the east-west runway which is pretty rarely used at Tampa so that might have caused some confusion but that's what instruments and ATC are for. If they had to divert, St. Pete Clearw
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by ja27 2y ago
I've been almost exclusively laptop for 15+ years. Currently main a 16" M1 Pro MacBook Pro. About half the time it's connected to a Thunderbolt dock, 27" monitor (and sometimes a second monitor), keyboard + mouse/tr
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by ja27 2y ago
Hey, welcome to the laid off by OpenText club. fistbump
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by ja27 2y ago
Local makerspace

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