krallja

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by krallja 3mo ago
> It is, in other words, a ritual designed in 1974 and never updated. The Chalk Talk was not invented after the IBM System/360. This entire article is clearly a joke.
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by krallja 3mo ago
> Reddit Redis?
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by krallja 6mo ago
> Technically GPS can work from the moon. Well, one side of it.
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by krallja 6mo ago
And the Pi doesn't even come with a monitor, keyboard, speakers, or power supply!
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by krallja 8mo ago
"finally"? We were playing Quake II in AAlib in 2006. https://www.jfedor.org/aaquake2/
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IgniteTech CEO would lay off 80% of staff again if they refused to adopt AI(fortune.com)
4 points by krallja 1y ago|2 comments
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by krallja 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard available since 1882!
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by krallja 1y ago
I think this was posted here because of the question on Retrocomputing Stackexchange: “What was the last commercial Z80-based computer sold?” ( https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/31883/11579 )
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by krallja 2y ago
Californians blame it all on Enron, but that can't be the only reason, right?
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by krallja 2y ago
Dig a well.
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by krallja 2y ago
https://www.rocelec.com/part/01t4w00000PPjBiAAL-MC68020EH16E... - the '020 is still "Rochester Active"!
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by krallja 2y ago
Taco Bell doesn’t use butter, AFAIK.
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by krallja 2y ago
I got actual shivers when he found the tracks in the lake. Amazing detective work.
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by krallja 2y ago
It’s funny that we all read forty pages of a “nobody” solving missing persons cases, and then we say “I would watch this miniseries if SOMEONE ELSE pitched it to Netflix.” (Netflix employees have to pitch stories via agents, just like any “
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by krallja 2y ago
https://tinytapeout.com/
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by krallja 2y ago
All my friend group chats have a #kidpix channel for sharing pics of our kids. It’s named after the historic software.
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by krallja 2y ago
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/mac/
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by krallja 2y ago
For accuracy, it was written in FOCAL, not BASIC.
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by krallja 2y ago
Yes. In between thinking about it and writing it down I confused “24 bits” and “16.78 million.”
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by krallja 2y ago
10.x.x.x has over 24 million addresses. Nobody has that many IoT devices.
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by krallja 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40579119
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by krallja 2y ago
…if you find it?
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by krallja 2y ago
DOCSIS?
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by krallja 2y ago
The Pacific Science Center in Seattle, WA, USA has a Tide Generating Machine[1] attached to their Puget Sound Model[2] - it calculates the tides, and then runs pumps/opens drains to make the physical model act like the predictions. [1]
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by krallja 2y ago
The way innovators erode a legacy company’s advantage is by attacking an area they aren’t worrying about. Usually, that’s cost (“Japanese cars”, x86 supercomputers), but sometimes it’s speed, power, or convenience (Amazon.com in the 90s). C
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by krallja 2y ago
> pile I see what you did there
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by krallja 2y ago
I don’t understand why it’s taking the “legacy” automakers so long to respond. This is basic Innovator’s Dilemma strategy - and yet none have a cheap EV yet?
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by krallja 2y ago
This podcast is for a later-stage competitor (Form Energy), but it explains a lot of the broad strokes around the size of the problem, and why iron-air is a good solution for multi-day grid-scale energy storage: https://www.pushk
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by krallja 2y ago
Iron-air batteries are not for applications that require energy/mass density, like laptops and electric vehicles. They’re for fixed infrastructure like grid-scale batteries, where energy/$ is the relevant function. It needs to be
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by krallja 2y ago
Call Mark Cuban, make the investments now!

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