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by myself248 3d ago
> "Key beep" sounds horrific. :D And yet, every computer in a TV show seems to have it enabled!
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by myself248 4d ago
Nothing about B-H curves or magnetization current, must be that other kind of transformer, in that other kind of circuit.
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by myself248 5d ago
I remember solid-state piezoelectric "flapping blade" air movers in the surplus market in the 80s; they were all over the Jerryco and Edmund catalogs. Never did get my hands on one. But I wonder how that technology relates to thes
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by myself248 5d ago
...click the Edit button?
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by myself248 6d ago
We'll see if the NTSB mentions piss bottles in the cabin.
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by myself248 8d ago
Mine is just a shelf of Chef Boyardee and Campbell's. I eat one or two a week as regular lunches, to rotate stock. When there's some room at the empty end of the shelf, I shove everything down, and buy some new cans to stuff in at
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by myself248 13d ago
There are a couple of points: The L1 signal had selective availability in the 90s, and it no longer does. SA had the real-world accuracy around 30m in practice; the "up to" 100m rarely happened. Without SA, plain L1 with good skyv
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by myself248 13d ago
> Both BeiDou and GPS are supposed to be limited to 10m precision for civilians. Maybe in 1998, but Selective Availability was turned off in 2000, and here in the modern era: https://rtklibexplorer.wordpress.com/2024&#x2F
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by myself248 14d ago
Estate sales. You can score a dozen CRTs a week if you for some reason want to...
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by myself248 15d ago
Oh, wow! That seems to fill a gap below LORAN's range, and far exceeding its accuracy. I never heard of it before!
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by myself248 16d ago
Because if you had modems between the computers, you used straight-through RS232 cables -- the PC would have its Tx/Rx pins according to DTE standard, and the modem would have its Tx/Rx pins according to DCE standard. The modems d
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by myself248 16d ago
When I hacked a USB2-GigE adapter into my old Toughbook CF-m34 to replace the stock 10/100 adapter, it wasn't for the speed. I didn't need the speed, and of course USB2 wouldn't let me use the whole gig anyway. But GigE
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by myself248 27d ago
CPU gets a little hotter, fan runs a little faster. Close the tab, it calms back down.
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by myself248 27d ago
Thaaaaaaat explains why an open Aliexpress tab always bumps my thermals ever so slightly.
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by myself248 28d ago
Yup, they even speak HPGL. Originally, people put knife blades into HP plotters, by modifying the pen holders. Then Roland started making heavy-duty plotters purpose-built to run blades, but they spoke the same HPGL as the plotters, for com
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by myself248 28d ago
Or if they'd been foolish enough to log the recovery on sondehub itself , which some of us do frequently (but not after causing property damage!).
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by myself248 29d ago
I tried the BMC route, it didn't help. As far as I can tell, the jumper dance was to enable the main BIOS to use the Management Engine controller to perform some other part of the flash, which would ordinarily be locked out with the ju
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by myself248 29d ago
I also managed to brick a motherboard, though mine was a Supermicro, by missing a line in the README that tells you to move some hardware jumpers on the board before applying the flash. I found one jumper, but the other one was in another c
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by myself248 1mo ago
It's appalling that computing in general, and unix in particular, seems to have this habit of intermingling payload and overhead. It's like in-band signalling in the telephone network, where if you whistled the right tones into yo
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by myself248 1mo ago
The only feature I care about here, is that it charges over USB-C PD, which every ebike battery for the last 12 years could have done, and should have done, yet here we are. Is it the very first? I have no idea. But it's the first
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by myself248 1mo ago
Specially interrogated phrases.
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by myself248 1mo ago
Oh jeez, I cannot wait for the Words. Standing. Alone. trend to be over, it makes me want to hurl. It sorta made sense when it was clever and the words actually made sense both alone or together, but now that it's become something ever
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by myself248 1mo ago
Very early in the video, he explains that while previous builds used steel ball-bearings, that's not responsible at these energy levels, so he switches to lightweight balls made of biodegradable plastic. There's comparatively litt
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by myself248 1mo ago
That's what I came here to ask! I'd happily fill some slack in production pipelines, by picking the IDGAF-about-speed-or-color option, if that makes it hobbyist-affordable. Heck, I'd probably pay a bit more, just for knowing
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by myself248 1mo ago
Oooooooooooo. I bet that's how satellite radios get their firmware updates and stuff. Actually I bet it's how they get almost everything aside from the audio streams themselves. Metadata. Channel art. Subscription info. Traffic da
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by myself248 1mo ago
Or SSTV! I recall a demo years ago where someone had SSTV running between a speaker at the focus of a small dish, across to the room to another small dish with a microphone...
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by myself248 1mo ago
As someone who spent years designing wiring harnesses for prototype and test vehicles, I am so tired.
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by myself248 1mo ago
Oh, this just popped into my head. If you want an early piece about global warming, I submit Metropolitan Nightmare : https://poets.org/poem/metropolitan-nightmare
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by myself248 1mo ago
"shake us off" sounds more like George Carlin: > We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam … The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Ju
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by myself248 2mo ago
My favorite mod player. Galaxy 2.12 (GLX212.ZIP on Simtel et al), runs on 8086's just fine.

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