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by primis 6mo ago
DVD±RW was super useful for passing around files in a period where flash drives were expensive. My high school photo journalism club used them a lot to pass around photos and documents, a couple days later they'd get ingested into the
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by primis 6mo ago
Hey! I get this is a throwaway account so you might not answer, but I really, really don't like opening an article and having the first thing I see in a thread be someone calling the author a slur. There are ways of expressing insult w
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by primis 7mo ago
I had a cholecystectomy a few years ago and had a complication that caused a gallstone to get lodged in my common bile duct after removal. Three days after surgery I was in the ER, I let them know I was in debilitating pain and that I just
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by primis 2y ago
I used to work in Manhattan, you 100% don't need a car there. A backpack for your stuff. Subways are a bit faster than walking for short/medium distances, faster if you're going interborough. But cars are so so much slower. T
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by primis 2y ago
Plus one on this. Would be amazing if there was a display mode possible or just a variant with a usb to edp board inside without the android tablet bits / battery (even if it meant losing the wacom digitizer in the process)
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by primis 3y ago
There's an entirely web-native replacement for upload/downloading tracks now https://stefano.brilli.me/webminidisc/ It's based off the reverse engineer minidisc python libraries and, imho, is super impre
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by primis 3y ago
Growing up in the north east, my parents had a solar pool heater (they still do), Heating a pool via thermal collectors meant that we could reasonably use the pool through the end of September / early October some years, and it wouldn&
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by primis 3y ago
"PID (Proportional, Integral, Derivative) works by continuously monitoring the boiler’s temperature and making small adjustments to maintain an exact and stable target temperature." So basically a smart thermostat that accounts fo
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by primis 3y ago
The Cray-1 had 160 MFLOPS, and a single Pico has about 133 KFLOPS, so 8 of them would be just over 1 megaflop (not accounting for any overhead). So about 1/160th!
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by primis 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ5ou3ObXAE yup!
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by primis 3y ago
This is a cool laptop but after looking it over I hope ThinkPenguin decides to sell replacement batteries (since they are removable) and perhaps even a higher capacity one that sticks out the back a bit. Also the inclusion of a B key M.2 is
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by primis 3y ago
I just added a base configuration to the cart to see the price, looks like it starts at $799, which is pretty reasonable imho.
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by primis 3y ago
I have a soft spot for sun rays. Back in college I had one set up in my dorm room that I grabbed from a surplus supplier that hooked into the school's servers so I didn't have to go all the way to the computer lab to work on my as
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by primis 3y ago
I've been doing this for years! FYI if you have XFinity or Verizon FiOS you get one end of this for free. All FiOS routers support MoCA, even if you're connected to the ONT with direct attach BaseT (it's used internally for t
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by primis 4y ago
A decade ago was 2013, the pentium 4 is at least 13 years old now, but entered production 23 years ago. There's still a lot of utility to be had from a 10 year old machine. My daily driver laptop os a lenovo t420 which came out in 201
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by primis 4y ago
Theoretically, if power-to-gas plants can be manufactured at scale, you could make gas generation plants further away from where energy is being consumed. We already have tons of infrastructure on this planet for moving gasoline around. You
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by primis 4y ago
Watts are actually a time independent measurement, note that the TWh has "hour" affixed to the end. This is 1 Tera Watt over the course of one hour, not one second. Your numbers are off by a factor of 3600. 1TWh / 20 Watt bra
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by primis 4y ago
I (Mostly) agree with you here: > Finding and fixing bugs is a lot of fun. Incidence response is a lot of fun. Hacking on new projects is a lot of fun. Writing unit tests is fun too. I'd agree on the first three, I'm not a huge
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by primis 4y ago
When you're making 50-70k / year you're probably not able to put money in a 401k, especially in the event you have a single income 3 or 4 person household. This is also missing the point slightly. You shouldn't have to r
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by primis 4y ago
When I worked in NYC a few years ago, I was living in an apartment on Long Island, the LIRR was 1h30m on average, plus 10 minute drive to get to the train station, plus another 20 minute walk from Penn to 3rd ave where I worked. On rainy da
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by primis 4y ago
This whole writeup is awesome, but the best part for me was somehow UART being exposed on the SCART connector.
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by primis 4y ago
As someone who rode the subway daily for years, the proper swipe speed is almost the same as my walking speed. If I walked through the turnstile at the same speed as my swipe, it almost always worked without issue. It felt very seamless
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by primis 4y ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245192941... It seems we can already do the Methanol to Ethanol step with a catalyst!
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by primis 4y ago
Far too many: Retro (6) - PCjr (128k RAM) - IBM PC (640k + 8MB EMS) - SparcStation 20 (64M RAM, 4GB SCSI Drive) - NextStation Turbo (128 MB RAM, SCSI2SD Hard Drive) - XServe G4 (4 GB RAM, 500GB Drive) - PowerMac G5 (1 TB SATA Drive)
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by primis 4y ago
Just a few drops of menthol oil on the filter will do the trick, most of the flavor is in the filter.
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MyFitnessPal has degraded services since Friday(support.myfitnesspal.com)
1 points by primis 4y ago|0 comments
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by primis 5y ago
Interesting that the graph of power is split between "Renewables" and "other" which explicitly pulls nuclear out of that equation. NY has currently about 36.5% Renewables right now in their power mix. If they instead lab
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by primis 5y ago
This is actually a misnomer for the most part. While it is true that analog TV degrades gracefully to static and digital cuts out, Digital actually requires a lot less signal to noise to display. When digital cuts out it's actually at
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by primis 5y ago
Why is the image at the top of the artical the tokamak of ITER?
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by primis 5y ago
Hello, I joined this project back in 2016, and here we are 4 and a half years later and we finally hit a 1.0.0 release! The release also has a .deb and .rpm package available.

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