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by saundby 7y ago
I'd bet on #2 myself. The imagery likely reveals something about sensor systems that is still secret.
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by saundby 7y ago
I've got BIG plans for my Equifax payout. I'm making a list of all the things you can still buy for $0.27 these days.
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by saundby 7y ago
Check out QB64: https://www.portal.qb64.org
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by saundby 7y ago
Yes. XBASIC, QB64, and various BASICs specific to old computers I still use, like MBASIC on my Osborne 1.
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by saundby 7y ago
I didn't hit a paywall, myself. I don't have any accounts that would give me access, either. Though Medium will usually block after some number of articles in a month.
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by saundby 7y ago
Closer to $1100 per kg for Falcon Heavy.
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by saundby 8y ago
Join us at the Vintage Computer Forum. Technical assistance on tap for keeping older computers operational. Troubleshooting assistance, parts supplier recommendations, etc. http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum.php Your pro
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by saundby 8y ago
So the "pre-CRT Oscilloscope" is an oscillograph. When I came in the door in instrumentation work, they'd moved to self-developing photo paper, so we got to use the former darkrooms as additional storage space. CRTs came into
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by saundby 8y ago
Good question. It's a different operator, +. (plus dot).
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by saundby 8y ago
Some excellent points made about control and productivity whether you're an emacs user or not.
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by saundby 8y ago
When I use NewSpeak on Facebook to make a point, they consistently flag it as 'spam'.
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by saundby 8y ago
This is a multifaceted question--there's a whole toolchain behind any choice of hobby CNC beside the machine itself. I have a Microcarve A4 that I outfitted with some over-specced stepper motors from Keling, with a Gecko G4 controller,
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by saundby 9y ago
I can't help but wish we'd seen where the rapping Alexander Hamilton's thoughts were going. But of course I'd think that, having been a wobbler on the Firewood Test. ;)
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by saundby 9y ago
This is a fun period piece from the 70s.
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by saundby 9y ago
I'll have a buckling spring keyboard for that hologram computer, myself.
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by saundby 9y ago
Not with present processes and materials. And thermal effects on any materials would mean you're going to need a development program with a very limited user base at the end. Still, it'd be a fun program to work on if you can get
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by saundby 9y ago
Except for the 'wear' part, or use while wearing, or software and applications. But--small battery-powered computer usable in class with slightly more hacker aplomb than a cellphone with BT keyboard: Check. It'll be interesti
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by saundby 10y ago
Good article. Yggdrasil and SLS are worth a spin, too. They represent the first packaged versions of Linux many users got running with. After Yggdrasil went away, it was a while before we got another live distro that could be tested before
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by saundby 10y ago
I got the Unicomp with the trackstick mouse for quick mouse actions, then I reach over for the real mouse for longer uses of it, but I'm with you on wishing for a tenkeyless. Toshiba and Lenovo sold me on the mouse stick in the 90s, so
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by saundby 10y ago
This article relies on apocryphal data at best, and seems largely to have been formed by the author's vague impressions. It's a waste of time to read, and not worth refuting in detail.
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by saundby 10y ago
"With this release we return to GNU. For just a little while we dreamt we were tigers. But we are back in the herd, back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass." With free grass they'll have no shortage of devs but it
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by saundby 10y ago
I started with a chicken-wire corner reflector and a shortwave receiver back in the 70s. Great fun, especially when clouds block photons from my other telescopes.
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by saundby 10y ago
I can't help but wonder if this data would inform lunar ISRU prospecting. As the Moon itself is short in heavy metals, protoplanetary bodies large enough to differentiate may have left troves of heavy elements wherever their cores ende
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by saundby 10y ago
This is a fun experiment, with well documented steps followed by the author. It'd certainly be a good example for getting started with hacking the ESP8266 even if someone isn't interested in implementing a LISP on such a constrain
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by saundby 10y ago
This is nice, but I still want a "Shibboleet" switch where a single action sets lots of settings to what a developer is likely to want. Then I can focus on a few deltas, rather than a whole raft of individual settings and configur
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by saundby 10y ago
Why? Because you can, clearly. :D
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by saundby 10y ago
It's also worth looking at what's being used from a framework, writing a spec for that, then considering replacing it with your own code to do what's specifically needed.
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by saundby 11y ago
Movie stars beat Snoopy and Spock by about 50 years. Who knew?
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by saundby 11y ago
There are so many lessons here--hiring, clear communications, having a network to draw on, not getting personally overstretched, not giving someone else a chance to take the keys to the kingdom. And how things out of the blue--personal vend
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by saundby 11y ago
Not to mention how they get taken to the cleaners by suppliers who can see the public side of the project's finances and make rapacious demands on the cost of that BoM after the fundraising closes. Projects would be well advised to hav

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