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SO DEMANDING posted:reminder that this is what android was shaping up to be in 2006: dont LG tvs run palm os to this very day
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eschaton posted:12-inch magneto optical using a Sony WDD-931 oh drat they made a multi-disc changer too, about the size of a microwave oven...  
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Jonny 290 posted:acorn -> arm yeah the receptionist at my dentist asked me “what does arm stand for anyway” one day and as i was in the middle of saying “oh, it was originally short for ‘acorn risc machine’ but now it officially stands for ‘advanced risc machine’....” i realized that her eyes had already glossed over and lost focus
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Sinclair QL -compatibles in the 1990s. ban this sick filth, imo
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connectix quickcams that plugged into your mac serial port used for eyes in this robot in an x files episode 
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echinopsis posted:hey when someone had a tape drive backup, what was the benefit? density back then? tape backups are still used all over the place for archival purposes. i got IT to restore tape backups of things (usually the design stuff is archived after a product is released) couple times at intel and the economist had a good article about it recently: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/12/15/magnetic-tape-has-a-surprisingly-promising-future quote:Demand for more storage will certainly be there. Estimates suggest that four times more data will be generated in 2025 than in 2019. In the part of the data-storage market where tape currently reigns supreme, it is likely to remain so for a while.
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Carthag Tuek posted:hell yeah the only way to play “draw a really detailed obscenity and then write the word below it” was a popular isketch strategy too
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Volmarias posted:The commercials that Comcast did when Verizon started rolling out FTTP, that said "DON'T FALL FOR don’t get scroogled!
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Wild EEPROM posted:the fact that .co is a thing a friend of mine had a coworker who just this week deleted a good chunk of their subscriber emails because he wrote a script to delete accounts with fake or mistyped emails and didn’t make it recognize/handle any .co.<whatever> tlds
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Progressive JPEG posted:3d tvs i worked on 2 different display controllers (chips / IP for SOCs) for android phones where 3D was a *must have* feature on a stupid tiny phone screen and I *still* (6-8 years later) have never actually used 3D anything outside of maybe an IMAX theater.
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gopher protocol
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eschaton posted:memory-mapped I/O this is still how everything works tho. there are layers to hide it from you, but it’s all memory mapped io all the way down
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mediaphage posted:iirc texas could easily receive their broadcasts even during the day the class a clear channels turn up to like 100kW at night from 50 during the day. 500kW just all the time seems like a lot
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Jonny 290 posted:was real big in the 80s and 90s was it tho? i talked to cosmonauts on mir when it flew over once using the ham radio down the street and of my sample size of knowing one ham i am not sure “popular” is being used correctly here.
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Jonny 290 posted:you'd think iheartradio would have been all about those but they were part of the lobbying group that tried real hard to disable the FM tuner chips on phones oh yeah i know some people involved in the emmis / nextradio thing and boy apple does not want to enable the fm radio (iirc they don’t include them in their own custom designs either so anything like a4 or later doesn’t even have them). samsung is turning them on in future US phones I guess, so they’ve won something there.
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Volmarias posted:The British call it "Zed" in warez* they call it zeta *juarez
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anyone remember how in 1998 we were gonna buy everything with java rings?
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DELETE CASCADE posted:i want that java ring there are a few of them on ebay, that’s where i found the photo. the reader seems to be harder to find
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Midjack posted:ibuttons, geez that's a blast from the past on its own. i still see them once in a while for apartment public gates or garage doors, and you'll find them embedded in the walls of hotels and office buildings for custodian/guard oversight. they pretty much got their lunch eaten by prox cards. yeah my building has ibuttons epoxied to the walls along the routes for security guards, in the parking garage, etc. this place was was built in 2014 and there are systems for sale on amazon so I guess someone is still making money off them. wonder if you could rig one of those readers to set up the java ring 🤷🏼♂️
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our media server is in this because it has the most rgb leds of anything i could find:
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The_Franz posted:poor guy lost his job and was basically blacklisted because he bought a bag of weed in 2003 dell gave him another ad in 2021. i hope he was well paid https://twitter.com/delltech/status/1460707744323932160?s=21
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:I wouldn’t buy a computer from somebody who doesn’t smoke weed your weird uncle who smokes weed and tells you that taco bell stole his idea for the chalupa and then hides in a closet because he thinks he heard the cops is actually perfectly prepared for computer where, to quote andy grove, only the paranoid survive.
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yeah most of my code looks more k&r style because verilog uses “begin” and “end” in a lot of places other languages use braces andcode:code:
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DamnGlitch posted:I remember helping my mom in like 2000 put some things in storage at her school, and being dumbfounded by the 8 inch floppy drive on one of the computers hidden there. i had an alphanumeric pager in 2009 for equipment alarms at an old job, a school district might have i internal stuff that’s very old even in a new building, I guess. once you have a system in place adding on can be a lot cheaper than redoing the whole thing.
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sb hermit posted:ps2 had dvd, which was the killer app, and coasted on the popularity of the playstation. don’t forget sea man, you could talk to the sea man. 
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sea man is the most dreamcast game, sorry. it used the little poofy mic on the controller.
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Sweevo posted:old ones work better because they were built up to a standard rather than down to a price. vacuums weren't cheap, but it was expected they would last 20/30/40/50 years. now (~2000+) they are all cheap plastic poo poo that stops working the first time it accidentally gets knocked over. i have a miele C3 canister vacuum that i bought 8 years ago and it’s working great and i expect it to work great for another 20+ years, uses bags and has a HEPA filter. just don’t by a $80 bagless or whatever, buy a nice vacuum. EIDE Van Hagar fucked around with this message at 13:26 on Apr 19, 2022 |
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FMguru posted:translate this into latin and it could be the yospos motto anyway, stealing this as my twitter bio: superflue complexus et maxime inefficax EIDE Van Hagar fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Apr 20, 2022 |
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only person i know with a central vacuum also has a full set of air tools in their garage and an 3 foot diameter industrial extractor fan in the attic that can cycle all air in the house in a few minutes with the doors open. central vacuums are for that kind of person. it’s a valid choice that works well but it’s not really the easiest way to do simple jobs.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:*Refills 7000 PSI hydrogen pressure vessel for my thinkpad* just set your air conditioner to -425°F so you can store it as a liquid
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Manzoon posted:The guy that I met at a 2010 college house party who was an employee at BestBuy who was a walking tech article and would not shut up about his "3d ready PC". i worked on some of those 3d display controllers that were shameless hype vehicles and let me tell you even tho no one ever used them the paychecks deposited in my bank account just the same.
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i am very triggered by that screen grime.
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Beeftweeter posted:i like it when they light up because the ball hits something. it makes a noise. lol same
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Fanged Lawn Wormy posted:at work our default is first initial last name. i felt so bad when margot adcock joined and got stuck with madcock@work.com I have told this before but at Samsung a coworker with firstname starts with “A” last name “Contractor” got denied in his fab entrance security request filled out “A. Contractor” saying “sorry no contractors in the fab”
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