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Midjack posted:this example of applying a load across the face was a dumb thing executed well. people don't usually pay $700 to get a load across the face
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ramdoubler https://daringfireball.net/2019/01/ram_double_engst quote:The most amazing thing, in hindsight, isn’t that compression and clever virtual memory techniques could double your memory — it’s that Mac OS was so open that something as low-level as RAM Doubler was even possible. Effectively, a Mac running RAM Doubler was running a fork of the OS — not just a subtle fork but a fork where the entire memory manager was written by a third party. well, that is one way to put it.
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teen witch posted:god I bought far too many of their books as an edgy teen. though honestly it radicalized me so In 2000, Disinfo organized DisinfoCon, a 12-hour event featuring Richard Metzger, rock musician Marilyn Manson, underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger, painter Joe Coleman, Douglas Rushkoff, Mark Pesce, Grant Morrison, Robert Anton Wilson, Todd Brendan Fahey and others. ...that's certainly a guest list.
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President Beep posted:drat, that old phone number system predates my living memory for sure. nearby where i grew up there used to be an old abandoned billboard with the kl5 exchange number thing on it. looked like some real 1950s poo poo. all number calling became the standard in the 60s. the names were mnemonics for the switch. i want to go to the telephone museum, where they have all sorts of neato switching equipment, but oh well covid.
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c64, typing programs out of run magazine there are all sorts of hardly used features in c64 basic which are interesting to think about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBV_ASCLF4w
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eschaton posted:Apple LOGO on the Apple II+ this too
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PCjr sidecar posted:i suspect the choice of models stocked by toys r us were bottom-feeding the computer market for low-information parents at similar price points as the video game systems the outlet for 8 bit computers at that time frame was sears, toys r us, departments stores etc. commodore sold 12 million c64s, you don't get those figures selling only in uncle jack's wacky computer shack.
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c16 was supposed to compete in the lowest end of the market. it was a bomb in the us, but it still sold over a million units in europe and mexico. the plus 4 was just a cacophony of poor choices all around.
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the promise of plug and play finally got there at some point, somewhere after PCs didn't have to worry about ISA legacy plug and play, and now things mostly just work if you jack something into their anus.
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Olivil posted:if I was in the UK I’d take a cheap spectrum over a cheap C16 any day of the week the c16 was on paper a more capable machine, but it certainly didn't have the install base or software support that the spectrum did, and that makes the decision for the consumer it was big in... Hungary.
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i think it was basically any kind of encryption past DES was classified as a munition because of the legacy and importance of encryption in ww2 commerce won though, once public key and previously considered "strong" encryption was out there in the world trying to impose export controls on it would be trying to stuff the genie in the bottle.
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eschaton posted:there’s another side to this too yeah i think that is pretty much known.
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what could go wrong with a tube of stagnant water kept at 100f with no disinfectants
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Progressive JPEG posted:that vaporware phone that was supposed to have swappable modules the internet mania for swappable module upgrade based laptops about the same time
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there isn't a lot in terms of electronic components at my local microcenter, but it's a place where you can buy adafruit or similar maker stuff over the counter, and i can't think of any place like it. computer components are competitively priced compared to online and you have the benefit of getting the thing in your hot little hands now. you do get to pay the local sales tax, but it's basically a wash.
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trunk mounted disc changers were still a thing well into the 00s. it took awhile for the all mighty aux cord to take over.
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Captain Foo posted:post more this rocks
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u2 has going for it: the edge made liberal use of echo and delay in a modern rock format so the guitar sounded cool, but it wasn't offputting to normies like those goths it's just jesusey enough that if your antenna are tuned that way you pick it up irish-american rah rah rah -- the first station to play u2 in america was wbcn in boston and they did very very well there. bono was very good looking modern rock/alternative rock formats on radio have basically forgotten they exist. your alternative throwback station is not busting out zooropa u2 has not going for it: bono is a twat they haven't been relevant for people outside of their age cohort for a long time, yet they still exist and the media keeps caring.
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obsessions with internet eccentrics is how we got kiwi farms. leave these poor people alone.
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Jonny 290 posted:uhhh now there's a take. 'leave nick smith alone' doesn't strike me as being particularly hot & spicy
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mod saas posted:hi what semaglutide is the first drug in a minute that seems to actually work. 'cured obesity' is a little bit of a stretch, but i know several people personally who have had success so far with tolerable side effects. too bad it's expensive and doesn't go generic until '31.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1987/07/france-the-sexy-computer/665168/ 1987 article on the penetration of the minitel and it's cyber hotness into french life.
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people like seeing faces which is why people want cameras on in your zoom.
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