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No user record in our sample, but logbiscuitswave has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
No user record in our sample, but logbiscuitswave has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
I almost had to defer a procedure for one of my cats because my vet’s systems were all down. This meant they couldn’t process payments, schedule appointments, use their X-ray machine, or dispense prescriptions.…
Fun fact: in Japan there was a WebTV client for the Dreamcast [0]. The very first “Dreamcast” I saw was a Katana dev kit at a WebTV office. [0]: https://wiki.webtv.zone/mediawiki/index.php/WebTV_for_Dreamc...
Andy Rubin also was a founder of Danger Inc. which was also eventually acquired by Microsoft. Unfortunately the acquired talent that brought us the wonderful Hiptop/Sidekick devices were then wasted by being sucked into…
I worked at WebTV not long after the acquisition. I was always impressed with the amount of capability they were able to extract out of such minimalist hardware. Even for their time they had a slow CPU and tiny amount…
20 years on, and so much of this still resonates with me: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost... especially after reading the OP. Lots of memories reading the OP, some good, some not so good. I…
How do you feel about the new surgical options like Inspire Sleep as an alternative for people who can’t tolerate CPAP?
Carelon also does preauthorizations for various expensive procedures and such. I’ve had the displeasure of having to try to coordinate between my insurance provider and PCP’s insurance coordinator for authorizing some…
ㅋㅋㅋ is literally “kkk” but it’s shorthand for 크크크 (keukeukeu). There’s also ㅎㅎㅎ (hhh) that shorthand for 하하하 (hahaha). It’s much faster to just mash out those single consonants, sort of like keyboard spam laughing.
The microchips are basically little RFID widgets that are about the size of a grain of rice. The chip can migrate from between the shoulder blades to anywhere else, and the range is really poor - basically near-contact…
As soon as I saw the screenshots of it running in a terminal window, I was in love.
This was a fascinating read, not only for understanding about how Shazam works which is something I’ve long been curious about, but also a great primer on digital signal processing.
I would guess that that 486 speeds were the terminal velocity for Second Reality’s performance. That was the high end when it originally came out. Don’t get me started on the GUS. That was such an incredible sound card…
Second Reality was truly a technical marvel and arguably represented the pinnacle of the PC demo scene. It’s amazing how much influential it has been and how it continues to endure some 30 years later. Not too shabby…
Every so often I go on a “font bender” and start searching for my “next great coding font”. I’ve been using Hack (https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/) for several years, but after looking at this I might need to give it a…
I often have to do architecture diagrams and this usually involves Visio. Visio has design stuck in the past. It’s so amazingly clunky to use and even simple things like arranging or sizing shapes on a grid can be…
G-15 is just the tint color (the gray/green). It’s not the material. I’m pretty sure that only way you’re getting glass lenses from Ray-Ban is if you get the high index prescription lenses.
I’ve owned many Pis through the years. Always for personal/hobby stuff, but they have been workhorses all the same. I ran a Pihole server on an ancient 1A for several years. It was considered underpowered but worked…
I’ve seen a few 404 Media articles on here as of late and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the high quality of the content.
There’s a lot here I agree with. I dread text entry on iOS and it never seems to get that much better. It seems in many ways to have regressed in iOS 17 as well with things like invisible/near zero contrast text…
If you don’t have a full size spare, you generally always want to put it on the back. (Even if it means swapping tires around if you blew out a front tire.) You don’t want to compromise steering by putting it on the…
The stories were something I really liked and they were a great break from the monotony of the usual lessons and a nice diversion. With the latest updates, you don’t get a single story (at least in Japanese) until…
I’ve been using Duolingo for Japanese and at the level I’m at it’s not even providing any more explanations. It’s just “here’s some phrases, remember them”. The now locked comments sections (which is where the real…
The battery isn’t typically charged by the PSU — it’s often just a regular lithium coin cell. It’s a backup for when it is unplugged so the clock doesn’t reset and CMOS settings aren’t lost.
I remember coveting a friend’s MT-32 setup, but when the GUS came out it was gold. It could do amazing wave-table synthesis in an affordable card. The first time I played Doom with the GUS-rendered soundtrack I was…
It was definitely worse on old hardware, and with the many old and unrefurbished computers that are likely inflicted with capacitor plague, you’re likely to blow something up if you power one up that’s been sitting idle…