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I've seen maybe five big Meetup groups here that were pretty active pre-COVID get abandoned and looking for a new organizer. It's sad. We had a big thriving Microsoft focused commu…

We did a "restart party" at our hackerspace a few years ago. Definitely could have used a good stock of capacitors. Probably power cords. Not sure what to do with all the very spec…

I remember talking about waiting for it to be ready in 1991.

Interesting. It's always been odd to me that FLL was all autonomous and no driver control then FTC and FRC focus heavily on driver controlled periods.

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I was just thinking today how I miss my DSL (Damn Small Linux) setup. A Pentium 2 Dell laptop, booted from mini-CD, usb drive for persistence. It ran a decent "dumb" terminal, X327…

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Article is from 2020. They're all but out of the launch business now but claim to be continuing research on it. There are a lot of skeptics that it would ever work (at actual orbit…

Exactly. There are thousands of other venues to share political news. Go there.

Addressable LEDs (strips, rings, panels) are really cool to play with too.

Yeah I fried a RAVPower USB-C PD supply with one of those.

My wife taught as a fine arts adjunct off and on at a large state university. Between gas, parking, and (relatively cheap) childcare we lost money every semester she taught.

One of my favorites. Also the one where Wally insists his towel gets cleaner every time he uses it: https://br.omega.com/dilbert/311.html There's one somewhere where they're eating…

and the discussion from five days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687966

Adios then

A Trader Joe's moves in

WordPerfect for classic MacOS came out in 1988. It always felt like they bought someone else's product but apparently it was an in-house port.

The nice thing about picking up older laptops is that the upgraded models don't really hold as much extra value compared to what they cost new so if you keep looking you can get a …

My local one closed two months ago to move to a smaller location. Won't open again until at least spring. They still had an iOS 5 book on the shelves from 2011.

This wasn't super creative, but way back in time, I was on a local tinymud and a number of us starting writing bot NPCs for it. I built a bartender bot that eventually would rememb…

I was going to comment this but he actually mentions Michael Hickey in the article. He says he banked $60k towards building a tiny home in 146 days living in his car, doing Doordas…

Am I missing something? How did he get Ollama / phi to access the internet to evaluate that site's text?

I helped man one at a Brickworld. Lots of chasing down little plastic soccer balls all over the floor. The whole thing just makes sense as a software dev. There's an input standard…

I saw someone on Twitter that left hers in a seatback on a flight. They'd show up on Find My every day for almost two months before they died. She talked to the airline multiple ti…

Heart attack from arguing with OM on 75m