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DVD±RW was super useful for passing around files in a period where flash drives were expensive. My high school photo journalism club used them a lot to pass around photos and docum…

Hey! I get this is a throwaway account so you might not answer, but I really, really don't like opening an article and having the first thing I see in a thread be someone calling t…

I had a cholecystectomy a few years ago and had a complication that caused a gallstone to get lodged in my common bile duct after removal. Three days after surgery I was in the ER,…

I used to work in Manhattan, you 100% don't need a car there. A backpack for your stuff. Subways are a bit faster than walking for short/medium distances, faster if you're going in…

Plus one on this. Would be amazing if there was a display mode possible or just a variant with a usb to edp board inside without the android tablet bits / battery (even if it meant…

There's an entirely web-native replacement for upload/downloading tracks now https://stefano.brilli.me/webminidisc/ It's based off the reverse engineer minidisc python libraries an…

Growing up in the north east, my parents had a solar pool heater (they still do), Heating a pool via thermal collectors meant that we could reasonably use the pool through the end …

"PID (Proportional, Integral, Derivative) works by continuously monitoring the boiler’s temperature and making small adjustments to maintain an exact and stable target temperature.…

The Cray-1 had 160 MFLOPS, and a single Pico has about 133 KFLOPS, so 8 of them would be just over 1 megaflop (not accounting for any overhead). So about 1/160th!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ5ou3ObXAE yup!

This is a cool laptop but after looking it over I hope ThinkPenguin decides to sell replacement batteries (since they are removable) and perhaps even a higher capacity one that sti…

I just added a base configuration to the cart to see the price, looks like it starts at $799, which is pretty reasonable imho.

I have a soft spot for sun rays. Back in college I had one set up in my dorm room that I grabbed from a surplus supplier that hooked into the school's servers so I didn't have to g…

I've been doing this for years! FYI if you have XFinity or Verizon FiOS you get one end of this for free. All FiOS routers support MoCA, even if you're connected to the ONT with di…

A decade ago was 2013, the pentium 4 is at least 13 years old now, but entered production 23 years ago. There's still a lot of utility to be had from a 10 year old machine. My dail…

Theoretically, if power-to-gas plants can be manufactured at scale, you could make gas generation plants further away from where energy is being consumed. We already have tons of i…

Watts are actually a time independent measurement, note that the TWh has "hour" affixed to the end. This is 1 Tera Watt over the course of one hour, not one second. Your numbers ar…

I (Mostly) agree with you here: > Finding and fixing bugs is a lot of fun. Incidence response is a lot of fun. Hacking on new projects is a lot of fun. Writing unit tests is fun to…

When you're making 50-70k / year you're probably not able to put money in a 401k, especially in the event you have a single income 3 or 4 person household. This is also missing the…

When I worked in NYC a few years ago, I was living in an apartment on Long Island, the LIRR was 1h30m on average, plus 10 minute drive to get to the train station, plus another 20 …

This whole writeup is awesome, but the best part for me was somehow UART being exposed on the SCART connector.

As someone who rode the subway daily for years, the proper swipe speed is almost the same as my walking speed. If I walked through the turnstile at the same speed as my swipe, it a…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245192941... It seems we can already do the Methanol to Ethanol step with a catalyst!

Far too many: Retro (6) - PCjr (128k RAM) - IBM PC (640k + 8MB EMS) - SparcStation 20 (64M RAM, 4GB SCSI Drive) - NextStation Turbo (128 MB RAM, SCSI2SD Hard Drive) - XServe G4 (4 …

Just a few drops of menthol oil on the filter will do the trick, most of the flavor is in the filter.