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foone, 5 days ago to random

Here's something cool I never realized existed:

PCBs distributed through magazines!

From Radio Electronics (June 1987):

https://archive.org/details/radio_electronics_1987-06/page/n68/

foone, 1 day ago to random

So there's always the debate between QWERTY and alphabetical keyboards, but everyone is missing the obvious way to solve this disagreement.

There's no reason the alphabet HAS to be in that order. It's arbitrary, and English would work almost completely the same if the alphabet was in a different order, you know?

So, let's just put the alphabet in QWERTY order!
It'd solve all our problems from Q to M.

foone, 2 days ago to random

when is GCC gonna have support for shock collars?
it might help to shock the programmer whenever the compile fails

foone, 4 days ago to random

Terrible idea: Christian programmer who comments their code with references to Bible verses which are applicable to the code's situation

foone, 19 hours ago to random

I keep forgetting that I hate keyboards

this makes it a bit of a problem given that's like 1/3rd of everything I do

foone, 4 days ago to random

I saw this voltmeter at the electronics flea market. Look at that massive probe! It looks like you need to check your back blast before using it.
Apparently it's for REALLY high voltages? Like, 3kV?

brooke, 23 hours ago to random

binary keyboard that supports full unicode but it's just 21 flip switches and an 'enter' key

foone, 6 days ago to random

Getting movies in Pan & Scan is annoyingly hard. I'm just gonna have to buy a bunch of VHS tapes and digitize them, I guess.

Maybe some occasional early "full-screen" DVDs on ebay. Those'd be easier to rip.

foone, 18 hours ago to random

FUN FACT:
if you build electronic devices which contain a raspberry pi in them, consider what will happen if one of them gets thrown out.
someone might open them up, stick the microSD card in them into a reader, and open up that tantalizing "apps.json" file which has YOUR GOD DAMN AWS KEYS? IN UNENCRYPTED PLAIN TEXT?

foone, 1 day ago to random

Someone needs to make a version of doom that works like those 1960s flight simulators that NASA used, where it's a physical model and the controls are just driving a video camera around it

kiwa, 16 hours ago to random

question for the people that hoards computer cpus, how do you store them? i use plastic boxes but the legs still bend sometimes when I'm looking around and i fell like there must be a better way

foone, 21 hours ago to random

My hobby? Disassembling and reassembling 3d printers.

Most people just call that "3D printing" but I want to be truthful to which part of the hobby I spend most of my time doing

foone, 1 day ago to random

So when I see a floppy disk anywhere my natural instinct is "ooh, I should image that and upload it to the internet archive!"
Which is a drive (no pun intended) that has served me well: I've imaged a lot of floppy disks.

Recently it has started betraying me, however. See, I've been doing a temp job where I digitize microfiche for the internet archive.

So now most of the time when I go "hey I should image that disk and put it on the archive", it's already IN the internet archive. Physically!

foone, 1 day ago to random

The fact that Sholes teamed up with Remington to sell his keyboards makes total sense.
Not only because duh, Remington was exactly the kind of company that knew how to make reliable machinery with small accurately milled parts, but because the keyboard is a weapon.

foone, 3 days ago to random

Fun bug: my wife and I were playing Wheel of Fortune on the switch. We each created female characters, but the game crashed while spinning the wheel. Fortunately it saves your mid-game progress, except when we resumed playing, my wife's character was now a man.

She got transed by a crash!