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Lopatir wrote: send it down to Texas, they love chilli down there.
Yeah, THAT'S VERY TRUE.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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As long as it doesn't have beans in it.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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That's bloody funny!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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If you cross an elephant with a kangaroo, do you get twin craters all over Australia?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Nah - they would all be eaten by the drop bears.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'm not some sort of flake, but I had felt like sanguine a song about that bat I started coffin.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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You can't seriously expect me to reflect on that.
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Maybe. What is sure is that offspring will smell like carrot.
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On great! Now I need three carrots!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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I saw him live in a rather down-market club in Manchester in the late 60s. He certainly worked hard for whatever they were paying him.
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We're all going to be getting new dev laptops at work in the near future. While the planned hardware specs are awesome (fully loaded 15" laptops: i9, 32gb, 1tb, the only thing I'd maybe change would be the brand), they're also USB-C only . There will still be a fair number of older systems around which only have USB-A though. That's going to be a bit annoying for sneakernet operations because dongles suck .
I was hoping to be able to find good dual port (A on one end, C on the other) flashdrives to bridge the gap; but looking on Amazon the only drives I'm seeing with 2 ports are no-name ones whose reliability and performance I have serious doubts over.
Are there any quality options I haven't been able to find among the flood of junk, or am I SOL?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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When searching on amazon I'm always using google.
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I did, got a garbage fire of A or C only drives and SEO optimized recommendation sites, which these days I assume are entirely bought and paid for astroturf.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Am I the only one that is disappointed that this is not about USB powered air conditioning?
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Fueled By Caffeine wrote: Am I the only one that is disappointed that this is not about USB powered air conditioning?
Probably, but I wonder why an A/C would use Upper Side Band, rather than Lower Sideband. I bet Double sideband would be twice as cool.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Just a thought - I bought a new lappy last week - it came with a USB-C to standard USB adaptor for the old devices
Edit - or is that what you meant by the hated dongle?
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It is.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I think a 15" screen is too small on a laptop when the resolution is 1920x1080. I travel a fair amount for my job so a laptop is important and I think a 17" display is much better. I also like them light so I ended up going with one of MSI's gaming laptops. It has a 17" display, good GPU also, and it weighs about five pounds. Since I do GPU programming these days it works very well for me. If you compile on it a lot it is very nice to have your compiler on an SSD. I could have gone with a 4K display but the text is so small I didn't like it.
Sorry I can't help you with the flashdrive issue.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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The laptops they're planning to buy all have high DPI screens, so pick your scaling factor and text size.
IMO 1080p on a 13/15" laptop is the worst. Unless you're using it without extra screens and can put the display really close it's just too high DPI for 1:1 scaling to work, and 5:4 makes artifacts from older software that doesn't have proper high DPI support maximally visible.
The model they're planning to get has a discrete GPU; although I don't think anything I or my coworkers do will need it. Unless someone wants to install steam for a bit of relaxation while traveling I guess; but with only an entry level GPU the result's still going to be rather meh I imagine.
I'm not too concerned either way, having 32gb of ram should give me at least a few years breathing room before Visual Studio, IIS, Sql Server, Chrome, and Firefox manage to bloat themselves up enough I have to deal with swapping slow down or app restarts to compact the heaps.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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