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I work in the healthcare industry. Our hospitals have a line with the CDC, and are getting updated with live data. A public-facing website isn't the primary way of disseminating this data.

In what way is this incompetent? They can only update when the data is confirmed. Once daily seems reasonable to me.

Pretty difficult to pass that off as crab, if they come still in the shell, like I've seen at every buffet I've been to.

Granted, I haven't been to a buffet in over a decade. They seem to have died out entirely near me.

Still gotta line it up.

My TV is blocked from communicating outside my network by a MAC-based IPTABLES rule on my router.

I would just entirely disable WiFi on the thing, but guess what? Once you set the wireless up, there's no way to erase that data from the TV again. But allowing the TV to be on the network but not on the internet allows me to use some IoT features locally, so it's an alright compromise by me for now.

I would buy a dumb TV in a heartbeat, next time I upgrade. If there's one available.

DDG is an entirely different search engine, they don't use Google.

If you want to build your own engine, go ahead :)

p/q2-q4!

p : pawn

/ : at

q2 : queen's file, rank 2

- : moves to

q4 : queen's file, rank 4

! : good move!

Well, they're making phone games these days, and they made a bunch of edutainment PC games in the 90s (Mario Teaches Typing, Mario is Missing, etc.).

They didn't make the CD-i games. They did license out Zelda for it, though. The CD-i is a bit of a mess. There are YouTube videos of the games, they're quite atrocious :) There's also Hotel Mario [1] and the unreleased Super Mario's Wacky Worlds [2] on the CD-i as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Mario [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario%27s_Wacky_Worlds

It's quite common on country roads in upstate NY, too. I'm not sure why the author tried to posit it as something that could only happen in severely low-crime areas.

Flying Buffalo, Inc. still runs traditional PBM games.

Just follow your hostname with a / to get around that. It's muscle memory for me at this point.

My FiiO M9 does a real good job at random. But the UI leaves a lot to be desired.

Modern hi-range IEMs come with a cleaning tool. Use it to clean the wax out, and they'll keep trucking. :)

I had one of the original 2012 Model B's (with the 256MB RAM) serving as a simple web server for years. I just recently retired it in favor of a VM.

Other than that, I have:

- A RetroPie attached to my living room TV

- A Zynthian (http://zynthian.org/)

- A PiDP-11 (https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11)

In the past, I've played around with them, making:

- A touch-screen enabled stand-alone SunVox synth

- A home audio server attached to my stereo

- An experiment to read MIDI files from floppy disks, also attached to the stereo

I have a couple spares laying around waiting for use cases... but I'm not really antsy to get to them. I'd love to build an OTTO (https://github.com/topisani/OTTO) when it's ready for prime time. I'm also considering building some sort of portable RetroPie.

At least two!

If I might plug my own work:

I did a 5-part lesson on my blog. It starts from zero knowledge and ends up with two Fibonnaci calculators (one recursive, one iterative):

http://blog.suspended-chord.info/tag/lambda%20calculus/

(There's also a theorycrafting post I did a bit later to build a rudimentary object-oriented programming paradigm in the Lambda calculus.)

Well now I'm feeling old.

Huh, you and I must live in radically different Americas.

As someone who has had music put out on tape in 2018 and 2019, and as someone who owns and regularly plays over 300 modern (post-2015) tapes, it's just a part of the scene for some genres. There's a certain object fetishization among underground/niche/extreme music fans. We like to cop the physical releases because they're a direct, tangible way to connect with the artist. They're easy to DIY (moreso than vinyl, perhaps less easy than CDrs, though), and they're an interesting medium to package for (I have releases that have come in everything from ziplok bags to custom-built wooden boxes).

So, yeah. We do play them. At least those of us who are serious about the format.

The toast(1) as a sandwich(2) is an example of a toast sandwich, which I promise is a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_sandwich

I could be wrong, but I think it means 'spare' as in 'singular' or 'loose', not as in 'replacement' or 'extra'.

Computer Networking at SUNY Oswego, as taught by Doug Lea. At least it was used in 2012 when I took it. The hardcover is on my work bookshelf behind me now -- so useful I kept it.

Is there a way to browse available projects on your site? I'm interested in taking a look around, I love to build weird things :)

I for one have a large modern tape collection (underground metal, noise, ambient, and sound-art mostly), and I play them quite regularly.

Just about any. The SMB ROM is 31KB.

Only on TV.

What is a submarine piece?

GMT games are awesome. And awe-inspiring. I'm on a Victory Point Games kick myself at the moment. A little less intense than GMT. But I'm no stranger.

Might I recommend Bill Banks' Ancients? It's quite good, if you can hunt down a copy. Or don't mind assembling one, since it was posted online for free by the publisher at one point, and nothing dies on the internet:

http://backtominnesota.com/Ancients%20Old/Old%20Ancients.htm

(Or my all-in-one file, here: http://suspended-chord.info/static/downloads/paperparachute-...)

There is a Wii U emulator kicking around. And a few 3DS emulators -- which is a hoot, given that the 3DS is still a living, supported system getting new retail game releases weekly.