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I’m just playing. It will probably be idle before too long. The Linux box was used in anger for a couple of years.

Five or six years ago, I bought a lot of three ThinkPad R40 Celerons sold for parts, hoping to get one useable machine. I did, ending up with a rather pedestrian LXDE Linux laptop.

Just this week I got a second one running with a whopping 256 MB of RAM, and put OS/2 (ArcaOS) on it. It’s quite a snappy machine. Loads of fun.

The English word “apron” comes from the French “napron.” “A napron” became “an apron.”

Also, Florian was an inspiration for David Bowie’s “V-2 Schneider” from the “Heroes” album.

https://youtu.be/fWkCMD7woV0

Plenty of exceptions though. e.g. KDKA Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and WACO Waco, Texas.

LM358 op-amp?

Point spreads negate common sense and understanding. Remember touts sell you who to bet on, not who is going to win.

If you’re trying to avoid the paywall, note that the NYT has removed the paywall on Coronavirus related articles. Including this one.

Maybe this isolation we’re going through will give me time to upgrade. -73-

Try 63/37 tin/lead instead of 60/40. 63/37 alloy is eutectic, meaning its melting and solidifying temperature is the same (183C). 60/40 has a semisolid state around its melting point (~=190C).

What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

What did rms use? GDB?

Germany declared war on the United States.

Ya. It’s almost enough to give the researchers the benefit of the doubt. Nah.

IBM? AT&T, more likely. Unix had an 8 character limit long after people knew better.

Everybody hates a tourist.

The cartel disbanded in 1939. Were the bulbs labeled and classified by power consumption before then?

Or "stage right" and "stage left."

Also, if you look at it as bottom as front, the description doesn't match. The left side is slightly forward to the right, contrary to the article.

“Uber for fires.” You’ll be richer than Crassus.

It was sold as the Timex Sinclair in the USA.

I was planning on buying one, but ended up with a used VIC-20 instead.

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-comi...

“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.”

Raylan Givens

Is it fair to some are born with more talent than others? Is it fair that a 5’8” hard working talented basketball player will never be as successful as Lebron James?

Insight porn.

Regardless, it is still a standard courtesy.

Fully expanding an acronym the first time it is used is part of standard written English (SWE).

Anchovies

“According to the search warrant affidavit, two storefront businesses posing as pawn shops bought the goods from shoplifters, then had the items shipped to Amazon warehouses, where they were stored until sold online.”

No, it is more like taking 10,000 bobble heads, dividing them in to thirds, and giving a piece to each of the 30,000 fans who showed up.