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  • A tiny 0.5MB SmartMedia card wins the Small Capacity Memory Card Championship (Japan) — 2KB Casio battery-backed RAM card lost due to a technicality

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  • I had a couple of Sony cameras back in the 2000s. The smallest card I have would be an 8MB Sony Memory Stick that came with one of the cameras. I don't think I ever actually used it as I bought a 256MB Memory Stick with the first camera. Even at the resolution that camera used, an 8MB card could maybe hold 12-15 or pictures at the highest quality.

    Unfortunately, the cameras stopped working some time ago, so the proprietary Memory Sticks are pretty much useless now.

  • What's your favourite story from history that is actually false or exaggerated?

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  • It's the explanation for why the Allies could spot their planes in situations where they would otherwise not be easily visible. If it happens a few times you might write it off as luck, but if it keeps happening over and over you might get suspicious.

    With that said, I don't think they really bought the carrots thing. Both the Allied and Axis powers knew about radar and how it worked. It's just the Allies figured out how to build and deploy their systems first.

  • Whats a band/artist who's music all sounds the same?

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  • Wesley Willis

  • Pennies Are Trash Now | The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies.

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  • The article is about what to do with all the actual physical coins. I would assume the treasury will start gathering them and scrapping them. The old copper coins can be recycled easy enough as there's plenty of demand for copper, but I have no idea what they'll do with all the zinc (copper plated) coins. Apparently they don't know either as there isn't any plan in place.

    Supposedly when the mint decided to start pulling the 1943 steel cents from circulation years ago they ended up dumping a bunch of them in the ocean to get rid of them. Some people consider that an urban legend but perhaps that could happen.

  • AMD continues to chip away at Intel's X86 market share — company now sells over 25% of all x86 chips and powers 33% of all desktop systems

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  • You'll want one of their monolithic chips that's intended for laptops. They do sell some of these chips as desktop models, such as the APUs, but a lot of the mini-desktop AMD systems I've seen straight up use a mobile chip in them.

    With that said, AMD doesn't really sell anything that competes directly with things like the N150.

  • AMD continues to chip away at Intel's X86 market share — company now sells over 25% of all x86 chips and powers 33% of all desktop systems

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  • You don't even need a T model for that. You can take a higher powered model and manually set the power limits to what the T model would use. This doesn't even come with that big of a performance hit either - for all the power Intel dumps into the K models, it's only gaining them a few percent in additional performance.

  • Kamala Harris’s Memoir Shows Exactly Why Her Campaign Flopped

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  • To me her platform was:

    • I'm not Trump
    • I'm going to keep on doing what Biden was doing
    • Republicans you should vote for me because I'm not that different than you

    The bottom two is what really did her in. Being the status quo candidate when people aren't happy with the status quo isn't a winning strategy. Neither is ignoring your base to pander to a group of people who will never for vote for you.

  • The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge

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  • If I really wanted something like that, I'd just buy a dumb fridge and rig up a camera inside of it.

  • Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin

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  • It actually wouldn't surprise me to learn that most Windows installs nowadays aren't pre-installs but rather images deployed from a corporate IT department.

    In some ways the biggest danger for Windows in the home market isn't Linux or Mac but the people who decide they'll just use their phone or tablet for everything. Then again, I'm not sure if Microsoft even cares about the home market.

  • Discuss

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  • I remember back when ATMs had $5 bills. Don't know if they ever had singles.

    I haven't seen anything less than $20's in one for a long time.

  • Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones

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  • The battery has a charge curve. What does the most wear or damage to the battery is the ends of the curve - either deep discharging the battery or charging it up fully to the point where it cannot take any more charge. It's up to the manufacturer where they want to put 0% and 100% on the curve - to protect and extend the life of the battery most manufacturers don't put 0% and 100% at the extreme ends of the curve.

  • Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn

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  • If I had to build such a system, instead of a few satellites with really big mirrors I'd instead have a massive number of small satellites with smaller mirrors. Obviously then any area I'd want to light up, I'd have to hit with a number of the satellites - probably dozens at least or even hundreds of them for decent sized area. That would at least alleviate a few of the problems - aiming would be easier. As satellites move out of range new satellites would be moving in range. Long shadows from the angle of satellite near the edge of their range wouldn't be as much of a problem as I'd be hitting any spot from a variety of angles. That the satellites would be useless for about 75% of their orbit I could make up for by launching even more satellites.

    Of course, it would still be hugely impractical and there would still be major limitations. I'm still not sure how you could manage the aiming - the satellites would have to be continuously adjusting their aim to track their target. Reaction wheels can only do so much and using thrusters you'd burn through propellant like crazy. Launching the required array of satellites would be outrageously expensive and you'd need thousands of them. Eventually something would go wrong - you'd have a collision or one would break up and you'd Kessler yourself right out of business.

  • Well, where?

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  • You can always just use set compatible.

    Actually, one of the reasons that vim "won" over many of the other vi-like editor clones back in the day is that it tried to behave like vi as closely as possible, whereas many of the others didn't.

  • Be considerate

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  • Because evaporative cooling is incredibly effective and works really well if you have a large supply of water.

    Needing to carry a large supply of water is why we don't use it in cars.

  • YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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  • A lot of problems basically boil down to using an nVidia card and dealing with their drivers. Either use an AMD GPU/APU or if you don't need anything fancy the iGPU in an Intel CPU.

  • The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft

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  • I don't know if it's the best way, but I just download and install it as Linux is officially supported.

  • Good Halloween Games

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  • There's always Don't Starve which definitely fits the mood, though I've always found that game insanely difficult.

  • TIL THE FLINTSTONES did Cigarette Commercials.

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  • The Flintstones also did a bit of a pivot too - they realized they were picking up more kids in their audience so they shifted from an adult sitcom to more of a family friendly show. The later episodes do have a bit of a different feel from the earlier ones.

    Also, many of the later reruns on The Cartoon Network, etc. ditched the original laugh track (and good riddance), and that also gave the show less of a sitcom feel.

  • Anyone else not watch movies or TV shows?

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  • I'm much the same way. Wasn't really a conscious decision either - it's more of I had better and more interesting things to do and gradually the amount of time I spent watching TV and movies dwindled down to basically zero.