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Digital Radio Mondiale enthusiasts: First time?

China Room

They’ve infiltrated the executive branch!

Sure but if we succeed at mitigating cimate change effects to a reasonable degree, civilization will survive for centuries, during which a reactor that uses itmight become available. It’s a minor problem blown out of proportion, as opposed to CO₂ emissions, which are the opposite.

And below retirement age, too! Finally someone who won’t just want to secure a cozy last few few years for their elderly rich friends.

Almost everyone was shooting on film in 1991, as digital cameras were usualy NTSC resolution or 1024p and very expensive. And B/W film was always cheaper than color but both were quite affordable by the 1990s.

color printed newspapers would catalog their back issues in black and white

Why? It’s not expensive to set one copy aside and keep 365 of them a year into some cold dry storage, right?

Wasn’t thos true for Biden too?

I wouldn’t go on a 30-minute crime spree yet, there might be a better deal soon.

Trump says he’s going to be a one-day dictator if elected. If he gets his way and does not get punished afterwards, we have a strong legal precedent that everyone gets their personal Purge once in their lifetime.

Not a computer game but Tetris-like, Lonpos Cosmic Creatures had me thinking which of the irregular pieces fit allong any jagged edge for a while.

Yeah, that’s what “square number” means.

Right away, I can tell it’s not going to be easy. No square number ends with 2, 3, 7 or 8.

Assuming the number is square, the first digit can be found through successive approximation, the last digit is then mapped to 0→0, 1→1/9, 4→2/8, 5→5, 6→4/6, 9→3/7. To differentiate between the low/high number in ambiguous cases, one can estimate the difference from the bottom/top of the decade, compare to ⌷5² (can be calculated with an easy trick) or check for division by 3.

Obviously not the first but might win a “most basic browser currently maintained” competition if it qualifies (not if HTML rendering is a criterion).

I have never used iOS but I’d guess that makes browsing on it a little less convenient than on a terminal with curl.

You’ve never used function keys? The dual function is annoying even inside the OS. I have to help several people with laptops and you can’t tell what mode they’re in, the user often doesn’t know either.

On laptops, you never know if the F-key behavior is defined by the OS, BIOS or keyboard driver. I just mash F2, F8, Fn+F2, Fn+F8, Del as often as I can (these are the most common keys to do the trick). You can reduce the options with a USB keyboard with just normal F-keys.

Some laptops don’t have a key you can hold to enter BIOS settings or boot menu (maybe to start booting before the keyboard is initialized?) and there is a reset button hole for that.

I know, I mentioned it in that long comment

The recommendations seemed favorable when I tried it. I have since switched to Mint.

Depends on brand. And my head always hurts after inhaling them for more than a minute without a fume extractor. (I just use a PC fan and some old who-knows-what HEPA-like filter discarded from ventilation equipment. For quick jobs, I hold my breath and/or move out of the way.)

What it looks like: You shat all over the board.
What it smells like: Nasty chemicals but only when hot.
What it does: it helps distribute heat, and causes the solder to be less viscuous and stick to metals readily.
What it feels like to start using it: Wow, it’s like I just gained one year of soldering experience!
What it feels like to remove it from the board after soldering: Aargh… I swear, one more board and I go buy an ultrasonic cleaner. (Some brands are easier but I usually need to employ a spudger, brush, then alcohol annd Q-tip)

Note that some solder comes with a core that contains flux or some similar substance of that effect.

If you have problems, you should probably add flux (make sure to extract fumes if soldering with flux for a while). Some say there is never enough flux.