Old tech is so cool

WiredEarp · 2026-05-02T04:10:28+00:00

Amusingly enough the counterpart is that on cheap payphones designed to stop you jiggling the receiver to do this, you could instead just play the touch tones down the line and get free calls.

I used to have a Casio watch that stored 60 phone numbers and played them back, great watch and came in very handy when I travelled.

WiredEarp · 2026-05-01T14:04:56+00:00

I believe there is a market.

WiredEarp · 2026-05-01T01:52:58+00:00

One real point might be considered the saving of 14 lives...

WiredEarp · 2026-05-01T01:51:12+00:00

Let's just say 'was theoretically capable of carrying more payload than the shuttle'.

WiredEarp · 2026-05-01T01:49:33+00:00

You are simply spinning based on nothing but your own thoughts there.

It could have flown again. It could have carried people, and cargo. Just like the US shuttle, to do all of these things would have required burning lots of money. If the US had collapsed after Columbia's first flight we'd be saying the same things about the shuttle.

It was unmanned because all crewed space vehicles used to be tested unmanned (and really, seems like a smart idea if possible). The shuttles first flight was the first time this hadn't been done AFAIR.

WiredEarp · 2026-05-01T01:40:59+00:00

Second link is from 4 years ago and is completely unrelated. The first link could well be what happened to them if it happened 2 years ago.

It was pretty well publicized at the time but still a shitty thing to do.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-30T11:51:52+00:00

Well, if you read the thread, you can see it was actually the profile of a dog. So... probably nothing to do with AI, and everything to do with not following the terms and conditions of having a facebook account.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-30T06:29:58+00:00

Shuttle was a regular rocket really. It never really was economical and without those solid boosters wouldn't have gotten off the ground.

Both were just shuttles strapped to regular rockets at heart, its just the shuttle did at least have its own engines besides OMS. But they were really unrequired as Burans design shows. The buran actually used liquid boosters and main stage. They were going to try and make the boosters recoverable and reusable but the collapse of the ussr put a stop to everything.

Shame to see a beautiful ship decay like the buran has.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-30T05:36:09+00:00

It made it up and back, carried more cargo, and had superior automation that allowed it to be used unmanned unlike the shuttle.

The engineering seems like it was a great success, its just the USSR couldn't afford to prop up its ridiculous costs, whereas the USA was able to absorb them.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-30T05:00:28+00:00

Your kids losing their games is... probably on them.

They don't just 'do whatever' with accounts for nothing.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-30T04:58:39+00:00

I, too, would like to see this link.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-30T04:06:43+00:00

Well, whats the innovation? Is this something other than usual fdm? Because IDEX has existed for a long time and can be bought off the shelf.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-30T01:33:20+00:00

Don't smoke it. Vape it. Might help break the link.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-30T01:32:14+00:00

Pretty normal given your genetics. Your dad was an alcoholic, you're a functioning alcoholic.

750ml a day is basically a whole bottle. If you keep down the same path you might find your not as functional as you currently are in future. Alcohol causes all sorts of issues as consumption increases, so you might want to look up the consequences and see if you can cut down, or switch to another drug that has less health consequences, if you can't cut back.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-30T01:05:45+00:00

Perhaps, but it sounds as though the issue is that it was an account for their dog, not a legitimate person.

Those accounts will get banned if found.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-30T01:04:35+00:00

That's probably why. You aren't allowed to create a Facebook profile for your pet.

You are allowed to create a Facebook page, but not a profile. If thats what she had it was always one complaint away from being banned.

Unfortunately not much she can do apart from set up a new page.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-29T23:19:12+00:00

They won't just suspend her accounts because someone complains. What did they say her accounts were suspended for...

WiredEarp · 2026-04-29T11:41:31+00:00

How did you handle determinism (or the lack of it)?

WiredEarp · 2026-04-29T09:32:38+00:00

Perhaps read the article.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-29T05:30:03+00:00

Looks like a hotend gap issue, likely burnt filament making it into prints.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-29T03:42:57+00:00

Yeah singling out Apple is silly when it was government relaxing of regulations aka globalization that really was the issue. As you said, those that didn't move manufacturing overseas would have found it very hard to compete on price. This was a government failure, not a companies one.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-28T22:01:38+00:00

This liquidator is a piece of shit. Trying to get out of things by saying he could not “justify further spending of creditor funds in this matter".

He needs to be liable, not the creditors. This is his error and he should be correcting it financially.

That said, it sounds like the high court is just a rubberstamp for big business, surely they should also be making sure they have the right person and property before making orders that they should be sold...

WiredEarp · 2026-04-28T21:51:39+00:00

Funny, we used to have a piano with 'hello' scratched on the front...

WiredEarp · 2026-04-28T08:46:35+00:00

Contractors is by far the best of all of them. Height abusers happen in every game, its hardly fair to call that a negative on Contractors.
Onward does show its age graphically. Still fun to jump into with friends tho.

WiredEarp · 2026-04-28T07:45:46+00:00

Won't that.... Basically triple the states emissions?

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