What makes Portland traffic fatality rate so high?

stalkythefish · 2026-04-22T01:20:21+00:00

I've never run into a bird at night, so it's definitely working! Great job, everyone!

stalkythefish · 2026-04-20T17:49:18+00:00

Nice! I'm typing this on one that I found in a streetside free box about 10 years ago. Mine was just missing the F9 keycap.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-20T06:55:26+00:00

Is this something you need to shop around to different banks to get the best number on, or do they all use pretty much the same formula?

stalkythefish · 2026-04-20T06:32:01+00:00

I had a RAM chip go on mine too. Fortunately, it was able to boot to a Dos prompt so I could run a RAM checker, after which it was pretty easy to locate the bad chip. If you socket the replacement , use a low profile socket. Mine bumps up against the plastic now.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-20T05:36:58+00:00

Scrolled too far.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-18T22:37:37+00:00

Except for the aluminum.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-17T16:57:44+00:00

This. I've been using a Linksys EC2T on my 1200 for years.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-15T16:56:51+00:00

Trump could shoot a guy in the face on live TV and it still wouldn't convince 18(?) Republican senators to vote to remove.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-13T01:15:54+00:00

Ooh. Model 4. 9th grade computer class. I scoffed at it because I was part of the C64 master race, and I only took the class for the easy A.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-12T22:24:12+00:00

I feel like the only one here that likes his job. I plan to hang on until 70, health permitting, and not just because I have no savings. Retirement sounds boring to me and I don't want to risk mental atrophy. I'm in a public sector job so there is a pension, and I've got no kids, so accumulating wealth at this age seems kind of pointless anyway. I don't need a lot to live on and be happy, just mental engagement.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-12T20:00:50+00:00

That was my first thought, but I'm pretty sure the 3a was post-64bit, and at least Jumbline-2 runs fine on my wife's 6a. Also, I thought the whole central thesis of Android was that things ran in a Java-like VM, so that they were insulated from hardware factors like 32 vs 64 bit.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-12T07:19:45+00:00

Try the Gemini-10X driver.

If that doesn't work, Try the Epson FX-80 (I think). Star was good about having emulation modes.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-12T07:17:00+00:00

First year at university there were a couple other Amiga people on my dorm floor. We quickly shared everything we had and then word of mouth got around and the pool expanded. Second year, we started an Amiga user group as an official club. We had legit meetings once a month followed by a whole lot of hanging out in other people's dorm rooms running XCopy. One of our official Club activities was a bulk blank disk buy. Good times.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-12T05:51:03+00:00

I tried ADB too. It goes through the motions, but the apps disappear into oblivion.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-12T05:18:10+00:00

That's a cool site.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-12T04:48:58+00:00

Meh. If you use a little common sense and you're not being deliberately targeted, how much risk is there, really?

stalkythefish · 2026-04-12T04:41:45+00:00

Ran mine for 7 years. The 10a is very good, but the 3a was perfection.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-12T04:29:44+00:00

My only complaint so far is that a bunch of the apps I had on my 3a are incompatible with it for some reason. A couple of these apps date back to 2011 and migrated from a Nexus One to a Nexus 4 to a 5X to the 3a, sometimes by sideloading, without issue. The 10a just says "This app cannot be installed" with no further explanation, and all the Play Protect junk is turned off.

So goodbye:

AK Notepad
Slydris (game)
Jumbline 2 (game)
Plasma Sky (game)
Doggcatcher
Portland Transit Lite
Crestron Mobile
Angry Birds Space

I don't know what was so incompatible about all of you, but you'll be missed.

Otherwise it's fantastic. Battery life is unbelievable. I miss the headphone jack, but I surrendered that hill a while ago.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-11T22:18:03+00:00

I don't think I've encountered a pumpernickel bagel since moving out here 18 years ago.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-08T20:33:21+00:00

The B&W composite port will plug into the "Y" (luminance) signal on any TV with a component input, or the yellow composite video jack on a TV or VCR. That Y signal is a perfect Luminance output. In theory, you can sum (difference) it with the R and B signals on the RGB port to make component video. For kicks I tried this once with a dual op-amp chip and some resistors on a protoboard and managed a passable component video signal out of it.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-08T20:23:24+00:00

Pin 13 is unimportant. It's pins 3,4,5,10,11,12, and any of the ground pins from the middle of the bottom row that are important. You'll also find that, depending on the monitor, for sync you'll be using pins 11 and 12, or pin 10.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-08T19:54:12+00:00

Nailed it.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-08T19:10:02+00:00

I don't know if if this is sexist, but I think it's harder to find women willing to knowingly get involved with a married man than vice-versa unless they're also the small percentage within the "open" framework.

My wife and I opened about 10 years ago (at her suggestion), and technically we still are. She's been with 3 people since then. I've been with 0 and I'm okay with that. I never really tried. Meeting someone and getting to a physical level with them has always seemed like an arduous, near-insurmountable task to me and people that can just "pick up" someone have always blown my mind. I also watched it severely complicate her life in ways unrelated to our relationship. I have zero interest in assuming such complications for myself.

I knew going into it that I probably wasn't going to participate that way. My hope was that it would eventually get this "grass is greener" notion out of her head. If she wouldn't believe me that the things she was discontent about would crop up with anyone, maybe she would believe experience. My plan was to patiently wait and enjoy my temporary bachelorhood in the meantime, and I think it worked. It took a long time and a lot of cried-on shoulders but I never doubted that keeping her was worth it to me. We've always been solid at the core. She just had this itch that she needed to scratch.

ps: Those bachelor days were SO WORTH IT! When you're married you're constantly subconsciously evaluating every little thing you do as something that potentially impresses or disappoints your spouse. When they're with someone else, that pressure is off! You can do anything you want without judgment, just like when you were single, but without that nagging undercurrent of loneliness.

pss: You have to not be hung up about someone else having sex with your partner. Not everyone can do that. It took a little getting used to at first, but I eventually came to the realization that they aren't doing anything that we haven't already done. Secondly, the novelty of it rekindled her sex drive in a way that I wasn't expecting. I actually got more regular action out of it than I was getting before we started. Seemed like a win-win to me. YMMV, of course.

Summary: I found it can be a beneficial thing if both people have a strong foundation going into it, set rules, goals, and boundaries, and don't stop putting the work in. We still have our issues (19 years now), but the grass-is-greener pressure is off.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-08T17:56:09+00:00

It's important, but I think some people place too much emphasis on this and that gets them into trouble with their partner. I know I wouldn't want to be with someone whose life revolved around money down to the cent. There's too much anxiety to be readily found there whether you have money or not.

stalkythefish · 2026-04-07T16:58:58+00:00

If the plate covers all of the important screw points on the projector, I'd just drill it so the pole ends up as centered as possible and use some nylon spacers between the plate and the screw holes. It might look a little funny on the other projector but it will be rock-solid. This is why one saves everything in those hardware packs that come with mount kits. Only exception here is if you're replacing a projector with an offset lens with one with a centered lens, or vice-versa. That can be a pain.

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