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Random Thoughts....

"In 1978, the Cray 1 supercomputer cost $7 Million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world. The Raspberry Pi costs around $70 (CPU board, case, power supply, SD card), weighs a few ounces, uses a 5 watt power supply and is more than 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1. The first PC to reach the average Cray 1 Livermore Loops score is indicated as a 1994 100 MHz Pentium."

My first computer was a Pentium 100Mhz :cool:.

Holy shit. In November, it's gonna be 30 years. :oops:

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This is cute:
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And now I want a Raspberry Pi.
And a 3D printer.
 
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I could print the parts but I have little use for the R-Pi I already have let alone 12 of them. :LOL:

My first computer was a P100 too, in 1998, and I have basically the same model (Dell Optiplex GL+ 5100) right here that I picked up a few years ago. If I had the space I would have it properly set up, LGR style, along with my Pentium Dolch PAC luggable.
 
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I had a 486 DX2/66 (DX2 meant CPU on double bus speed) in 1995...
 
Matt2000 said:
I could print the parts but I have little use for the R-Pi I already have let alone 12 of them. :LOL:
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The second picture is for a case for one R-Pi, not 12.

Dr_Grip said:
I had a 486 DX2/66 (DX2 meant CPU on double bus speed) in 1995...
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I bought a DX4/100 that went up in smoke after a few days. The store honored the guarantee and offered me to pay a little extra and upgrade to the P100.
 
cheeeeeese poopts
 
But they are eating baby sheep!
 
I might've waited too long on that fish.
 
Making the forum admin regret having us over. 🤣

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squirrel
 
AAAAAAAUGHH
 
I was thinking the same...
 
Plausible deniability is really hard on this one for her, isn't it?
 
Redliner said:
nypost.com

Excessively farting passenger forces American Airlines flight to turn around

A “disgruntled” passenger aboard an American Airlines flight from Arizona to Texas reportedly went on a farting spree — forcing the plane to return to the gate.
nypost.com nypost.com
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IT WASN'T ME!
CraigB said:
We now have to know if @ninjacoco was recently in Phoenix headed back to Texas...
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Surprisingly not! Also, I'm not a bunghole to other passengers like Farty McFartbutt there. I'm not a Panda Express fan, but like, its not that offensive smell-wise and people gotta eat.
Redliner said:
I was thinking the same...
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Trust me, if I booked the flight, I'd try to avoid American as much as possible. Every experience I've had with that airline (especially in and out of AUS) is a raging dumpster fire. Just call me anti-American.
gaasc said:
Plausible deniability is really hard on this one for her, isn't it?
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Oh, and I have no travel budget, either! Ha HA! MULTIPLE LAYERS OF DENIABILITY!

As such, I would like to take this time to sincerely apologize to my Puffalumps. I work from home again. I'm so, so sorry for the vile smells I'm subjecting your delicate velveteen noses to again, you guys. I am so, so glad that you're stuffed animals who don't really have a sense of smell.
 
Two things to get used to in Germany:

Light switches for rooms are usually mounted on the outside, like bathrooms. Sounds fun to fuck with whomevers inside.

Shower/bathtub combo means the shower head is mounted midway on the wall, I still think this is weird…
 
93Flareside said:
Light switches for rooms are usually mounted on the outside, like bathrooms.
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Errr... I would not say so, no? The wide majority of Light switches that I have encountered in my life were on the inside, except for bathrooms/storage...

93Flareside said:
Shower/bathtub combo means the shower head is mounted midway on the wall, I still think this is weird…
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I also think that is weird, yeah. If there's no standalone shower, I'd always expect the shower head to be at the foot-end of the tub... doesn't make sense otherwise.

You must've managed to somehow choose / experience a minority of weird places :p

What I do find weird is how we all have those tilt-option windows, which don't make any sense. All they do is lead people to leave their windows tilted all day long and wasting huge amounts of heating energy.
 
Heh, I've always known both these things to be the case, but indeed, the light switch on the outside doesn't make sense.

A German shower is far superior though, because if you have a tiny wife (150cm, 4ft11) and are of "normal" build yourself (178 cm, 5ft10), there's a lot of faffing around with shower heads, which is only possible if you can slide the shower head up and down.

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Also, apparently women's hair is a pain to wash/clean/dry so sometimes my wife wants to shower without washing her hair, which is only possible with such a setup. I, as a man, always wash everything because easier/faster.
 
eizbaer said:
What I do find weird is how we all have those tilt-option windows, which don't make any sense. All they do is lead people to leave their windows tilted all day long and wasting huge amounts of heating energy.
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No these are the bomb.
I have *just* had all my windows and doors replaced, and now I can finally tilt every window, and I find myself doing that way more than I thought I would. Before it only swung open, which gives you the choice of being warm yet stuffy/smelly in winter, or having enough through air but it being 10°C inside. I usually chose the latter. With tilting you can have a bit of fresh air without it messing with the temperature all that much.

For the bathroom though, I find that just opening the whole thing for half an hour gets rid of the moisture trapped inside.

(also, is this midlife? Being 42 years old and being all excited about mundane stuff like tilting windows and shower heads?)
 
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