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Listen up all you foolish mortals:

Someone talking about a weird thing their computer did is not a cry for help. *Especially* when said someone clearly said they solved the problem.

I understand this particular platform is very-much filled with computer nerds who want to be helpful, but please check whether help is being requested before you pop out of the woodwork like some sort of Clippy

And for all the mega nerds out there, I used my silly scope to take a peek at the sine wave.

It looks really good! There's a bit of wonkiness at the zero crossings, but I can't rule out noise from everything running on it. At the time of these captures, I was charging a phone, the fridge was running, plus the modem is on and all that.

Still a very clean sine no matter how you slice it!

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Pneumatic tubes connecting 23 US Post Offices in NYC across 27 miles. Used until 1957. #PastTimes

via Brian Roemmele from Twitter

This was a 1TB hard drive in 1937.

It was the largest vertical letter file in the world. 4000 SqFt. with over 3000 drawers 10 feet long managed by 20 workers.

Access speed was ~3 minutes per KB.

via Brian Roemmele from Twitter

On International Women's Day - we celebrate the one who saved Star Trek: Lucille Ball. 🖖
#roddenberry #internationalwomensday #StarTrek

Tired of waiting until the end of a sentence before you can be histrionic? The exclamation comma.

Best #camping and #backpacking #drybag ever: the inside of a Starbucks Traveler, cut open, washed and dried, with a piece of #ducttape over a length of scrap paracord. 100% waterproof (ocean kayak proven).

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