Underwaterbob

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Look up an old newspaper from say 100-120 years ago and check out the obituaries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Is Pavlova a national Australian treasure or something? Wikipedia seems unsure as to whether it originated in New Zealand or Australia.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My daughter was watching Bluey the other day, and Bingo wanted some "Pavlova". I immediately thought it was some reference to them all being dogs and Pavlov.

Nope. Turns out it's actually a dessert named after a Russian ballerina that originated in either New Zealand or Australia in the early 20th century.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I would look at that, but I bounced off VIM hard, so probably not for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

the death of Atom

I'm still in mourning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Accuracy is important. Precision, too. Don't mix them up!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

More like hoser.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

EDIT: Also I tested and this burger is the same size as a Canadian one dollar coin.

You mean a Loonie.

SMH.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I moved to a smaller city in South Korea in 2004 to teach English. A short while after I got there, I met a couple who were from a small town down the road from the small town I grew up in in Eastern Canada. Apparently we even went to the same small university (3000 students total) together and I somehow managed to never see them there.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

I'm taller than most people. I'm always getting a facefull of spider webs. I love spiders, though. Anything that eats mosquitoes gets a pass to mildly inconvenience me now and again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Nope. Gotta wait for a sale. It's hard though. Great game!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm creeping up on 50. I finished Elden Ring a little while back.

 

So, my work machine was getting long in the tooth. Occasionally not booting and requiring me to jiggle memory sticks or tighten CPU cooler screws. It was a DDR3 machine with a Xeon E3 1230V2 with 8gb of RAM (and oddly enough an RTX 2060.) The fans were getting pretty loud, too.

I had a Ryzen 2600x and 16gb of DD4 from my home PC lying around, so I bought a cheap mainboard, tore the old one out of the case, attached all the hardware to the new mainboard - including the SSD with Mint installed - and BOOM! It booted first try without issue. Even going from Intel to AMD, DDR3 to DDR4. My mind is blown!

I can't imagine how borked my machine would have been if I'd tried that with Windows.

Now, what do I do with a still-working Xeon and mainboard?!?

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