Tilton Raccoon

Raccoon from the Seattle area. Greymuzzle, but young at heart. I live in the woods and melt metal. Recovering software engineer.

Homepage: https://tiltonraccoon.com
Pronouns: He/Him
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Location: Kitsap County, Washington, USA

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2026-08-03 23:16:43 CEST

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The trick is that when you're holding a bleeding hand all wrapped up in a towel you have to search around for the best in-network provider with the cheapest cost and go there, right? FREE MARKET, BABY!!!!

2026-08-03 23:14:12 CEST

Finally got the bill for my urgent care visit. I can afford this, but it's going to sting. This is why people fucking hate health insurance. I pay so much for insurance and they're still like "Yeah we're not paying for that, good luck tho!"
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2026-08-01 05:08:50 CEST

It’s Seattle’s own Jimothy! I have a small stack of them cut out from 16 gauge steel. Would anyone be interested for $30 plus shipping? North America only for now, sadly. DM me an email address if you want one! I’ll update this post if I run out.
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2026-07-31 18:04:56 CEST

What we call a “gas station” in the United States is called a “petrol centre” in the UK, except in parts of the North, where they call it a “bobscuff” #lies

2026-07-21 16:22:45 CEST

It’s only a “chiptune” if it comes from the MOS6581 region of France. Everything else is just sparkling audio.

2026-07-05 07:08:26 CEST

I detest fireworks. Professional shows are fine I guess, but people setting them off at home are completely inconsiderate. Every year for the past 11 years I’ve spent July 4th at home trying to comfort a very distressed dog who just wants to run away and doesn’t understand what’s going on.

2026-07-04 17:24:15 CEST

Today is the country’s 250th birthday, and my 53rd birthday. I’m not celebrating either one, but I’m feeling amazing for 53!

2026-07-01 18:16:04 CEST

"It's inevitable". No, stop. That's a thought-terminating cliche, nothing but the laws of physics are inevitable. Things humans do by choice are never inevitable! We build the future ourselves. We can choose NOT to do something as well as we can choose to do something. DON'T BUY INTO IT.

2026-06-24 21:40:29 CEST

As an outsider who's never even seen a clip of the show, all this talk about TADC might be the most confusing and disorienting experience I have ever had.

2026-05-13 01:04:26 CEST

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Aha!! Very interesting! My grand-uncle lived his whole life in Quebec, I wonder if Canada inherited that style of handwriting for formal documents?

2026-05-13 00:13:37 CEST

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One of the letters I found with my aunt's stuff was a letter from my grand-uncle, addressed to my grandmother, consoling her when her mother (and his sister) died. His handwriting is incredible and distinctive, and this kind of thing really brings family history to life.
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2026-05-12 06:30:39 CEST

My aunt sent me a bunch of cool family history that includes a small stack of letters my grandmother saved, but I’m experiencing culture shock because they are all addressed to “Mrs. [My grandfather’s full name]”. I know that’s just how they did things back then but it sure feels weird now.

2026-04-26 20:06:06 CEST

New stickers for my welding hood
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2026-04-13 20:46:45 CEST

I’ve been trying for three weeks to get medical records from Doctor A transferred to Doctor B by “encrypted fax” and the records have never gone through. It’s been a very Terry Gilliam “Brazil” experience.

2026-04-05 16:41:31 CEST

This comment sums up why I’m so tired of programming in 2026 pretty well
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2026-04-01 00:49:38 CEST

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An IRC-like chat environment is absolutely the worst place to post questions. I don't want to scroll back ten thousand pages to find the answer to a question! Just put it on the web!

2026-04-01 00:43:28 CEST

GOD I miss web forums. I miss you so much phpBB, I wish you were back in vogue.

2026-03-29 01:16:36 CET

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It is up there. I live about as far north as you can possibly live in the continental United States, and we're about a degree south of the latitude of Paris. It's weird!

2026-03-28 22:21:21 CET

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The higher the latitude, the more important it is. I’m only at 47.7°N and I can barely take the dark winters.

2026-03-22 01:37:41 CET

I am probably the most cis guy who ever cis’ed, but I think people should be able to change their gender the way they change their clothes. Sell HRT over the counter, go ahead. Let people experiment, have fun with it! It boggles my mind that anybody cares what other people do with their gender. “But it permanently changes your body!” Yeah so does a tattoo or a piercing, two other things I’d never do, but since I’m not you, it doesn’t affect me, now does it?

2026-03-06 15:07:28 CET

Fuck it, I applied to the local community college welding program.

2026-02-26 21:22:42 CET

The electricians just finished up working on our panel, and they did a fantastic job. Great guys, I always feel lucky to have this company nearby. They replaced the main 200A breaker and did all the other stuff I was originally planning to do myself. It was WELL worth paying them to do it instead. The ground and neutral bars were 99% full so they had to add a new ground bar, for one thing.

2026-02-25 04:50:11 CET

I kind of wish three phase power could be had around here, but it’s basically reserved for industrial parks only.

2026-02-13 22:01:49 CET

Man, I thought US lumber sizes were fucking weird, literally EVERY TRADE is fucking weird here. I need NM wire clamps for our main electric service box. The punch-out hole measures 7/8" in diameter (22.5mm). The trade calls this a 1/2" punch-out, but you don't buy a 1/2" clamp, you buy a 3/8" clamp. So yes, you need a 3/8" clamp for a 1/2" hole that actually measures 7/8". Thanks, I hate it.

2026-02-13 07:46:28 CET

Software engineering in 2026 be like “we need you to be physically present in the office so we can replace you with AI”

2026-02-12 01:22:56 CET

Italians are the last ethnic group that everyone feels 100% allowed to make fun of with stereotypes and funny accents, and I have no idea why.

2026-02-11 19:47:40 CET

Post a picture of the inside of an American main electric service panel to horrify a European
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2026-02-09 17:14:10 CET

It is not lost on me that the “think of the children!!” movement that’s ruining literally everything right now is spearheaded by people who either fuck 14 year olds or hang out with people who fuck 14 year olds. It‘s never about the kids. They just want to control you, that’s it.

2026-02-04 22:46:32 CET

I like my new shirt
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2026-01-26 22:22:42 CET

I find this word objectionable for reasons I cannot articulate
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2026-01-15 23:11:45 CET

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There is actually a large nuclear industry very local to me. Unfortunately, it’s the US Navy. I think they’re the largest employer in our county by far.

2026-01-15 21:15:29 CET

Genuine question for people who may have done this kind of thing before: I need to figure out how to get out of tech this year. I don’t want to do anything rash, so I’d like to talk to a life coach or career coach or maybe a therapist (do they do this kind of thing??) Any advice?

2026-01-09 23:26:48 CET

The thing I miss most about the 1990s is the feeling of optimism. It wasn't universal of course! Plenty of terrible shit was going on in the 1990s, but here in the US we were extremely privileged and genuinely feeling like all the biggest problems in the world were solved, just some loose ends to work out and the 21st century was going to look SO bright!
Were we naive and dumb? Hell yes, of course! But it was an intoxicating feeling, naive or not.

2025-12-26 19:46:57 CET

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Definitely need more practice! I think I had my amperage set too low, too. I was toward the low end of the range, and now that I’ve done more research, I probably want to practice around the high end of the range.

2025-12-26 04:05:40 CET

I tried stick welding for the first time tonight, using E6011 rod. Oh my god, I see why people say it's difficult. Getting the arc started with a brand new rod was impossible for me, I just kept sticking it no matter how light and quick my touch was. Eventually the end of the rod was worn down enough that it became pretty easy to strike an arc, but after I burned through the first rod and started a new rod, I had the exact same problem. It's tricky! Respect to stick welders.

2025-12-21 23:58:46 CET

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My big chunky work truck I that I use to occasionally haul things seems to go about 5.5 km per liter. I’m so grateful it’s not my primary mode of transportation 😬

2025-12-21 21:45:57 CET

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(I know about Robertson screws, it’s just that T25 are SO much easier to find here)

2025-12-21 21:43:24 CET

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2025-11-29 21:07:38 CET

This has GOT to be Wisconsin, right? Opening day of hunting season? I can think of nothing more upper Midwest than this.
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2025-11-28 17:26:48 CET

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It’s one of those rubber squishy flat containers characters would put on their heads when sick. I remember them from Looney Tunes and such.

2025-11-28 17:18:46 CET

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Wow, interesting results so far. I know about hot water bottles from cartoons, but I’ve never known anyone to own one in real life (US here). Electric heating pads seem to be the norm here.

2025-11-17 18:26:51 CET

Ever wonder why the "vi" editor uses H, J, K, and L keys for cursor navigation, and why Unix shells traditionally use "~" as an alias for the home directory?
The ADM-3A terminal was a very popular and inexpensive Unix terminal in the 1970s. Notice where the arrow keys are, and where the "~" key is? It influenced a lot!
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2025-11-17 03:35:36 CET

Ooooh, Peter Thiel’s hedge fund just sold 537,000 shares of NVidia, completely exiting the stock. That was almost 40% of the fund’s portfolio, according to The Street. Rats are fleeing the bubble.
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/peter-thiel-dumps-top-ai-stock-stirring-bubble-fears

2025-11-06 18:08:12 CET

Humanoid robots are such a waste of engineering effort. Just totally shameful. Make them stable, they don't need to walk on two legs, we don't need to mimic nature! Get creative! Focus on useful arm configurations! Make them fuzzy and cute, so you WANT to interact with them! Oh wait, I forgot, tech can't be creative any more, it can only be smooth-brained.

2025-10-15 06:08:21 CEST

Watching foreigners try root beer and be repulsed by it is fun, but I want to make foreigners try Moxie. Most Americans don’t even like Moxie! Me, I love the stuff, but half my family is from Maine so I have an excuse.
Speaking of which, I need to find a source for Moxie, it’s so hard to find here.

2025-10-10 06:52:43 CEST

I learned the correct Nahuatl pronunciation of “axolotl” the other day and my world is shook.
https://youtube.com/shorts/d79EBJYJbuA

2025-10-09 00:06:02 CEST

The government exists in part to spend money on useful and beneficial services for its citizens that would otherwise not be profitable, change my mind

2025-10-03 19:22:22 CEST

The financial press is starting to ask fifth grade level questions. It’s a miracle!
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2025-09-27 21:25:03 CEST

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I think we all know the answer to this one!

2025-09-23 17:20:27 CEST

If you want to live in the UK, you should speak Welsh. That’s common sense.

2025-09-23 15:06:25 CEST

Someone I know locally who does HVAC repair got turned away from a scheduled job yesterday because “the rapture is happening tomorrow and there’s no point in fixing it now”. I honestly thought that stuff was made up, and hearing about it happening for real, especially in my neck of the woods, is surreal.

2025-09-19 20:44:04 CEST

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We’re going to have to use UUIDs for cons so they’re not susceptible to enumeration attacks

2025-09-15 23:08:05 CEST

Fuckin’ hot… “Toward a Cohesive Cherokee Typography”. Developments in the Cherokee syllabary in 2025!
https://www.typotheque.com/articles/towards-a-cohesive-cherokee-typography

2025-09-14 20:17:58 CEST

Wait wait wait…
Oracle has a 427% debt to equity ratio? Because they’ve been borrowing money to build data centers for AI???
Good lord what a clusterfuck.

2025-09-05 16:34:47 CEST

Why don’t they ever show James Bond regenerating when they change actors, why is it always off-screen???

2025-09-03 01:38:48 CEST

Hey does anyone have any favorite resources for learning about how to work on cars? I don't want to learn to rebuild an engine (not yet anyway!) but I'd love to know how to take care of an older vehicle in general, and how to identify faults that need a mechanic with experience. I hear terms like "sway bar" and "bushings" and I have no idea what they even are, but I want to know.
Some YouTube channels for beginners would be fantastic, if you know any!

2025-08-26 16:54:12 CEST

Somehow I ended up watching videos about how to wear a great kilt last night, and now I want a great kilt. They are gosh darn cool. A kilt, a cloak, a hood, all in one, so versatile! I’d just need to find a tartan that’s not any kind of family tartan, because regrettably, I have no Scottish ancestry that I am aware of.

2025-08-22 17:21:09 CEST

Free lawn care Friday
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2025-08-20 21:53:18 CEST

Inshallah, let it be true 🙏
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2025-08-20 04:09:58 CEST

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Seriously, the state of the Internet is so bad that I genuinely miss the Yellow Pages. From 2005 to 2023, I didn't miss the Yellow Pages, who would?? But now, I miss the Yellow Pages. Real businesses! In your town! That do real things! WHAT A CRAZY CONCEPT!

2025-08-20 04:08:53 CEST

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Compounding the frustration is that Yelp, Google, and Facebook are all completely useless for finding a foundation repair company in my area. I've searched for a full 30 minutes and not found anyone, just a bunch of generic domains like "<YourTownHere>foundationrepairllc.com" that redirects to a parking web page full of SEO slop, which may or may not lead back to a real company that may or may not actually do business here? Not clear. Just give me the Yellow Pages please.

2025-08-20 03:43:55 CEST

“I wonder how much this foundation crack will cost” is the best part of being a home owner.

2025-08-18 20:08:16 CEST

I’ve started replacing CDs I’ve lost over the years, as well as buying new ones, and I really need to get a media storage shelf of some kind. It feels like 1993 all over again.
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2025-08-04 14:20:25 CEST

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It’s a local airport, for local people.

2025-07-29 03:39:39 CEST

I may be an American, but I will never spell grey with an a. It just looks wrong!

2025-07-26 19:24:47 CEST

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God bless Scotland

2025-07-23 01:06:18 CEST

I got my Meshtastic gear today! But, just as I feared, standing outside with a 4 dBi antenna finds no other nodes. I will try to build or buy an 8 dBi antenna, but I doubt even that will find anyone. Hey, someone has to be the first node in the area, right?

2025-07-16 00:43:53 CEST

The hottest thing in local Seattle politics is the city's war on Saint Rat / Hot Rat Summer, a mosaic that someone put up (without permission) on the old pumphouse in Cal Anderson Park last year. Recently, city workers have been painting over the mosaic, and good citizens have been cleaning off the mosaic to restore it when they do so. It is a fierce battle, and one I hope the citizens win. We must fight for Hot Rat Summer.
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2025-07-14 22:42:48 CEST

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Ohhh these are currently banned in Canada. That makes sense. It’s hilarious you can buy these for your kids here, but not Kinder Eggs.

2025-07-14 22:33:46 CEST

Good lord, they still make this stuff?! I remember this from my youth, it gave everyone in Gen X severe brain damage. I assumed it had been pulled off the market ages ago. That smell… my God, the smell.
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2025-07-10 23:39:35 CEST

I just realized I can't be an evangelist for any computer or programming language because I hate them all. They're all bad. We should go back to slide rules and mechanical calculators.

2025-07-07 22:10:50 CEST

Ah yes, I remember the Golden Corral campaign. War is hell.
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2025-07-05 00:28:57 CEST

So, am I a US Citizen?
I was born in California, so you would think obviously I'm a US citizen, but that's not clear now.
My dad was born in Maine, so you'd think that obviously HE is a US citizen, but THAT'S not clear now either, because *his* father was born in West Virginia, never got a birth certificate, and he was born before *his* father naturalized as a US citizen. How far back do you need to go?

2025-07-03 21:49:35 CEST

Yesterday, ADP published their private US jobs report, showing they estimate that the economy lost 33,000 jobs in June.
This morning, the Department of Labor published THEIR jobs report, showing an unexpectedly strong estimate of 147,000 jobs added in June.
I am not an economist, but this sure seems fishy to me. Where are these jobs?

2025-06-27 06:29:04 CEST

I have reached the point of my life where I am looking longingly at used mini excavators. What have I become.

2025-06-17 20:46:09 CEST

Finally out of the closet
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2025-06-12 18:46:43 CEST

Say what you will about IRC but it didn't beg me to buy IRC Nitro every time I logged in

2025-06-11 06:39:57 CEST

Here’s the money shot, the distilled essence of what bothers me most about AI coding.
(From Baldur Bjarnason’s recent blog post, “Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk”)
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judgement-on-ai/
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2025-06-05 20:24:45 CEST

44 years ago today, on June 5th, 1981, the CDC digest “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report” published the first report in the medical press about a condition affecting five gay men in Los Angeles that would later be known as AIDS.
It feels both very recent, and very long ago.

2025-05-30 05:17:56 CEST

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I have a vivid memory of the day in 1998 when my boss at the startup I was working at was trying to set up sendmail. He was using the O’Reilly sendmail book and he’d been at it for hours. Eventually he screamed some profanity and threw book across the room in frustration. We gave him shit about it for the next year (but really, m4 sucks)

2025-05-23 22:22:48 CEST

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If I lived near one of those bus shelters, I promise you I WOULD cover all of the ads with duct-taped cardboard

2025-05-23 22:13:37 CEST

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I used to worry about that too, “am I just old?”, but I see just as many 20-somethings complaining about this as 40- and 50-somethings. It’s not just us. It’s just endless shit now, EVERYONE can feel it.

2025-05-18 01:51:54 CEST

Where’s a good place to rent a cabin for a few days and be completely off grid in western Washington? Willing to travel anywhere within a three hour drive of Seattle. Ideally pretty remote, little or no cellular service, isolated, but not full on tent camping. Anyone have any good spots?

2025-05-15 01:32:59 CEST

The new 2025 Apple Pride wallpaper images were shown off on AppleRumors.com today. I made the mistake of reading the comments...
Holy shit, things are grim. The vast majority were nasty, angry, hate-filled comments. Being homophobic is openly acceptable again. These comments five or ten years ago would have been shocking; people may have thought them, but most would have kept it to themselves. Now they're reveling in it. It's gonna take decades to recover from this, if we do

2025-05-13 23:20:27 CEST

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I managed to miss that one entirely! I will watch it!

2025-05-13 23:08:07 CEST

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It's been years since I watched Snatch (or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels). I think I need to cue them up.

2025-04-30 16:52:36 CEST

Sometimes Reddit comments make me chuckle. This was on a post about the GDP contracting 0.3% last quarter compared to 2.4% growth in Q4 2024:
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2025-04-29 19:53:23 CEST

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I actually did not know that Carney wasn’t already a member of parliament. We’re so uninformed down here 😞

2025-04-29 19:27:56 CEST

Those of you who know Parliamentary politics better than me, an American:
What would have happened if, theoretically, the Conservative party had won a majority of seats, but Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre had lost the election in his riding anyway? Would they have had to scramble to elect a new leader who would then become Prime Minister?

2025-03-23 23:34:41 CET

I feel like it's probably redundant of me to say this, you already know, but if you are thinking of traveling to the United States for a convention or to see friends: I know it sucks, but please reconsider. It is genuinely not safe right now. Do not put yourself at risk. Stay home, and hopefully your US friends can come see you. If you have ANY option at all that does not involve travel to the United States, I would suggest that. I'm sorry it is this way.

2025-02-27 00:03:02 CET

Why does Firefox make it so hard to recommend Firefox?
Google Chrome is obviously evil spyware, you shouldn't use it, period. But Mozilla is always doubling down on being an idiotic company hell bent on shooting itself in the foot, and Firefox is sort of gazing longingly at being evil spyware too. It's not there yet, but they just want it to be soooooo badly.
Everything is awful and terrible and no good and I want it to stop being that way.

2025-02-25 19:10:03 CET

People are always like “oh you have to watch Squid Game” or “You have to watch The Boys” and my friend, no, I literally cannot, I’m sorry. There are so many goddamn horrors in the real world, the last thing I need in my life is people being horrific to each other in fiction. I need the opposite of that. I need like Kindness Core or whatever

2025-02-19 17:52:56 CET

This is very silly, but I put my DECstation on the Internet. (Sort of.)
http://dejavu.retronet.net/
It's a 25 MHz MIPS R3000 CPU, so it's officially much slower than a Raspberry Pi.
Also, if you click on that link in 2025 you may or may not get a huge warning. Why? Because it's not encrypted. It's plain HTTP, not HTTPS. It's running NCSA HTTPd 1.5.2, it's really really old. Modern browsers are suspicious of that. Sorry. That's just how it was in 1994, not my fault.

2025-01-22 17:39:41 CET

Please forgive this strange poll, but I'm genuinely curious about this phenomenon. I don't know how widespread it was, but it seems to have been very widespread in my generation, and I suspect it died out in the early 2000s. I also suspect this might be more of an American experience, but who knows.
When you were a teenager, did you ever find a stash of pornographic magazines while you were playing in the woods? (I've broken this down by age) Feel free to boost.

2025-01-07 04:15:13 CET

I installed a Windows 2000 VM just so I could do Palm OS development with CodeWarrior.
We've lost so much... No subscription needed, no developer account, just write software and run it in an emulator or right on your device. It's a joy compared to living in 2025.
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2024-10-02 23:18:59 CEST

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I flew Aeroflot once. In 1988. Never again.

2024-09-29 05:21:36 CEST

I don't know why it bothers me so much that Australians (and Brits, maybe?) shorten "Spaghetti Bolognese" to "Spag Bol"... but it does. It bothers me. It shouldn't, but it does.

2024-09-29 00:56:53 CEST

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If I’m honest I’d love a proper Rohn tower or something, but I think this should be an ok compromise. It’s a somewhat popular arrangement.

2024-09-29 00:55:44 CEST

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I’m putting together a hex beam that has elements for 20m, 17m, 15m, 12m, and 10m! The mast has to be sturdy enough to support that and a Yaesu rotator, which (if I’ve done my research properly) this one should be. It’s a guyed galvanized steel push-up mast.

2024-09-29 00:46:00 CEST

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The mast itself is 10m tall and will be anchored to a galvanized steel post embedded 1m into the concrete. It’ll also be properly guyed every 2.5m or so to handle horizontal load.