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Q: What do you call when a group of ham radio operators talks about exchanging their equipment on the shortwave?

A: High Frequency Trading.

satire and critique of the modern world has the problem where it gets so close to the thesis "corporate rule is bad" and then swerves at the last second into "talking to friends online is bad" which isn't anything

apparently you can just... buy the sun in animal crossing new leaf..

I'm floored, because DuoLingo launched a beta for Navajo!

It's honestly making me a little emotional, because my family never inherited our ancestral language. My grandfather's generation were taken from their families and forced into indian boarding schools where they beat you for practicing your culture.

Seeing an indigenous language preserved in a mainstream tool is incredible.

does anyone fuck with tech that isn't programmable, around here?

Decks like this (operating at 15 in/sec) used to be considered the minimum you needed to get a quality analog master of your music.

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1/4 inch 1/2 track, 2 track open reel tape recorder/reproducer.

which means:
the magnetic tape it uses is 1/4"
each track takes of 1/2 the width of the tape.
it can play/record two audio tracks across the width of the tape.

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reminder that doing pizza delivery is a more dangerous (and more socially beneficial) job than being a cop

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