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by eichin 10mo ago
I knew of some experiments in this space back in the late 1980s or early 1990s - but it was specifically with DECstation hardware that had terrible clocks (not used for alerting, just "this graphs nicely against temperature".)
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by eichin 10mo ago
MIT grad students don't generally have classes , let alone finals
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by eichin 10mo ago
it's slop. (If you look at the ORCID link posted elsethread there's literally nothing biology related in his 70 publications in the last two decades - and it seems unlikely one would become director of the PSFC with that sort o
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by eichin 10mo ago
Final exams at MIT started yesterday and don't end until Friday https://registrar.mit.edu/classes-grades-evaluations/examina... so grades are mostly not yet available.
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by eichin 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natick shut down in 2024 (though apparently it hadn't been in the water since 2020.) It seems like it basically worked , but it wasn't clear that the cooling advantage w
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by eichin 10mo ago
Of the few of those that have "one button recording" at all, they generally still have slide-and-hold or otherwise complicated mechanisms to power on the device before the one-button part works, or they have a slide-and-hold recor
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by eichin 10mo ago
I actually tried this workflow with some ebay'ed microcassette recorders - even the really compact ones are bulkier (though not necessarily heavier) than a modern cellphone, plus being non-connected you basically have to set aside some
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by eichin 10mo ago
If I could press one button (and not unlock the phone) I would; my samsung even has an extra wasted button (the "bixby" button) but it isn't reconfigurable. (Still fails for the "while driving" case but I'
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by eichin 10mo ago
For me it's more observations than ideas - "check out new restaurant/bookstore I saw while driving in Arlington" while not getting distracted from the actual driving...
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by eichin 10mo ago
I've wanted exactly this since I first saw spider's note-recorder in the first issue of Transmetropolitan ( before the fancy glasses.) Just something with exactly one button, positive confirmation that it's recording, a dece
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by eichin 10mo ago
mmm, it was discontinued in 2024 - so maybe amazon decided it was insane (well, insufficiently economic?) after all?
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by eichin 10mo ago
I'm just disappointed that noone here is talking about the "backhoe covered in skin and making grunting noises" part of the article. At very least it's a new frontier in workstation case design...
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by eichin 10mo ago
I think I first heard "spicy autocomplete" two or three years ago...
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by eichin 11mo ago
A picture that was posted on at least a couple of doors in the MIT Stata Center (one of the Gehry buildings that looks a lot like that "sandwich" :-)
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by eichin 11mo ago
Thinking of it in terms of namespaces might help; it's not that the drive is special, it's that there's a view that starts from / and one disk filesystem happens to be dropped there and others are dropped elsewhere; with
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by eichin 11mo ago
That sounds healthy! But I would note that there's been interesting community discussions on reddit in past years, and I've gotten caught up in the "finish faster so I can go join the reddit discussion without spoilers".
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by eichin 11mo ago
A couple of paragraphs in I started wondering if it was going to turn out to be systemd-tmpfiles (in ubuntu, 16.04 I think? The symptom was "about 10 days after login, X11 forwarding over ssh stopped working but local apps could still
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by eichin 11mo ago
Heh, anyone remember MixApp (2008ish?) (streaming your own mp3s to chatrooms, this decade you could probably rebuild it on top of tailscale, it was more shaped like that than modern streaming...)
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by eichin 11mo ago
I'm glad that's working out! (I'm more of a collector/hoarder of monospace fonts, so I'm not really your intended audience, and I'm entirely fine with that.)
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by eichin 11mo ago
Mmm, apt-ftparchive is pretty useful for cooking up repos for "in-house" distros (which we certainly thought was serious...) but those tools are already a separate binary package (apt-utils) so factoring them out at the source l
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by eichin 11mo ago
Or from another angle, dpkg/apt is the package manager for C/C++ ...
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by eichin 11mo ago
Yeah, sounds like something I'd use along with Gource for presentations - gource is great for "show off our progress in the last year" in a Very Visual way (without actually being all that useful , but sometimes you need som
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by eichin 11mo ago
Hmm, would be interesting to see a "race" between this and isearch; from the examples, it looks like this has an advantage only if you have lots of similar strings, so "the one you're looking at" vs. "typing mo
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by eichin 11mo ago
FYI no lower case, also "contact the author for licensing". (The article is a neat story of digging into the history of the displays which are about to be going out of service, as well as some practical aspects of the font design
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by eichin 11mo ago
"on second try" sounds like the rocket did a go-around :-) (the current techcrunch title is "Blue Origin sticks first New Glenn rocket landing and launches NASA spacecraft" and doesn't mention the previous failure
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by eichin 11mo ago
Not as advanced as what Domain/OS did before it - the kernel straight up evaluated arbitrary environment variables in the path resolver, which they used for things like selecting "personalities" (BSD vs SYSV vs "native
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by eichin 11mo ago
Yeah, HP's cc was "not technically a C compiler" - the only supported use of it was to compile a couple of stub files and link the kernel, on kernel configuration changes. (This led to a bunch of work in making gcc bootstrap
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by eichin 11mo ago
You could do that, but @sys is resolved in the kernel - so you can use it in symlinks and just add .../bin to your path (with bin -> .bindir.@sys ) and thus it works for non path cases too...
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by eichin 11mo ago
15 or so years ago I had a similar journey - a single python interpreter "impossible" segfault in production that turned out to be a bug in glibc realloc, that had already been fixed in an update, we just didn't figure out to
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by eichin 11mo ago
Existing products include Freewrite and Pomera; there's also a pretty big nostalgia/retro space around the AlphaSmart, the eMate 300, and the Tandy 100. (As far as I know the pomera is the one that's linux underneath but com

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