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by vertnerd 2y ago
> Here's the first of my bucket list projects I'm completing which I've intermittently worked on for literally two decades. This one hell of a bucket list you must have. Respect.
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by vertnerd 2y ago
"... Carter himself later said that, while he had considered the object to be a UFO—on the grounds it was unexplained—his knowledge of physics had meant he had not believed himself to be witnessing an alien spacecraft." Can you im
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by vertnerd 3y ago
When the CEO declared that FSD was a "solved problem" EIGHT years ago, then there is good reason to doubt it will be solved in another ten. People who bought cars eight years ago and paid a premium for the promise that their car w
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by vertnerd 3y ago
It is sobering to realize that in twenty years, Github will probably be gone, and no one will be using Git anymore. I have used so many different version control systems, starting with PVCS in the 90s. Subversion, CVS, Mercurial, and others
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by vertnerd 3y ago
I'm not familiar with ideastronaut, but to me, it feels like every aspect of the site is AI generated, including the article.
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by vertnerd 3y ago
This is a wonderful article. Now I know to strike "really and truly learn CSS" from my list of things to do in retirement, so I can focus on things that I can actually accomplish.
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by vertnerd 3y ago
1. Range. But this speaks to the failure of the industry to provide charging infrastructure. This was one big thing that Tesla got right. 2. Price. An EV is inherently simpler to build and should cost less. Indeed, early EV offerings were a
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by vertnerd 3y ago
I think my brother-in-law gave me a free copy of Doom in '93. It turned my gaming world upside-down, and I sent off for the full version and did it again when Doom 2 came out. I was also an early customer for Ultraedit, which I used on
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by vertnerd 3y ago
We've been using touchscreens daily for about 15 years now, and I am still enraged by the fundamental stupidity of a UI that puts your fingers on top of the thing you're trying to see, with gestures required that you can only gues
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by vertnerd 3y ago
I think this is the type of side-by-side comparison I was hoping to see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wfNTRONIPQ To be fair, to those saying Rose in Titanic now looks like a Pixar character, she was so heavily made
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by vertnerd 3y ago
I wish someone came up with a better UI than the toggle. Usually, I understand what it means, but I often find toggles where it isn't clear what the state of the toggle is. Right vs left, color vs no color, just isn't obvious to m
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by vertnerd 3y ago
I loved my 2020 Nissan Leaf S+ so much I bought a second one. Now they're going to stop making them, so they can focus on the much larger and more expensive Nissan Ariya. It seems like many other companies are trying to SUV-ize their E
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by vertnerd 3y ago
Interesting that I have only flown once since 9/11. Almost all of my flying took place in the three decades prior, so the pneumatic headsets are the only ones I remember.
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by vertnerd 3y ago
Anywhere I've been in the US, getting a certified birth certificate (fancy paper with an embossed seal) will cost some money and take a week or more. The fireproof bag is just a convenient place to keep papers for which a scan is no su
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by vertnerd 3y ago
I've been doing the data storage tango for thirty years now, and the one constant is that everything requires maintenance or has to be moved to a different platform and software eventually. Today, everything is in Google Drive and Goog
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by vertnerd 3y ago
I have the fondest memories poring over Don Lancaster's book during a summer in the late 70s, then building a TVT and interfacing it to my KIM-1. I went on to write a hand-assembled monitor program, so I could enter code using a surplu
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by vertnerd 3y ago
I "lost" mine in a move about 40 years ago. I have been in mourning ever since.
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by vertnerd 3y ago
American society aspires to be classless. Harvard wants its mini society to be classless, too. If it uses strictly objective, quantitative standards like SAT and GPA in its admissions process (in addition to legacy admissions), then it will
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by vertnerd 3y ago
I put together the Heathkit HW-101 SSB/CW ham radio transceiver in the summer of 1977. It was one of the happiest times of my life. Now that I think about it, that probably explains a lot about me.
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by vertnerd 4y ago
I worked on a PC/DOS based instrument for testing permanent magnets back in the 80s. Because of all the magnets involved, we used a battery-backed Static RAM disk instead of a conventional hard drive. The "disk" consisted of
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by vertnerd 4y ago
I think 8-bit CPUs are great for introducing computer technology, and they also lend themselves to discussing computing history from the 70s. Though a little more expensive than the author's target of $100, the fellow who designed this
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by vertnerd 4y ago
I thought I was a lifer at my company in 2000, for many of the same reasons. Then the company was bought by Tyco International and burned to the ground.
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by vertnerd 4y ago
I worked for 20 years as a software/hardware engineer and none of that stuff exists today or made a difference. Then I became a math teacher and built an introductory Python curriculum, online Python IDE and graphics environment that I
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by vertnerd 4y ago
Reminds me of Damien Hirst's recent "Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable," which was presented as a documentary film but was, in fact, mockumentary.
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by vertnerd 4y ago
You will all be happy to know that teachers suffer from their own brand of school dreams where they are unprepared for class, can't find their lecture notes, and so on. I just left the profession, and now I will be plagued by both kind
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by vertnerd 4y ago
The Sweet 'N Low pink packets in my "sugar" bowl contain saccharin. You can still buy saccharin in tablet form, too (Amazon, of course).
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by vertnerd 4y ago
In my sixty years on this planet, Earth Abides remains the most devastating, encouraging, and thought-provoking fictional work I have ever read. Though written in the 40's, its conclusions are no less valid today: humanity and its tech
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by vertnerd 4y ago
"This relativistic jet was aimed directly at Earth — and astronomers were staring directly into the beam." Great. Something else to worry about. Seriously, though: are jets like these generally detectable and would we know if ther
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by vertnerd 4y ago
It's all about the yardstick we use for measuring intelligence, isn't it? For years, my rescue cat has had an annoying habit of gently plucking at my clothes with her claws for no apparent reason. Then one day I had an epiphany. I
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by vertnerd 5y ago
I purchased five of his 6502 boards, assembled, to teach some programming classes and they have been wonderful. I only just stumbled on this full list of his work today and was blown away by how much he has done and I'm incredibly grat

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