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Agreed, but when it waa introduced, their dramatic presentation leading up to pricing and availability, I had it pegged at $7000 as an order of magnitude. I think the front-facing display is adding expense for something difficult to underst
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It's either horrid or a broken machine translation to English.
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Given that The Guardian is a UK newspaper, I surprised by no mention of the strikes in the UK from 1972 to 1974. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_United_Kingdom_miners%2... The reduction in electricity generation b
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by watersb 2y ago
About 10 years ago, I used a basic flip phone, vendor locked to a $15/month Verizon plan. The Wal Mart page for a similar device is still up at https://www.walmart.com/ip/Verizon-Wireless-Samsung-Gusto-3-... Among
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I group it into chunks, usually three or four symbols each. Sometimes I'm aware of associating the groups with concepts. For random example, it might see '711365dly' and associate this with a popular bodega/gas station b
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by watersb 2y ago
> www was built on top of Microsoft Word and VBScript Ah, that would be Internet Explorer.
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by watersb 2y ago
CDBC = "Cipher-Block Digital Currency"
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I believe that macOS still ships with DTrace; Xcode Instruments was originally built on top of it. https://dtrace.org (Some people find it easier to write a one-line script that reports the timings that they need; I don't k
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by watersb 2y ago
(two days later) NOTE: I don't think that web page of 'Current' missions is up to date. For instance, the VSOP project is still on there; that was using a spacecraft designed mostly by JAXA, I believe, as an element of the Ve
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by watersb 2y ago
Am I the only one to read 'monosemanticity' as 'moose-mantically'? Like, its talking about moose magick...
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Sun Solaris (UNIX workstation) desktop environment had this feature somewhere around 2012. Based on ZFS snapshots. Was based on GNOME, I believe.
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> NASA is just a really expensive organization achieving very little. Granted, human spaceflight is crazy expensive. And yet... Jet Propulsion Labs, to pick a single NASA site, has never been more busy. I counted 30 spacecraft listed a
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Always looked like a rabbit to me, too.
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Says that such a comparison is not useful to the military, because the blast of the eruption was mostly subsonic gas, dust, and mud, rather than the supersonic plasma of a nuclear weapon. However, I wonder if there is any use in estimating
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by watersb 2y ago
Did 'Shake' become the 'Motion' app for Final Cut? I have a sim recollection of purchasing it around the time that Apple was absorbing things, but apparently my memory of Apple tech history has been subject to bit rot.
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Apples's first MacBook SSD option was a $1000 upgrade for 64GB. 2010.
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If I were in that room, I'm not sure this headline would still be true.
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I have preferred the "Classic" Macintosh in the early 1990s because it tried to provide a coherent design across the entire system. This even extended to file shortcuts: in the Finder I could "Create Shortcut" to a file
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The intro video sequence for the 7 May iPad Pro 2024 release presentation. I found it disturbing. I get it: this huge collection of fun objects is smooshed together to obtain a smooshed (very thin) iPad Pro. But the imagery associates destr
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Per capita, try Los Alamos, NM...
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Very interesting! I would like some clarity on the Terms of Service clause 4: > The content created using Supertone Shift remains your property. However, by using our Services, you grant Supertone a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-fre
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Star Trek is still popular. Not certain that's sustainable. But the franchise seems to be rolling its own momentum as it has multiple long-running shows in production.
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For at least the next two weeks...
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Wow, of course.. didn't think of video. That video is great, a VCR tape collection of corporate demos by Jef Raskin's company, apparently for investors and resellers. YouTube suggested a short, informal demo posted only 10 years a
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Phenomenal. Excellent catch! If only I could convince mobile browsers to enable the onscreen keyboard in web-based emulators... For instance, Infinite Macintosh has an explicit "Keyboard" that I should trivially peek at. It has a
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Jef Raskin's initial idea, I believe, was more of a text system that would have been possible with the 6809. The Canon Cat was a further development of this idea. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat I can&#x
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Would be great to see another avenue of possible treatment for ME/CFS. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myalgic_encephalomyelitis/ch...
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I was confused by the name, because I remember 'Uno' as part of OpenOffice. I presumed that this was OpenOffice internals that support cross-platform UI and OpenOffice scripting. But apparently, the 'Uno' internals in Op
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Microsoft Cascadia Code NF - Nerd Font(phoronix.com)
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I always tell clients that backups are boring but restores are very exciting. If you make restores boring, then you're closer to resilience. If you have a backup procedure for mass storage, practice restoring that data.

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