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by watersb 4mo ago
Strangely reminiscent of an Electric Monk: The Electric Monk was a labor-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders
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by watersb 4mo ago
I can't highlight text in Safari or Firefox on my iPhone (iOS 26.5), at least on that first page. I'm not familiar with this application, so perhaps I'm missing a step, and editing mode.
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by watersb 4mo ago
"Fidelity sets a distinctive clock for SpaceX. Selling within the first 15 calendar days marks a client as a flipper. A first offense brings a six-month block."
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by watersb 4mo ago
Ordinary people will be forced to invest in SpaceX IPO
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by watersb 4mo ago
A few years ago, I had a summer project, building a desk for myself. The desk part was a ludicrous fail, but I did listen to these SICP lectures, as an audio podcast, about four times. Sending them mentioned here reminds me that I was going
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by watersb 5mo ago
Japanese bought Rockefeller Center in New York City in the 1980s. That was when it felt like we were "Turning Japanese". It was great and scary and crazy and we wrote cyberpunk stories.
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by watersb 5mo ago
Both the Chevy Volt (as in Volta, not Bolt as in... bolt) and the BMW i3 with the Range Extender are "series" hybrids: the petrol engine has no mechanical connection to the wheels. It only charges the battery. In the past six mont
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by watersb 5mo ago
BMW i3 (2014-2021 version) Carbon fiber reinforced plastic. Wagon-wheel tires, 155mm wide. My 2020 one includes the scooter motor generator, a petrol "range extender", and weighs a bit more, slightly less than 3,000 pounds. Skinny
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by watersb 5mo ago
Tax everyone based on annual miles * weight of the vehicle.
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by watersb 5mo ago
My EV eats tires at a high rate that's not consistent with other cars in its size class. It also weighs only 2650 pounds, nearly half that of many other passenger vehicles on the road today. But my car is weird, not at all common in th
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by watersb 5mo ago
Tesla sold lots of Cybertrucks to SpaceX. SpaceX sold lots of xAI capacity to Anthropic. They don't need us.
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by watersb 5mo ago
Intel chip designers in Haifa gave us the Pentium III, which led to the design for the Core and Core 2 CPUs. Looks like Apple's design center is in Jerusalem.
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by watersb 5mo ago
So happy to have been along for that ride. This collection is a great complement to the everything-x86 PC workstation jungle of the day. I built a huge tower PC server to run NeXTStep in 1993, but I had no idea how difficult hardware compa
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by watersb 5mo ago
The Motorola 68000, a great CPU with 32-bit operands, was initially implemented with 68,000 transistors. The model number was decided long before the transistor-level design was finalized.
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by watersb 5mo ago
Oops... Thanks! I wasn't certain of the boundary channel, but I went ahead and wrote it anyway. Going from memory, and didn't verify. We also had PBS at Channel 18, I believe.
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by watersb 5mo ago
Thanks, yes: Channel 17 higher frequency. (I tried to read what I wrote for errors, as autocorrect can smash any attempt at careful writing. But I didn't catch this. Was invisible to me because I was reading the meaning of what I was a
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by watersb 5mo ago
I remember when Ted Turner bought a scrappy Atlanta TV station, Channel 17. The channels refer to specific radio frequency allocations. Anything below Channel 12 is "Very High Frequency", and anything above that is "Ultra Hig
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by watersb 5mo ago
(Not an answer to your question, just a note that "top" and "bottom" refer to the illustration in the article -- the authors printed a printed a vivid color logo on what appears to be a smartphone screen. With the screen
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by watersb 5mo ago
"Linker"? In theory, the motivation for position independent code was to support the development and use of software libraries that could be "plugged in" to an application. In practice, RAM was often limited to 16 KB; so
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by watersb 5mo ago
IBM CUA FTW LOL
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by watersb 5mo ago
Not OS/2.
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by watersb 6mo ago
I wonder if portion size is comparable. We may have inflation in more than one sense: prices have gone up, and perhaps the size of burgers and hot dogs have also increased. No doubt I can find portion size clues if I look around. Haven&#x27
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by watersb 6mo ago
> Because the 8086 had no facility for emulating an FPU (unlike the 80286 and later processors), the emulation mechanism was somewhat complex and required tight cooperation of assemblers/compilers, linkers, and run-time libraries.
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by watersb 6mo ago
This is great! I first studied back-propagation in 1988, at the same time I fell in love with HyperCard programming. This project helps me recall this elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
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by watersb 6mo ago
The playbook has been to manipulate "low-information voters" by promising that you will attack a marginalized group of people. Get the voters to believe that you are on their side by echoing the fear and hatred they have for The E
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by watersb 6mo ago
As expected, I misread the paragraph.
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by watersb 6mo ago
The article states that "Playboy" magazine creators started "Omni", but I'm almost certain it was "Penthouse". I would describe both Playboy and Penthouse as primarily pornography. As such, they were both
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by watersb 6mo ago
In Phoenix, Arizona, there are solar panels over the parking lots at since of the grocery stores. Makes a huge difference in survivability when you get back to the car. (Without huge infrastructure dedicated to car welfare, Phoenix is uni
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by watersb 7mo ago
25 years ago, I configured GNOME to run a BeOS-like tabbed window manager. On a sun workstation. But that's not what this is. Or not only: Nexus Kernel Bridge Nexus is Vitruvian's custom Linux kernel subsystem that brings BeOS-
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by watersb 7mo ago
Do you store them all in the same pen, or do you have to keep them separated?

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