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931.
by watersb 5y ago
Radio astronomy at its best!
932.
by watersb 5y ago
We got to do this, in the United States, when each of our kids were born, living in a village in desert Southwest. We were very fortunate. And as the area had been designated as economically distressed, there were other support policies in
933.
by watersb 5y ago
I actually have started down this path for my own cables -- the nylon braided ones are lower power etc. My first attempt was different colors for each device, but was too tedious. Three categories - low power, high power slow USB2, and 100W
934.
by watersb 5y ago
Excellent idea. I remember going through the tube testing ritual with my Mom. Good times. It was really interesting to me, how my Mom could take things apart and figure things out. (She taught me that the inside of a TV was dangerous, and k
935.
by watersb 5y ago
Father of hybrid rice. Saved millions of people from chronic hunger and famine. I was just talking about him yesterday.
936.
by watersb 5y ago
That would break the proprietary Nvidia and AMD graphics card drivers. Just as a start. Device driver universe on Windows may be a blessing or a curse, but entire industries have labored to make it sorta work, and to follow troubleshooting
937.
by watersb 5y ago
Venkman!
938.
by watersb 5y ago
While web based single page applications (SPA) are hardly a "sweet solution ", any kid can view source and take one apart. I believe that devices are at least as accessible today as they were in 1981. Today's systems are phen
939.
by watersb 5y ago
Casio made the first graphing calculator. I got one, so great. Statistical Student's T at the lab bench for advanced freshman chemistry. In 1987.
940.
by watersb 5y ago
We had two of these OLPCs for a while. I'm very glad I was able to play with them. There were many remarkable innovations in the system, but the most striking to me was the mesh WiFi. The kids took these up to the family ranch for a bi
941.
by watersb 5y ago
I often court martial my data. Not mocking the spelling of the previous post; it's a strange term anyway and in this instance either spelling works.
942.
by watersb 5y ago
You don't let remote systems open valve 9881. That would be like deploying the landing gear of the airliner, because someone triggered a bug while changing the channel on the in-flight entertainment system.
943.
by watersb 5y ago
Excellent info, thanks. "OT" vs "IT": "Operational Tech" (pipeline and safety-critical monitor and control) and "Information Tech" (payroll, email, other business stuff) ? I could only imagine trying
944.
by watersb 5y ago
So great. Hypercard 2.0 was great. Hook up a couple of XFCNs, get stuff done. As the whole system environment grew, the scripting language outgrew the cards, but Apple seemed utterly blind, in contempt of any system that could not be shown
945.
by watersb 5y ago
Fun to see adamj's work appreciated again. :-)
946.
by watersb 5y ago
> 55 nanometers per transistor. Way off from the 2 nanometer feature size. Cool. Following along here, I consider that transistors require multiple "features", and these days the more complicated transistor structure has enable
947.
by watersb 5y ago
For English pronunciation, there's also the Color Vowel Chart. https://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/color-vowel-char... One of the developers of this technique of teaching English sounds is a friend of mine
948.
by watersb 5y ago
I had to take the hit about ten years ago. A large animal crossing, cars close behind me, oncoming traffic... and my two kids in their car seats, in the back seat. I had to risk a 200+ kg deer coming through the windshield. If it had been a
949.
by watersb 5y ago
I have been moving between MacPorts and Homebrew on my new M1 MacBook, getting back into compiling things and updating packages. So I am taking at look at MacPorts version; someone else might get it done before I do...
950.
by watersb 6y ago
The sexy plastic switches on the PDP-11 console panel are not easy to toggle, to operate from the bottom or the top of the switch. When you are flipping through a few hundred words of bootloader or debugger, I was way faster on simple, meta
951.
by watersb 6y ago
TOUCH SCREENS I wash my hands, and yet no doubt my phone and computer keyboard are filthy. There are ways to keep those surfaces relatively clean; I use a screen protector of my iPad and a keyboard "skin" on the laptop, so they ca
952.
by watersb 6y ago
+1 for the first constructive, correct use of the phrase "begging the question" I have encountered this year.
953.
by watersb 6y ago
PowerPC was also IBM and Motorola. It's difficult to compare the Apple Silicon versus PowerPC, because the new Apple hardware is far more ambitious, the whole platform. I would expect that the memory SSD controllers are to some degree
954.
by watersb 6y ago
This sounds like a Chinese proverb; there's a whole tradition of pithy groupings of four words. "Didn't look, too bad" might be a mode of "buyer beware" -- if you are not careful at the market, nyou might come
955.
by watersb 6y ago
Oh, those marketing folk who designed the console switches -- how often I dreamed of appropriate places to send them for education...
956.
by watersb 6y ago
Typing stuff, interacting at a virtual terminal, sure. But if you key in a bootloader via the toggle switches on the console, you quickly learn to think in octal (base-8). If you live with the console blinkenlights for a while, you get a se
957.
by watersb 6y ago
I thought that MP4 did something like this, but then I suppose (after working through that great image seam-carving article) that MP4 is doing inter-frame diff chunking. Hmm. So it "knows" that the pixels are grouped into regions
958.
by watersb 6y ago
> Madoff’s big-name investors included ... Kevin Bacon ... Of course. Ponzi scheme. Wow.
959.
by watersb 6y ago
I opened one of the MIDI files on my Android phone just now, and a little player with YouTube Music logo popped up and played the thing. It just worked. YT Music limits like it won't play unless it's on screen, no putting phone do
960.
by watersb 6y ago
Excellent! It's seems the Cybernetics Enthusiast community would have some extra appreciation here -- looms and punched cards and player piano rolls.

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