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by watersb 10mo ago
35 years ago, protesters blocked the Golden Gate Bridge. I'm pretty sure they were protesting the war with Iraq (Bush the First) in response to Iraq's invasion and capture of oil wells in Kuwait. But far more clear is my memory of
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Ah. That would be the Dilbert Principle: > Unlike the Peter principle, the promoted individuals were not particularly good at any job they previously had, so awarding them a supervisory position is a way to remove them from the productiv
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It's 2025 and there's still no way to use web-based emulators from touch devices with no physical keyboard connected. Because the JavaScript in the emulator doesn't expose an editable text element, no touch keyboard input. (I
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I would love more people to know about science fiction strangecore author qntm: https://qntm.org/Self There Is No Antimemetics Division freaked me the hell out. Recommended.
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I haven't been able to find Eric Nylund's "Signal to Noise" and sequel "A Signsl Shattered" in ebook format. But they are strange and great.
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A coworker in the 1990s used Hot Dog Stand, and indeed he had a form of color blindness. The contrast helped. Today I learned this use of Hot Dog Stand was not intentional. It was just one of a limited choice of color combinations.
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macOS was fun: John Siracusa's OS X Reviews (2015)(hypercritical.co)
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John Siracusa's passionate, long-form reviews of early macOS, when it was "OS X". When design choices mattered.
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by watersb 10mo ago
macOS Tahoe has declared war on app icons with distinctive shapes. No silhouettes. If your icon isn't a squircle, it will be shrunk to fit inside a default shape. The penalty box. https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles&#x2
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Smalltalk, but in C
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This must be different from straight up sleep deprivation. Most moments of discovery in my experience have arrived only after a good night's sleep. Shower thoughts... Hmm. The state of waking up?
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Some i3 models, like mine, lack the internal-combustion engine and its fuel tank, and i3 enthusiasts call it the "BEV", for Battery Electric Vehicle. The one with the gasoline engine is the "REx", for Range Extender. The
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I'm about to change the transmission fluid in my i3. It's at 100k miles and there's no user-facing documentation for the procedure, as the oil lasts "for the lifetime of the vehicle". Turns out, this particular proc
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All hail the embedded Scheme interpreter to apply Style transformations! Although I feel like we've already explored this with XSL. The XML syntax was perhaps too much to swallow.
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It's possible that most business projects fail. Most advertising campaigns fail.
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∀ X = Twitter; X != X Display Manager
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by watersb 11mo ago
Once you've privatised government operations, the tax revenue flows directly to the NATIONAL SECURITY contractor, so extra taxes is all good. You're paying enterprising folks for the privilege of walking around in a free country.
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FWIW I was watching a warfare simulation game on YouTube yesterday, and the players were talking about the 1998 Cavalese cable. I remembered reports of it vividly; as a student pilot, one of my recurrent nightmares is of massive electrical
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by watersb 11mo ago
The SD card on the camera was intact but encrypted. Decrypting the data required a key stored on a separate SOM board, but the SOM was damaged. The investigation team delivered the SOM and SD card to the camera manufacturer in Newfoundland,
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Doubled feeding our cat is a feature not a bug! Feed cat!
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A sort of non-logarithmic slide rule, the E6B Flight Computer, was still in use when I was a student pilot 20 years ago. I still carry one: they don't require electricity (although using one in the dark requires a light source). https
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These TMSLs were also reasonably common in classrooms in the United States in the 1950s. Two Meter Slide Rule
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He sounds like a remarkable human.
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The first personal computer generally available in the United States, the MITS Altair, grew out of projects like this. MITS was an acronym: "Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems". Ed Roberts and Forrest Mims made electronic
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I didn't consciously notice the source URL, yet I thought "This would be a great article for The Bitter Southerner". I strongly suspect I actually read the source location. Whatever. The point is that "The Bitter Souther
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The wavelength of an electron may be way smaller than the wavelength of a photon at the same energy... But do photons take up as much room as equivalent electrons? Seems like there's lots of tricks you can play, and we don't reall
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3 nanometers is generally a marketing number to indicate relative fineness of the process. But it has real relevance to the physical structures that are manufactured by the process. Transistors have many distinct features. There's the
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I wonder how this relates to Intel's "One API", which extends a single C code base across the various CPU targets (such as the core ALU, base vector units, AVX-512, NPU) and Intel GPU accelerators. Not the same thing, or perh
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On a Mac IIci with a reasonable amount of RAM, I has users run out of System memory when the "Grouch" extension was loaded. The audio was uncompressed PCM, and it took about 200KB. It was a nice tech support call, in the sense tha
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Over the past year, Intel has pulled back from Linux development. Intel has reduced its number of employees, and has lost lots of software developers. So we lost Clear Linux, their Linux distribution that often showcased performance improve

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