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by watersb 1y ago
STILL WAITING FOR "BANANA-JR-6000"
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by watersb 1y ago
You can't expect him to live in Millbrae on a police chief's salary!
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by watersb 1y ago
# VAXen, My Children, Just Don't Belong In Some Places The trouble started when the Chief User went to visit his computer and its VAXherd. He came away visibly disturbed and immediately complained to the ELFI's Director of Data
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by watersb 1y ago
Our Chevy Bolt EV has a real-time display of... something, a number in units of kW. I presume it's approximate instantaneous battery discharge rate. Anyhow, I rarely see more than 35 kW indicated for less than a minute at a time. So ca
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by watersb 1y ago
> I used to work in decent depth with three phase bldc motors, so I feel I can say with some authority that these things _can_ be simulated If I take it literally versus hyperbole and excitement, could there be uncertainty coming from
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by watersb 1y ago
I vaguely remember the office on Chesapeake Dr in Redwood City. It had the requisite Steve Jobs interior design but that was augmented by an enormous mountain of white salt looming up behind it. Sodium chloride. From evaporation ponds on th
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by watersb 1y ago
> I'll never have to go to court because I used it wrong. Technically, it's possible to be required to go to court, for some value of "used it wrong". Or so I'm told.
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by watersb 1y ago
> Right now, commercial rents are locked into untenable rates because the loans are contingent on those rates Let me get this straight. A landlord cannot lower the rent, because they took out a loan on the property which promised to th
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by watersb 1y ago
> I've hired a lot of them into medtech Somehow, my brain read that as `nerdtech`
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by watersb 1y ago
My usual machine is a MacBook Air M1. I upgraded as soon as Tahoe was generally available. I haven't seen major problems but due to another project I have not used the Mac very much. It's plugged into a docking station and stays u
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by watersb 1y ago
What AA or AAA battery should I use for industrial applications? I recently got a set of warning lights for car adventures. Like a chemical flare light but these LEDs run on batteries. It was probably a stupid idea. Deleted paragraphs here
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by watersb 1y ago
What are the chances of the Earth forming yet remaining dry? Exoplanet surveys that I've seen in popular press can see rocky, dry planets. I'm not sure if that's just a selection bias in our current technology or if Earth wit
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by watersb 1y ago
> they're bringing people down. It was that way in the USSR, and it's that way here. This claim about the USSR seems strange to me. In high school, I had a couple of classmates from the USSR and they had been attending advanc
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by watersb 1y ago
Looks amazing. Keyboards that put various control keys down the rightmost edge of the keyboard -- these drive me insane. Fitt's Law and me with keyboards. I could just remap the keys, or cover that edge of the keyboard somehow. Which w
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by watersb 1y ago
It might make sense to turn over phones every two years if you are a business that maintains lots of phones. As an individual, I generally keep my phones for at least five years. Why should I spend $300 per year instead of $150 when the low
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by watersb 1y ago
macOS Snow Leopard almost adopted ZFS. But a few weeks before release, Sun was acquired by Oracle. It was going to take months of further negotiations to nail it down. Apple-sourced ZFS on macOS was canceled. ZFS had been released by Sun
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by watersb 1y ago
The 20th Century versions of the Apple Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) were published by people who really cared about usability. You can find PDF versions of the old Apple HIG online; I just found a GitHub repo that has them: https:&#x2F
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by watersb 1y ago
Never work with children, animals, and puppets. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeverWorkWithChi...
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by watersb 1y ago
iTunes plays audio files. It also has metadata for the audio: Artist, Title, album art, how many times a song has played... It writes the metadata into the audio file. Badly. In particular, it's that "Play Count": iTunes rewr
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by watersb 1y ago
Sure, sure... The UI is a waste. But: 24-bit color support in Terminal.app! Finally. (Next year, macOS Ukiah will use Apple Intelligence: just describe the UI you want in Spotlight, and macOS will vibe-code it up for you.)
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by watersb 1y ago
> Looks like an opportunity for a cluster in a picture frame. Did you get them? Are you kidding? Of course I got them! :-) It was actually better than that: they were in bulk boxes of five, there were at least eight such boxes. I took tw
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by watersb 1y ago
I found 10 Intel Galileo dev kits, new in box, left at our local recycling center on the "Free: Take Me Home" shelf. And just today, I received the Intel Edison dev kit that I'd purchased on eBay. The Galileo is a Quark X1000
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by watersb 1y ago
This is about the app that first shipped with PowerPC "Classic" Macs. As a tech demo for PowerPC performance, it was beautiful. It was ported to NeXTStep-based macOS with the new millennium. You can still find an equation graphin
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by watersb 1y ago
Welfare like cost-plus aerospace and defense contracts? Farm subsidies? Tax credits? Assuming welfare as in healthcare and food subsidies, money to low-income individuals.
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by watersb 1y ago
> In 2025, most Americans are untethered to any moral framework, do not require that their leaders even appear to act in a civilized way Strongly disagree with "most". Margins on many recent elections have been so low they&#x
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by watersb 1y ago
Chronic illness is horrible. And times are tough. It's a scary day. You can still build something, teach something, help those who love you. The despair is real but it goes away.
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by watersb 1y ago
I inferred that a museum exhibit setup might be a package put together by a contractor. And the contract selection process might put a relatively low priority on amount of screen tech in the package. Museum might get locked into a vendor te
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by watersb 1y ago
I love this. I would go for weeks just in a large framebuffer terminal, no GUI running. And I still run some servers that way. Terminally insanely great!
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by watersb 1y ago
xeyes can be Actually Useful; two eyes always looking at the cursor... your animal brain hardwired to discern the direction of gaze of the eyes facing you (citations appreciated)... Helps me find the mouse cursor on a big screen if I lose t
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by watersb 1y ago
We get 190 miles of range in winter at highway speeds if we are careful. 2019 Chevy Bolt EV with a factory-new battery from 2021. It was $20k used. We also have a 2014 BMW i3 with a worn-out battery. This was designed for ~50 miles between

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