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Bill and Dave would be spinning if they knew what has been done to their formerly great company.

Well, with a 28.8 years half life it should glow a while. BUT, the largest license exempt quantity one can get iirc is 0.1 uCi. Plus it’s a fission product so good luck making it y…

Along with a book (lots of good recommendations to choose from here), I recommend getting yourself some basic tools for practical experimentation: breadboard, multimeter (even a ch…

While AoE (and the newly released X-Chapters!) is an excellent handbook to keep around, I would agree with the other commenters that it is not a particularly friendly textbook for …

Just to be certain, you realize that Duffel Blog is a satire site, right?

Scale matters too. As I clearly stated, I am not making electronics at industrial scales, nor am I generating large quantities of e-waste. As for hacker spaces, why on earth would …

This is from the perspective of a hobbyist who does _not_ do industrial quantities of soldering, but rather the occasional build or the occasional repair of a piece of old test equ…

Thanks for your reply. I’m certainly going to keep a lookout for both.

What would you say is the final model that "has it"? Besides my vintage HPs (HP15C, 2xHP16C, HP45) I also have the 50g and the modern 35S. For me, the 50g's lack of a proper ENTER …

I have both the HP15C and two HP16Cs, though I am not old enough to have bought one new. :o) Truly awesome calculators, even if they are a bit slow sometimes. The form factor of th…

If you're interested in following these things, the Deep Space Network Now page [1] is a fun one to keep bookmarked. It displays the real time status of each DSN station and what s…

Typing this from my 2017 12" MacBook...have not had a single issue with the keyboard. In fact, I have grown to quite like it. Sure it's not my beloved WASD Code with the Cherry Cle…

Accessing the recent photos is now accessed directly as one of those "iMessage App" icons that appears in the ribbon above the keyboard. However, the UI change is annoying and I co…

I think the YubiKey nano is intended to be left in a port. I don't leave mine in though (keep it on my keyring!)

Both my undergrad and grad OS courses used xv6 and I can tell you that the easiest way to get hacking on it is to spin up a VM (I used vagrant for this since I just wanted headless…

Yep! I just purchased the 1Password 7 license from the beta app, i.e. voting with my wallet. :)

Honestly, I will be happy if you continue to support licenses vs. subscriptions as an option + syncing with the cloud service of choice (I use iCloud). My use case is pretty simple…

Thanks for linking it. I looked all over and didn't see it.

Where is it on their website? I haven't been able to find it at all.

Although it's been said that they will continue supporting licenses through their website, they have made this feature _extremely_ difficult to find ever since introducing subscrip…

I've seen base64 used to implement "security through obscurity" in web applications. Many times in situations where they could have just used a cryptographic hash and been done wit…

I actually have two Lamy Al star pens, though I haven't really used them as much as I'd like. Thanks for the reminder!

On a personal note, I really despise handwriting documents. Writing for an extended period inevitably results in uncomfortable cramps in my hands. Thus, I typeset whenever possible…

Yes it is, and has been done. Subject to [edit: a] security policy (NOT defined by implementation) and a meaningful statement of threat (what are you protecting against?) This pape…

My own anecdotal experience here: I have been using iOS 11 on my iPhone 6 Plus, and subsequently my iPhone X and now an iPad Pro (from which I type this) and the only severe issue …