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It's actually about 4x10^19 (exponent 19, not 9).

Though for Infocom, portability was secondary benefit. The primary purpose of the Z-machine was smaller code size, compared to assembly or a high-level language compiled to machine…

The title is misspelled. It's “H-1B”, with a hyphen.

From the article: > See 6 important reasons for using it, or skip to What is Dark-Sky Lighting?

The actual title is “macOS 27 'Golden Gate' delivers more Liquid Glass and updated Siri”.

“High school” is two words.

The article says that horse-drawn buses were successful.

It's fixed now. Thanks!

The title is misspelled. It's “Let's Encrypt”, with an apostrophe.

Did you actually play Tempest on the Atari 2600? As far as I know, Atari did a prototype, but never shipped it. https://www.atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=8...

“We broadcast most episodes live on Wednesday nights at 8 PM US Eastern time.” https://atp.fm/live

Portability between different computers is only a secondary reason for the Z-machine. The most important reason is code size, making the largest possible game that can fit on a flo…

Hopefully, you're using ARC by now, so that's a no-op!

Are you confusing Motorola Mobility with Motorola Solutions? The article is about Motorola Mobility, which makes cell phones. Motorola Solutions makes two-way radios and surveillan…

Also, the original title is only 77 characters long, so there was no reason to change it. And the title should never be changed to something that misrepresents the article.

Karp has also bought into the myth that fentanyl can be ingested by contact. It can't, unless it's been prepared as a patch, and those act slowly.

I actually used an Amiga to browse the web, back in 1994 or 1995. I started with Lynx, but then I switched to a graphical browser (probably Mosaic). This was an Amiga 500 with maxe…

Title has a typo, should say “framerate”.

Are these the cars where the safety driver is in a car tailing the robotaxi, or do they actually run without the need for a safety driver? https://electrek.co/2026/01/22/tesla-didn…

Title is misspelled, should be “independent”.

Good point. The title needs “(2014)”.

As far as I can tell, they aren't making actual CRTs, they're using modern display technology to simulate the appearance. https://www.reddit.com/r/ModRetroChromatic/comments/1m82cs…

Someone should make a parody video game called Rouge Trader.

You probably mean Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., not John. JFK Jr. died in 1999, and was not anti-vaccine, as far as I know.

The term soap opera dates to 1938. There’s no way that Rod Serling coined the term.