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Never used a Franklin, but I remember the Albert which was a IIe clone. Had a voice synthesizer which you could type words into and it would say them back (poorly) which as a young…

Idk who would even want them as a client. They'll change course on you every 4 years at minimum potentially in massive ways that might force you to change your product putting all …

I can testify that Qwant, if nothing else, is a superior image search engine (basically does what GIS used to do 10-15 years ago) and it's better for just getting to a quick answer…

Alaska, Hawaii, Vermont, and Maine all do not allow for billboard advertisement, so at least there are a few places you can go for respite.

It's also a class Onion article: https://www.theonion.com/german-luftwaffle-chain-offers-waff...

Anyone remember the Albert Apple ][ clone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_(computer) My dad had one of these and I thought it was the coolest because it had the text-to-audio…

I liked his journals from Karateka better than those from PoP. He was much less cocky then and his innovations seemed more novel and exciting, plus you know he was squeezing a lot …

I was going to cite the example of the Garmin G1000 glass cockpit. Even moving a cursor around a map requires pushing a physical knob in 360° to guide it.

I started to have the most minor of flight-or-fight symptoms April 2020. I'm guessing I was exposed to covid then but was asymptomatic. Fast forward to August 2021 and I suddenly c…

Mark Wahlberg's character in Three Kings has to do this after getting shot while wearing kevlar because his lung collapsed.

This is basically the entire plot of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

As I've said for years, any time you see a glittering urban core full of glass towers, steel bridges, and classic old stone architecture, somewhere there's a Mordor nearby that mad…

All of that was just them dusting off the 1991 playbook from the first Gulf War. That was the first time an ongoing war was mass marketed in the "modern" way, I think (you could ar…

I didn't meet any deniers in Alaska two years ago when I visited a week after the 100F temps broke.

One of the strangest buildings I've ever seen. I wonder if it wasn't a street-level stall market or something first because now it's basically a parking lot with an unfortunate bui…

That's Adrian Carmack (no relation to John). He made most of the characters you see in the game out of clay before they were pixelated. Can't recommend Masters of Doom enough, the …

Alpha Centauri has a very active mechanic built into it that uses both global warming (on an alien planet, granted) and also the planet itself being sentient enough to attack with …

Chicago pretty easily unburied itself out of two major snowstorms and extreme (even by normal standards) cold snaps. At least when it comes to the extreme weather the city faces, t…

You still see a lot of them being brought into wildlife rescue hospitals for lead poisoning from having eaten birdshot or in some other way ingesting fired ammunition. Seems to be …

I always found this graph enlightening, but strictly on its face: https://fee.org/media/17509/prices2-1.png?width=645&height=6... I don't agree with the argument FEE is trying to m…

In Chicago, he's known as three things: a neighborhood, a park, and a statue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Park,_Chicago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Park_(Chic…

Adam Serwer summed it up fairly succintly: "The Cruelty Is The Point" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt...

I had a high school teacher show us Threads during a breakout portion of 10th grade history where, for 9 weeks, you learned all about nuclear war. It has stuck with me my entire li…

...as recently as 2 weeks ago, no less https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51098209

It helps me, when interviewing people (already past the HR screen), to make assumptions about what we don't need to talk about. I'll still do my checks on your knowledge to make su…