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What's dumb about smart teevees? The essential part has one lifecycle and the smarts have another. Better have the smarts outboard so they can be replaced when they're obsolete. Im…

Niue isn't a city (nor village). It's a country.

https://www.wired.com/1998/09/tuvalu/

What are your thoughts? Will you stay with it?

Saw him 234 nights ago. My date and I have each seen-heard him a few times before but none of them shared. We both thought it was an incredible show, which we wouldn't say about al…

consider Postel's law

How many times in a day are you unpleasantly astonished by something made out of bits? (I'm working around one with a set screw now.)

it's not dead, it just smells funny

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Health → https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_HealthVault → Lydia

Isn't it just the difference between measuring and counting? There's no occurrence of the word count here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision . We can count thin…

an interesting chart on media bias now at version 5.1 https://www.adfontesmedia.com

"Interesting" "feature" of their platform that I see monthly, and more recently given the season. I get a message like "where's my table?" But I'm not a seller. My username is simp…

But others remained unaware of the invisible dangers around them: soldiers lounged in the sun close to the reactor, smoking cigarettes and stripped to the waist in the summer heat;…

How to write a good help desk ticket. (preferably a few grades before high school)

This is easy on a desktop browser. But mobile. When my URL ends with png, jpg etc, I'd like to easily see one image pixel mapped to exactly one device pixel. There was a browser, b…

a recent talk on the spacecraft and the project — https://youtu.be/H62hZJVqs2o