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XP started drivers and services in parallel. 2000 started them serially. That was the difference in startup speed.

NN were already a casual topic in my high school computer science class more than 20 years ago. I've always assumed they were already fairly common by that point. (~2000)

That story has been playing on loop in a dark corner of my brain the last few days. It's as close to an identical circumstance as I can imagine.

That's my understanding, yeah. I don't love my apple ID being signed into a box I can't access, so would love to see THIS service go cross platform.

Neither. Their cloud server is a farm of Mac Minis or similar. Then Beeper Cloud is basically a proxy from the app to that data center.

I sit in front of my work laptop which is signed into my work apple account. My iPhone is signed into my personal Apple account. I cannot iMessage from the keyboard because they wo…

The keystroke issue is such a big thing. It's not just a matter of remapping either. Like Control+C in the terminal is Control+C in the terminal, but Command+C is Control+C sometim…

Frontpage Express was an IE activeX control with contentEditable set to true. There was plenty of functionality around building or whatever but comparing it to TinyMCE is absolutel…

You often need the chemical properties of sugar to maintain texture. It’s not just a question of flavor or sweetness.

In 7th grade, my class had Boeing surplus computers at each student's desk. Most were 386SX with 4MB. I remember getting a chance to harvest parts from a broken machine and mine we…

Surface Laptop 4 here. Great keyboard. Great screen. Great trackpad. Surface Dock is great. And WSL gets the job done too. It's lighter than the Mac. Dunno that battery is better, …

I'd get into BBQ. Buy a pickup, a tow-behind smoker, park on the side of the road and sell meats to people for lunch. Gets me envious of myself just thinking about it.

I've personally done both Sandia (2004-05) and LANL (2006-10). I'd do LANL again, but Sandia was very political with dull work. Interesting ideas, but dull work. So much bikesheddi…

How's the battery holding on with your Round? I abandoned mine three years ago because of a combination of poor capacity and an unreliable charger but I miss it constantly.