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Woz gets some coverage in Steven Levy’s “Hackers: heroes of the computer revolution’from 1984, and he updated it in 2014. I try to reread it every year or so.

It’s fun to consider how C devolves into assembler. In my mind, C and its derivatives dissolve into 68K assembler as I’m writing or debugging. Thinking about code this way lets me …

(Edited to add: Sorry, too long of a post here. I didn’t bother to renew my domain this year) A timely piece I can relate to. currently starting my second week in a (US) hospital o…

“It takes a long time for a man like Vorbis to die” - is my favorite, but the book is chock full of brilliantly executed philosophy.

The only reason I disagree is that L&L jumps in with some very well established characters that had been built up earlier. But I do love his (historically accurate by lore?) descri…

I love discworld and prosetyilize its virtues when and where I can, but two thoughts about this: 1 - why not both? 2 - via MST3K “If you're wondering how he eats & breathes, And ot…

I’m no longer NED from Stage IV colon cancer (first DX 2014), and now it’s returned and inoperable. I was given an option to add Cetuximab which I’d had previously- but the side ef…

This is absolutely the way. My interviews are conversations with someone that I want to work closely with, and while leet code might be an interesting lunch conversation it’s not g…

Thank you for the thoughtful response- and best of luck to you and your child.

“Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C." - Governor Bobby Jindal, Feb 24 2009 in his party response to …

When you’re refactoring a system (which is really what he’s claiming to want to do) you don’t just delete the repository and start with main(). You figure out where the edges are, …

I keep thinking about musks group having all this financial data (that his business competitors do not!) and feeding it into a model to find signal he can use to further his empire…

Presumably these users have audio in other contexts? Are they running the web app version of teams? Do other web apps play audio? From 10000 feet up, I wouldn’t start by blaming Li…

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The few times I (50s male) tried horizons universe I felt a visceral creepiness - that any adult I “met” was likely there because it wasn’t technically within 100meters of a school…

imagine an ai tv that was given the prompt to continuously encourage viewers to sign up for LG/HP instant pixel delivery service and that it should be noted that many viewers feel …

That’s lovely. It’d probably have been too rare for the DAK catalogs of the early 80s, but a lot of similar (cheaper) gear came through them. (The Olivetti branded TRS-80 Model 100…

I made that a slowly panning and enlarging Mac OS screensaver from that site - 10 lines of source I’ve long since lost to load a web view. [edit to make sense]

Early 90s, Todd Rundgren realized a Mac App called Flowfazer - it didn’t simulate your experience but was helpful as a distraction to move you along. Some people used it to provide…

Not sure if it’s still being sold, but “evil mad scientist” had a kit [1] to build a giant 555 from discrete components. [1] https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2014/555v2/ >

I was there, 1986-2006 and by and far what he said internally at company meetings was completely apolitical. He didn’t moralize, he pushed groups to create better products for cust…

Interesting if possibly somewhat off topic (to this submission) - a discussion [1] about DES key length and some of the thoughts given to it in a taped meeting from 1976 - [1] http…

I really started listening to music as a teen because of the wall, but _obscured_ really hit me at an emotional level, years later, and has become one of my favorite albums. In par…

I used to “own” a port in /etc/services and got a few Emails and somehow a very irate phone call from someone that was being port scanned. (Back when we had desk phones and they co…

A friend of mine mid 90s was doing a clean room rewrite of doom (for fun, just to learn) and didn’t have any bounds checking on his maze - so it was possible to wander off into pro…