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You can get IBM i (OS/400) running at home, but the hurdles are many. You need to have one of a specific set of PowerPC servers and need to "acquire" an operating system image. Whi…

This is because of additional power & water costs? The landlord should install individual meters on the units. Or at least sub-meter, so they can be paid accurately by the resident…

I hired him last year to run Ethernet cable in my existing house and he did a great job (the original homebuilder did not make it easy on him!) At the time he was placing random ic…

Because if the business grows, then you will need to add servers, and reallocate each existing shard's min/max values. If you left room to grow (divide amongst 2^31 instead of 2^63…

Note that there are four different USAA insurance companies. Your military rank and how you got referred for membership will determine which one you join (listed highest/best to lo…

Story time: A relative of a former coworker had been laid-off from their bank job during the global financial crisis in 2008, but then picked up a position as a Colorado cannabis d…

That's because the bankers didn't realize they're not in the banking business anymore - they're in the IT business (which has a focus on tracking money).

Pascal did/does this, but eventually someone wants a string longer than the size portion can handle. Or wants the number of characters not the number of bytes.

They generally do stock parts. I was able to order a part when I was in the USAF for a near-obsolete machine (which still used core memory!) and it showed up within a week. Still i…

My college job was at a record store that had a Ticketmaster machine. If you didn't want to pay the $2.50 fee[1] (we got only like 15 cents or something) you could go to the venue …

> Exports are used for application code which is externally called. This was the magic moment for me, learning Windows 3.0 programming. The idea that my program is no longer master…

Gas heat uses two fans - one to blow air to the rooms (often shared with an A/C system), and another smaller one[1] to supply air to the gas burners and the heat exchanger. As part…

Google has code written for their Tensor processors (TPU). Will it run on the NVidia GPUs that xAI has? Because I'm thinking they're "not part of their core architecture" and it wi…

I've been reading Bob's articles since he published in Infoworld. Could his next column be "Haha I fooled you - it was written by an AI"? I don't believe he would do that. Plus it'…

What helps for me was using cool/chilled water, and a swimmer's nose clip to help reduce the smell of the ingredients. If you are adding flavor drops - go with lemon and not anythi…

That would be Joel Spolsky (Fog Creek Software) and Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror), mostly. Jeff has gone on to make several large philanthropic gifts. Joel probably has too but I don…

I'm surprised that the font used for the "Rollerball" title wasn't mentioned at typesetinthefuture.com

I just installed it on a Raspberry Pi (with an otherwise too-small-for-any-other purpose SSD) for use at home. I wanted something with low power consumption, and I didn't want to h…

> They understand the business processes they’re digitizing. I feel this has more importance than they think. Outside consultants would not have had this domain knowledge and would…

Thank you for posting this. I have enabled them at home and work. I am really tired of having to look for a window's shadow to resize it. Which is problematic when you run a black …

Perhaps the VBRUNxxx.dll files were distributed with Windows later, but not at first. You had to include them in your install diskettes.

"Runs and Drives" for $4300 is a bargain. All the other features were a bonus.

There will be torque multiplication by the transmission in 1st through 2nd so it won't be as much of a dog as you think. Race car, no. But it'll hold it's own in modern traffic unl…

A few months ago I finished building a new media server based on UnRaid. I populated it with WD 26TB drives. At the time they were about $400 (steep, but a decent capacity/dollar b…

Do these user-configurable laptops come with a mesh bag to hold their parts? Like the camera on the StarFighter, and the modules on a Framework. Would be a cool branding opportunit…