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I don’t think anybody thinks or thought it was.

it was a lot simpler in capabilities. much of the complexity is because of feature creep.

How much did the engineering time to make this optimization cost?

Just looked and I'm not seeing ANY 55" 8k around right now. All the ones I'm seeing now are 65" at the smallest, and that seems way too big. I've found a 43" 4k is about the right …

Will it translate to yaml for toolchains that want that? I'd be delighted to have a high-level IDL that gave the same sort of thing that CORBA IDL gave us 25 years ago -- schema an…

How is that not an API? It’s offloaded the work to an adapter.

Not diversity. Younger cheaper quotas.

I was looking for the chalk v marker on whiteboard shootout, and it was conspicuous in absence.

Ah, an ancestor of Typescript!

So, at his site, 10+ years ago, his wind produced more frequent power than PV would have, at 3x the cost of a commercial solution. Even then, PV would have been more cost-efficient…

It doesn't have to be the NULL macro, which is correctly defined as plain 0. The literal 0 is treated specially, so this could indeed be one of those 'turns into a weird bit patter…

Part of it is that by 1986, CP/M was dead for new development of anything, and Modula-2 was also on fumes. It would have been business malpractice to spend money on CP/M products a…

1998 was a bit early, but I could easily have imagined it any time after 2000. I'm frankly surprised it has taken this long.

oof

It's not Democrats, it's business owners needing that labor. The Republicans are equally bad in practice, it's their rhetoric that is tougher.

Cool! Windows please. Someone. Anyone.

The Selectric keyboard touch and feel was vastly superior to the best mechanical keyboard you can get today. Truly fabulous. I really wish there had been a terminal or keyboard bas…

This is going to go pretty much like it went for Frank Snepp and "Decent Interval", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Snepp

A better argument than imputed carbon offset is the oil depletion allowance, which is a pretty explicit subsidy for extraction industries.

Is there a C compiler for it?

Could either of them apply topspin or return it?

A reasonable career trajectory is something like doubling the time at each place until you hit the 8-10 year mark, modulo uncontrollable events, like a place shutting down. When yo…

I've read the report several times (it keeps coming back every 5-7 years or so) since publication, and I've never felt like a reliable solution had wither been found, or was in the…

Listen to the "This American Life" about NUMMI, and you'll see that this approach was endemic to GM assembly and it's supply chain for, like, ever. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/…

Not many of those have professional careers in STEM, law or medicine, the "highly qualified" potential immigrants in question.