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I read this many years ago, it is fantastic. The tale is very matter-of-fact, but interspersed with hard-hitting extremely personal bits. It's a great read. The boat itself is an o…

It's partially about how complicated modern Web services can be, and why so many people just give up and ship a Docker container. It's also about how agonizing over the details is …

In 2005, right after Katrina hit, a lot of people in the Gulf lost power for a long time. All cell towers were overloaded constantly. What kept working was radio. A bog standard So…

>Branded fleece vests, size: only Medium I laughed at a lot of this, but this was a gem. This definitely happened to whoever wrote it. I also like how the TITLE changes when the ta…

On some level the Neo is just a new chapter in the story of the original iBook. The difference between 1999 and now is the much stronger Apple brand, so people on the fence were qu…

Back in the day you had to go dig up an Adaptec 1542 or something similar if you wanted a CD-ROM on your Linux box. IDE CD-ROMs were essentially unsupported. Best part of SCSI was …

US healthcare is extremely productive. It is also quite expensive.

I'm not even sure how you'd define a great programmer. Like Justice Potter Stewart I sort of "know it when I see it". For example, I don't think anybody is going to put Rasmus Lerd…

>Email supports text. Yes it does. However, I have sent messages to more than a few people who tell me that my message is completely empty. I have my client set to send text-only, …

You missed the point. The guy thought she was playing a game, but she was actually using the built-in web browser on the PSP. Whether it was Candy Crush or Tony Hawk Pro Skater or …

After the blowout success of the Macbook Neo, I'd think the bet would be on a cheap iPhone. Maybe not, as so many people finance their expensive phone through their carrier, but I …

Back in the day it was useful to know RPN. Because somebody will ask to borrow your calculator, and if you hand them an HP they'll say "oh... thanks, but no thanks". You get to be …

I'm old enough to remember Atari when it was new. Playing a video game at home was quite something, no quarters required! But it also had somewhat limited replayability. Doesn't ma…

>But “education” as a public, taxpayer supported activity is about the economy It sounds harsh and maybe a bit gauche, but it's true. A literate and numerate citizenry helps the na…

It also blocks IPs from states with age verification laws. I mean, okay, I respect the principle, but since there's very little I can do about the laws, and since there are exactly…

>Nobody wants the Sony WF-1000XM5 earbuds You fool! The WF-1000XM5 is the worst model of the line! You should buy the WF-1010XN5, it is far superior! Apple tends to name things in …

Somewhat related, in 1943 German POWs built a scale model of the Mississippi River basin to use for modeling of flood control methods. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_R…

I do this as well. I have a decent number of domains in my control, but not hundreds, so editing a text file and updating a hidden master is a perfectly reasonable workflow.

>We could have an AI Dang "We trained the dang-AI on thousands of dang posts, and now it's a Zen master and wants to sit under a tree and contemplate bees."

>I abort when I see things like “just type c-C dingle bob to do x thing.” I used nothing but emacs for several years (well, xemacs, but close enough), because I was using an old Th…

>They've totally lost the plot with iPads IMO. It's a fantastic device to consume media, gaming, and some niche areas like drawing... but other than that Every construction admin, …

Can't speak to ditching a preferred text editor for this one, as text editors are one of the most highly personal preferences in computing. But as a guy that teaches kids about com…

>The old Macs really were the perfect form factor for a compact desktop computer For certain types of work, they are excellent. I used an SE/30 as a dedicated writing and light pro…

The article mentions "Building software at Google's scale is extraordinarily difficult...", which I've seen many times before when one or another of these big corporations has a se…

Agree with this strongly. It's nice to have thousands of photos, but if what you're trying to do is preserve memories, you do that best by interacting with the photos. Choosing the…