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As a NoScript user, I see a lot of similar content served via websites as well. The ideal case is that a website gracefully degrades with JS disabled. That's largely a pipe dream w…

I was briefly involved with WITR during my undergrad. Loved what they were doing, but at that time the station definitely bought into the hipster attitude, music you've never heard…

Well, sort of. My radio presets back in the 2000s were 101.7 WFNX, 104.1 WBCN, 107.3 WAAF, 100.7 WZLX, and 92.9 WBOS. Of those stations, only WZLX remains. The greats - in my opini…

Let's hypothesize this is true. I worked at a startup that had _money_ - a lot of it - flowing in. Stakeholders wanted to see growth, which meant features. They did not want to see…

Morse code has some interesting properties that make it an ideal way to communicate when all else fails: 1. It can be transmitted by simple means through many mediums - radio waves…

I agree with you in regard to paying attention while driving, but the perception issue was actually around "you can't be bothered to be at your desk for meetings, so we perceive yo…

I find driving to be one of the most useless ways of spending my time, and if it's for more than half an hour, I do try to figure out some way to increase the value of that time. I…

I agree with the author's premise - that one feedback loop optimizes for speed, and the other for scale - but I don't think the market is bearing the conclusion - that AI should be…

There was a point where two friends and I each lived alone in an apartment, and I was the only one who had a (2-door) car. We still occasionally did Costco runs. We'd go in and wal…

My experience has been that it's easy to say, "oh, it's just me", but much harder to subject someone you care about to the same standard that you would yourself. I'm in a similar p…

I had the Treo until 2012; the Android headwinds were blowing full speed at that point. Before the Treo, I had a VisorPhone. Wonderful device, and fit a specific need (no phones al…

I'm sort of curious where the law stands on this (I am not a lawyer). Since it has a license plate on it, it in theory displays some ownership info. Is that enough for me to say, "…

This is one of the reasons I hung onto my Treo for so long. It was so much faster to do... well, basically anything that the device was capable of. With the physical keyboard, you …

There was an article a few years ago here on HN about "can't be evil" business models, which used Costco as an example. As soon as Costco turns evil, it stops working. https://www.…

Has the site actually been running all this time? I notice that the generator tag says "FrontPage 12" (post-2003), and site has a TLS certificate, which in 1996 it most certainly w…

> Why don't cloud providers have a nice way for tools like TF to query the current state of the infra? Maybe they do and I'm doing IaC wrong? This is technically how Ansible works.…

Being familiar with the hijinks that Steve Wozniak pulled with the switched mode power supply in the Apple II (1977), I was curious about how the author solved for this piece: > It…

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A few months ago I spoke with the frontman of a local Boston band from the 1980s, who recently re-released a single with the help of AI. The source material was a compact cassette …

One of the neater aspects of HP-UX is that, given the breadth of pre-2000s HP, HP-UX ran on a number of different devices. You can almost (_almost_ - it's a stretch) think of it as…

Doing connected work from the subway has gotten much, much easier in the last few years. I attribute that to three things: 1. Cell service has become low-latency. This is very diff…

Sadly, you don't even need to engage directly with these companies to be affected. Case in point: e-mail. I host my own e-mail. Valid SPF, not on any spam blacklists, good reputati…

> All if, else if constructs will contain either a final else clause or a comment indicating why a final else clause is not necessary. I actually do this as well, but in addition I…

I likewise have a circa 1997 LaserJet that I refuse to give up. Both the printer and scanner still function flawlessly, every time I need them to - something that few printers toda…