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I contacted him a number of years ago about his R-12 replacement for my old 1975 Ferrari, rather than converting it. It worked perfectly - better than Freon-12, even. Which is the …

I bought the "high end" e-Machines box on a killer sale at BestBuy because I needed a modern computer and didn't have the time it takes to get all the drivers and settings really w…

If they were really badass, they had a rack of Telebit modems. (Telebit made 68020 based modems that did 56+ Kbps long before a 56K standard, and literally had more compute power t…

In my experience, AI is more akin to Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect as a service....

Likewise - I tried the demo recently, and it's really impressive. I wanted to try it because the new CAD package I'm using (Sharpr3D) runs on it, and it seemed like a good idea to …

FYI, We just had world-class cellist Steuart Pincombe here in Austin last month performing the last three Bach cello concertos along with three matched brews from the excellent loc…

Correction: Being a Founder is fine. Just make sure you own the company, and are not at the mercy of venture or Private Equity funds. 60% of America's economy is small privately he…

Hacker News is getting really useless. I thought I'd heard this some time ago, and yep, clicking through,this is indeed "news" that is OVER A YEAR OLD. Are we just completely ignor…

Of course it does. Math is not programming - it's almost entirely irrelevant to programming and certainly to software and architecture development. Most modern programming only inv…

The fixes for such things are often quite amusing. One of these days, i'll get around to telling the story of how a major computer manufacturer was forced to make the BIOS smarter …

Even the best photography does a very poor job of capturing what many works of art actually look like. This is an area where tech is not the answer, and those that insist it is are…

We'll see how this holds up. I currently have nearly 3283 tabs in my primary Firefox window. (The other six windows only have 35-125 tabs at the moment. I sort of use the windows a…

This attitude is still presenet among doctors, and is one reason why electronic Medical Records still suck, and why Obama's "Affordable Care Act" has made American healthcare simul…

Yeah, that self-policing guild discipline by doctors and lawyers has really worked out well, hasn't it?

No matter how heinous you may find his speech, in America, under the First Amendment, Jones (or any nutball or even Nazi you may choose to pick) has a right to say it - even if he …

March was the beginning of the year not all that long ago. That's why there frequent confusion about George Washington's birthday, along with other historical dates of that era: Th…

Despite having 4 of the 10 largest cities in the US , no Texas (or other Southern) city rates a listing in the zoneinfo file, so we're stuck having to pick Chicago, which is so far…

Chicago is he ultimate style guide and reference for nearly any kind of writing. Well, this puts me another edition behind. Should I update the 11th edition sitting on my shelf tha…

Wow. Racist framing, much? I'm a robotics engineer trained back in the 80s, but still working with pretty cutting edge stuff today. It's true that automation poorly thought out can…

It's worth noting that only several years earlier, the US aircraft industry was almost completely killed by the Wright's patents and licensing practices. The UK, France (especially…

Thanks, @Thev00d00, I hadn't herd of this! I've amazed folks in the past with things I've built to do fairly heavy duty image processing using only shell (incl. Unix text utilities…

It actually works very well. Phones/tablets are now more capable than many PCs/Macs. When you've literally got more compute power, RAM, storage, and network bandwidth than supercom…

I disagree. I'm typing this on a nice Lenovo Yoga 2-in-1 and though it's quite nice and well-built, it's the worst computer I've bought in decades, because it's stupidly designed: …

I'm very seriously thinking about one of these (or really, its successor) when I need to replace my computer again in the next year or two - it's already optimized for several Linu…

One reason I'm not eager to ever have an EV - you can't really do the "avoid highways" thing on a non-trivial EV roadtrip, so you're doomed to Interstates...