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I got here to mention Asimov. For those unaware, it was revealed 10 years after his death that he had actually died of HIV, contracted from a blood transfusion during a heart opera…

Oh no they weren't!

Marques Brownlee seems to like the wheels in his latest video review, FWIW. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfReqcUJfBU

Not criticizing your decision, but I went the opposite way, deciding that I was ok spending a certain extra amount initially in order to encourage a non-Chinese manufacturer. But I…

I suppose that means the museum is doing its job then: educate people totally ignorant of the history of computing. Next time that younger person sees a floppy disk they will know …

Yes - so far.

> There's just no way to deny this. Of course there is "way". All the above above in itself sounds like propaganda. You forget other political (authoritarian system making massive …

In particular, the IBM 1401 (two of them actually) that you can see demonstrated at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View are transistor-based and were very successful compu…

> The US and Switzerland are the only two countries that use the same colors for all of their various bills. Factually absolutely incorrect for Switzerland, and easy to verify. Swi…

That's right. There are still S-100 enthusiasts who are maintaining and developing S-100 cards, see http://www.s100computers.com/ (does not seem to respond correctly to HTTPS right…

One of the interesting aspects of the Altair was that it was based on a bus called the S-100 bus. You would have a CPU card and a memory card at least, but everything else was opti…

True or not, be aware that "The Global Times is a daily tabloid newspaper under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party's flagship newspaper, the People's Daily, commenting on …

Future might tell. But while it's tempting, I wouldn't bet against democracy and freedom just yet.

I don't need to be convinced that China has lots of bright, hard-working individuals. I just want to point out that China faces immense challenges and that we should see beyond, an…

Yes, but this will likely hurt China as well. You can't assume only the US will be hurt by this.

This sounds like official Chinese propaganda. This was truer at some point, but things have started turning bad for China with the advent of Xi Jinping. 20-25 years ago, the countr…

> China will surpass USA from a GDP Point of view in 2035. Don't be so sure, this has become much less clear. For example, in this article: "The Centre for Economics and Business R…

Fair enough. By the way, the original CSS from 1996 featured only: - the "descendant" combinator (whitespace) - the "class" selector (".foo") The 1998 CSS2 introduced "child", "fol…

There have been proposals a long time ago, including by Tim Bray, for an XML 2.0 that would remove some warts. But there was no appetite in the industry to move forward.

CSS selectors have spent the last few decades reinventing XPath. XPath introduced right from the beginning the notion of axes, which allow you to navigate down, up, preceding, foll…

XSLT will perform the transformations that you instruct it to do. It does not wipe out whitespace just on its own. Do you mean that you'd like facilities to nicely reindent the out…

You are confused. Look at Taiwan's present, not its long gone past. As I mentioned in another thread, during my last trip to Taiwan, I revisited the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, …

I think the GP meant "a" cultural revolution, not "the" cultural revolution. But yes, the CCP taking over Taiwan would erode and then try to erase the beautiful and diverse culture…

You swap character by character, and of course if you want to swap a group of characters related to a particular domain you can do so. The tray is just a grid so you have as much f…

The possibly unique instance of the MingKwai typewriter, thought lost, was recently found, by the way: https://typewriterrevolution.com/the-discovery-of-lin-yutang...