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That was true initially, but they changed tack about a week later. The ship reduced capacity from 1000 beds to 500 specifically so that they could accomodate covid patients, becaus…

"What I'm asking of you is to be less cynical about what actual art and artists and be genuine in the search for meaning." There's a typo here, and I honestly am not sure what you'…

I agree with everything you've said. However, many people I know who produce art, are not thinking in these terms, and resent being forced to do so, and they are forced to do so, b…

sounds like a job for thismuseumcuratordoesnotexist.com.

I have friends who are (modestly) successful fine artists, and they uniformly hate having to write that dreck. But you wanna pay the bills, you pick up a pen and write.

Is it really a work of art if it doesn't include the obligatory ridiculous description? Something like "Opus #4, in mixed media. Through a re-imagining of the interaction between f…

that's right. 3.5... 5.25 was long past.

Heh, no, but it was a close call. Shipped in August of 95. I was working on Office "95" at the time, and we were seriously under the gun, for a few reasons. Firstly, it came down f…

Heh, yeah, I remember when they switched to labelling everything by year. Those of us on the development teams thought that was seriously tempting fate given our track record of ro…

There may have been some overlap, but as I remember it the main thrust of Cairo wasn't really about UI. It was an object based filesystem, and some other fancy shit going on under …

At the time there were two branches, the win 3.1 branch, which was consumery, and the NT branch which was for servers / developers, etc. Cairo was an OS based on the NT branch, whi…

They've built emulators for many, many old computers. The website is clearer than the github page. http://simh.trailing-edge.com/

Another feature I want is "money is no object mode" when travelling around new york city. Sometimes it's fastest to take the subway, sometimes it's fastest to take a Lyft/Uber, but…

Good Lord, I'd have killed for that checksum feature you mention. I've spent hours typing pages of hex into a TI-994a with no such functionality, and typically you'd just have bugs…

And the if-else construct is also a macro. The whole thing ends up being a case I think.

The impact is specifically related to Hong Kong, where the protesters are using telegram to coordinate, and where, according to the bug report, the telephone number range is limite…

I used those three button optical SPARC mice, and the bigger issue than the fact that you needed a special mousepad, was that the pad had to stay properly oriented. If the pad was …

can't speak for the OP, but there are several apps I wanted to run that would have been cumbersome with that approach (although I looked at it). Main apps in question were Excel, a…

I did exactly this last summer, and have been quite happy with the decision. (context: my dev work is all about elixir/erlang, some python, and some haskell). So far I've had very …

The real "killer feature" is the Erlang VM (the BEAM). Thanks to a combination of exceptionally lightweight "processes" (not true OS processes, a construct of the VM), which share …

A very interesting history of the NYC subway. https://www.amazon.com/722-Miles-Building-Subways-Transforme... It's been years since I read it, but as I recall, the system was built…

Interesting, although the article is strangely silent on the subject of property taxes, which are extremely high in NY. NYC and surrounding areas undoubtedly have higher property v…

It's crazier that it's paid for by the state government in Albany, with taxes collected from the entire state. The control is a side effect of that.

The video is well worth your time. The device works very well, and the fart spray has a purpose, in that it encourages the thief to ditch the package as soon as possible, enabling …

I've always assumed that "drinking the kool-aid" was a reference to Ken Kesey, rather than Jonestown, and I'm surprised to learn otherwise. It's certainly in lousy taste.