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HP-42S; cold dead hands; etc. Why? Satisfyingly-clicky real buttons in memorizable positions Easy to grab without thinking I have a functionally identical emulator on my phone, whi…

Download this: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/hist01... Outlays jumped over $2T in 2020 (3rd column, 127th row). We all know why. Outlays have not come down …

As exhibited in?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror) ;-)

A couple of times in my career, I've had the extreme pleasure of working as a dedicated support/backstop engineer within a small-ish (~20 person) development group buried deep insi…

A small assortment of HP RPN calculators. Cold, dead hands, etc.

Everyone has different obsessions. Within one's obsession, design/variety/change represents progress. It's great! Outside of one's obsession, design/variety/change is maddeningly u…

> a lot of devs just never found out they'd written buggy code and couldn't do anything even if they did. This is undoubtedly true. No doubt there are countless quietly-malfunction…

It was great. Full stop. A sense of mastery and adventure permeated everything I did. Over the decades those feelings slowly faded, never to be recaptured. Now I understand nothing…

Thank you. When you make keyboard software with nine different toggle settings, most/all of which are unknown to 90% of users until they read a HN comment buried 43 pages down, you…

Seconded. I bought the First Person DVD set many years ago just to get this episode, which I first saw on (IIRC) IFC. I rewatch Denny's episode every year or two. Chills every time…

For many decades I've kept an HP calculator on my desk within easy reach. I use it regularly for one thing or another. (day job: programmer) Due to force of habit, my physical calc…

The worst offender in recent memory was Walt Disney World. Starting about nine months after a physical trip to WDW, my Disney hotel reservation email address received spam from the…

I had a tilt-mech-ish problem with my Aeron when it was just past its ninth birthday. I don't know about warranty policies on current sales, but my Aeron came with a 10 year warran…