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Vale Evi Nemeth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evi_Nemeth

My memory is that the Alpha and OSF/1 hit at the same time. OSF/1 had a different model of shared library stuff, and I recall it being something which sometimes demanded a reboot t…

I live in Australia. One day I received a very excited phonecall at a ludicrously early time from a Canadian Mathematician I knew (John McKay, Concordia. He's dead now but had been…

Gell-Mann Amnesia. Recognises the failings in their own field of discourse, assumes all true about anything else, same source.

Ah well. I've been duped by the hype. I'm glad there is at least some viable electrification going on.

I think it behoves JCB to say why they see electric motors in this industrial niche unsatisfying when the mining sector in Australia is going in electric super big time in undergro…

Buy premium SD card. Big dependency on a possible SPF depending how you4r 3-2-1 is going. I've only had total loss with SD. It's there until... it's not.

My argument is to tone. The articles tone is "come on in the waters fine" and my point is that easy is deceptive. I don't understand your continuing lack of understanding but perha…

I have no idea. It makes my comment a statement posted as a proxy for a question, a question you correctly pose explicitly. If it can, then deployment in a sea of gates can make a …

Field reprogrammable, it's an FPGA on steroids. Field upgradable. Burnt in, it needs a zif socket and easy access in every car, aircraft, a pull out slot in a phone, or it's new er…

Very true. Had many bikes, usually broken at time of acquisition. Most rusted out under the house. Went bikeless for a few years then got one driven in need (home work commute in a…

Never rated them as bikes. Like Halfords, a brand of last resort. Cheap cycles for the masses is a good thing but when it winds up being the one constantly at the side of the road …

I think there is a common belief if you make a lot of information available, acquiring skills is "easy". It's certainly easier than without, but the thing is, drawing the owl just …

Great article with elements of "how to draw an owl" about it. To be really good at botany is simple. Just learn how to be really good at {list of requirements which are themselves …

Model steam enthusiasts have had this for literally decades with a variety of premade parts available, angering those who learned to use a lathe. "Did you really make that" is huge…

This made me think about viral infections which reset your immunity and functionally "cancel out" vaccine immunity for measles and the like. It's called "immune amnesia"

Worthy of a top level post be the OP you need to be!

I don't particularly like the idea of India being the force which brings a tech scofflaw to heel. But that said, I'll take what I can get.

Well said. One might as well have machines pray for you. Or, maybe have some machine centric fun, while you work to pay the cost of the machine.

There's a great sequence in Bill Forsyth's "comfort and joy" where somebody records their ice cream van jingle on a kids toy xylophone and plays it through a handheld PA. Just the …

Has aged reasonably well. My local firefox user is marginally discontent with unrequested changes across update, but otherwise content and finds the list of "we stopped them snoopi…

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I have heard comments which echo those of the collapse of public-private-enterprise activity "who cares if the shareholders lose, we have the asset" There is some truth in this. Bu…

Is this more than just documented use of PKCS12? Maybe the flimflam around that PKCS12 matters more than I realized. JSON is at least modern(ish) I would hope this means I can stop…

She basically ignored the wisdom of her own advice. A corollary of "don't blame the original author" is "it's not your story once the film company has the contract signed" "Saving …