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Midnight at the bottom! I really like this one: https://sunclock.net

In the "number field" clock, the hours are always along the top row only. 12:10 and 10:12 look different.

HP calculators were an important part of my formative years. I have a 12C, 15C, and 16C (all original models). I also have an HP-35 (red LED digits) within reach right now. That wa…

Maybe I should have complained more loudly about them using the same name as that thing I wrote that I called Copilot. https://hewgill.com/pilot/copilot/index-old.html

I had that "a-ha" moment not at first by learning that "fenêtre" means "window", but later when I learned the German word is "Fenster".

The story didn't mention what had happened to inflation in the meantime. A dozen eggs costs $32.

Electricity costs money too? I don't know how the cost of power compared to the cost of a candle in the beginning of the 20th century though.

MajorBBS could handle multiple lines on its own, but you had to handle ALL of the lines with one box. That meant a serial port interface like DigiBoard which provided some number (…

Sheesh, trigger warning please! I remember the how.

I've done AoC on what I call "hard mode", where I do the solutions in a language I designed and implemented myself. It's not because the language is particularly suited to AoC in a…

The walrus operator allows you to use `elif` there to avoid cascading indentation. if m := re.match(pattern1, line): do_stuff(m.group(1)) elif m := re.match(pattern2, line): do_oth…

Raymond Chen happens to have worked for Microsoft for a long time, but he is an institution unto himself.

If text files are your world, then http://todotxt.org/ might be for you. I'm currently using "pter".

The colons there don't represent C++. That's just a way of referring to a windows API function that exists in a specific DLL (in this case "user32"). Because the functions used her…

I think the hard limit of 100 todos is the best feature of this. Why don't other todo apps have this feature?

SLMR and OLX were by the same author, but OLX was a complete rewrite and didn't look anything like SLMR.

OLX (and SLMR) author here. It gives me warm fuzzies to hear about your positive experiences with OLX, after all these years. To this day I maintain that Turbo Vision was peak comp…

You're thinking of the Thawte Web of Trust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thawte which was run by Mark Shuttleworth (now of Canonical). The certificates were used for email, not fo…

Increase the iterations on the sidebar. You will then see more detail until you zoom in even further.

Do you believe that the Library of Congress is immune from the current administration's information purge?

> Mission owners and operators often lack adequate capabilities for software understanding because technology manufacturers build software that greatly outstrips the ability to und…

That also seems like a reasonable explanation. I never got any of the background story from our guides.