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The directions tend to be conservative in their assumptions. Like you won't walk/bike through a business parking lot to save 10 minutes of walking around the block.

Over on Youtube the Usagi Electric channel has several videos about reviving old vacuum tube computers and one of the interesting aspects is that tube failures are much less of an …

Is this firm big enough to cause a financial crisis on its own? Has the leverage situation gotten so dire? Is this just postponing the inevitable at this point?

One has to only look at the actual participants to find ample examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQZWMmINqxo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S54GrXDjokg https://www.thephilo…

A good example of the defaults being incredibly important to any application. If your defaults are super slow then most people are going to come away with the impression that your …

Effective Altruism is one of those things that sounds smart on the surface, but in practice is a yellow flag. The fact that he started the club is a red flag. In short, Effective A…

The fall of the USSR chopped the legs out from under these stories. Nobody is worried about Iraq, Iran, or Afghanistan unleashing global thermonuclear war. That scare tactic just d…

There Will Come the Soft Rains feels like it was written right after a visit to the World's Fair back in the Atomic Era. A critique of the unlimited promises about the future but v…

Vernor Vinge has always been uncommonly prophetic, even by Sci Fi author standards.

This is what I remember. Kermit hated latency, and dial up modems had that in spades. It was much slower than Z-Modem for pushing files around.

I thought it was a bit of a miss that C didn't use ^ as the pointer sigil. I mean it's literally pointing. I'm guessing some early terminals didn't have that character on the keybo…

You're just going to force contributors to use Grok.

Your example needs to add the part where you put that string into a card field so people can see their work. But your example also includes a period, a colon, square brackets, and …

Happened right after the whole anti-gay marriage movement collapsed in the face of overwhelming public opinion. Transgender rights were determined to be the next best option for a …

It's kind of a shame this uses its own, probably more powerful, language instead of HyperTalk. HyperTalk is one of the most accessible languages for beginners I've ever seen. Sure …

> Apple's inability to properly introduce color as a first-class feature was what effectively killed the product. I think the bigger problem was when Apple stopped shipping the Hyp…

Being able to load stack pages in from a remote site would be both amazing and a total security nightmare . Hypercard's security model was NOT suitable for that kinda of activity. …

Conservatives in the media remain firmly convinced, or at least continually post about, how the left has moved so far away from the center that they never consider the possibility …

I ran into problems because some time before the transition happened some bot use my email address to sign up for an XBox account, in German for some reason. So I have to first do …

Which would work but in this case is not ideal because the majority of traffic arriving at the switch may not be on the table. Also, it will be constantly blowing away the existing…

A nice thing about the fertilizer is that it is only needed for a few weeks out of the year, which means it can be produced intermittently and stored without causing problems. If t…

Sounds like an opportunity to scale up your business. If the competition suddenly gets expensive that is a market opportunity. Of course it's never that simple. If the war ends tom…

> 2% greenhouse gas emissions to feed 50% population is unsustainable? What? Eventually you cook everybody and the population drops to 0. We want to maintain the "feed everybody" a…

Unless you're in the middle of the Atacama or on the moon or something, yes.

The price of grid electricity is moot when you're powering the process with locally generated green energy.