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This is a really impressive amount of effort. Every entry has a fairly even quality to it...screen grabs and contextual descriptions of even one-off episodes of television shows, y…

In some cases, reviewing PR diffs commit-by-commit (and with the logs as the narration of the diff-by-diff story) is a substantial improvement over reviewing the entire PR diff. Co…

"Quality ratchet" is such a great name. Thanks for that.

I'm not willing to cede the point on hardware design for as long as their primary mouse product cannot be charged during use. It's such a simple and obvious mistake, like a throwba…

I remembered a comic panel that I'd seen in the New Zork Times back in the day, and I just found it...page 7 of this: https://infodoc.plover.net/nzt/NZT4.4.pdf The comic pokes fun …

I left Slashdot for HN...but I didn't leave Slashdot because of HN. I was frustrated with Slashdot and was actively seeking alternatives. About 2 days after I discovered HN existed…

Growing up in the 70s, among the things I sought out in our house to play with was an old manual typewriter. It was endlessly fascinating to me. I liked playing with all of the mec…

An alternative to securing or recreating the entire technology stack top to bottom would be to own one critical piece of the stack. If European interests owned a vital slice of the…

The 1200XL was my first computer. My family purchased it at a department store at a fire sale price (IIRC Montgomery Ward's, $199) after Atari stopped manufacturing and began dumpi…

Solved, and it was fun! But...some of the colored lines were hard to see. Particularly the light yellow ones. I had one "alternate" solution that it was marking incorrect for reaso…

Fortunately for me, you left this comment, so I upvoted the article and your comment. Which kind of scratches the same itch.

THIS! I had hope at one point to set up a Kindle with large fonts on a treadmill, but that was just totally hopeless. I tried again with a music stand next to the treadmill, but it…

_Thank you_. I read this story probably around 1980 (I think in a magazine that was subsequently trashed or garage-saled), and I have spent my adult life remembering the bones of t…

They can absolutely be checked out to the same commit. They cannot be checked out to the same local branch. But checking out to the same SHA, or even the same remote branch (which,…

This can come up even with application software (which is my area). If it worked before and it's broken now, or if your application appears to be the only thing that is broken for …

A reborn version of PLATO is available at https://www.irata.online/ (JS client if you hit the Login button at the top, various other clients enumerated below). I haven't played wit…

Surrogate pairs were new to Unicode 2.0. Unicode 1.0 didn't anticipate the need for more than 65,536 code points (who would ever need more?); the main perceived threat to that limi…

A couple of cases I'm aware of... * Coding ligatures often display as a single glyph (maybe occupying a single-width character space, or maybe spread out over multiple spaces), but…

Last month, my wife and I visited the Musée d'Orsay (as visiting American tourists). As it happens, we were in line when the museum opened and I had the bright idea to go straight …

Yes, there's a lot of messiness in how fonts work. Doing cross-platform desktop GUI development, I feel that pain firsthand (and not just for fonts, but for all kinds of rendered c…

Looks like Apple's dumping their final handheld* device with a 3.5mm headphone jack. Let's once more admire their courage. * There's still one iPad model with a headphone jack, but…

The television show Person of Interest had an episode that featured a technology called "ShotSeeker" that was modeled after ShotSpotter. In the storyline, ShotSeeker is paired with…

Every faithful watcher of the Six Million Dollar Man series in 1977 and 1978 had at least some awareness of the Soviet Venus probe program. A two-part episode in 1977, and another …

Yeah, I've seen some similar problems with my Surface Book 2. I didn't see this initially, but I now see frequent, .5-to-3 second lagging response to the touchpad, seemingly fixabl…

My editor (Sublime + GitGutter plugin) is set up so whenever I click in a certain line of code, it displays a hint out to the right with the summary line of the most recent git bla…