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WebTV largely worked better than I think it often gets credit for, and I echo the sentiment elsewhere that it felt "futuristic" in a sense. I had a Windows desktop, but we came int…

Speaking of WebTV music, I was a huge fan of the original Philips WebTV dialing music. Sometimes I would just let it loop in the background when I was doing housework. https://www.…

Japanese culture also has a number of "ritual purity" elements, such as taking shoes from outside off in the genkan (vestibule) before stepping into the main part of a house, and r…

Reminds me of this article: "1980s computer controls GRPS heat and AC" About a single Amiga controlling HVAC systems for 19 public schools. https://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids…

One thing that works for me is to just start writing figure legends. That seems easy, it doesn't feel like "writing the paper". I end up basically writing the results section for t…

A lot of this is due to advances in imaging, particularly two-photon microscopy, that enable acquiring images (and video to some extent) in live subjects, e.g. mice and rats, below…

Alphafold is a big improvement, but a structure of a single protein in isolation isn't representative of how these things exist in vivo. Binding substrates can modify protein shape…

Same for me, I try to make it meditative in a way. I don't use earbuds or anything, just try to continue existing and moving. Sometimes identify birds. Practice talking to myself i…

There are other weird VHS-based formats, such as WVHS, which was used to store HD-ish analog video on VHS- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W-VHS Alesis also developed an 8-track digi…

I've heard so many demoscene/8-bit covers of it at this point that I forgot the earlier versions had acoustic drums! Some examples from scene.org: https://files.scene.org/view/part…

We haven't done lightning/thunderbolt, but the Youtube reviews include the different USB-C power modes. We also look at some aspects of safety, such as when overcurrent protection …

I haven't tried Affinity Photo but Affinity Designer has been a pleasant surprise. Worth the non-recurring $50 investment. I want to like Inkscape, but there are just too many quir…

Re: Anker chargers, a few perform pretty well but many are kind of middling. A friend has been doing a lot of reviews of these on Youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/c/AllThingsOnePl…

Akebi for Android is pretty good. For a while I used the Nintendo DS Japanese dictionary (Rakubiki Jiten) for the ability to do stylus-based character recognition, which was less f…

I pulled a 128D out of a dumpster (literally) around 2002, in the US. I was always a bit confused if it was actually a 128D or a 128DCR since the articles I checked at the time sai…

Ten years ago I went through my Apple collection to remove those RTC batteries when people started reporting that they were exploding. I have an Apple "set top box" prototype- didn…

Protein structure prediction was a huge deal, which is why AlphaFold received so much fanfare. It is actually pretty good. The next step is to predict where multi-protein complexes…

In the US I can go to the supermarket and get "truffle macaroni and cheese" in a box for $5, because everyone knows that truffles are this rare, mysterious, and luxurious thing, an…

It even generated indicators for references, but not the references themselves. I could see it being useful if it was some kind of system that could basically synthesize wikipedia …

That Sequoia letter aged amazingly poorly in just two months. "...FTX—a company that may very well end up creating the dominant all-in-one financial super-app of the future. Nothin…

I'd also suggest that the "bubble" era had a long tail in terms of innovation- the huge R&D investments that were made in the 80s and early 90s were still showing results into the …

Canon absolutely did this, I have the first-gen of their first-gen mirrorless system, the EOS-M, and I run a 3rd party firmware on it (MagicLantern) to be able to bypass the 30-min…

I considered myself pretty knowledgeable about photography (mostly through videography though) but I never had a decent film camera, and neither did my parents, so most of my exper…

I feel like the bearing noise in pre-fluid-dynamic-bearing drives was an essential part of the experience, that this device doesn't recreate yet. A room full of warbly, sometimes h…

Hi, I'm just wondering what the text-to-speech and speech-to-text for Japanese is based on? It works pretty well, and speech-to-text in a browser is not something I thought would b…