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Well said. Your last stanza is Orwellian.

It is. It's a good study of what happens when you combine complex systems in planes and helicopters with the complex systems of navigation and communication, and air traffic contro…

Note that this is a long article (~3 hour read). If you just want the executive summary of what happened, I might suggest skipping forward to chapter 7 first and then if you want m…

Windows isn't getting any slimmer. Storage / RAM isn't getting any cheaper for the first time in the the last ~50 years. There's a storm brewing.

This started long ago. In the 1980s, pros used 60 minute Umatic cassettes because it was the standard and it was the highest quality format. Home users had VHS and Beta (and laserd…

Sometimes the journey is the reward.

lol We consult with a medium sized medical group that interfaces with all of the larger hospital groups and tons of smaller clinics around the area. They had me do an audit on thei…

You used the magic word "fax". I think you just told me you work in the medical industry without telling me you work in the medical industry.

Today in the US in 2026, if you're blindly trusting fully enshitified corporations to keep you alive, I assure you that you're not going to have to worry about broken insulin pumps…

computer.rip has dozens of rabbit hole articles that seem to be tied together in an "old tech / weird tech" bundle. I'd love to find a book on similar subjects too.

Trump is basically a glorified realtor with the intellect of a single celled organism.

Laser pointers are to cats as sparkly objects are to Trump.

Yep, they're playing the always popular "bomber gap" card.

Or they could buy equipment with active room conditioning like Dirac. I have Dirac receivers in two rooms that are absolutely terrible listening areas, and running the full Dirac c…

I don’t question that audiophiles hear different things on expensive equipment, but I think it’s all placebo. “If I spend a stupid amount of money on this, my brain will gin up the…

There's probably also some "I don't want to get my pretty truck wet or dirty" involved there too.

I still bemoan selling the first couple of years of issues to someone on ebay. I needed to get the stuff out of the basement, but feels like I should have kept them just for the te…

Yep. The low hanging fruit principle in action. You can’t make anything completely secure so you put up more obstacles than your neighbor so the attackers go visit the neighbor ins…

I'm still stunned by Captain Haynes's grace under pressure: Sioux City Approach: "United Two Thirty-Two Heavy, the wind's currently three six zero at one one; three sixty at eleven…

Although there are a number of charging stations designed for IOS devices that have bright blue LEDs that you can't turn off. Some good number of these devices are going on someone…

It would be interesting to know the who and how of the fiber cut. We're a tiny company in the heartland and have seen two separate fiber cuts in different parts of the state. Both …

I put B612 on my kindles a few months ago and it's my favorite reading font. Very legible from tiny to huge, no serifs to slow things down. I'm not sure I'd use it for written docu…

Mid 1980s, I worked at an record store that was also heavy into stereos and other audio / visual equipment. We were fortunate enough to have not only a huge 40" Sony set (which wei…