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I almost had to defer a procedure for one of my cats because my vet’s systems were all down. This meant they couldn’t process payments, schedule appointments, use their X-ray machi…

When the iPhone came out, it was perfectly positioned. Smartphones weren’t new of course, but they were clunky devices with tons of compromise. The iPhone was designed to fix a lot…

Fun fact: in Japan there was a WebTV client for the Dreamcast [0]. The very first “Dreamcast” I saw was a Katana dev kit at a WebTV office. [0]: https://wiki.webtv.zone/mediawiki/i…

Andy Rubin also was a founder of Danger Inc. which was also eventually acquired by Microsoft. Unfortunately the acquired talent that brought us the wonderful Hiptop/Sidekick device…

I worked at WebTV not long after the acquisition. I was always impressed with the amount of capability they were able to extract out of such minimalist hardware. Even for their tim…

Apple’s approach to back compatibility was always give a stopgap to bridge generations. The irony is they would undergo heroics to support that back compat across generations (Mac …

20 years on, and so much of this still resonates with me: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost... especially after reading the OP. Lots of memories reading …

Thank you for your detailed reply! I have no issues tolerating CPAP, so I’m not the target audience here. I’ve been seeing it advertised pretty heavily as of late and was curious a…

How do you feel about the new surgical options like Inspire Sleep as an alternative for people who can’t tolerate CPAP?

My DME used to be Lincare was equally terrible. They were awful. They never had replacement consumables in stock, and I had to deal with months worth of delays to get things I need…

Carelon also does preauthorizations for various expensive procedures and such. I’ve had the displeasure of having to try to coordinate between my insurance provider and PCP’s insur…

Quota was once a very good website. I spent a lot of time contributing and answering questions. Then the email spams started happening pushing digests of irrelevant and in some cas…

The best is when those “silent updates” restart Teams while you are in the middle of using it.

A million times this. Things seemed more broken than usual in Teams for me today like image attachments not working and such. I just figured it was Teams being Teams until someone …

ㅋㅋㅋ is literally “kkk” but it’s shorthand for 크크크 (keukeukeu). There’s also ㅎㅎㅎ (hhh) that shorthand for 하하하 (hahaha). It’s much faster to just mash out those single consonants, so…

The microchips are basically little RFID widgets that are about the size of a grain of rice. The chip can migrate from between the shoulder blades to anywhere else, and the range i…

As soon as I saw the screenshots of it running in a terminal window, I was in love.

The problem isn’t the lead itself, it’s the phenomenon of tin whiskering that can happen with some Pb-free solder alloys where metallic hair-like structures grow from the solder an…

This was a fascinating read, not only for understanding about how Shazam works which is something I’ve long been curious about, but also a great primer on digital signal processing…

I would guess that that 486 speeds were the terminal velocity for Second Reality’s performance. That was the high end when it originally came out. Don’t get me started on the GUS. …

+100 I really dislike ligatures. They are one of those things that seem great in theory but I find them to be a real distraction. This is why I never got into the JetBrains fonts —…

Second Reality was truly a technical marvel and arguably represented the pinnacle of the PC demo scene. It’s amazing how much influential it has been and how it continues to endure…

Every so often I go on a “font bender” and start searching for my “next great coding font”. I’ve been using Hack ( https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ ) for several years, but after lo…