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Coming back from the pub? At least when I'm on a train at 12:41am, that's usually the reason.

Thinking about it some more, it really is about consistency regarding the cursor. On my trackpad, not in "natural scrolling" mode, I get this: - One finger down moves the cursor do…

It's not just the ergonomics - in my head I'm moving the cursor (and with it my view) down through the document, not moving the document up. Which is mentally different from a touc…

If you want more details, there's the protocol spec from OCP [0] and a paper [1] [0] https://opencompute.org/documents/ocp-mrc-1-0-pdf [1] https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/resilient-ai-s…

Back when replaceable batteries were the norm, I had two Blackberries that survived going through the washer and dryer.

Agree about the watch - I wear a Casio LCW-M100TSE, which is also very robust (titanium case, saphire glass), never needs the battery changing and never needs setting (except for t…

It seems like trucks are a use case where battery swapping would make a lot of sense. Unlike with cars, the battery doesn't need to be a structural element, and there's much less n…

I don't see her later on in the news article - just in the video. Did Apple remove the picture after you pointed it out?

Neutrino mass is another anomaly, which is at least slightly easier to probe than quantum gravity: https://cerncourier.com/a/the-neutrino-mass-puzzle/

One interesting gap in the standard model is why neutrinos have mass: https://cerncourier.com/a/the-neutrino-mass-puzzle/

I'm British, but when submitting papers for blind review, always use American spelling for obvious reasons. I suppose I could change it after acceptance, but that would just be pre…

I've used bubblesort when simulating LEO satellite constellations, calculating which satellite is closest to a location. I used one single backwards pass of bubblesort, so O(n) eve…

And if you do get one somehow, it's really hard to spend. Many places won't accept them.

It's definitely possible to break the rules. In fact, to give a truly outstanding talk that everyone remembers, you probably have to break the rules (speaking as someone who coded …

If you have two pipes of the same height, one filled with fresh water and one with salt water, the pressure will be greater at the bottom of the salt-water pipe because salt-water …

The listing mentions a 30,000 gallon reservior, so I imagine rainwater collecion from the "parade ground".

If we had 9-bit bytes and 36-bit words, then for the same hardware budget, we'd have 12.5% fewer bytes/words of memory. It seems likely that despite the examples in the article, in…

I also started using Jove back when 30 of us shared one PDP 11/44 running BSD Unix, and it was antisocial to use something as heavyweight as Emacs. 40 years later, I'm still using …

I've spent the last few weeks writing a non-trivial distributed system using Codex (OpenAI's agentic coding system). I started by writing a design brief, and iterated with o3 to re…

That sounds reasonable for access to actual content, but it produces a huge new incentive to constantly produce vast amounts of AI-generated slop served via Cloudflare. Is there a …

The ones in towns will mostly disappear. There will be enough chargers at supermarkets, malls, restaurants, anywhere people actually want to go, and most people will charge at home…

I came of age in the 8-bit era of the early 80s, rode the Internet wave of the 90s and early 2000s, kind of missed the mobile wave but spent that time developing ideas that would e…

If it's really just 1m behind, it doesn't need to respond individually to anything except pedestrians. And you can solve that with some extensible tapes that actually do connect th…