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Maybe someone here can help me remember. I had a PalmOS app that I loved, back in the day, and I can't remember what it was called. It was a shareware clock app, with hand-drawn ti…

Yeah. Now we have parallel murders.

That would certainly be an improvement over their current strat (ignoring what I want to click on, showing me what's most profitable for them instead)

Seems a natural fit for a notebook UI. If a PRQL cell doesn't start with "from," just continue adding filters to the pipeline above. Would let you progressively build pipelines by …

This is fantastic, but not fully in the spirit of the old web. Personal pages looked like they did because they were essentially outsider art: the product of experimentation by tee…

Could have packaged up the Amiga chipset on an ISA card, an all-in-one video/audio/io gizmo. Sell that to 386 owners and give the OS away. Bonus points for a ROM socket to insta-bo…

AT stands for ATTENTION. In command mode, it configures the modem for data transfer. It is an excellent name for a social network protocol.

They did just that in 1989, with the Macintosh Portrait Display [1]. It was designed to fit snugly on the Mac II. Like other CRTs with fixed resolution and refresh rate, the phosph…

Forget satellites: launch water, rocket fuel, 3D printing material! Relativity Space is building 3D printers large enough to construct orbital-class rockets in one piece. Others wi…

Yeah, the capacitive touch screen feels really tetchy and imprecise. Frustrating to use, even for simple card games with large touch targets (ex. Dicey Dungeons). But I've found th…

I've never seen anyone use this logic to recommend installing Windows Insider on production servers.

Whole thing boils down to "I've always been in the cultural in-group, but man it sucks here in the out-group," as he notices for the first time what life has been like for most peo…

Oh. To this modern reader, L. Bob Rife was just an obvious parody of L. Ron Hubbard. But he wasn't a Texan, so I suppose I see your angle. Interesting bit of flavor.

I sympathize with this sentiment, I hate printers. Worked in a copy shop for a time. Hate em. But there has been at least 1 good printer, and HP made it: - https://en.m.wikipedia.o…

This mini-thread accidentally explains why the West don't, won't, and can't care about Azerbaijan/Armenia violence: it's fucking incomprehensible. Tribes killing each other for gen…

Pretty poor execution by Tesla though. It didn't even honk and yell "ride on the sidewalk, moron!"

They probably do, then give themselves a nice round of applause. They're getting rid of their (unprofitable) discerning users, and keeping all the (profitable) naive users. On aver…

550km is also just the operational altitude. SpaceX initially releases satellites in a much lower initial orbit. If they fail to POST, they fall into the atmosphere months after la…

Has live search, it's as quick as you can type.

I use Automattic's Simplenote. I pin the web app in a Firefox tab, avoiding the Electron app. The Android and iOS apps are both great tho. Live sync is perfect, you can publish rea…

"Laptop?" More like, revenge of the luggable!

Mix up a cup of fiber supplement (I use BeneFiber) and drink it 10 min before you plan to eat. You will eat less and feel fuller for longer (eating slowly increases the effect). If…

A bit later, it seems Netscape wanted to connect to the Visual Basic hype of the time: https://web.archive.org/web/19971022101212if_/http://www101.... I'm not sure if Visual JavaSc…

Nothing you wrote contradicts anything I said, because I did not claim Tesla or SpaceX invented anything brand new. I said they built existing inventions into viable products and b…

2006: There is a reason Gustave Trouvé invented the electric car 125 years ago and it never took off. 2011: There is a reason Bell invented VTVL rockets 50 years ago and it never t…