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On Mac, you can run lots of Windows/Linux VMs and two Mac VMs. On Windows, you can run lots of Windows/Linux VMs and zero Mac VMs.

Maybe call it steakanography so it stands out from mere steganogravy.

In June 1977, the base Apple II model with 4 KB of RAM was $1,298 (equivalent to about $6,900 in 2025), and with the maximum 48 KB of RAM it was $2,638 (equivalent to about $14,000…

A small number of ships are crossing with AIS off (and without the benefit of GPS, because it is jammed) by coordinating with Iran. For example: https://gcaptain.com/iranian-navy-g…

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This is fantastic! I would greatly appreciate an optional light mode / non-dark mode. I know a lot of folks love dark mode, but I find it very hard to read. Thanks so much for this…

Sure, but the article is talking about people who can and do read code now but will develop software without reading code in the future. Kind of like you rarely look at the object …

It seems to be archived on the wayback machine, for example https://web.archive.org/web/20260203163430/https://www.cia.g... It was available for online browsing or as a downloadabl…

Bret Devereaux, an historian blogger, has a long, detailed look at the economics of premodern peasant farmers and their households, called Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, starti…

https://archive.ph/Ecmai ‘You can learn a surprising amount by kicking things. It’s an epistemological method you often see deployed by small children, who target furniture, pets, …

The offense started strong. Everyone expected a very short game. But the defense stopped them, and moved the line of scrimmage back significantly. Everyone was shocked. No one expe…

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias : Ozymandias By Percy Byesshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone…

Great article, thanks for the gift link!

Admiral Cloudberg (Kyra Dempsey) writes detailed, thoughtful analyses of airline disasters. In many cases, subsequent improvements have made a disaster type unlikely to recur. This…

Slate’s Matthew Dessem did a wonderful riff on this, “Leiningen Versus the Thirty to Fifty Feral Hogs,” https://slate.com/culture/2019/08/leiningen-versus-the-thirt... . It’s a ref…

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Yeah. I started carrying the fire extinguisher because my parents’ full-size Chevy van burned up with all of their camping supplies, clothes, guns, etc. from a three-month roadtrip…

I actually used the fire extinguisher I used to carry in my ‘79 Buick LeSabre to put out a fire but I ended up regretting it. Smoke started pouring out from under the hood, so I pu…

I was just blown away. So many lovely, uplifting, funny, true-feeling storylines, balanced so well, leading to a satisfying and greater-plot-relevant conclusion and an absolutely p…

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I tried Carthage and Troy. Neither are handled well, despite lengthy Wikipedia articles and calculable distances. Maybe a current population of zero results in exclusion.

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