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My fav. so far is the IMSAI 8080 in "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" (2007).

No mention of Eggs Florentine?

Loved this game as a young kid. Great to see it. Somewhere I also found a web implementation of that black and white codewheel that came with it.

Really like this idea. The archive is automatic! Do you have to organize into folders etc. or just one big list.

Let's get Rockefeller up in here

Adjacent space, but can't help but wonder why Confluent did so much better than MapR

The author says, "The operational resistance alone would be too much." True. But we need to continue reforms that clearly will improve the system. That effort seems to be stuck as …

Part of the reason PE succeeds is their choice of things that have a large or lengthy startup cost or other supply restrictions. Most towns will support only 1 hockey arena. Or lat…

Awkward writing in this article. "McDonald’s executives say the higher costs of restaurant essentials, such as beef and salaries, have pushed food prices up..." Beef and... salarie…

Netflix joins everyone else jumping on the "rules for thee, but not for me" train.

There are some interesting points, but a few cringe things. 1) (referring to the Antifraud Company) "...they call themselves “a private-sector DOGE” -- Not exactly putting your bes…

Mainly categorical wildfire-related funding. It's a shell of what it was, we've been cutting it for 40 years. Most ranger stations run skeleton crews.

I like how the author threw this in as (nearly) the last sentence: Of course, the AI talent war may end up being an expensive and misguided strategy, stoked by hype and investor ov…

Perhaps best modeled as a waveform that starts before morning coffee. Each engineer has a vector of spectral magnitudes.

Appreciated the unexpected Hofstadter sighting!

That MIT report shall now be known as the Paper that Spawned a Thousand Churnalisms.

The strange thing is, if, in 1995, one were to write an article about building a computer in 1965, it would have involved a room full of gear for e.g. an IBM System/360. The rate o…

It seems that a lot of businesses barely function. They're often stuffed with overpaid executives while the actual business wheezes along, barely managing to get its product out th…

This was table stakes not long ago. There seems to be an increase in apps/UIs blaming the network for what is clearly poor performance on the backend, as well.

As others mentioned, self-checkout has been widespread for 30 years. They had it at most stores in the 1990s. The answer is, simply, it's cheaper for companies to hire someone at a…

Strangely addicting :)

More like pickleball

I had been working on something like it when I came across this. Excellent work. Love the demo.