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Are you planning to feed the info back into OSM?

Windows 95 was hamstrung by DOS compatibility. If you installed OS/2, you could have butter-smooth mouse cursor movement even while formatting a floppy disk and running a DOS (or e…

The LM landing algorithm was also based on a polynomial, with "time-to-go" as the variable. Problems would occur if that variable went negative.

Well except for Jungle King

The programmable scanline-buffer-based rendering pipeline described in the PDF is worth a read for fans of such things.

And relativity describes the orbit of the quick-moving planet Mercury which shares its name with the quick-flowing element. What a world.

Also current place names. You can sometimes find a business on OSM that has correct metadata, but in many areas the majority are missing or stale (like, closed 10+ years ago.) Solv…

It's in the uncanny valley, that's for sure. I never had much luck with it because you have to memorize a ton of specific English phrase templates and remember how they are injecte…

The dual phase clocking is perhaps inspired by the 6502.

FYI Berke Breathed (Bill's contemporary, occasional collaborator and pen-pal) is still posting new Bloom County comics on his Patreon.

I tried to compile something and the Pi ran out of memory I think your beef is not with Meshtastic, but with the distro/compiler, and I am going to bet you're compiling C++ with cl…

Hmmm, need a asm.js -> WASM transpiler maybe. (compiling legacy code with legacy versions of Emscripten is quite frustrating, almost as bad as updating your JS code to be compatibl…

I sometimes wonder what "Turbo Ada" would have looked like, but I think it would have probably looked like later versions of Borland Pascal. Things like generics and exceptions wou…

I'm guessing Apple had stopped putting board schematics and ROM listings in their reference manuals by the time the ACE came out, or perhaps soon afterwards.

IIRC they also had the first native (100% Java) JDBC driver, so you could run from any platform and without weird JNI locking issues when using threads.

I really prefer the 2D pixel graphics of the original Civ. But the middle game can be a slog due to micromanagement, e.g. loading units onto boats. I would love to see a few tweaks…

I had one of those 133 MHz 486 chips, think it was AMD. Nice DOS gaming machine.

That's hilarious. I've been following Mario since his work on libGDX and RoboVM. His blog post on pi is here: https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/

You can see some of these objects at Musée des Arts et Métiers: https://www.arts-et-metiers.net/musee/les-objets-inconfortab...

It's not the wrong design; RISC-V is designed around extensions, and they left room in the instruction encoding for them. They don't have a 800-lb gorilla like Intel shoving the IS…