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This is the way. You can jump in and out at any time and let everybody else wear the pain of working it out.

Time to revive the Sopwith Camel

Indian companies just don’t have the contacts and background to access capital in the way that “yeh we went to school together” that opens more doors. It often seems like VC is des…

The old HTC One M8 used to fill this niche but they might be too old to use on the daily any more. I’ve been thinking of digging mine out, the headphone output was great

I assume there are shortcuts like extending the service life of particular consumables and whatnot. Even something like a Gripen, designed to be run from makeshift airfields needs …

This is a fundamental misreading of self described “conservatives”. They only pay lip service to economic liberalism because it gives them something to rally around. It’s always be…

Still, the F16 is 16 hours of maintenance per hour of flight or something close to that. Which probably isn’t terrible compared to other aircraft but doesn’t seem sensible for some…

Not when you consider the cost per hour of flight. You want a wingman you’re better off with cheap, cheap to run and disposable

The technique of putting machine code behind a REM was common in the Microbee (another Z80 machine). Often used for sound effects in games as the standard PLAY basic statement only…

He set the style of being confidently incorrect. At least he was entertaining.

LG monitors not TVs

Entra is their lock in. They have little need for office other than customers expect it but if you look at the direction where they wholesale throw out Outlook for it’s worse web v…

I don’t think it matters in a practical sense. Our streaming overlords have already shown that by crippling the effective color space of supposedly 4K video they care little for qu…

There are other solutions that require mass coordination and possible violence that would be a lot easier than gambling on phytoplankton

I haven’t used print for debugging for ages. Now it’s all trace on azure and hope your bug ends up in the sampled data in whatever that stupid thing is called. App insights or some…

I think I’d like to see a site where people posted their chat results that ended in a successful resolution. Just for isolated bugs or library use questions. Would not be useful fo…

The heart of the mighty Australian Microbee. I still have the Rodney Zak’s book somewhere although I’ll admit doing anything fancy with assembler back then was a bit beyond me

My account is only there so nobody is tempted to squat there on my behalf. Perhaps a minor issue overall but worth considering

I think it was clear that the poster was distracted by all the useless bongs and beeps and that was what caused the extra distracted driving bong or beep

Communist Sydney trains are awful too

This is something git shares with pretty much every source code management system. Of the ones I’ve used over the years including SVN, PVCS, whatever that janky little Microsoft on…

Time window is roughly to a non US citizen from when civil rights and women’s rights were ascending there. The last 20 odd years show a marked decline in both. I often wonder when …

It is easy to forget US history as the vast majority of us have only been exposed to the 1960s to 2000s era which in retrospect seem like an anomaly.

I think it’s the demographic that has changed most markedly but even then discourse still rhymed with today’s dumpster fire. Sure, that monoculture of geeks had a veneer of communi…

I remember a lot of bad natured Usenet flame wars. I don’t think it’s worse now it’s just the volume got louder and things like reddit amplifying stupid to new lows. Easy enough to…