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See also: the sewing machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewing_machine The 30 second version, sewing is very labor intensive and people started trying to make a sewing machine …

That is mixing up a stable ABI vs a stable API. OpenBSD is sort of the poster child here, They notoriously do not have a stable ABI, I would not want to try and ship closed source …

Companies hate raising prices, or more specifically customers hate it when prices are raised so companies don't like to do it. especially in foods. As such the go-to dance to keep …

AMD only pressured Intel into adapting the 64-bit extensions to the x86 architecture, The Intel native 64-bit system was the Itanium. Which they were hoping would break x86 and it'…

A fair statement, but a stable ABI is only needed when you don't have the source. Seeing as most of the value proposition of Linux is that having the source is good, I find no faul…

Until you try and use a device in a moving bouncing vehicle, touchscreens and pads are infuriately bad, but that silly nipple, rock solid, works fine. It is a niche use case but it…

The quote I like is "The only intuitive interface is the nipple, every other one has to be learned" So as long as an interface is consistent with prior interfaces I guess it is "in…

Would they be different? They launched 16 days apart. I always assumed they were mostly the same core hardware. hm... rereading the wikipedia pages now...

Remember the Mike Rowe Software incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MikeRoweSoft.com

It is the other way around, When people want something they are willing to pay more for it. The manufacturer wants to sell to the person that will pay the most. While the person wa…

I like to think that doom: the dark age is the quake 1 sequel we never got, I mean it has the doom name, probably for marketability reasons, but thematically it fits quake the firs…

See also: operation plowshare. The idea was you could use nuclear bombs to dig canals. Or make harbors. Or really any large scale earth moving project. The U.S. did one test shot, …

On mowing actual grass, I love thinking about the algorithm while mowing. Turning(the reduction thereof)is often the most important part. removing awkward corners for later passes …

That is my plan, I have (had, you have to let it go) an old account from when it was a just username, never bothered "updating" it to the email account, I tried to convert when Mic…

crude oil is also just organic solids. err... liquids.

Salutes, I had just redone the firewall and forgot to check external access, Works for me herp derp. I guess everything is fine. sigh Should be up now.

Mine is hard to get to(ip6 only) but was started around the idea of a shared postgres database. ssh applicant@register.public.outband.net The web page https://www.public.outband.ne…

Running X open as a sort of shared network attached monitor is pretty fun, granted it is only really useful as a sort of large control room style display as all window operation ha…

That was pretty great, Many times when someone does not like something they are unable to unable to articulate why. That video is a master class in how to critique a thing. I could…

As a child I made several crypto disks out of cardboard, draw a 3 inch circle, give it enough segments to fit your alphabet, 32 is easy and gives you room for the capitals and some…

On desktop,I use a NFS home dir to a freebsd(zfs) fileserver. But I have to admit, that is not so much concern about the filesystem quality as I want a good(backed up, raid) storag…

Stamped steel has most of the properties cast iron has with regard to seasoning, the main difference is reduced heat retention. I prefer stamped steel, lighter, stronger, won't bre…

Pyrex was one of the great customer betrayals. Corning built the brand to promote a specific blend of glass with it's specific properties. Successfully enough that that blend, boro…

I use obsd as a desktop system, I would not necessarily recommend this to anyone, you give up a lot, but obsd is my ultimate comfort system, it is small but full featured. I feel I…

Yes, but the audio plugin ecosystem also insists on using rotating potentiometer like controls everywhere, these are fine when there is actually something physical to grab, but alw…