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Contracting for more chips than you can make isn't a fun situation to find yourself in, nobody is doing it for profit (it's actually quite expensive in time, money, and reputation …

Maxwell's Silver Bullet?

You did well to skip the 2015-2020 era (butterfly keyboards, touchbar). With that said anything M1 or newer is going to be a delightful upgrade for you. An enormous jump in perform…

> the hardware works with no problem In the same way that PowerPC and m68k hardware still works, sure. Apple silicon is so performant that (much like those previous two hardware ju…

Games are not as fun at 1 fps, or with 10s input lag.

Congrats! I have two, both for the much easier task of doing bibliographic work for the books.

The filesystems of macOS are particularly opinionated, much more than most Unices which tend toward "anything is allowed [and usually preserved] except \0 and /". macOS supports ca…

aka "gravity losses". Every second you're not (yet) in orbit you're losing dv / cargo capability.

I think it was due to voids in the hinge area causing localized plasma impingement and heating. The v3 design has a more continuous shape around the hinges.

The difference is having high-bandwidth signal pointed up / away from the wall of plasma.

Nothing, except a story's size relative to other stories estimated by the same team.

What you've said is correct. The slide says something like "run the command `seq 2 10000000 | less` and check `ps`, notice that `seq` isn't running". But that isn't how the process…

> If we pipe seq to less and look at the list of running processes using ps aux, we can see that the seq program is not running. ... This explains why the seq program is killed whe…

The CSS has broken some time in the last 12 years, people have posted archive links that make it much clearer [1]. The author is on holiday (and enjoying their birthday!) and will …

Happy birthday! This'll all wait for later, hope you're enjoying a nice mai tai on your holiday.

The very definition of "LAATTIG".

The article is about the literal oil of boiled snake meat, or at least the product that purported to be that.

It's funny, I also read the book as a teen, and I came away from it amazed that IBM was dedicating entire team members to inter-/extra-team communication. Before that I hadn't even…

On older hardware such as this it could e.g. let you write a multitasking environment that supported shared libraries without use of an MMU (though you'd hit memory constraints pre…

Samsung only rated the S5 Active as water resistant, and only IP67. We're talking about IP68, where you can take a new phone with you on a long swim.

That's where I knew the name from. Thank you! I wrote a Rabin—Karp implementation in ~2006 as part of the spam and threat scanning stack for the MX Logic mail service. It was incre…

We call it a "black turkey event", nobody saw it coming.

It's the difference between buying a postcard of a place you've never been and having a photo you took as a memento.

It's true, too. Lunar albedo is 12%. https://www.ign.com/articles/2015/08/05/nasa-releases-a-gif-...

... matter of fact it's all dark. (The moon has an albedo of 12%)