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You're going to make me quote the "Dive Manual" scene from _Cryptonomicon_ again, aren't you. (It features a software engineer introspecting about the fact that his line of work ha…

And are often _encouraged_ to be wasteful by "use it or lose it" type provisions.

> there is that CO2 on the air that we actually want to get rid of For this reason I have long been slightly baffled that development of compostable/biodegradable bio-based plastic…

What with so many fans, it shouldn't be too surprising that jokes are just blowing every which way.

"Side hassles"... hahaha. Love it.

That's pretty much what a food co-op is supposed to be.

American food contains maize, obviously. This works for multiple understandings of the word "American" :)

That is true but it's also an infamously unusual aspect of the Bay Area.

Many of those big bells in other cultures are on fixed mountings (in a carillon, for instance). The idea of mounting the bell on a rotating wheel - which imposes limits on what mus…

More likely a hall effect sensor, which is solid state and a lot smaller. And yes, older MacBooks had something like that, as evidenced by the fact you could put them to sleep by h…

CPC is in this market too https://www.cpcworldwide.com/Liquid-Cooling/Products/Blind-M... Non-spill fluid quick disconnects are established tech in industries like medical, chemica…

A fairly intellectual audience, in the 50s and 60s when the space race was big news and von Braun's Nazi past was recent history? I'd guess a majority.

> My family had a small B&W CRT that fascinated me with its image quality, in that it always reminded me more of a b&w photo than color CRTs reminded me of color photos. The proble…

(1) SSL (2) 37. I've been an Internet user since ~1995 and been working in tech since 2004.

The real project is the sense of accomplishment we gained along the way, or something like that. But anyway, there are institutions like the Craftsmanship Museum https://craftsmans…

In my opinion it's not always the most readable codebase, due to some idiosyncratic style choices, but it definitely has the advantages of being small and focused.

Telemetry was included in what was open sourced, e.g. https://github.com/google/pebble/blob/3b927684809fba173ee540... > My read of that caveat from Google is that the code that was…

It was based on FreeRTOS, but FreeRTOS at the time was extremely bare bones and only provided a preemptive scheduler, task management, and synchronization primitives. Everything el…

I have been happy with my pepper mill with a Crushgrind mechanism. (The mill happens to be from Normann Copenhagen but Crushgrind supplies mechanisms to a number of pepper mill man…

Flash as an animation tool and applet platform was already on the downswing when the iPhone happened, though. The consumer demand for Flash on mobile seemed to be mostly about vide…

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Ben Rich, and yes: he was the 2nd director of the Lockheed Skunk Works. I think the book may have been out of print for a while but it's easily available now.