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Computer to Minitel ttl yes. However the modem part was limited to those paltry figures. I still have mine in the basement. Maybe its capacitors are all busted…time to give it a sp…

The Minitel can be used as a modem too, albeit a cumbersome and very slow one: 1200bps down, 75bps up. Bps as in bits per second. That’s how I connected to bbses and nntp before I …

Ada from day 1: Subtype with checks: https://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rm/h... `type Shoe_Size is new Integer` defines a type incompatible with `type Age is n…

Old as time itself → https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1595733.Who_Built_the...

When I stopped taking it, I went from 12 reps to 10, and slower recovery. My level at tennis dropped too, but bicycle endurance remained the same. I stopped because of high blood c…

> Heck written Latin didn't even have punctuation marks, not even spaces. Without spaces, Japanese could never develop a great civilization. Pfff

> If you doubt the thesis, consider the extreme examples of Musk and Trump. they have infinite wealth and power and are demonstrably, publicly miserable. Trump/Musk without money w…

Still using the AVP but not exclusively, about 3 hours a day, with a hardware Bluetooth keyboard. Mostly multiple safari windows opening on servers via webterm, cli and emacs. It’s…

I am spending about three hours a day using my AVP. Not getting headaches or anything like that. I don’t have a suitable MacBook or Mac mini so no virtual display. For development …

I could hold the whole 6502 instruction set (and their cycles) in my mind while programming, it was that simple. I acquired a Z-80 softcard for my Apple ][ (for trying out CPM) and…

Hollande? Exemption for capital gains on investment property pushed from 15 to 30 years retention. Repelled sarkozys state financing tuition for French schools abroad. Many other e…

> It's 3 different right-wing administrations (Sarkozy, Hollande, Macron) So now socialists are right wing? Who isn’t then? Kim Jong Un maybe?

It is necessary to have a control group, just as in trials for new drugs.

Takeover of half of Papua New Guinea, now called irian Jaya. Transmigration, that is, moving Java people there and to Borneo (Kalimantan)in order to flood local populations with Ma…

In the 75 years of their existence it seems like they suck at expansion. They should take a page from Indonesia’s book for example. Or turkey.

Iga Swiatek (the tennis player) was denied entry in the player area for her own match. Situation was quickly resolved. I doubt VIPs go through the same entrance, lines and checks a…

My dad never learnt how to use our VCR. When VCRs went the way of the dodo, he felt vindicated. Same with the DVD player. Now, at 94, he’s on Netflix, no problem. He has a flip pho…

For example, multicore OCaml is not free of race conditions. The GC, while super efficient (pauses are in the milliseconds), is not suitable for hard realtime. Still, where absolut…

Taiwan people have not been risking their lives trying to escape to join PRC.

This made my day , thank you!

> The odds are worse if you spin each time. How do they get worse if you spin? It’s still 1/6 odds of dying,iid events.

`.envrc` by default

Still 986 years to go!

I’d rather fly in an airplane with a system coded in Ada/Spark rather than Python ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I will give it a spin on my Apple Vision Pro. Have been trying ttyd, which could really be great as is it browser based and hence I can have as many windows as I want, but a safari…