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by chiph 11d ago
It's still mostly a research tool. Don't be too harsh on an early system like this. One day it (may) become widely available and used by millions.
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by chiph 14d ago
I regret not having the time to stop by the Connections Museum in Seattle when I was there. They're working on a new museum in Denver. Their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ConnectionsMuseum
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by chiph 25d ago
Depends on whether the devs included keyboard accelerator mappings. With the rise of "touch focused apps", it's becoming rare.
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by chiph 25d ago
I saw the same thing at Best Buy. They switched from a traditional cash register to a web application on a PC. And all the clerks carefully (and slowly) navigated their mice to click on everything. What was worse was their mouse platform wa
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by chiph 29d ago
That's pretty shocking.
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by chiph 1mo ago
If you want to visit, here's the location. https://maps.app.goo.gl/tvGDn6rruL5HKH5LA You might also want to visit the Stumphouse Mountain Tunnel in SC (about 2 hours away because mountain roads are scenic but not fast)
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by chiph 1mo ago
They sound that way to be unique and attention-getting. They have to cut through the background noise of 21st century life. Here's a (totally unsafe!) demo from the 80's of why sirens sound the way they do. Do not attempt at home.
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by chiph 1mo ago
I'm sort of OK with this use of plastic. Unlike all the single-use plastics we make (bottles, forks, food-wrap - the list is endless) this is going to be in use and providing value for decades. And can likely be made from recycled HDPE
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by chiph 2mo ago
You can get IBM i (OS/400) running at home, but the hurdles are many. You need to have one of a specific set of PowerPC servers and need to "acquire" an operating system image. Which will be running in unlicensed demo mode. T
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by chiph 2mo ago
This is because of additional power & water costs? The landlord should install individual meters on the units. Or at least sub-meter, so they can be paid accurately by the residents. Offering unlimited utilities is a stupid mistake by a
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by chiph 2mo ago
I hired him last year to run Ethernet cable in my existing house and he did a great job (the original homebuilder did not make it easy on him!) At the time he was placing random icons so they'd protrude onto the next floor. I guess he
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by chiph 2mo ago
Because if the business grows, then you will need to add servers, and reallocate each existing shard's min/max values. If you left room to grow (divide amongst 2^31 instead of 2^63) you can go a long way before you have to solve t
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by chiph 2mo ago
Note that there are four different USAA insurance companies. Your military rank and how you got referred for membership will determine which one you join (listed highest/best to lowest): United Services Automobile Association - Officer
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by chiph 2mo ago
Story time: A relative of a former coworker had been laid-off from their bank job during the global financial crisis in 2008, but then picked up a position as a Colorado cannabis dispensary's CFO (their first). When he arrived for his
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by chiph 3mo ago
That's because the bankers didn't realize they're not in the banking business anymore - they're in the IT business (which has a focus on tracking money).
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by chiph 3mo ago
Pascal did/does this, but eventually someone wants a string longer than the size portion can handle. Or wants the number of characters not the number of bytes.
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by chiph 3mo ago
They generally do stock parts. I was able to order a part when I was in the USAF for a near-obsolete machine (which still used core memory!) and it showed up within a week. Still in it's original EMP and environmental-proof packaging f
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by chiph 3mo ago
My college job was at a record store that had a Ticketmaster machine. If you didn't want to pay the $2.50 fee[1] (we got only like 15 cents or something) you could go to the venue and buy tickets directly. But since they became a monop
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by chiph 3mo ago
> Exports are used for application code which is externally called. This was the magic moment for me, learning Windows 3.0 programming. The idea that my program is no longer master of it's world, but instead is just something that g
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by chiph 3mo ago
Gas heat uses two fans - one to blow air to the rooms (often shared with an A/C system), and another smaller one[1] to supply air to the gas burners and the heat exchanger. As part of the safety system, the computer won't open the
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by chiph 3mo ago
Google has code written for their Tensor processors (TPU). Will it run on the NVidia GPUs that xAI has? Because I'm thinking they're "not part of their core architecture" and it will thus be money wasted. (I thought for
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by chiph 4mo ago
I've been reading Bob's articles since he published in Infoworld. Could his next column be "Haha I fooled you - it was written by an AI"? I don't believe he would do that. Plus it'd be sophomoric - something th
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by chiph 4mo ago
What helps for me was using cool/chilled water, and a swimmer's nose clip to help reduce the smell of the ingredients. If you are adding flavor drops - go with lemon and not anything blue or red in color. One other piece of advice
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by chiph 4mo ago
That would be Joel Spolsky (Fog Creek Software) and Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror), mostly. Jeff has gone on to make several large philanthropic gifts. Joel probably has too but I don't have info on them.
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by chiph 4mo ago
I'm surprised that the font used for the "Rollerball" title wasn't mentioned at typesetinthefuture.com
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by chiph 4mo ago
I just installed it on a Raspberry Pi (with an otherwise too-small-for-any-other purpose SSD) for use at home. I wanted something with low power consumption, and I didn't want to have a single point of failure by running it in a contai
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by chiph 4mo ago
> They understand the business processes they’re digitizing. I feel this has more importance than they think. Outside consultants would not have had this domain knowledge and would have spent months learning it. And then would have had t
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by chiph 4mo ago
Thank you for posting this. I have enabled them at home and work. I am really tired of having to look for a window's shadow to resize it. Which is problematic when you run a black desktop. Having to resize a window by grabbing it just
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by chiph 4mo ago
Perhaps the VBRUNxxx.dll files were distributed with Windows later, but not at first. You had to include them in your install diskettes.
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by chiph 4mo ago
"Runs and Drives" for $4300 is a bargain. All the other features were a bonus.

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