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by jackhack 7y ago
tldr: pseudo-intellectual handwringing angst about climate change, though beautifully wrapped and decorated with literary references. An extra dose of exaggeration and hyperbole included, no extra charge. >>I was trying to look up—at
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by jackhack 7y ago
As if Jony Ive's focus on "smaller/slimmer" isn't largely to blame for several of the big misses. Unreliable butterfly keyboards. Unservicable/unrepairable hardware. Magic Mice with recharging ports on the bot
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by jackhack 7y ago
Yes. Parenting is fascinating, wonderful, but also exhausting to do it well. Childhood is long days and short years.
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by jackhack 7y ago
I've been to that exhibit and indeed, t is one of a few moonrock samples accessible to the public. Being able to touch a moon rock was memorable but I never thought to smell it. My immediate inclination, to be honest, was to go off and
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by jackhack 7y ago
I don't think the article goes far enough. >>sacrifices had to be made in terms of repairability" It's not just repairability. There are substantial sacrifices made to usability; Ive chooses form over function. Example
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by jackhack 7y ago
I'm going to use this excuse next time I miss a sprint goal. "Gentlemen, let's take a step back and look at the bigger picture..."
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by jackhack 7y ago
Brought a smile to my face. I see this as a shibboleth for the oldschool coders. For those missing the joke, that's the assembly language commands to switch to VGA mode from DOS. Set AX register to 13 hex and call interrupt 10. That g
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by jackhack 7y ago
headless RaspPi Nano running OpenCV face detection script: Light an LED when the camera detects a face. Now plug it into a monitor and show the bounding box around each face. They'll love this! Show them the code. GIve them a really hi
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by jackhack 7y ago
Self-sufficiency has a cost, to be sure. But it also has value. Same as with foreign dependence -- we are re-learning that foreign dependency has downsides. The rebuilding of America's industry is the inverse of the pain experienced du
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by jackhack 7y ago
I suspect this is due to the small thermal window of (then state of the art) germanium transistors which was still in widespread use. It wasnt until the mid 1960s that the silicon transitor overtook germanium in terms of speed. And the USS
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by jackhack 7y ago
Lovely visualization of knowledge that is only usually obtained through low-level spleunking. I'd love to see visualizations of some of the encryption approaches used on the Apple ][, where sector alignment was shifted, file table inde
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by jackhack 7y ago
Yep, they were out there. Some folks got really upset about walkthroughs and/or spoilers, as though it was cheating, saying "it was hard for me to figure out, it should be hard for others, too!" Many debates about the ethics
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by jackhack 7y ago
Thank you - that makes perfect sense. I obviously forgot that there's a human element to all this.
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by jackhack 7y ago
Slowly? the iPhone is many thousands of times more capable than any of the target systems these software were built for -- typical was a 1 megahertz 8-bit CPU with 32 kilobytes of RAM. Even the most inefficient ZIL interpreter will spend mo
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by jackhack 7y ago
but dial-up modem bulletin boards were definitely a thing, in those days. Or Compuserv, if so inclined. I wrote a BBS in Applesoft basic (and assembly, to trap some of the control characters and escape commands) and hosted it on my Apple ][
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by jackhack 7y ago
and ran in < 40 kilobytes of RAM on the Apple ][, less on TRS-80 and Commodore if I recall correctly. The game ran in a virtual machine built for various architectures so that the game could be built once and run anywhere. (Write once, r
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by jackhack 7y ago
Great photo -- now I get it! I was imagining elevated speakers a few hundred feet away similar to an outdoor concert, but that's a 100+ watt PA speaker at face level almost within reach. Thank you for sharing. What an experience you ha
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by jackhack 7y ago
Now there's something you don't hear everyday -- "would'ya turn down the audio? I can barely hear the HEAVY LIFT ROCKET ENGINE blasting off in front of me!" How loud must the speakers be to drown out a rocket engine
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by jackhack 7y ago
But it felt so liberating and high-level, compared to the assembly we wrote before. :)
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by jackhack 7y ago
It is a feeling of limitless boundaries. I recently bought an Osbourne "portable" -- seeing my children's delight as we booted up that ancient machine (from actual 5.25" floppy discs, no less) reminded me of own own sens
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by jackhack 7y ago
You had awesome parents.
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by jackhack 7y ago
Or raise your own food (plant and/or meat).
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by jackhack 7y ago
Auto power environments are actually very rough -- 30% (or more!) swings in V+ a nominal 12V system, noise injected by the points opening/closing and the 30,000V coil generating a spark, the old mechanical-switch voltage regulators cau
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by jackhack 7y ago
I appreciate your optimism but I'm skeptical to the extreme that it is achievable. >why do people need to have jobs? Why can't we turn our lives towards something better? Answer: the basic faults inherent in basic human nature
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by jackhack 7y ago
And thus begins a Cambrian explosion of new spy devices that run (practically) forever off a button cell. The bleed/drain rate of many batteries is far more than 1mw.
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by jackhack 7y ago
And Hillary Clinton getting a call from "the grandkids" during an event meant to appeal to moms. Totally not staged. https://www.indy100.com/article/hilary-clinton-facetime-call...
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by jackhack 8y ago
>>Actually, you don't — tap the "button" and just start sliding your finger. That works (sort of) but in a way it's even worse. Now you're sliding your finger a couple of inches to the right of the actual cont
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by jackhack 8y ago
wow. And as a result the kludges just keep piling up, one on another. >>Obviously, if you need to turn down the volume in the car past the minimum level, you should turn off the stereo instead. Yep, you guessed it -- that's exact
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by jackhack 8y ago
My nomination for the Real World Interface Hall Of Shame - 2002 Toyota Camry factory stereo system volume control. First, though, let me ask a question. When one turns the volume control down on a stereo, what are you communicating to the s
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by jackhack 8y ago
Irn-Bru? I wholly agree. At that point, the taster has zero credibility and/or credibility. This is the beverage equivalent of a dry-aged, marbled, fine Wagyu steak cooked to a perfect medium, then covering it in ketchup. Sacrilege.

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