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Depends on what you make the default as.

I would tell anyone who is doing a new traditional serial connector/cable to add the following -

1. Automatic DCE-DTE detection and an interface which will rewire itself as needed to be the correct way, or you automatically know DCE vs DTE by connector gender.

2. Automatic Voltage Detection - 232 levels, TTL 5v, TTL 3v - and interfaces that are isolated enough to deal with the wrong voltage (clamping diodes or whatever), or different cable sizes for each.

3. Automatic type detection - TTL/RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, or different connector types by each.

Ideally I'd do this on a 8p8c or 10p10c connector, because of ease of making cables, with various resistance values across pins 1-8, or 1-10 to tell you what kind of interface it was.

Indeed, occasionally hammers do find nails to hit.

webOS was a bit ahead of its time - it does live on in LG TV's where its done quite well.

Windows Phone was so so good - it was THE phone I recommended to users who were on feature phones/non-smart phones because the UX was so simple and clean (and obvious) - with a side effect that if you HAD a smart phone before (Palm, Apple, Android, BlackBerry, the UX was contrary to what you were used to).

Windows Phone died because MS didnt do enough to build the app ecosystem, and bailed out too soon. I also feel webOS was a lost opportunity too - in some ways it was just too ambitious for the hardware of its time.

it goes back even further - LiveJournal, which was a social network like any other - more importantly without algorithmic optimization.

Benzos do the same thing for me, they slow the brain enough so you’re not overthinking everything.

I like AI Music, there is some great all instrumental stuff out there.

Also, if you dont think Apollo had pork in it, you're not aware enough of the history, the various assembly plants were placed mostly for political support, the shuttle and now SLS follows the same pattern.

You should just find a good shadow box for it, it'll look good

To my knowledge, while authoritarian it's not a totalitarian state, and Singapore has fairly effective means of redress (aka, rule of law).

I think a good protocol however is key for adoption. Many a good idea has died an early death because the implementation of it was, too complex, insufficiently robust, or poorly thought out for the future.

Only at the point of emission however...

I'd actually assume closer to 100km of coverage, 60 miles or so is a conservative estimate of coverage, in the prairies I would expect it to go much further - 500w of output on high band VHF goes quite quite far - I know how far the US NWS stations cover, and its much closer to 60+ miles.

This seems insane, particularly given the short notice period for the shutdown.

I wonder if CarPlay will work on that, its still broadly broken on my 17.

This feels like... just because you can, doesnt mean you should.

This so much.

We just got code complete on porting a 30 year old Delphi app to C#, because of all of this.

Even now, our pure Delphi components are performant and wonderful, but hiring people who want to learn or know Delphi is hard, so off to C# we trundle forward.

the difference between gosub and if blocks calling a function is more academic than practical, you still have a main event loop sending your path of execution someplace based on something that happens.

I might not be a basic practitioner, but as someone who as written serious things in bash and powershell, I can see the allure.

I'm only annoyed that I cant buy it right now!

I have said for years - Micropayents, something like the traffic settlement system for termination charges in the NANPA PSTN, and when I say micropayments I mean 1000ths of a cent. Then the content that does cost money (news, social media, whatever can be monetized and the users are paying for consumption.

There are no known updates for my car unfortunately - annoyingly my wife's iPhone 16 works fine.. in both of our cars.

Now if they'd only fix the CarPlay issues, I really miss working navigation in my car.

I have called and opened tickets, and I keep hearing it'll be fixed real soon now.

I'm not sure that you need root because of the port - I think login itself needs to run as root, otherwise it cant login to anything other than the account its running under.

I dont know that they even need to get the same yield to get the benefits, even as low as 80% of the productivity would get you the benefits.

I disagree - with a spouse I have the option of just not having one.

and microsoft makes it so easy to pirate too, trivially easy.

Its not though - I dont want to write my own operating system, build an ecosystem of apps, write hardware drivers, etc.

Win11 has massive downsides, so does macOS, so does desktop Linux, so do all the other options - I have to choose between one of those options to get things done, going my own isnt an option.

Who is better?

I wonder when thin clients will come back into vogue again.

I've considered the BLIT to be the platonic ideal, a seamless environment there local or remote behaved the same, looked the same and acted the same - I guess the modern equivalent to that would be Citrix applications - but thats still not as seamless.