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Nice project. I built one of these once on a C128 some years ago in interpreted BASIC of all things. I let it run through a few iterations to gauge its speed, saw that it was pretty quick and didn't even bother to compile it, completely forgetting that the speed of an iteration is determined by how many cycles are required before an escape and that the early ones all escaped quickly. The silly thing ran for over a week...

IIRC the Z80 would be the first processor to wake up, too, and would retain control CP/M were being used but would shift control over to the other processor if either native or C64 mode were being used.

Perhaps I should have been more careful saying "like smart watches" then. I meant devices in general ranging the gamut from NiBP machines to SpO2 machines to smart watches. Most of these have far less impact on far fewer people than drugs or food, and yet the FDA spends a huge amount of resources regulating them, even trying to walk through software development methodologies. This is something I've seen first hand working at several sites that make such devices. So perhaps they're trying to scare a few particular vendors out of that specific arena, but on the whole they've got that industry tangled in a huge amount of bureaucracy.

Sometimes it seems like the FDA spends more time and effort regulating peripheral health devices like smart watches than it does regulating the food and drugs that 1) it's named for, and 2) that people actually ingest.

I don't think the VR versions of social networks will help promote empathy, but the VR versions of movies can do so in the same way that ordinary movies can, but perhaps even more effectively as they give the viewer presence, too.

IoT devices can be fine, but there are lots of companies involved in it that don't know what they're doing and would be better off staying out of the market. I always advice friends / family to look for upgrading capabilities, ability to do useful work when not connected to the Internet proper, user control (do you own this device or effectively borrow it per licensing etc.?), and other similar things before purchasing any IoT device. Some IoT devices are great, but some are abysmal.

SQLite also does remarkably well with recovering from all manner of power loss / crashes / worst case scenarios. We created a "power loss" rig just to test this facility for one particular system. Really SQLite's biggest weakness is concurrency, and if your app needs that in any serious amount you probably ought to look elsewhere. If you're just dealing with occasional concurrency though SQLite shouldn't be dismissed out-of-hand.

The NEARTA site has a lot of interesting info on disposable diapers vs. reusable ones. If you're of a technical mind start off with the analysis of SW-152c: https://www.nearta.com/Papers/SW152cAnalysis.pdf but then look at the cost comparison: https://www.nearta.com/Papers/DiaperCostComparison.pdf and the review on the (surprising) impact to municipal governments: https://www.nearta.com/Papers/GovernmentDiapers.pdf You're probably not aware of it, but there's a good chance you're subsidizing your neighbor's disposable diapers.

Somerville is not necessarily typical, though. Not sure if it is still true, but as of a few years ago it had the highest population density in all of Massachusetts. Higher than Boston, higher than Cambridge, higher than Worcester. Introducing it as an ordinary suburb of Boston is perhaps a little misleading.

Perhaps it's a little like receiving multiple life sentences -- deliberate overkill. With the multiple life sentences even if per some great stroke of luck you get one reduced or time off for good behavior, the others will keep you imprisoned. Likewise with such a big default judgement even if he manages to acquire a lot of money he likely won't be able to do damage on the scale he's been doing again.

Of course the text recognition system in the Newton (actually a trio of products working together under the hood: Rosetta, Mondello, and CalliGrapher) got to be good enough that many consider them to be among the best out there, even today. (And it's not hard to find traces of Rosetta even in modern macOS.) Newton folks were pretty good sports, and someone converted the "Eat Up Martha" Simpsons clip to display on later Newtons in 16 shade grayscale and it was pretty widely distributed, and the Doonesbury jibe about "Egg Freckles" ended up as an easter egg in the device itself.

Although if you did switch to the mixed-case set it would show source code in lowercase.

Maybe. If within 2 generations everything has switched it'll likely be fine, although many not-easily-replaceable devices (like cars, for instance) will still use the old port.

I think the concern is that everything won't be standardized within 2 generations, and instead we'll see the slow death of third party cables. And if that happens, it's likely that increased DRM and reduced freedom will follow.

It's not explicitly stated, but it seems to work fine with Firefox Developer Edition as well as regular Firefox.

Not sure why the focus on Apple except to grab headlines; all notebook sales plummeted: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/05/10/1447221/sales-o...

Coincidentally the latest Phrack has a tight little chess playing AI written in just 256 bytes: http://phrack.org/issues/69/4.html#article