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Update: Now that I'm off work, I’ve removed the big rant about mini vMac’s code and sanded off the snark from the rest. I should have done this years ago, and I never should have added that in the first place.

I feel like that’s a bit harsh, but I’ll admit that it is needlessly inflammatory. I wasn’t in the best state mentally when I wrote that. (I do sometimes worry that I’m responsible for the disappearance of Paul C. Pratt…) At some point I need to either rewrite it to be less hostile or just yank it entirely.

It wasn’t that bad. It cut a few scenes but most of the movie is still there perfectly intact. It even won film festival awards. The movie mostly flopped in the US market on account it being distributed on a very low budget limited release against Rambo and The Goonies. SpaceHunterM on YouTube made a good video explaining a lot of misconceptions, if you want to check that out.

It’s Blackstone that’s investing in single-family homes, not BlackRock. They also only own 0.06% of US single-family housing stock. Easy mistake to make.

Also, there was absolutely inflation before Bretton Woods, and significantly worse inflation at that. See, for example, the hyperinflation during Weimar Germany which led to WWII. Or the nearly 10% deflation in the US during the Great Depression, which just exacerbated the effects by severely discouraging investment that would have helped kickstart the economy again. Post-Bretton Woods, major currencies are generally substantially more stable and predictable.

There’s a webcomic, “Joe vs. Elan School”, that might be an enlightening read for you.

In my case, the company I work for isn’t a software company. The bean counters / IT group would rather just have something tacked onto their existing Microsoft subscription vs. something entirely different.

Also, I suspect part of the reason people are hesitant to use GCP because Google is perceived as a company that will gladly kill products off on a whim. Not great for something mission-critical.

There’s a good overview of the faults of Clean Code at https://qntm.org/clean.

It also didn’t help matters that Stalin was greatly opposed to cybernetics, resulting in no research done on the topic until 1954, the year after he died. And even then, things didn’t really kick off until 1958.

I feel like the headline is burying the lede here: every Dell sub-brand is going away expecting for the new “Pro” and “Pro Max”. Reminds me a lot of how Apple in the late 90s got rid of their Performa/Centris/Quadra/etc. for more obvious, matter-of-fact names.

I’d agree with your assessment of what Apple considers a photograph if I could turn off the post-processing that turns everything in the background into a smeary, blobby mess.

That would be a bit of an issue if you were to ever, say, have a garage sale.

The quote escaping seems to be identical to that of Visual Basic 6 (and likely QBASIC as well, although I haven’t tested that.)

You might have some luck with news wire services such as Reuters or the Associated Press.

As someone who used to use (and hate) LabVIEW, a lot of my hatred towards it was directed at the truly abysmal IDE. The actual language itself has a lot of neat features, especially for data visualization and highly parallel tasks.

Microsoft released the NT 4 version of it under the MIT license: https://github.com/microsoft/winfile

.NET also does this a lot. Here's a recent devblog post looking at file I/O: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/the-convenience-of-sys...

The modern equivalent to this would be an embedded system with an RTOS, where you do get full control of memory, because you are the OS. We just have nice abstractions on top of that for the most common use cases, since you very rarely need that precise of control over system timings or memory allocation.

You can see a somewhat similar concept to this today in the test and measurement field with the PXI standard. It's an open standard of plug-in instrument or computer modules that slot into a chassis. The only real sore spot is the drivers, often being proprietary Windows DLLs.

Windows on Windows. It's the system in Windows NT that lets you run binaries written on other architectures.

The latter. According to this wiki I found [1] the audio was muxed in with the program data, and then separated by the Satellaview satellite box. This audio would then get mixed in with the Super Famicom's audio output and sent to the TV.

[1] https://wiki.superfamicom.org/satellaview-soundlink

There is - it’s called the X10 Home Automation system. It’s archaic technology from the 1970s and it doesn’t do power monitoring, but you sure can turn devices on and off.

EDIT: it seems the KNX standard is a more modern system that supports Powerline as well as other communication methods, although it seems to mostly be for business use.

Fortran is closer to a highly optimized Matlab than a general purpose language like Javascript. It excels at matrix and vector calculations and is simple enough of a language that getting something working isn’t too difficult.

Unsurprising really. I've only ever seen LabVIEW running on Windows machines. Hopefully this will allow them to ease up a bit on maintenance work and tackle some of their long, long overdue technical debt. Perhaps they can have a file format that's compatible with version control instead of using a modified version of the Macintosh resource fork format, for one.

Toshiba no longer makes computers. Thanks to their 2015 accounting scandal, they had to sell their computer division to Sharp, who now sells some very unremarkable machines under the name "Dynabook".

The Wing Commander one was a myth. See https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/16279 and its HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37564217

It's just a read-only Twitter mirror.

These services have already existed for decades, with government-funded interpreters. They’re known as Telecommunications Relay Services and they come in a lot of varieties for one’s specific level of disability.

There are apps now that have the same service using AI transcription instead of a live interpreter, which is nice, but it’s not world-changing.

Imgur is backed by venture capital. A stable, sustainable business isn’t enough; they have to make gobs of cash to repay their investors.

Oh, it works now. Thanks!

For those reading the comments here, https://kidneybone.com/c2/wiki/CategoryCategory is a great place to start browsing.

There was a mirror at https://kidneybone.com/c2/wiki/ without the SPA stuff, but that seems to be 503'd right now. (And even if it wasn't, I don't think it has a root page; you'd need to type in one of the page URLs manually.)