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I thought it was nicely poetic.

Like a SIM card, you mean?

I don't really like the move to eSIMs, or rather the removal of physical SIM card (slots.) A physical thing is a lot easier to reason about, and you can swap them in seconds.

Yeah, sounds just like something I'd say. :/

> This is really a fuckup of the industey if they're even confusing technical people.

Honestly, we're not that great.

I spent so much time as a kid in front of a payphone dialing 1-800-XXX-9999 numbers. That and wardialing (NPA) XXX-9999 numbers in my area code.

"Wasn't successful on TV"

That was an amazing read. Thanks for linking it.

That and 'Mr' when I try to type 'me.' It's so frustrating. If I ever mean to type either Mr or NY, I'll do it myself!

> you need to speak to a professional

My insurance doesn't cover it.

Try notepad2. It's an decent improvement from notepad while not going full notepad++. I install it on new Windows boxes and have it replace notepad.exe (there is an option to do this in setup.)

Come on, you can't be vague like that and expect no one to ask. Do tell!

Huh, I guess they edited that part out.

Funny. The story I was told was a soldier's chocolate bar melted in his pocket when next to a radar antenna. Who knows, maybe it was neither.

Tellingly, that very bundling is how Sundar got into the spotlight at Google.

I believe Microsoft is currently doing just that, reserving the output of Three Mile Island. The article was here on HN around a week ago.

I don't necessarily see anything wrong with that, and I can see the communication of demand changes back to generation being useful to those running the plant(s).

That's the same shape as the OBEY clothing line, incidentally.

I am so glad that I'm not the only one. Every time I shut the hood of a car after working on it, I give it a little loving pat-pat.

I have this inexplicable feeling, contrary to my usually rational self, that machines have a sort of soul and "feel better" when they're taken care of, and I feel like I'm letting it down when I extend an oil change/put off maintenance/don't take care of a problem I'm aware of yet. I don't really believe they have souls or anything; it's just a feeling I get.

Come to think of it, I do the exact same things with my plants too.

I can't explain it. I don't name my cars though.

Do you remember or have a link to what buffer you use, and how much? Which paper developers it works with?

I skimmed _The Darkroom Cookbook_, and saw cold/neutral/warm toning paper developers, but didn't see any mention of adding a buffer solution to modify an existing paper developer like you mentioned. I might have missed it.

That sounds like an interesting effect, and I still print from time to time if I can convince myself to drag my enlarger upstairs. (I also have a lot of poorly exposed nighttime shots I'd like to see if I can recover.)

Aww, nerd courtship.

Juicero vibes here...

(Good idea, though)

Or just say you shipped it. Neither party would have incentive to say 'they never shipped it/it never came'. Mail a postcard if Apple wants tracking.

Can you give some examples of authors? I'm not a huge fan of fiction anymore really, but I think I'd enjoy a book that's decently "accurate" like that.

I also noted their peculiar wording in the linked unrelated issue:

> "Additionally, they may face challenges in paying invoices"

"face challenges?" You mean that it's not working at all? It's just such a strange word to use.

Please do! Quirky fun personal websites used to be what the Internet was all about!

You have at least one guaranteed reader.

Not OP, but I believe it was Little Brother by Cory Doctorow: If I recall correctly, they used nodded Xboxes.

https://craphound.com/littlebrother/Cory_Doctorow_-_Little_B...

I read it a while ago, so I might be wrong, but it was a good read at any rate.

I'm intensely curious: what was the sentence and did you actually do it?

I would've.

Don't forget about Swiss Micros calculators if you haven't heard of them. I don't have any originals to compare to, but I'm happy with my collection of them.

https://www.swissmicros.com/

RIP the original Easy-Bake.

Funny that this would come up today; I'm working through that very book now. I'm still in the debug part and using 'a' though; I haven't moved onto the assembler yet.

I remember one of my first computers gifted to me with Windows 3.1(1?) on it and a bunch of games installed on it. I had a lot of fun with that computer.

One day I managed to screw up Windows so it wouldn't start anymore. Luckily they were kind enough to include a copy of Windows on floppy disks. One of the disks (7/13?) had an error on it, and I never was able to reinstall Windows. Damn you, GDI.DLL. I know it was always GDI.DLL it would fail on because I probably tried to reinstall it ten times, hoping for a different outcome.

Back to DOS for me. At least I learned batch scripting...