nbernard

The humans are neither a race nor conscious. They're humans.

Sounds literary, if a bit grandiloquent, more than anything. It was once considered "good style" and books from the XIXth and XXth centuries are full of such sentences. See the works of James Jeans, John McPhee, Carl Sagan, and the like for instance.

Not exactly what you are looking for, but you may still want to take a look at Moore's /Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy/. IIRC, it contains a section on the evolution of machining since the early 1800s and covers the transition between the making of parts made to fit together, to parts made to specs.

BTW, in later parts of the book, Michelson appears as interferometry is used to check the accuracy of parts.

Probably not the cheapest nor the easiest way, but take a look at Cynthion: https://greatscottgadgets.com/cynthion/

On the hardware side, it probably has what you need (and more).

And now... 59 sold, more than 10 available!

None taken! :)

AFS (on which DFS was based) lives on as OpenAFS [0]. And there is a commercial evolution/solution from AuriStor [1].

[0]: https://openafs.org/

[1]: https://www.auristor.com/filesystem/

> Lots still available on eBay

Probably not for long: only 7 available now...

Left academia, still using LaTeX for about every document (not counting org-mode documents for my own use).

At this point, using "common" text processors (Word, Writer, ...) still (?) feels like torture.

Scientific text editors, you mean? ;)

I suspect it is actually worse than that and that they are actually subject to the Lindy effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect ).

> If you're routinely using LaTeX to write papers, the time spent learning something new isn't comparably large.

I don't know. By then aren't you quite comfortable with LaTeX?

It may be Stockholm syndrome and sunk costs speaking, but I'm using LaTeX all the time: I quite like it and I don't feel any need for something else to replace it...

I enjoyed T. W. Körner's The Pleasures of Counting ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521568234 ).

As I understand it, dns0.eu is run by a french non-profit and has no actual connection with the EU.

To a french ear, it sounds like a (bad) translation from English.

For instance, "a été testée au combat" is meaningless in French. The same idea in idiomatic French would be "a subi l'épreuve du feu". And I guess the "billions" should be only "milliards" (French uses the long scale, so the word "billion" exists but corresponds to a thousand billions as understood in (US?) English)...

I don't remember if it was the case for the TI-92+, but some calculators can show the intermediate steps, or at least some of them.

> they walk in, shut the power and start hauling drives.

Or, if they suspect disk encryption, they don't shut the power. Instead, they dissect the power cords to add a special UPS, so that they can move servers without powering them off...

Another story involving many of these topics is told in Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series. Very different (less space opera, more history) but quite interesting too.

For those interested, there is also OpenUC2 on this niche: https://github.com/openUC2/UC2-GIT It would be interesting to see how the two systems compare.

Not really true anymore unfortunately: The latest models (post-2020?) are locked down and cannot use non-official FW.

Then, you have Mindustry and its thorium reactors. IIRC, they don't need to be connected to turbines like in Factorio to generate power, however bad things (TM) happen if they are destroyed or if their coolant supply is disrupted...

What do you think of IDR, for Intergalactic Digital Research (which later dropped the 'I') ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Research

Check that you are allowing webworker scripts, that did the trick for me. I still have issues on slower computers (Raspberry pies and the like) as they seem to be to slow to do whatever Cloudflare wants as a verification in the allotted time, however.

Thanks! I just checked an 10TB Ironwolf bought to a German seller through Amazon.fr less than two months ago: Its warranty expires in a few days... :(

I don't care for high refresh rates or high DPI, but:

- matte surface

- effective* vertical res >= 1200 px (*: meaning that, for instance, 1440 with 2.0 scaling counts as 720 px only).

- ability to rotate (not a must, but nice to have).

More a "must try" than a "must read". I enjoy reading SF, and didn't like the Hyperion and Endymion series...

Seconded. In chem labs, it happens quite often that glass labware pieces get stuck together. The gentle application of a wooden mallet is the usual solution...

Yes. Yet, in my mind, for some peoples and/or subjects (drawing buildings, interiors where perspective is important, etc.), it may be easier to do the exact opposite. Meaning, to learn instead¹ how to construct an accurate perspective view from descriptive geometry, until it becomes second nature and one can then skip the geometric construction (or at least make it less exact and time consuming, closer to what's described in Robertson's "How to Draw" for instance).

¹: I wrote "instead", but of course both ways complement each other.

How Things Work was published in the US by Simon & Schuster as The Way Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology, which is on the IA:

vol 1: https://archive.org/details/waythingsworki00cvan

vol 2: https://archive.org/details/waythingsworki02cvan

Well... Wernher von Braun wrote a SF novel in which the first mission to Mars discovers native Martians. These live underground and use hyperloop-like tunnels for transportation, and their leader is called the "elon"...

I heard one of the issues is to prevent leaks through the ground connection. It seems special circuits ("crypto grounds" ?) are needed to filter the ground connection while still allowing it to work normally if an electrical fault occurs...