postmodest

Between May and July, many cities in the northern hemisphere technically have no astronomical "night". But you made the wish, the monkey-paw curled a finger, and now all of Canada and Northern Europe are living in the Sleep Experiment timeline.

I drove just enough that 100% of my in-city miles would be covered by the solar charging of a 2024 Prius.

But they're $50,000 and that's too goddamn much so I'll continue polluting with my twenty year old volkswagen

Every house has baseboards: why do we not just make baseboards big enough to run all our wiring?

When I read about Itanium and iAPX 432, I can't help but think that Intel _isn't good at what they do_ and just lucked into he PC market by being cheap, and then riding to coattails of the Windows monopoly.

I can't wait for ARM to eat their lunch. And dinner.

I've had an Iris and an O2, and the sad fact is that your telephone is a faster computer than 100 O2's.

They're fun if you want to run the demos or load fsn and tell everyone in earshot "this is a Unix system! I know this!" But they're not even useful as X consoles to a Linux box these days, because of the compilation nightmare of getting recent network tools installed.

As someone working in that space at that time, IA64 was still losing to Sparc64 the entire time. We would do big boxes on Solaris and replace older Sun boxes with ia32 Pentium Pros. There wasn't really ever a point at which we thought "hm, RISC isn't working for us, we need VLIW" ...and we were an HP shop!!!

Sketch Artist turned him into Tyler Durden....

Real boot loaders have embedded Forth interpreters!

The surprising thing about that video is how it helped me a lot with my CAD.

So my question is: In what predictable way will QUIC fall flat on its face when people who AREN'T google's ad revenue team get involved?

But: still downloaded anyway even if you select a limited bandwidth network...

Is it unusual though? I have several toy cameras with similar "overlapping circle" shutters, and a medium format Mamiya with a focal-plane leaf shutter where "the iris and the shutter are the same" practically speaking, which differs only from the sx-70 in the shape of the effective iris at the start and end of the exposure.

Safety vests and Bobby hats for everyone!

The hard part is the icons. Nobody does aliased bitmapped icons anymore.

We should've made SVG icons the default, like the vector icons in IRIX. Then we could just tweak the renderer.

But DOS windows only updated at (IIRC) 10Hz, so while you could run four or five DOOMs, a single DOOM in a window would still be unplayable slow.

WordPerfect on IBM AT, checking in.

We need to change our labor standards so I can take a boat to Auckland from SF and still spend two whole weeks in NZ.

No no, you see, all bureaucracy is evil, and thus organized collections of workers-- necessitating an organizational bureau --is evil.

If you read my magnum opus, Chronos Shuffled, you would see that individual negotiation by an enlightened majority will reach the same common goal if... um... everyone individually pursues the exact same agreed upon goals...

...shit.

Nice, but as we move to USB-PD, can you even have data-free USB PD?

It had Big Motif Energy, IMHO.

The new System Settings would like to have a word about how all new UI is scrolling tablet-first UX.

Peak UI happened with OS/2 Warp 3, but, yes. Everything went downhill after the Great Skeumorphic Rebellion of 2010.

OS X 10.0 dug too greedily, and too deep.

Are people doing this on vintage hardware or new hardware? (Or emulation?)

I have fonts installed on my computer that I received from a boxed CorelDraw! Install in probably 1993. These have names like "Swiss721" and were created by Bitstream as visual clones of Helvetica or Times.

Visual cloning of fonts is technically legal and has a long standing tradition. But "While technically not illegal, font designer John Hudson would describe its selling of large numbers of typefaces on CD at discount prices as "one of the worst instances of piracy in the history of type"."

At least PS/2 cables were mostly made with "keyed" rubber jackets where one side was flat and the other rounded, so in the dark you could tell which way was up.

(Though, that keyboard and mouse were different ports was stupid, so it loses points there)

Their main problem seems to be that they had never thought about how injection molding works, but started a CAD path to a product that would need to be injection molded. Anyone who has built plastic models could have told them a lot of this information, and it's a bit surprising that they had to learn by doing at that stage.

The long term annd anccelerating increase in extremes while averages rise is exactly the _data_ I am describing.

I feel like it's just much more likely that a love triangle will end up with unbalanced weights than a love pair. Kind of by definition.

And in a world where the relationship is procreative, the multi-decade long shared task demands stability.

I would love to see their distribution.

If you are over, say, 25, then you know that the last 10 years have been _exceptional_ years for our climate, and that the time for normal non-sensational warnings was 40 years ago or 50 years ago.

Look at a graph of CO2 emissions and you realize that we are in a place where what was alarming in the 80's was the result of only _half_ of the CO2 pumped into the atmosphere since 1900 ( https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions )

And now we are using energy to cover for the effects of using energy a decade ago.

Things are worse and they will reach the point over the next five or ten years that heat events and cold events will become more deadly for more people and the fact that you're tired of hearing about it isn't the problem.

The problem is that people haven't been taking the danger seriously and now it's an immanent and deadly danger.