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rzzzt··on Tips for installing Windows 98 in QEMU/UTM
In one video I've seen UTM used mouse emulation without absolute positioning: it treated the screen surface as a giant trackpoint nub and you could move away from the current location with variable speed. A native on-screen keyboard is also available.

For absolute positioning a USB input device is emulated, so this might not work in Windows 98 without a suitable driver: https://docs.getutm.app/preferences/ios/#cursor

rzzzt··on Racintosh Plus – Rackmount Mac Plus
I think I've seen such a conversion, and am now frantically searching for it but with all the wrong keywords it seems!

There was also a "shucked" 1541 PCB and drive fitted in the top section of a tower case and IIRC in the post I've read they have served all power demands either from a standard PSU or an off-the-shelf power supply module.

rzzzt··on Racintosh Plus – Rackmount Mac Plus
"RIFA madness"?
rzzzt··on We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds
Pilots have both checklists that they can follow without memorizing, but also memory items that have to be performed almost instinctively if they encounter the precondition events.
rzzzt··on The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge
When I ran a MacBook Pro in closed clamshell mode and put another laptop on top of it, it went to sleep. Must be a weight sensor in there as well. (/s)
rzzzt··on What is the origin of the private network address 192.168.*.*? (2009)
Narrator: noone came up with an answer. Someone purported the origin to be Sun but it turned out they used a different address in examples.
rzzzt··on Eels are fish
If not fish, why fish-shaped?
rzzzt··on Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources
The Hype Machine is still up after all these years (I think it was one of the example bookmarks). But now the player is embedded into the website itself: https://hypem.com/popular
rzzzt··on F1 in Hungary: Strategy and fast tire changes make all the difference
At one point (oof, one article says 2010) re-fueling went out the window, that's a big time sink.
rzzzt··on F1 in Hungary: Strategy and fast tire changes make all the difference
Perhaps two well-placed grooves in the track could aid with steering with side rails providing DC power?
rzzzt··on F1 in Hungary: Strategy and fast tire changes make all the difference
Why not make a race entirely of pit stops?
rzzzt··on Bear is now source-available
closen source?
rzzzt··on Notes on Managing ADHD
I will forget to check it off...
rzzzt··on Git Diagramming "The Weave"
There is a top-to-bottom mode and it works in their editor, not sure about the library: https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/gitgraph.html#top-to-bottom-tb
rzzzt··on Pig lung transplanted into a human
My mind-reading senses tell me parent might be thinking about the scaffolding approach where you show cells the vague outlines of a lung or heart in the form of an extracellular matrix and then they go "hmm, we are building a heart then".
rzzzt··on MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data
I remember finding an innocuous-looking .TXT file in a DOS game (probably something that got added by a BBS) which was going on for paragraphs about how barcodes are the number of the beast!
rzzzt··on Wikipedia as a Graph
6 steps to reach Kevin Bacon, then another 6 steps to Henry Kissinger.
rzzzt··on Claude for Chrome
I have better success with asking for a short script that does the million iterations than asking the thing to make the changes itself (edit: in IDEs, not in the browser).
rzzzt··on The cost of interrupted work (2023)
"Citogenesis" is an xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/978/
rzzzt··on Why is this hard?
Martin Fowler: "Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work."
rzzzt··on My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips)
Certainly!
rzzzt··on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room
q3dm17?
rzzzt··on Robots.txt is a suicide note (2011)
(I understand it is a different entity) archive .org at one point started to honor the robots.txt settings of the website's current owner, hiding archived copies you could browse in the past. I don't know whether they still do this.
rzzzt··on When did AI take over Hacker News?
b l o c k c h a i n
rzzzt··on PuTTY has a new website
What if someone planted the idea of adding a new website for the project while he was asleep?
rzzzt··on Flintlock – Create and manage the lifecycle of MicroVMs, backed by containerd
"Backed by containerd" confused me until I found this snippet in the documentation (spoilers: it is used for pulling images amongst other things, but not as a container runtime): https://flintlock.liquidmetal.dev/docs/getting-started/conta...
rzzzt··on Windows XP Professional
There's also the "Achilles and the tortoise" solution where the progress bar consumes the remaining 80% of unclaimed space in each iteration.
rzzzt··on Objects should shut up
Which one contributes more to alarm fatigue, spoken announcements like "bank angle" or beeps and buzzes like the autopilot disengage theme tune? Why is the latter so prominent?
rzzzt··on Objects should shut up
I can recommend a soundtrack for this one: https://youtu.be/DydIK14AvXI
rzzzt··on The Ski Rental Problem
Why stop there and instead buy when 33% of the equipment cost is spent on renting?
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