Oh man, .NET needed this. Did some PDF work for a .NET project last year and found the ecosystem to be somewhat light on PDF support. There's a few commercial options, but they're pricey.
System76 offers woodgrain sides in multiple colors on their Thelio desktop line [0]. I've been running one for six months as my employer-provided machine and it's been fantastic.
Calling those two machines the same would be like calling a Curtiss JN-4 and a Messerschmitt ME 232 "the same." Sure, they both fly and use fixed wings to attain lift, but that's where the similarities end. That's some spectacular failure of leadership. O_O
My printer memories of the late 90's were of cheap Canon bubblejet printers. The ones that were cheaper to buy than replacement ink cartridges, to the point that it was cheaper to buy a new printer than it was to replace the ink. Good times.
I strongly remember using Firebug in Firefox (mind-blowing tools, for the time) in ~2008 and having to debug issues in IE, which had the equivalent of a Check Engine Light for debugging.
There's a subplot in The Newsroom where a producer edits an interviewee out of context, leading to the network broadcasting false accusations of serious war crimes. The producer wasn't careful enough, and a clock visible in the background is seen to jump around. Without that clock it would have been undetectable.
My wife bought me a $300 coffee grinder for Christmas. As a coffee ...enthusiast?... I'm quite fond of it. Perfectly consistent grid, very quiet electric operation, small footprint. I could argue that $300 was too much for it, but I'm willing to pay a premium for good product. $1,650 would be utterly insane.
My best friend spent the '90s running a BBS with two modems on an OS/2 machine, running two instances of the BBS package (Wildcat?) via MSDOS emulation. Good times.
Fully agree. The best HN posts are the ones where a few experts in an esoteric field can totally geek out about their art. I may not understand half of what they say but it's always fully interesting.
Does anyone feel it is a little strange to have a government entity mandating interoperability details on every level of the tech stack? See POSIX for an example. I don't think it's strange at all.