jackhack
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Paper shuffler by day with a background in embedded development + robotics, realtime, oldschool Windows from v2.1, Apple from the ][+ days onward. Currently in the "indifferent" stage of my oscillating love/hate cycle with Apple.
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The "try for free/generate" button didn't work for me. I uploaded a short video (15MB of White House press secretary) and tried to substitute various voices without success.
Yet, things could be worse. Back in the 80s & 90s it was possible to select a resolution/refresh frequency that would permanently damage (e.g. destroy) a CRT (cathode ray tube) monitor.
I ran a sample through my Apple Newton Messagepad: Iss Martha auf.
Following the "John Deere" style brand lock-in strategy: "Sure the Kubota is half the price and I can fix it myself, but all of my implements work with my Deere." And unless I switch over the tractor, the combine, the…
How many times must we re-learn "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick Two"? What's gone wrong, is what goes wrong at most major corporations -- a focus more on "business" (which itself falls victim to fashion/fad such as image and…
You could absolutely write professional software in BASIC. As a kid I wrote my first "professional" product in Applesoft. My family used to rent videotapes (Betamax!) from a little video shop on the corner. They kept…
This is a very good description of precisely what happened. People forget that Pascal & C compilers were not only unusual/academic, they were also very expensive - $300-$500 or more, and C was not ubiquitous then,…
Sadly this book makes me miss what I used to love about programming, and realize just how much programming has stratified into protected roles. The days of one person sitting down with customers, understanding what they…
it's a fun article, but I would liked to have seen at least a brief mention of power consumption comparison among the four designs.
For anyone that enjoyed LoTR/The Hobbit and thinks this new story might be interesting or entertaining, allow me to assure you it is not. The writing is meandering, unclear, futile expository. In a word "amateurish".…
Indeed! Daniel Lanois, musician and grammy award winning producer (U2, Neville Brothers, Emmylou Harris, etc.) uses the Omnichord extensively in his own music. He used it throughout the soundtrack for Slingblade. He…
But consider that Sunnyvale, California has the benefit of a very upscale demographic, no gang activity, low organized crime, etc. What works for one place will likely not apply elsewhere (e.g. no one-size-fits-all…
laughably, transparently poor implementation. While using the gasoline engine, the power accessories (power steering, power brake assist, ABS!) are functional, but when the gas engine is powered off, you'll have none of…
OK, but there are a few questions first. Is this change desirable, or undesirable? What is the correct number of glaciers and are we moving toward that or away from that number? Why? If we are expecting the world to…
History repeats itself. I'm old enough to remember when "Cable TV" meant "no advertisements." And then it was just a few between programs. Then during the program, which eventually made it indistinguishable from "over…
That's a great idea to make the recruiter actually look at your profile and ensure it indeed matches the offer. Too many lazy recruiters do a simple linked-in search and bulk email everyone who matches. I had a "great…
The worst sort of "elephant in the room" journalism -- everything is to blame, but that obvious thing that everyone took leading to an enormous, never-seen-before statistical anomaly. But it's not that thing. We're sure.
J.F. Sebastian? He's suffering from a genetic condition that causes him to age prematurely (ironic, since he's a geneticist who designs replicants and simpler creatures). He failed the medical screening required for…
"a low-price tools brand" Excuse me, but what? The Craftsman brand historically was a consumer premium brand, priced midway between tradesmen premium brands like Snap-On and consumer "hardware store cheap tools" --…
anyone who likes this will probably also enjoy Blinky - a retro-CRT text editor for osx. https://blinky.en.softonic.com/mac
My mother was a banker. She asked a hypothetical question of me, 30 years ago, that I've never been able to answer: "Name for me one company that was better, for the customer or the employees, after a merger."
> If the code you write is uncovering bugs in compiler, you literally are too smart for your own good. Definitely not in my case -- sometimes we just stumble over these things. As an inexperienced programmer (around…
It's important to note that "North America" != "United States." It likely means a shift to production in low-cost Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, etc. I'm in the USA. I've seen this subtle…
The best scifi alien short story, ever. Meat https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...