Windows isn't getting any slimmer. Storage / RAM isn't getting any cheaper for the first time in the the last ~50 years. There's a storm brewing.
This started long ago. In the 1980s, pros used 60 minute Umatic cassettes because it was the standard and it was the highest quality format. Home users had VHS and Beta (and laserdisc and CED discs and...) The pro…
Sometimes the journey is the reward.
lol We consult with a medium sized medical group that interfaces with all of the larger hospital groups and tons of smaller clinics around the area. They had me do an audit on their fax server because they were getting…
You used the magic word "fax". I think you just told me you work in the medical industry without telling me you work in the medical industry.
Today in the US in 2026, if you're blindly trusting fully enshitified corporations to keep you alive, I assure you that you're not going to have to worry about broken insulin pumps for very long.
computer.rip has dozens of rabbit hole articles that seem to be tied together in an "old tech / weird tech" bundle. I'd love to find a book on similar subjects too.
Trump is basically a glorified realtor with the intellect of a single celled organism.
Laser pointers are to cats as sparkly objects are to Trump.
Yep, they're playing the always popular "bomber gap" card.
Or they could buy equipment with active room conditioning like Dirac. I have Dirac receivers in two rooms that are absolutely terrible listening areas, and running the full Dirac calibration on the room creates a…
I don’t question that audiophiles hear different things on expensive equipment, but I think it’s all placebo. “If I spend a stupid amount of money on this, my brain will gin up the sound to satisfy my expectations.”
There's probably also some "I don't want to get my pretty truck wet or dirty" involved there too.
I still bemoan selling the first couple of years of issues to someone on ebay. I needed to get the stuff out of the basement, but feels like I should have kept them just for the technology history lessons. I'm still…
Yep. The low hanging fruit principle in action. You can’t make anything completely secure so you put up more obstacles than your neighbor so the attackers go visit the neighbor instead. Or in the case of targets with no…
I'm still stunned by Captain Haynes's grace under pressure: Sioux City Approach: "United Two Thirty-Two Heavy, the wind's currently three six zero at one one; three sixty at eleven. You're cleared to land on any…
Although there are a number of charging stations designed for IOS devices that have bright blue LEDs that you can't turn off. Some good number of these devices are going on someone's nightstand where a bright blue LED…
It would be interesting to know the who and how of the fiber cut. We're a tiny company in the heartland and have seen two separate fiber cuts in different parts of the state. Both tickets indicated that they were…
I put B612 on my kindles a few months ago and it's my favorite reading font. Very legible from tiny to huge, no serifs to slow things down. I'm not sure I'd use it for written documents, although the monospace version…
Mid 1980s, I worked at an record store that was also heavy into stereos and other audio / visual equipment. We were fortunate enough to have not only a huge 40" Sony set (which weighed about 300lbs) but also a 36"…
Oof. Things got awfully dusty in here thinking about The Great Silence. It's a very short piece with huge emotional impact.
“Sorry, the commission budget is out of money for this budget year. You sold way too much which made the company a ton of extra money. Sadly that means it’s your fault we can’t pay you the commissions you were promised.”
Feels like this well written piece by Atol Gawande is relevant if you haven't seen it. I showed it a couple of years ago to my very competent and conscientious doc and she got PISSED. She talked about how she spent…
If it helps, here’s info from Dr. Derek Lowe, a 30+ year pharma chemist and author of In The Pipeline. For further research on the topic, he has many other posts on the topic, some of which are linked in the links…
“But once you're already experiencing symptoms, there are other problem which clearing out the amyloid alone won't stop.” Ok, maybe we’re just arguing different points here. I’ll grant that amyloids have something to do…
Windows isn't getting any slimmer. Storage / RAM isn't getting any cheaper for the first time in the the last ~50 years. There's a storm brewing.
This started long ago. In the 1980s, pros used 60 minute Umatic cassettes because it was the standard and it was the highest quality format. Home users had VHS and Beta (and laserdisc and CED discs and...) The pro…
Sometimes the journey is the reward.
lol We consult with a medium sized medical group that interfaces with all of the larger hospital groups and tons of smaller clinics around the area. They had me do an audit on their fax server because they were getting…
You used the magic word "fax". I think you just told me you work in the medical industry without telling me you work in the medical industry.
Today in the US in 2026, if you're blindly trusting fully enshitified corporations to keep you alive, I assure you that you're not going to have to worry about broken insulin pumps for very long.
computer.rip has dozens of rabbit hole articles that seem to be tied together in an "old tech / weird tech" bundle. I'd love to find a book on similar subjects too.
Trump is basically a glorified realtor with the intellect of a single celled organism.
Laser pointers are to cats as sparkly objects are to Trump.
Yep, they're playing the always popular "bomber gap" card.
Or they could buy equipment with active room conditioning like Dirac. I have Dirac receivers in two rooms that are absolutely terrible listening areas, and running the full Dirac calibration on the room creates a…
I don’t question that audiophiles hear different things on expensive equipment, but I think it’s all placebo. “If I spend a stupid amount of money on this, my brain will gin up the sound to satisfy my expectations.”
There's probably also some "I don't want to get my pretty truck wet or dirty" involved there too.
I still bemoan selling the first couple of years of issues to someone on ebay. I needed to get the stuff out of the basement, but feels like I should have kept them just for the technology history lessons. I'm still…
Yep. The low hanging fruit principle in action. You can’t make anything completely secure so you put up more obstacles than your neighbor so the attackers go visit the neighbor instead. Or in the case of targets with no…
I'm still stunned by Captain Haynes's grace under pressure: Sioux City Approach: "United Two Thirty-Two Heavy, the wind's currently three six zero at one one; three sixty at eleven. You're cleared to land on any…
Although there are a number of charging stations designed for IOS devices that have bright blue LEDs that you can't turn off. Some good number of these devices are going on someone's nightstand where a bright blue LED…
It would be interesting to know the who and how of the fiber cut. We're a tiny company in the heartland and have seen two separate fiber cuts in different parts of the state. Both tickets indicated that they were…
I put B612 on my kindles a few months ago and it's my favorite reading font. Very legible from tiny to huge, no serifs to slow things down. I'm not sure I'd use it for written documents, although the monospace version…
Mid 1980s, I worked at an record store that was also heavy into stereos and other audio / visual equipment. We were fortunate enough to have not only a huge 40" Sony set (which weighed about 300lbs) but also a 36"…
Oof. Things got awfully dusty in here thinking about The Great Silence. It's a very short piece with huge emotional impact.
“Sorry, the commission budget is out of money for this budget year. You sold way too much which made the company a ton of extra money. Sadly that means it’s your fault we can’t pay you the commissions you were promised.”
Feels like this well written piece by Atol Gawande is relevant if you haven't seen it. I showed it a couple of years ago to my very competent and conscientious doc and she got PISSED. She talked about how she spent…
If it helps, here’s info from Dr. Derek Lowe, a 30+ year pharma chemist and author of In The Pipeline. For further research on the topic, he has many other posts on the topic, some of which are linked in the links…
“But once you're already experiencing symptoms, there are other problem which clearing out the amyloid alone won't stop.” Ok, maybe we’re just arguing different points here. I’ll grant that amyloids have something to do…