I almost had to defer a procedure for one of my cats because my vet’s systems were all down. This meant they couldn’t process payments, schedule appointments, use their X-ray machine, or dispense prescriptions.…
When the iPhone came out, it was perfectly positioned. Smartphones weren’t new of course, but they were clunky devices with tons of compromise. The iPhone was designed to fix a lot of the problems around existing…
Fun fact: in Japan there was a WebTV client for the Dreamcast [0]. The very first “Dreamcast” I saw was a Katana dev kit at a WebTV office. [0]: https://wiki.webtv.zone/mediawiki/index.php/WebTV_for_Dreamc...
Andy Rubin also was a founder of Danger Inc. which was also eventually acquired by Microsoft. Unfortunately the acquired talent that brought us the wonderful Hiptop/Sidekick devices were then wasted by being sucked into…
I worked at WebTV not long after the acquisition. I was always impressed with the amount of capability they were able to extract out of such minimalist hardware. Even for their time they had a slow CPU and tiny amount…
20 years on, and so much of this still resonates with me: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost... especially after reading the OP. Lots of memories reading the OP, some good, some not so good. I…
Thank you for your detailed reply! I have no issues tolerating CPAP, so I’m not the target audience here. I’ve been seeing it advertised pretty heavily as of late and was curious about what the gotchas were.
How do you feel about the new surgical options like Inspire Sleep as an alternative for people who can’t tolerate CPAP?
My DME used to be Lincare was equally terrible. They were awful. They never had replacement consumables in stock, and I had to deal with months worth of delays to get things I needed. That’s why I went to CPAP.com (like…
Carelon also does preauthorizations for various expensive procedures and such. I’ve had the displeasure of having to try to coordinate between my insurance provider and PCP’s insurance coordinator for authorizing some…
Quota was once a very good website. I spent a lot of time contributing and answering questions. Then the email spams started happening pushing digests of irrelevant and in some cases harmful recommendations. Then the…
The best is when those “silent updates” restart Teams while you are in the middle of using it.
A million times this. Things seemed more broken than usual in Teams for me today like image attachments not working and such. I just figured it was Teams being Teams until someone informed me there was a service outage…
ㅋㅋㅋ is literally “kkk” but it’s shorthand for 크크크 (keukeukeu). There’s also ㅎㅎㅎ (hhh) that shorthand for 하하하 (hahaha). It’s much faster to just mash out those single consonants, sort of like keyboard spam laughing.
The microchips are basically little RFID widgets that are about the size of a grain of rice. The chip can migrate from between the shoulder blades to anywhere else, and the range is really poor - basically near-contact…
As soon as I saw the screenshots of it running in a terminal window, I was in love.
The problem isn’t the lead itself, it’s the phenomenon of tin whiskering that can happen with some Pb-free solder alloys where metallic hair-like structures grow from the solder and cause arcs or short circuits. This is…
This was a fascinating read, not only for understanding about how Shazam works which is something I’ve long been curious about, but also a great primer on digital signal processing.
I would guess that that 486 speeds were the terminal velocity for Second Reality’s performance. That was the high end when it originally came out. Don’t get me started on the GUS. That was such an incredible sound card…
+100 I really dislike ligatures. They are one of those things that seem great in theory but I find them to be a real distraction. This is why I never got into the JetBrains fonts — there was no ligature-free option.…
Second Reality was truly a technical marvel and arguably represented the pinnacle of the PC demo scene. It’s amazing how much influential it has been and how it continues to endure some 30 years later. Not too shabby…
Every so often I go on a “font bender” and start searching for my “next great coding font”. I’ve been using Hack (https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/) for several years, but after looking at this I might need to give it a…
I have a couple of home automation projects that use Raspberry Pi boards and rely on BLE. One thing I’ve found is the onboard Bluetooth is pretty awful on the Pi 3 and not very good on the Pi 4. Switching to use a…
In the mid 2000s I had to test a product I was working on with all architectures supported by Windows, which of course included ia64. We had one engineering sample HP ia64 machine in the test lab (I think it was a…
Git’s arcane command syntax is a thing of legend and after years of using it I still find myself being mystified by so many things once I need to delve beyond the usual. Sorry if it’s already been mentioned but this…
I almost had to defer a procedure for one of my cats because my vet’s systems were all down. This meant they couldn’t process payments, schedule appointments, use their X-ray machine, or dispense prescriptions.…
When the iPhone came out, it was perfectly positioned. Smartphones weren’t new of course, but they were clunky devices with tons of compromise. The iPhone was designed to fix a lot of the problems around existing…
Fun fact: in Japan there was a WebTV client for the Dreamcast [0]. The very first “Dreamcast” I saw was a Katana dev kit at a WebTV office. [0]: https://wiki.webtv.zone/mediawiki/index.php/WebTV_for_Dreamc...
Andy Rubin also was a founder of Danger Inc. which was also eventually acquired by Microsoft. Unfortunately the acquired talent that brought us the wonderful Hiptop/Sidekick devices were then wasted by being sucked into…
I worked at WebTV not long after the acquisition. I was always impressed with the amount of capability they were able to extract out of such minimalist hardware. Even for their time they had a slow CPU and tiny amount…
20 years on, and so much of this still resonates with me: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost... especially after reading the OP. Lots of memories reading the OP, some good, some not so good. I…
Thank you for your detailed reply! I have no issues tolerating CPAP, so I’m not the target audience here. I’ve been seeing it advertised pretty heavily as of late and was curious about what the gotchas were.
How do you feel about the new surgical options like Inspire Sleep as an alternative for people who can’t tolerate CPAP?
My DME used to be Lincare was equally terrible. They were awful. They never had replacement consumables in stock, and I had to deal with months worth of delays to get things I needed. That’s why I went to CPAP.com (like…
Carelon also does preauthorizations for various expensive procedures and such. I’ve had the displeasure of having to try to coordinate between my insurance provider and PCP’s insurance coordinator for authorizing some…
Quota was once a very good website. I spent a lot of time contributing and answering questions. Then the email spams started happening pushing digests of irrelevant and in some cases harmful recommendations. Then the…
The best is when those “silent updates” restart Teams while you are in the middle of using it.
A million times this. Things seemed more broken than usual in Teams for me today like image attachments not working and such. I just figured it was Teams being Teams until someone informed me there was a service outage…
ㅋㅋㅋ is literally “kkk” but it’s shorthand for 크크크 (keukeukeu). There’s also ㅎㅎㅎ (hhh) that shorthand for 하하하 (hahaha). It’s much faster to just mash out those single consonants, sort of like keyboard spam laughing.
The microchips are basically little RFID widgets that are about the size of a grain of rice. The chip can migrate from between the shoulder blades to anywhere else, and the range is really poor - basically near-contact…
As soon as I saw the screenshots of it running in a terminal window, I was in love.
The problem isn’t the lead itself, it’s the phenomenon of tin whiskering that can happen with some Pb-free solder alloys where metallic hair-like structures grow from the solder and cause arcs or short circuits. This is…
This was a fascinating read, not only for understanding about how Shazam works which is something I’ve long been curious about, but also a great primer on digital signal processing.
I would guess that that 486 speeds were the terminal velocity for Second Reality’s performance. That was the high end when it originally came out. Don’t get me started on the GUS. That was such an incredible sound card…
+100 I really dislike ligatures. They are one of those things that seem great in theory but I find them to be a real distraction. This is why I never got into the JetBrains fonts — there was no ligature-free option.…
Second Reality was truly a technical marvel and arguably represented the pinnacle of the PC demo scene. It’s amazing how much influential it has been and how it continues to endure some 30 years later. Not too shabby…
Every so often I go on a “font bender” and start searching for my “next great coding font”. I’ve been using Hack (https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/) for several years, but after looking at this I might need to give it a…
I have a couple of home automation projects that use Raspberry Pi boards and rely on BLE. One thing I’ve found is the onboard Bluetooth is pretty awful on the Pi 3 and not very good on the Pi 4. Switching to use a…
In the mid 2000s I had to test a product I was working on with all architectures supported by Windows, which of course included ia64. We had one engineering sample HP ia64 machine in the test lab (I think it was a…
Git’s arcane command syntax is a thing of legend and after years of using it I still find myself being mystified by so many things once I need to delve beyond the usual. Sorry if it’s already been mentioned but this…