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Having aging eyes, I wish monospace fonts made 8 and 0 (zero) more different from each other. I notice that I have started to confuse those two glyphs when in small sizes.

The DSP was a difference though, for raw calculations. I think it might have been NeXT machines that had started the trend of having a DSP. Commodore had built a prototype of the Amiga 3000 with a DSP in it which was talked about at the time but it was never released. Amiga enthusiasts have only recreated DSP boards in more recent years.

The smallest terminal you can connect to a AAA battery is the same diameter as 00 AWG copper wire.

Provided that the engine has 100% efficiency and can turn 176MW of electricity into torque, to safely run power it needs through that 00 AWG wire, the battery would need to provide a voltage of at least 70 kV.

I still think that reference counting is promising though. First because it meshes well with static analysis memory-management techniques such as inference of uniqueness and borrowing -- that can optimise away RC altogether. (and Swift's compiler already does some of that). I have not seen any work that could optimise away tracing GC in a similar way. Second, because I believe that it would be possible to design hardware with object-memory addressing that would performs atomic reference counting with no additional runtime cost.

Unfortunately, gross negligence -- which you could argue to be the case here -- is often not enough, unless you could show that it has caused real harm.

From my perspective, it is only a matter of time before it is: and that's why there is need for better legislation covering what AI models do.

If you wanted to play games on an Amiga or an Atari ST you needed to use a TV-signal compatible 15kHz monitor or a Multisync monitor. I ran desktop programs in 640×200 mode with four colours on both my ST and my Amiga 500 before I upgraded.

There were also "flicker fixer" add-ons for the Amiga, converting the interlaced modes to VGA signals: one was built into the Amiga 3000.

Macintosh keyboard layouts tend to have many symbols on Option-combinations but they are not always printed.

I think optics could be used to make each camera see a different image.

A video could show shake, which could be verified against readings from the phone's accelerometer -- but you could just hold it still and claim that it was on a tripod.

Many people have got the misconception that both symbols together is the Tab symbol, though. There is even a symbol consisting of both close together in Unicode: ⭾ and many PC keyboards that similarly have both arrows closer together than on keys with printed symbols generated with and without holding Shift. (Apple has been printing only ⇥ though)

Later when the agency considers the software to be "abandonware", it publishes the method.

And there isn't really any competitive tablet with Android in that size. I've only seen cheaper tablets with lower specs.

They also tend to not want to recognise climate change -- because that would imply that people could migrate because of it.

   Location: Stockholm, Sweden
   Remote: Up to 50%
   Willing to relocate: Only within the county.
   Technologies: Programming video (everything: codecs to A/V), input devices (embedded), compilers (back-end), UI.
   Résumé/CV: Weak.
   Email: The above username at Google's or Proton AG's email service (take your pick)

Kinesis' keyboards with their "Clique" keyboard has a web-based configuration tool that does that. Their older "SmartSet" firmware instead exposed a virtual USB drive, with the configuration as a text file, and a firmware update could be done by dropping a new blob in there.

I could get behind most of them, actually ... were I to live in the UK.

This makes it difficult to share links to info on some products in forums, chat or a Wiki -- because the recipient may not be from the same country as I am.

See also: https://xkcd.com/869/ for a variation of the same problem.

We are living in a global economy now. There is no growth into unexplored territories left to do.

The amount of carbon we're spewing into the atmosphere is unsustainable, and will lead to more worldwide instability. The first effects have already been seen. Remember that the "Arab Spring" (rise to IS, wars and refugee crisis) had been triggered by rising food prices.

Not that there isn't animation in it, but... the animation was projected onto a large screen and then that screen with other things around it was filmed.

I and a friend once started at Stockholm Central station to Malmö Central Station at the same time. I boarded a bullet train; he took the bus to the airport ... We arrived at the same time six hours later.

I've been looking at travel in Japan recently. Between Hiroshima and Tokyo, the bullet train (fast Shinkansen) and flight are both about four hours.

A bullet train is much more comfortable than flight within these limits because there are so fewer steps: no travel to/from airport, fewer tickets to book and often no check-in or security checkpoint.