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Deal for he, not for thee.

Naturally! Being able to use your tools how you want/what works best for you is fundamental in my opinion.

C-p and C-n (aka Ctrl-P and Ctrl-N) are the Emacs-style keybindings for previous (line) and next (line), very commonly encountered on the command line and in terminal applications. For example, most shells can use this in addition to up-arrow and down-arrow to cycle thru command history. Many, many more examples exist of applications (not just terminal-based, there are plenty of GUI apps too) that use this convention, as well as other Emacs-style keybindings (e.g. C-a for beginning of line, C-e for end of line).

The Son of Altman decided that the most efficient way to get rid of all the bugs was to get rid of all the tokens, which is technically and extractively correct.

— Gilfoyle

From what I understand about this story, the homeowner had the presence of mind to immediately attempt to preserve the meteorite, which is what made subsequent analysis possible.

Presumably other fragments landing outdoors with no one around taking similar steps to preserve them, even if they were to be recovered, would not be as valuable for study because of their exposure to the natural environment of Earth.

Not to take anything away from Maridona's overall excellence, but his goal was 100% illegal, just none of the referees saw his handball.

Underarm bowling was still allowed when this incident occurred and was therefore legal, just considered very unsportsmanlike and outside the spirit of the game.

As an American it has taken me nearly half a century of occasionally watching cricket to barely comprehend what that sentence means. I love it.

> As an aside, the most powerful F1 engine ever put on the track was made by modifying the little 4-banger m10 found in the BMW 2002. Fun fact.

Supposedly BMW lacked a dyno that went high enough so it's an educated guess what the actual hp was, but definitely over 1,300hp... from a 4-cylinder (turbo charged, and only lasted a few laps, but still) engine!

More money & power than sense. Hubris, greed, malice, psychopathy. One, some or all of these combined in various proportions.

I'm not a graphic arts expert, but the lettering and charts in this presentation appear to be done by hand.

And since this was an internal IBM presentation for salesmen and engineers, the priority likely wouldn't've been on using a polished presenter, just making the information available.

Some anecdata: in the area I'm from in the northeastern US which has a large number of manufacturing/tool & die companies of all sizes, and with a large Polish diaspora, 80% of the most skilled machinists are Polish (or 2nd or 3rd gen descendants), at least that was the case when I was working with these business between 20-30 years ago. Many of the best engineers at these business are Polish as well.

Why not just `scp ~/.tmux.conf remotehost:`?

1.1.1.1 has 4 1’s, as in 4/1, as in April 1 (or so I assume).

PuTTY is absolutely available for Linux. On Debian-based distros it’s just a `sudo apt install putty` away. But why?

Two things come to mind: 1) if any arcing occurs, a metal enclosure will shunt to ground and (hopefully) trip a breaker; 2) in the event of an overload, plastic melts which might result in a fire.

Sadly, I have a family member who is susceptible to these types of scams. They’ve been duped too many times to count. They’re overly eager to believe they’re exceptional and that good fortune is due them. No amount of explaining has had any impact on their beliefs for the past fifteen years. It’s heart-wrenching.

Except for when the placement of the icon strip with the trashcan symbol changes to the bottom of the context menu because of the location of the context menu on the screen. Bonkers. No idea why the UI committee would’ve okayed that one.

> Imagine having to raise your arm to swipe, pinch and tap across an ultra-wide screen several times per minute. Touch works best on small surfaces, even if it looks impressive on a bigger screen.

I regularly find myself wishing pinch zoom were available on my large multi-monitor setup, even if i only used it occasionally, i.e. to augment interactions, not as a replacement for other input methods. As a (poor) substitute, I keep an Apple trackpad handy and switch from a mouse to trackpad to do zooming. Sadly I’ve found not all macOS apps respond to Magic Mouse zooming maneuvers.

According to the article, they were arms dealers.

Minor pedantic point—kelvin is the unit of measure of the Kelvin scale. There is no degree K, just K.

The protocol is called SpaceWire[0][1]. Not sure about the details of where sensors are located.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceWire [1]: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20030025278/downloads/20...

Some history of The Milk:

https://alum.mit.edu/slice/investigating-milk-mits-historic-...

I actually owned that book circa 1996 and used Kermit in a production system transferring files via dialup between a manufacturing facility in Mexico and their US-based headquarters. It was incredibly fragile. No idea now why Kermit was chosen, but it was a horrible tool for the job.

The professor was bluffing [0].

Apparently it was deemed a random theft [1].

[0]: https://www.engadget.com/2005-04-25-laptop-thief-not-scared-...

[1]: https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/09/15_lapt...

Pardon my pedantry, but that’s coincidence, not irony.

The Clean Water Act[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Water_Act

This idea is expressed by the Brian Eno quote:

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”

Around 1996-97, there was a Linux-based firewall/router that booted from a single 1.44MB diskette. iirc, it needed a very small amount of RAM too, something like only 8MB. The diskette could be used with write-protect enabled to prevent accidental (or malicious for that matter) modifications to the diskette contents. I believe it also had an SMTP relay. It was particularly useful for sharing dial-up and DSL connections at a time when commercial solutions would’ve been much more expensive than a stripped down repurposed spare computer with no hard drive. A bit hard to imagine now, but back then it was pretty fantastic to have an Internet connection shared between computers on a home or small business network.

Edit: Found its Wikipedia page! [0]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project

Not op but I have several Synology NASen using Btrfs volumes with no issues that I can recall in the past six years. I’ve replaced all of the drives twice to increase available storage and that’s it. The two I have at home are both set to autoupdate and do monthly disk scrubbing—they automatically email after scrubbing with any issues. They’re really pretty hands off devices overall.

Fantastic, thank you for #1. Earlier today I was bemoaning the lack of wiki-like linking in Notes. Glad to learn there’s at least this workaround.