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chickenchickenon An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91

Michael Crichton used the Button matrix of the screen Map as inspiration for the ui of the computer systems in Jurassic Park while writing the book on a Mac.

chickenchickenon U.N. Predicts Disaster If Global Warming Not Checked (1989)

reversed by 2000

chickenchickenon Before-and-after images show how Greenland's glaciers have rapidly retreated

Nope https://www.hydro-international.com/content/blog/is-the-arct...

chickenchickenon Before-and-after images show how Greenland's glaciers have rapidly retreated

This is so stupid. Just use comics. Like the Aegyptians.

chickenchickenon Before-and-after images show how Greenland's glaciers have rapidly retreated

Because the Americans are the number one polluters regarding CO2.

chickenchickenon Object Soup Is Made of Indexes (Rust)

Now you need a garbage collector for your indices and have reinvented object oriented programming via references.

That’s not a bad thing

chickenchickenon First new US nuclear reactor in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia

It shows that the people who considered the location and plant to be safe enough to be wrong.

chickenchickenon In a major discovery, scientists say space-time churns like a choppy sea

Let’s see the art then when it’s not trained on the artists work.

chickenchickenon Rekt.network

Is this Related to https://nightride.fm/ ?

chickenchickenon Page builders might not be a good idea

This was written by ChatGPT, no?

chickenchickenon Amazon’s big dreams for Alexa fall short

I remember seeing this on a trade fair as a child with my mother in 1993

chickenchickenon Effectivealtruism.org purchased a £15M estate for its headquarters in 2021

I first thought this a joke and then I remembered FTX

chickenchickenon EU Voice

Are you a script?

chickenchickenon EU Voice

Sure Elon

chickenchickenon EU Voice

What kind of argument is that? There aren‘t any media advocating killing yourself with a Butter knife either.

Not every view point is equally valid.

chickenchickenon EU Voice

Incorrect. The EU is very serious. It’s as much serious as it possibly gets.

chickenchickenon Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring

Thinkpad T400 G2: the fan keeps running in full speed randomly.

chickenchickenon Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B

I loved fireworks. I had the first version on my laptop and it was slow but amazing.

chickenchickenon Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it

Thanks for your service.

chickenchickenon Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it

Yeah and a multiple of that in renewables

chickenchickenon Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it

Thanks for this insight and explanation.

chickenchickenon A near 100% renewables grid is well within reach, and with little storage

There are already companies working on that https://www.emsysgrid.com/products/grid_management/futurepow...