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Didn’t the Department of Defense try to mandate Ada in the 1980s? That went nowhere.

Is it just paired with his phone that he has access to on the weekends? Asking because I've thought about this before (younger kids) but I don't think the AW operates standalone and I didn't want to pair it with my phone.

Did you get BAH? In high CoL areas like DC metro the housing allowance is like an extra 33k, tax free.

I agree 100% as a fellow engineer.

Precisely

> Unsurprisingly, however, the court found that in 2018, police could have relied on such a warrant in “good faith,” because geofence technology was novel, and police reached out to other agencies with more experience for guidance. This means that the evidence they obtained will not be suppressed in this case.

That the guy's case gets a right affirmed yet in his individual case it won't make a difference has to be a pretty bitter pill to swallow.

It’s essentially a long-form article of the Good Eats episode on punch

R-12 is banned for manufacture by international treaty (which carries the force of law): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichlorodifluoromethane

It started in October 2022 (a month before midterms), if anything a skeptic would say that's more confirmation timing is suspect.

Yes I remember watching video interviews of folks in Missouri who said it should have reverted to them instead of being made available for a linear park.

_Flash Boys: Not So Fast_ is such a complete take down of _Flash Boys_ it's embarrassing and calls into question each of his works.

Yep this was like a cheat code when I had to take notes from the computer and could write and scroll simultaneously.

This is exactly what turned domestic US sales tax collection. Once there was market share, figuring out jurisdictional taxing became a moat to keep small players out.

I really enjoyed this post.

As a kid I used the MultiConfig (based on a guide in PC Magazine!) to have different menus. When all you were trying to run was games, maxing your conventional memory was key. I had different combos for sound, no sound, CD-ROM, boot to windows, moving stuff between EMS/XMS so older games could fit.

I would meticulously try different combos and seeing that `mem` command return something above 600KB was a reward in and of itself.

This is only true for driving on public roads.

I don't believe this is true. Women who are polled about "how many children they want" arrive at a number far above a 2.1 (replacement) societal average. Then they just don't have that many. That suggests that they did want to procreate enough to sustain population and there are other causes preventing them from doing it.

Thank you. That article was begging for a TLDR. The cooking blog effect but for science.

The SPR wasn't full; I wish we would have filled it up.

The remote Jupyter support is very cool. Is there a managed service out there? I think my organization could benefit greatly from common Jupyter infrastructure, but the calculus changes drastically if my tiny team is on the hook for keeping it running.

This is unorthodox but will it have something like func_vehicle in the original Counter-Strike?

Discovering “fun maps” servers gave me a second wind with that game long after I was no longer a twitchy teenager doing 5v5

I tried to set this up earlier this year, but what I realized I really wanted was RSS + change detection for some discussion forums and other sites that didn't offer RSS.

That companies like feedly didn't seem to offer this functionality but were trying to emphasize social networking and tagging my articles (for who?) made it easy to walk away after the trial.

I _still_ can't find a calendar app for iOS that's as nice to use as my Palm's. Making events that will happen at a certain time irrespective of time zone is just too beautiful for this world now.

I've seen pictures of his desk of what in the '90s we would have called "goofy looking CRT", I'm pretty sure its native aspect ratio was not 4:3.

My best use of LapLink was as a teen helping migrate a library off an old system. I think it was using NetWare 2.x with some DOS emulation for a library card catalog. Couldn't get it to talk IPX to the existing NetWare stuff (5.x) we were migrating to. But the DOS emulation was complete enough for us to install LapLink and bring over the files for the program!

I still have the yellow parallel cable and blue serial cables at my parents' house.

Also pretty sure I used the blue cable to do Command & Conquer over null modem to the next room at home before I figured out how to install IPX/SPX and get the machines to talk over the 10Base2 that was between them.

There was a great period in the mid-late ‘90s where TVs just worked when you connected to cable or antenna, no set top box, tuning was near instantaneous and there was enough enrichment that even station ID and program info could come in with the broadcast.

Pity it was a complicated modulation and waste of spectrum.

There are claims that it was meant to keep black people out of the workforce.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carriesheffield/2014/04/29/on-t...

Once they came out after Heller and stated they still believed it was a collective right, I knew my relationship with them was over.

ACLU (and others) cite it as a 5-4 decision but even the dissenters on the case believed it was an individual right, they just still thought it could be regulated / scrutinized. In that sense the individual right won 9-0.

This is a great book and one I constantly reference. The newest editions drop clock-based framing like ATM, but whenever I need to go back to looking at what's on the wire or considering what considerations were made in design or convention, I reach for this one!

No, it will not: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/03/895377375/california-has-lost...

It's certainly intriguing to me as I've got a lot of on-prem compute.