incanus77

Very impressive. I love this kind of project (by me or anyone else) — learning whole new areas of tooling that you're unfamiliar with, following a passion to make something that you can hold in your hand. Kudos.

It’s nice, but it doesn’t support things like Safari tabs properly.

Very nice! That's fun to play with.

I had fun building a little UTF-8 playground about a year ago to drive some of the concepts home and to go back to as a cheatsheet.

https://github.com/incanus/learn-utf8

Oh hell yeah! I'd love one of these. My other vehicle is a 4WD VW Vanagon Syncro, for fun & hauling.

Agree! We got a used 2015 Fiat 500e for $8k 2.5 years ago and it’s been great as an around-town car. Don’t have kids, but can take a passenger or two in the back if need be (it’s tight) but for two people and errands, it’s been a fantastic value.

These would be good additions to SwiftBar/BitBar.

Yes! This was huge. You could go from coding to uploading to refreshing your application as fast as you could perform those actions. And don’t forget, with Perl CGI, you had to output the right Content-Type header (and two carriage returns) at the top of your outputted page content for the browser to even parse it correctly.

I realize you are asking for cross-OS, but Mac OS X was doing this in 2002 (and probably earlier) for PowerBook models with an ethernet cable between them. As I recall, iBooks didn't do this even if they had the port, but PowerBooks would do the auto-crossover, then Finder/AFP would support the machines showing up for each other.

That's it exactly. I clearly remember the nonchalantness.

Awesome, the name rings a bell now! Thanks for that. Honestly didn't remember the software involved (nowadays, I'd mention it in the blog post).

Oh, I vaguely remember someone hacking that for some sort of windowing back then on OS X!

This reminds me of how, twenty years ago, I used the PowerBook’s hard drive vibration sensor to rig up a seismograph to measure construction noise:

https://allthegooddomainsweretaken.justinmiller.io/2007/04/0...

I played the shit out of HOMM3. I bought it, though, only after sneaking plays in between customers while working at Radio Shack. We had some ~300MHz Compaq machines that Radio Shack had recently partnered with to sell and on slow days, it was a good way to pass the time.

Makes sense. I'm talking mostly from the perspective of fuel injected Vanagons. Connections generally seem good; it's usually the hoses.

This is a common problem with rear-engine VWs if the fuel lines aren’t maintained. Fuel pumping through rubber hoses directly over hot exhaust is a recipe for disaster. It’s generally recommended now to replace the lines at least every ten years. You don’t see them wearing as they do so from the inside. Things can even start up after sitting for a while after driving since the exhaust is still hot and there is pressure in the lines.

I saw a classmate push a bandsaw right up between two fingers in eighth grade shop, watching the workpiece and not their hand.

I have been using and administering macOS since 2002 and Linux since 1998. Zorin is my favorite distro when I need to put an OS on a machine and want a cohesive, well-designed, low hassle, free system for myself or others. It’s really well done and truly feels like a unit instead of the many, many disparate parts that it is made of.

Sure, you can do all of the things that it does in more custom ways assembling and using those disparate pieces yourself. Sure, it is probably less efficient on disk space and resources as it uses a variety of software installation approaches including Flatpak. Sure, its Windows compatibility is just Wine. Sure, it’s hard to find info on the main product page about what it’s actually running. None of those things matter when you want a computing system that is polished, free, and lets you start being productive instead of managing your system. If that’s not for you, don’t use it! You’ll be fine.

I did some contract work some years back with a company who had a desktop product (for Mac) that would apply some smarts to strip out extraneous things on pages while printing (such as ads on webpages) as well as try to avoid the case where only a line or two was printed on a page, wasting paper. It initially was getting into things at the PostScript layer, which unsurprisingly was horrifying, but eventually worked on PDFs. This required finding and interpreting various textual parts of the passed documents and was a pretty big technical challenge.

While I'm not convinced it was viable at the business level, it feels like something platform/OS companies could focus on to have a measurable environmental and cost overhead impact.

I first learned about the ability to apply for custom aliases at my university after noticing a guy I knew didn't have the usual pattern — first 5 of last name, first name initial, and nothing or else numbers 2+ depending upon your order in line. So I was 'millej3'.

Then I thought about the guy's name: D___ Hoover.

He had applied for, and got, 'hoover'.

My parents got married in 1975 in this way.

I've seen it with a 3 as well. That method, among other things, loses USB keyboard and mouse support. I haven't gone down that extreme a path yet...

While I share the sentiment (and have been noodling with similar projects), unfortunately the minimum is around 4 seconds as the VideoCore chip is what boots first, then after about 4 seconds hands things over to the ARM chip, which can effectively boot instantly with this sort of OS.

I love this. We have a Fiat 500 EV that we got for $8k used that’s a fantastic city / small hauling car, and this beats it in many qualities in a way that’s still minimalist, reasonably affordable, and low maintenance (if as promised). We also have a 1986 4WD VW camper van which gets the big jobs done but is still manageable in the city. This truck is like the DIY marriage of the two.

Score 4722 Avg. Years Off 2.6 here. Spoilers: I got two exactly right (Arab Spring, Battle of Britain) and one off by a year (dancing). The two exacts were pretty obviously tied to specific dated events, and I both love history and have a pretty easy time remembering dates. I love this sort of game, as I do trivia, history trivia especially.

One lesser-known tip for iPhones with FaceID or TouchID: press and hold the lock button and one of the volume buttons until prompted for power options/medical ID/emergency call. You'll then have to enter a passcode in order to use those auth methods again. Having to reveal a passcode can sometimes be considered a higher bar than biometric auth. You can do this even when in it's in your pocket without looking, quite quickly, and there is haptic feedback.

I enjoy the backstory[1], though, about how he ended up that way:

> He was told the area was restricted and he couldn’t go through. Ignoring the request, he instead drove off at top speed into the rocky terrain of the restricted area, making sure the military officials weren’t following him, according to the site.

> Leray told the UK’s Sunday Times that he had travelled around Africa about 10 times so knew the region well. But before long, his he crashed the car into a rock, rendering it unable to drive.

[1] https://www.nydailynews.com/2012/07/03/photos-man-escapes-af...

Yeah, the same way a car is just a GUI on top of two bikes.

Whenever I go to this one restaurant, they insist on feeding me the bread that they make. I bring my own dough, but they won't let me into the kitchen to use their equipment. It's a hobbled experience and they are doing it entirely in the name of increased profits. The bread could be awesome! The problem is, I want to eat at this restaurant. They are ruining my bread experience.

This was a wild time to begin a career, and I was just dropping out of college, having been the class of '99 but delayed a semester already due to bad work/life balance. I was self-teaching in web and systems programming and generally doing things on the internet, had a good grasp of things technically, but had no grounding in finance, business, stock options, or any of it. Everywhere around me seemed like opportunity, and Linux seemed somehow related. I even was supposed to have stock options in VA Linux[1] due to my paid work there, but that didn't pan out in the end. I didn't yet know how the internet would change everything, but it felt like it was definitely happening, and somehow that meant everyone involved would get rich. The media story didn't help. I wouldn't change any of it, though. I did it for the love of learning and still do.

[1] https://www.wired.com/1999/12/va-linux-sets-ipo-record/