mshroyer

The Chicken compiler actually compiles down to C, which has the nice side-effect that you can easily include literal C code. Here's an example: https://www.more-magic.net/posts/scheme-c-integration.html

> You ain't pushing up on me, boy? You ain't pushing up on me, you hear me? Fight! Fight with me! Fight! Fight! Look at me! Fight! Fight! It's just me and you, baby! It's just me and you! You move, that dog bites you.

Sure, maybe that cop was the lone psychopath in the group. But why did the other cops not step in and do something?

My MBP's battery failed (swelled up) twice while under warranty, but it was a pain to deal with each time: wipe the SSD (because it's soldered on), hand it over to Apple, wait several days for repair, and then restore from backup. And now it's no longer under AppleCare coverage anyway.

In contrast, Framework designed their motherboard so we can even use it as a standalone PC once we're done using it as part of a laptop. That's such a difference in terms of user reparability.

> Kilsheimer said he didn’t believe the damage highlighted in the 2018 report could have led to the collapse of the building. “Nothing in it raised a red flag,” he said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/condo-collapse-sunda...

That's not my understanding of the term "white-collar crime", nor is it the definition used here, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-collar_crime

The interest calculation problem you describe would fall under what I think is the usual definition of "white-collar crime".

Maybe this is a bug that only affects certain models or something?

So it looks like the Winterbloom module is taking a "pitch CV" input in the range of 0-6V... what would typically generate this input in this type of setup? And what do all those other modules on the rack do?

But this is a case where humans _were_ in the loop yet acted like automatons themselves. They failed to apply the baseline level of judgment that would have stopped them filing felony charges for "embezzlement" of a VHS tape featuring a talking cat.

It was inevitable we'd reach this point—if not because of mesh networking, then because of ever cheaper cellular radios. And modern cars are already here. But we're fast losing control and visibility over which of our consumer electronic devices are allowed to talk to the outside world.

The re-registration process is annoying, but hey, it's free...

> I'm saving the Substack mailing list regularly to my hard drive, and if I go somewhere else I'll let you all know.

So this is possible on Substack at least.

Some Substacks also use a custom domain name, which would make migration off the platform even easier.

Here we have an exodus driven by *privacy* concerns surrounding the new policy. Users fled from WhatsApp to other services with the intent of keeping their conversations more private. The subset of those who switched to Telegram made their conversations strictly *less* private, achieving the opposite of their goals.

There is something wrong with that.

Huh? You know it's an opt-in feature, right?

It depends on the specifics, of course. If a specific country directly attacked the US, of course I'd expect (and even demand) a military response. But these days, I wouldn't expect a non-state's terrorist attack to lead to the sort of misguided, ill-informed adventurism that ultimately led us to invade Iraq.

A calculator app might seem like a very small thing, but the availability of PCalc is literally one of the handful of items I have in my "pros/cons" list of using iPhone vs. an Android phone.

That was certainly true up through the early 2000s, but this stereotype is by now out of date. On the left, America is self-loathing, and on the right it's become quite isolationist.