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I wanted the Propeller to succeed, it was such a cool chip at the time.

rzzzton If-then-else had to be invented (2020)

Chrome and derivatives have a "Copy link to highlight" context menu, which also adds some text surrounding the highlight, but I removed that since it only has a single occurrence.

rzzzton If-then-else had to be invented (2020)

British PHP uses 'perchance ... otherwise':

- https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/#:~:text=E...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33828509

rzzzton Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?

Joining in on the speculation game: the EICAR string maybe?

rzzzton New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6

Windows 2000 / XP in classic mode / XP / Vista / 7. For OSX I'd say High Sierra to Catalina.

rzzzton Type Server Protocol

Type Server Subsystem for Python

rzzzton Ask HN: Are tab completion models dead?

Ctrl+I kind of does this: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/chat/inline-chat

rzzzton Glymphatic clearance to alleviate brain edema and Alzheimer's pathology in mice

Long-term physical exercise facilitates putative glymphatic and meningeal lymphatic vessel flow in humans: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11982307/

rzzzton How employment is changing at Anthropic

If we can believe Zager and Evans, it's the year 4545 when the need for eyes dwindles.

rzzzton The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results

The README mentions floooh's implementation which is a bit more simplified, there is no complete netlist so the smaller TTL glue chips will not be considered. It does work in real time though. The common interface between emulated ICs is a 64-bit integer that maps logic levels of interest at a given simulation step to its individual bits:

- https://github.com/floooh/chips/blob/master/README.md

- https://github.com/floooh/chips/blob/9e88298ce56319953ac7a43...

- https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/player.html?id=c64&dbg=1 (use the "Hardware" menu to get activity views similar to Salvatore's emulator)

rzzzton The history of development of Norton Commander (2011)

Is it possible to show a dialog at startup that waits until I press one of the 1-2-3 buttons?

rzzzton The history of development of Norton Commander (2011)

We were using Volkov Commander because it was much smaller (and single-file executable IIRC). I tried Dos Navigator and FAR but these did too much for my liking. In the Windows XP era Windows/Total Commander was in style locally.

rzzzton Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust

Probably turned you transparent?

rzzzton Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr

What about my Lifestream?

rzzzton I'm sorry, but you still have to think

Mark Twain is halfway around the world before Brandolini puts on his shoes.

rzzzton Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team

You could also run them like an army, like an artist commune, like Valve (add virtual tables on wheels which they can pull wherever they want), like a lawyer's office, etc.

rzzzton Sorry, I'm in a meeting

Teams has "room audio" and "join without audio" options, if you are talking into a magic box placed on the center of the table the first one helps.

rzzzton I'm in a Meeting

Then you have to exit the game.

rzzzton House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

No worries, I take issue with the person who concocted the original title. I got here after the capital-M change and it was still confusing that they didn't mention the space that was dug out at this depth, instead paint a picture of a system of tunnels under a normal house(?)

rzzzton House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

The title is "not even" clickbait, just very confusing.

"The unique complex contains more than 1,300 square feet of underground space, including tunnels and storage rooms - and even a hand-built railway."

(Edit: I mean the original article, not the submission)

rzzzton A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

A copy of MSDN documentation was included on one of the DVDs for Visual Studio .NET's first release, so at least around that time offline mode was possible. I think I was reading those docs more than actually programming.

rzzzton The internet discovers TLA+. Now what?

Four-letter acronyms or longer.

rzzzton Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin

The article says it is inversely correlated with cortisol, the stress hormone thunderclap, but that is harder to measure through tear concentration.

rzzzton Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin

My mom gets bombarded with ads selling non-invasive glucose monitors but the most plausible unit I have found uses lasers and has the size of a refrigerator, still in development.

rzzzton Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot

What it is: First Officer, what it does: Pilot Flying

rzzzton Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin

I prefer fiery red when low serotonin is detected.

rzzzton My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps

Not sure when this changed, but for me it only shows opening times for places for the current day only, if you want to see the rest of the schedule you have to log in.

rzzzton My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps

A forgotten classic video depicts a similar story: https://youtu.be/fPgV6-gnQaE

rzzzton Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity

I, for one, welcome our future inmice overlords.

rzzzton Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

"While questions remain regarding the precise extent, rate, and functional relevance of adult neurogenesis in the human brain, as well as important methodological considerations, multiple independent approaches now converge in support of its persistence throughout adulthood."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S193459092...