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There is also a UI/UX problem on mobile, the buttons can easily be fat fingered. There'd be a nice externality to this extra step.

The key, the whole key, and nothing but the key

This is not true

Edit: trying to reverse engineer the “magic”, architecture, and the failure from a varnish error message is folly, and misleads others. How do I know the comment is patently false? I ran those teams at Fastly for 3 years.

This looks like a potentially very good and very low cost educational aid. I continue to be impressed by what Ben inspires.

Does getting a leftover dose grant you the right to the second dose within the window?

Jameco was stocking the TI 68k earlier this year. Not certain what the author’s motivations were, but I picked one up after playing with the 6502 (their choice of vasm and the eeprom programmer are the same Ben Eater took off the shelf, coincidence?) The DIP package is convenient, at least until you see it comically take up 3/4 of a typical breadboard.

Edit: yes, an opportunistic find at Jameco https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23993221

Ah yes. The Mark Currie zone. Going all the screens to the right and shooting a hole in the hill and flying through it got you re-armed. And don’t hit the text, it’s quite solid.

Beautiful book, and incredibly lucid. Gave me a useful intuition on infinitesimals that never quite came out in the various standard calc texts. Second to this imo is Serge Lang’s A Short Introduction to Calculus.

Yes, that’s been a frustration for me. I’ve settled on the Motorola 6847 which requires a couple supporting chips. This is scavenging parts off eBay though, which seems to be a plentiful source. I’ll find out shortly whether any of them are actually good.

It is. Never had him as a prof while studying math at UofC, but would see him shuffling about the dept now and then. Always gave off a warm energy.

This is mean spirited. The customers family is not perfectly aware.

If you're referring to "there will be a cosmological event horizon surrounding each observer, which will radiate Hawking radiation at a temperature of roughly 10-30 kelvin" this is a very tiny fraction: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10%5E-30

There's a kinder way to share this. Ben's teaching a number of things here (basic electronics, computer architecture, assembly..) in an incredibly inviting and rewarding way. I'm confident he's reaching people at varying skill levels. Let's keep that energy going.

A much better phrasing is “what help do you need?”. This works with people you’re responsible for, peers, and others. This has a better chance of discovering if they’re using you to vent to, or discovering a need that someone else can provide and you can connect them with. Secondarily it prevents the problem from becoming your problem because the question stops being an offer.

I’ve been working through Ben’s videos on the 6502 since September. It’s been a highly enjoyable way to relax and learn for me. It’s very easy to go beyond what he’s teaching. There’s so much material out there (6502.org for instance). The most rewarding for me has been taking the basics he gives on address decoding and going beyond it.

Very much the same experience. A small plug for archive.org’s copy of the MS-DOS version which we played: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Castle_Wolfenstein_1984

A few responses pointing to Ben Eater's videos. I have only a rudimentary understanding of electronics. I built my first 6502 computer following his first two videos. Ben's able to strip away a lot of things you don't need to know immediately to get up and running. Supplementing this with reading sites like 6502.org has built a lot of confidence for me to go beyond what Ben's released so far.

To add to the list, there was an attempt to change the name of the Stockton Airport to San Francisco-Stockton Regional Airport. About 80 miles from San Francisco.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SFO-objection-grounds...

That GOTO is harmful. Kids find joy in it!

I would not pin the troubles the city is facing on Ed Lee. The Board of Supervisors has an outsized influence on policy, especially housing, and for the most part continues to obstruct development single handedly.

I would love to say rfc.me/bgp (for instance) and get what I’m looking for without wading through obsoleted RFCs. This would be a solid next step for the author. Significantly more work though.

Large, unlimited, and permanent files sounds great to the average person. One nitpick I have with the IPFS crowd is the use of the word 'permanent'. They know exactly what it means, but the connotation for the average person is incorrect (persistent data for the latter, permanent address for the former). The marketing problems run deep.

I love Stafford Beer's "The purpose of a system is what it does" here. It separates fact from intention when reasoning about systems. The engineers that Kumail catches offguard are (in my opinion) confused because the issues he raises are so far from their intentions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

There is an incredible subculture for denim, distressing jeans the old fashioned way, no skeuomorphism here. The pre-WW2 production methods produced a higher quality product (surprise?) but the small looms couldn't produce it fast enough or cheap enough and were sent overseas. The Japanese have carried on producing proper American work wear, while American brands largely produce a simulacrum of American work wear. Sad fact, Cone Mills is shutting down after more than a century, last of its kind in the US.

My mustache wax pocket!

"This is stupid. Yeah probably, but for its very specific use case it's not terribly bad."

Don't put your work down like this. You created something useful for yourself, and likely useful for others. I'd be surprised if someone called it stupid.

Definitely! Second hardest is paper for me. I've finally settled on Muji's .7 pens and .5 grid notebooks. Very cheap, and the notebooks are thin enough that you get a frequent fresh start.

I choose physical notebooks over digital because it's easier to go freeform when needed and you don't need most of what you think is important at the time.

For the curious: https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/02/23/this-mushroom-starts... This happens, and it's bad.

"Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure."

This is a statement about an existing organization and the system they design. It doesn't say you can design a system and then the organization of your choice forms around it.

Bezos had to start with a management edict about how the organization is structured (by threat of firing) to get the SOA system he desired at Amazon. https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX

Small correction, ARKit works on as little as iPhone 6s with reasonable accuracy.