I had Samsung S3, and it got some annoying burn-in..
I upgraded to S8, hoping that they fixed that problem. Well, the burn-in was much worse. I saw the buttons of Waze permanently burned on my screen just after 4 months of use.
(I think it was fixed in newer models. Not sure though)

Wow.. NeXT? It's crazy. How can you do anything with a 20-year old computer?
Also it has a CRT screen with 1120×832 resolution, doesn't it? It's a bit spartan for my taste.

Pics please!

Apparently lockdowns don't work anymore for the delta variant and up (see New Zealand).

Israel managed to handle the 4th wave by administering booster vaccines and restoring some restrictions.

So as they say: "A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener."

haha

People keep claiming that Trump's blog got zero traffic. How do we know that at all? It's not that the stats were publicly published..

PS: You can read the old blog here. I wonder how come it's still working even when the JavaScript is running from archive.org instead of the original site.

It is true that AstraZeneca has a cool name, but you shouldn't use it because it does not work well for the African mutation. You should shell out some extra bucks and use Pfizer (like I did) or Moderna's vaccines instead - they have reduced efficacy with this mutation but at least they still work.

(You might like to see here how the Pfizer vaccine crushed the 3rd wave in Israel)

Comparing republicans to Jews in Naz1 Germany is not antisemitic. It's something else: banalisation of the holocaust. Also, comparing things to the holocaust triggers Godwin's law and as a result causes her to lose the argument. I'm so sorry that she has such weird opinions. Her Mandalorian character looks so mentally healthy and sane. Like an island of sanity.. I am sorry that it's not how the actor is like in real life. I will miss you Gina. And.. still, I'd love to dance salsa with you. Please contact me.

Right now people probably can only get the vaccine if they are invited.. but maybe later people will be able just to walk in. Currently in Israel, you can walk in to some places and get vaccinated (if you belong to the non-pedantic HMO which allows walk-ins) - but this depends on hours and availability. PS: I've already been vaccinated! Yay me.

I liked the read. It's good to know how to detect scams like that. I also liked the hair of the author. He is really gorgeous. Isn't he?

Don't be petty.

Cringely is wonderful in writing. He has a very good vocabulary and a wonderful way to express himself. He is almost as good as me when it comes to self-expression.

The problem is that all what he talks about is bullshit. How come he failed so gravely with his Minecraft server? It's a shame how he used his reputation to rob people of their money. And why would anyone need a special hardware for a server for this ridiculous game?

But that's another thing.

I stopped trusting him long ago, after this article from 2006: Shameless Self-Promotion: Bob's Disk Drive - where he claimed he's a partner, or something similar, in a company which aims to create Metal Foil Drives.

All this in the era where solid state drives started looming. But he wanted to stay in the mechanical age.

Here are some of his promises (from that linked article above)

The advantage of our drives goes beyond enterprise applications. We are able to build cheaper drives, for example, because our platters cost less to make and the nature of our flying heads is such that dust is sucked away from the head-disk interface, meaning the drives do not have to be assembled in a clean room.

The nature of our drives is such that they are very resistant -- almost immune -- to shock damage, making head crashes a non-event because the flexible metal foil yields to the head, pushed away by a layer of compressed air, rather than being struck by it. So our drives are perfect for notebook computers and portable music and video players because they are lighter, tougher, and make batteries last 70+ percent longer.

In an iPod, for example, our 60-gig drive would be the same size as the iPod's 30-gig drive, but ours wouldn't need head-parking or "uh-oh I'm falling" circuitry, so it would be cheaper to build. And while that 30-gig drive takes five seconds to spin up for each gulp of music, our 60-gig drive spins up in 0.4 seconds. Map the area under that power consumption curve and you'll see that battery life can be extended dramatically or smaller and cheaper batteries can be substituted.

Our metal foil drive costs less, not more, and spins up so quickly that data can be read from disk as fast or faster than it can be read from flash. Who needs a hybrid disk drive?

Who needs flash in general as a mass storage technology? Our 10-gigabyte 0.85-inch drive can spin up, read or write data, then shut down again, all in less time than it takes to perform the same task using flash while being just as resistant to shock damage and more resistant to heat. That 10-gig drive will cost $24 compared to $240 for 10 gigs of flash, so we expect that our technology will be used for any application requiring more than 2-gigs of storage. The obvious market here is mobile phones, which will become media storage devices.

Well Cringely, you are silly and I don't like you. Please stop writing and start selling ice cream instead.

Thank you.

It's possible to do so much from home, so why leave at all? - WRONG! You can't really enjoy a social salsa evening at home. That's a very good reason to go out! And I assume this is not going to change in the next 10-20 years. I miss Blockbuster a bit, though... it was nice that renting a movie was a social experience. It was sad though that the selection wasn't that good.

The problem is not in Electron.
The problem is that windows, mac and linux are not sandboxed..