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I was 100% C=64 before I transitioned to Apple ][ before I went IBM-PC DOS, briefly Windows/OS2 Warp, then MacOS, then 100% linux, and added Android later.

(sprinkle in some brief CP/M, BeOS, and NetBSD sidequests)

I'll deal with the shift to the next phone platform OK, I think.

I should probably dust off my Pine64 and try the latest builds again. It's been a few years since they were unusable as a daily driver.

Folks, this might be a huge opportunity if you correctly pick the successor and are the first developers.

Sunday I was in Austin and saw a Waymo being put on a tow truck at an intersection, and a cop car with flashing lights behind it. I doubt this was a drill, and I had gone through the intersection an hour before, so I guess it actually broke down there. Welcome to the future!

Oops, those are the wrong direction. But you get the idea.

Keep these permanently attached to your peripherals. You'll never notice them. They don't qualify as "dongles". I'm curious to hear how these reduce portability.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c...

Keep a few adapters handy. Very tiny, very cheap, very easy. That makes a lot more sense than continuing to put USB-A ports on laptops.

I love these retro stories from 2012.

What a blast from the past!

This is a retro story from 2012, right?

> Python isn't perfect with its syntactically meaningful whitespace nonsense

I know a programmer with a visiospatial disability.

Braces are fine. Python is literally impossible.

I looked at a few 'Python with braces' preprocessors for her but they all seemed to be half-done and not really usable.

I'm not quite sure why.

It's a dumb reason to shut someone out of an entire software ecosystem. Almost every other language is accessible to her.

According to the measurement by clocks outside the spacecraft, that is, clocks that are not moving at speeds approaching the speed of light. That's what the phrase "outside the spacecraft" means.

Although we love to give him credit because he is the very picturesque vision of a mad scientist, you should know that many other people worked on AC power, and Tesla was not even the first other them. Of the AC pioneers, probably the most foundational work was done by Charles Steinmetz (who was also an immigrant, but who was in other ways the very opposite of Tesla).

IMHO, Perl's biggest problem was that Larry didn't know how to say "no" to every crazy idea he saw.

My pet misfeature is "long statement that does something UNLESS condition". Yes, let's reverse the flow of cause and effect of the traditional "if" statement, what could possibly go wrong when someone tries to read your code?

Also protip: use HTML <p> to insert paragraph breaks on /.

Or information on the murder of their whistleblower.

The correct part of your statement is that it certainly won't happen if we don't do the work.

But you seem to be saying don't bother to do the work, because it's hopeless.

That was precisely your argument. When you said "Emissions keep growing while people keep searching for it", this is completely tantamount to saying "technology can never be made cheaper because it isn't cheaper now."

Magic was your word, not mine. And technology doesn't "magically" appear. It requires a lot of work. By engineers and scientists. But the work won't get done when techno-pessimists like you sit on your collective ass and say "it will never happen."

The argument is that revealing a person's health information to another person is a violation of personal medical privacy, but this isn't revealing it to a person.

There are multiple cans of worms opened here (some of them being discussed by the other commenters), but it seems a reasonable argument that it's not a HIPAA violation (...except in that we've sometimes seen that a carefully worded query can cause some LLMs to output their training data )