Byte, Hypercard, and ANSI C, Oh My!
In 1988 for a school project, I made a Hypercard (“Inspired by a mind-expanding LSD journey in 1985“) stack summarizing hardware sales and costs in every Byte Magazine that had been released to that...
“Universal filter failed” on CUPS Linux printing from evince. Very specific but I suddenly was getting errors printing. Thought it was the printer driver/setup and fruitlessly reinstalled. No good. Finally found this obscure bug:...
In 1988 for a school project, I made a Hypercard (“Inspired by a mind-expanding LSD journey in 1985“) stack summarizing hardware sales and costs in every Byte Magazine that had been released to that...
This is such a warped information space. You had Trump promising everyone everything — no taxes, lower prices, ponies for all — and never being taken to task about how to pay for any...
I was amused at how similar Google’s NotebookLM generated, chirpy, facile podcast style is between these different topics: Unabomber Manifesto. James Holmes’s Psychiatric Reports. Peace of Westphalia. Steamed Hams.
So I’ve had one of these original UE Boom portable bluetooth speakers for *ever*. Didn’t use it for a while & the battery completely discharged. Then it simply would not charge. Charge light blinked,...
Vernor Vinge died yesterday, 2024-03-20. I know others had wrote about a Singularity-like event happening, since the early days of SF — either psychic, robot brains, benevolent alien uplifts, biological/viral, etc. But Vinge’s Omni...
Running out of space and have to clone to a larger SSD and, finally, setting up as BTRFS pays off with a simple “btrfs replace” command eliminating me having to futz with dd and...
Getting somewhat difficult to find supplies for my indestructible 20-year-old Dell 3100cn laser printer. Just had to replace a drum I last replaced 6 years ago. This thing is a tank that has travelled...
Men have been concerned over controlling ejaculations for a really long time. Because it’s so associated with fertility and reproduction, of course states and proto-state machineries (religions, superstitions, autarchs, etc) are driven to regulate...
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