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"She's a child!" shouted Albert.

"IT'S AN EDUCATIONAL TOY."

"What if she cuts herself?"

"THAT WILL BE A PAINFUL LESSON."

> It is, in other words, a ritual designed in 1974 and never updated.

The Chalk Talk was not invented after the IBM System/360. This entire article is clearly a joke.

> Reddit

Redis?

> Technically GPS can work from the moon.

Well, one side of it.

And the Pi doesn't even come with a monitor, keyboard, speakers, or power supply!

"finally"? We were playing Quake II in AAlib in 2006. https://www.jfedor.org/aaquake2/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard available since 1882!

I think this was posted here because of the question on Retrocomputing Stackexchange: “What was the last commercial Z80-based computer sold?” (https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/31883/11579)

Californians blame it all on Enron, but that can't be the only reason, right?

Dig a well.

https://www.rocelec.com/part/01t4w00000PPjBiAAL-MC68020EH16E... - the '020 is still "Rochester Active"!

Taco Bell doesn’t use butter, AFAIK.

I got actual shivers when he found the tracks in the lake. Amazing detective work.

It’s funny that we all read forty pages of a “nobody” solving missing persons cases, and then we say “I would watch this miniseries if SOMEONE ELSE pitched it to Netflix.”

(Netflix employees have to pitch stories via agents, just like any “nobody” would, FWIW.)

All my friend group chats have a #kidpix channel for sharing pics of our kids. It’s named after the historic software.

For accuracy, it was written in FOCAL, not BASIC.

Yes. In between thinking about it and writing it down I confused “24 bits” and “16.78 million.”

10.x.x.x has over 24 million addresses. Nobody has that many IoT devices.

…if you find it?

DOCSIS?

The Pacific Science Center in Seattle, WA, USA has a Tide Generating Machine[1] attached to their Puget Sound Model[2] - it calculates the tides, and then runs pumps/opens drains to make the physical model act like the predictions.

[1]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ideonexus/5970013589/ [2]: https://pacificsciencecenter.org/exhibit/puget-sound-model/

The way innovators erode a legacy company’s advantage is by attacking an area they aren’t worrying about. Usually, that’s cost (“Japanese cars”, x86 supercomputers), but sometimes it’s speed, power, or convenience (Amazon.com in the 90s). Car companies have had plenty of warning about cheap EVs, but the only relatively cheap ones I know about are the (discontinued) Chevy Volt, the base Tesla Model 3, and the Volvo EX30 that just came out (surprise! it’s Chinese).

> pile

I see what you did there

I don’t understand why it’s taking the “legacy” automakers so long to respond. This is basic Innovator’s Dilemma strategy - and yet none have a cheap EV yet?

This podcast is for a later-stage competitor (Form Energy), but it explains a lot of the broad strokes around the size of the problem, and why iron-air is a good solution for multi-day grid-scale energy storage: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/whats-your-problem/the-cutti...

Iron-air batteries are not for applications that require energy/mass density, like laptops and electric vehicles. They’re for fixed infrastructure like grid-scale batteries, where energy/$ is the relevant function. It needs to be almost literally as cheap as dirt.