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So honestly I don't quite remember if I encountered this with the Wangs, or if I'm recalling my Dad telling me about it from his experiences. If the latter then odds are that it was eith…

I don't know how their switches worked, but the Wang 2200 terminals¹ that my father worked with had an interesting angle on tactile feedback; on each keypress a single chunky solenoid attached to…

Yes, but also very early microchips! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer …

Location: Stockholm (remote or hybrid) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, AWS, Linux, Rust, technical writing & presenting Résumé/CV: https://www.l…

The "interim computer museum" has some (most?) of that now: https://icm.museum/?faq

I'm rather tempted. I'm funemployed at the moment and live over in Stockholm so it's just a (long) train journey away. I used to enjoy messing around on Vaxen in my college days. I can&…

Meanwhile I get a green check for CDN - presumably because I'm not using Cloudflare, but I am using CloudFront which is AWS. So the tool's a good idea, but currently very inaccurate.…

I roo am trying to curate my RSS feed to be doom-scrolling free. These largely achieve that for me. You'll find a smattering of political posts in them, but that's an inevitable side effect …

Julia Evans is an absolute treasure.

That wasn't working for me, but this one was: https://archive.ph/QCMjJ

I used to (half) jokingly tell people to go to the next human unit. A few days? At least a week. A week? A month. A month? A year. A year? Uh... decade or never... It's wildly pessimistic but not…

I just hopped into the show page - of 30 items perhaps half a dozen are mildly interesting to me. There's a lot of "Something zomething agentic zzzzz..." that may well hide something go…

Does your ISP attack you often?

There's something a little like this in Strata by Pratchett (which is lightly sending up Niven's Ringworld and a non-robot-related but similar idea there).

Best QA people I worked with were amazing (often writing terrific automated tests for us). The worst would file tickets just saying "does not work" I sometimes suspect that the value of a QA…

I have this printed on a sweatshirt - it saddens me a little that people who get it are so few and far between these days :'(

"...nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change..." - Douglas Adams

I'd imagine there are a good few, but that for a lot of them their websites expired when the owner did. For example my Dad's is gone now and he was only a bit younger. Wayback machine likely…

This is correct (I've done it a few times). I think there's an edit window though and at 8 hours we're well outside that. The other option (e.g. when it's not your submission) is t…

> In large organizations, decisions get made in meetings you’re not invited to, using summaries you didn’t write, by people who have five minutes and twelve priorities. If no one can articulate yo…

This is very clever. I've often needed to figure out what some running process was actually for (e.g. because it just started consuming a lot of some limited resource) but it never occurred to …

Ok, I was a little tongue in cheek, so I agree it's a bit more complicated than just asking any question that pops into my pretty little head. But I do think that not worrying about whether peopl…

My superpower as a staff engineer was having zero shame in asking questions. Anything from "what does that abbreviation stand for?" through to "what will the traffic look like when we g…

While we're wishing, can we split CSS into two parts - styling and layout? Also, I'd like to fix the spelling on the "referer" header...

I beg to differ. All their verbiage about not charging fees is absolutely intended to create that impression in less educated customers.

Yes, after the flurry of Covid cancellations I avoid using OTAs. Where we had flights booked direct with the airlines getting our money back was much swifter than where we had gone through an intermed…

They're doing business in the EU. Amusingly my voluntary subscription was just under the cut-off amount and I cancelled it as soon as this came in. I bought a subscription to The Economist instea…

He's very good at marketing his airline (often with outrage inspiring press releases) and very good at finding ways to squeeze more blood out of the stone of budget travellers. I don't reall…