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See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

> This wasn't written for a technical audience (or they wouldn't have had to explain what each band was)... The article appeared in the monthly magazine of IEEE, the Institute of Electric…

As a former DXer, I used the Satellit at a time when the shortwave tropical bands were filled with exotic stations. Nowadays, I have my SDR with technical specs we could only dream about back then but…

Seems like a crowd favorite, previous discussions here: 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4062981 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4544318 2014: …

I did Coursera's "Introduction to Machine Learning" by Andrew Ng back in 2013 and loved it. Great tutor, good course material - and it looks like Coursera is still offering this course …

Jerry's pages were always the first pages I read when he was a columnist for the Byte magazine in the 80's. He was a true pioneer in those early days of computing who wrote non-stop about ne…

"Confucious says man who puts chicken and peas in soup very unhygienic".

"It is easy to make a mistake but if you really want to stuff it up you need a PLC". :)

In the early days of my career I had to modify some code for a PLC that operated on a car production line. The modified code took too long to run so a watchdog process assumed the code had frozen and …

My memories of Popular Electronics is around seeing the diagrams for a simple microcomputer, the Cosmac Elf which was based on RCA's 1802 CPU. I begged my mother for an advance on my pocket money…

I have 15 years of transactions in Microsoft Money, a Windows application. I choose it at a time when the only other alternative was Quicken, and I hanged on to it ever since for its clean and simple …

There is also the 8086 verson of CP/M, CP/M-86, which runs well within VirtualBox.