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O Holy Crap 4 years ago

Yep confirming/restating, for kitchenware, lowercase pyrex == tempered, capital PYREX == borosilicate.

Time.gif (2017) 4 years ago

http push, baby!

alternatively, trust the client timer, ship a full 86400 frame gif, and figure out a start-frame hack.

Pipe Viewer 4 years ago

it's instantaneous, but the -T (transfer buffer % full display) is sometimes useful for that. (0% full -> source limited, 100% full -> sink limited)

The 1992 WGBH/BBC 5-part miniseries "The Machine That Changed The World"(US)/"The Dream Machine"(UK):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_That_Changed_the_W...

is out of print, but can be found intermittently on youtube.

I love the coverage of 1940's computing, with interviews with several of the surviving people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckert%E2%80%93Mauchly_Compute...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDSAC

Currently working episode links:

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hayi9AsDXDo

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GropWVbj9wA

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTLgAI3G_rs

4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1zbCU5JnE0

5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuxYUJv2Jd4

I have never heard of Illumos which also implies I've never heard anything bad about it.

It's the open fork of OpenSolaris after the Oracle takeover of Sun. Many ex-Sun engineers work at companies that use/contribute to Illumos.

because of his “lousy phone company.”

Highly dependent on where he lives.

There are parts of the country (I'm familiar with central/western MA) where there is no cable service, ADSL requires a short distance from the local POP (and <= 1.5Mbps is arguably not 'broadband'). FTTH rollouts have pretty much stopped, and 4G service is nonexistent.

There is a good talk on telecom monopolies linked in this comment (that thread has other good discussions, as well): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6124918