Basically, a nice idea. BUT:

What a graveyard of 74xx chips. Maybe just using a FPGA would have been a smarter solution?

RCA video jack? What year is it? Yes, it’s a retro design, but it still has to interface with something in this world. And display devices that still use RCA video are not exactly common.

New York telephone exchange.

So he is investing in armed robots that just kill the poor to end poverty?

Shouldn’t they focus on the no. 1 law breaker and court ignorer in the country?

Yea, but try to set this up in an easy way, or to process more than one file.

Bonus points if you can achieve this under Windows 😃

He sounds quite deranged. Maybe he needs a timeout in a sift padded room. Without internet.

I always thought this spot near the doors was reserved for fat men needing some last-minute purchases for the BBQ.

So they are talking about bailouts already? Ahh, the good old ‘privatize winnings, socialize losses’ again.

Thank you. A long overdue article.

I’m currently fighting with my main software. It uses gray on gray, a small font you can’t change or resize, and highlights important messages with weak red and green text that I cannot see as “non-gray” due to the fonts size and thin-ness. So it is hard for me to find the few important lines in maybe twenty pages of output.

Come back once you have dealt with the thieving AI companies.

My web pages are larger. But not because of script junk and graphics. The texts simply are that long.

It’s basically 1% markup and 99% visible text.

Many things are way easier on the command line than they could ever be in a GUI. Especially for processes that need repeatability, e.g converting a whole directory of images in a certain way.

I use Kubuntu for that. Works good, is reliable, and uses Plasma instead of Gnome. The KDE Plasma environment is way easier to “get” for people coming from Windows than Gnome.

OK, who actually did think that data in Microsofts hands were safe from US meddling?

Any bit of data sent to an American server has to be considered compromized.

No idea what “Olive Garden” is - is it used all day, or is it just a shitty programmed app that it eats up the battery?

Wow. Terminally stupid.

Yes, but still a privilege elevation bug is still less risky than a remote execution one.

So you get warm beer?

So you list the reasons for imprecision: noise, losses, repeatability problems (there are more), but still consider it precise?

Adding two containers of water is only as precise as you can get leakage under control, and can rely on a repeatable shape of the containers. Both is something chip level logic simply does not deliver.

“Putting a value on something” vs. “Something having a discernable value” is the point.