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"It looks like a money grab, or a way of discouraging EV ownership, or a way for mostly-ICE rural areas to punish EV-owning urbanites…" s/or/and/...
Commented on Place your bets
I got better skin-crawlies from the short story "Learning to be Me" by Greg Egan. First-person account of meat person being replaced by crystal version....
Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
Clark Ashton Smith, "The Second Interment". Nightmare fuel back in my childhood....
Commented on WTF
I logged in to archive.org to request tomlehrersongs.com be saved. It replied that a snapshot had been taken 43 minutes before. Thank goodness for a public good preserving another public good....
Commented on WTF
just imagine if the most plentiful animal protein you can get ... is us? 'Tender is the Flesh'. As a kid I had a copy of 'Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters'. Way before CDs. Thanks for the fungus book titles;...
Commented on Strong and Stable!
Thanks, Heteromeles @ 934, I've added those titles to my reading list. Genial Gene isn't at my local library so I'll try for a loan from Santa Clara County. I like your cis/trans aide memoire....
Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
Me too. Of the 30-ish tabs I keep open, this is my favorite. I will not overhear a smarter conversation anywhere else....
Commented on Holding pattern 2022 ...
AlanD2 @ 1401: After learning to program an IBM 1620 in college I own and maintain (since 1978) the last operable 1620. Here's a DropBox link to a video excerpt of it assembling a program. https://www.dropbox.com/s/nd0l739l9c8144k/20160716_1620_Lights_Assembling_SPS_Deinterlaced_Slower.mp4?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/xwf961vxkw5v8zy/About_20160716_1620_Lights_Assembling_SPS.txt?dl=0 I can't convey...

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Tim H. commented on Shrinking the world
I've seen ground wires attached to metal work boxes before, if that was done, it'll be partially obscured by the existing receptacle, you might want to check for that. A short jumper to the outlet may be all that's needed. Best of luck....
JohnS commented on Shrinking the world
Tim H. @ 542: I've seen ground wires attached to metal work boxes before, if that was done, it'll be partially obscured by the existing receptacle, you might want to check for that. A short jumper to the outlet may be all that's needed. Best of luck. It's all "PVC Old Work" (cut-in) boxes & Type NM-B nonmetallic (Romex) cable and I can see the stub where the [EXPLETIVE!! DELETED!!] idiot CUT THE GROUND WIRES COMPLETELY OFF when stripping the outer jacket off the Romex. I've done electrical work in the past. I have enough experience to recognize what they...
JohnS commented on Shrinking the world
Well, the electrician has been here and he did a great job. AND it was surprisingly affordable. He's going to send me an estimate for the added circuit I need to complement the additional new cabinets & counters I'm going have to install to make the kitchen fully functional. I'll have room for my small appliances & I'll be able to have them plugged in. I've also begun setting up my home network. I have the router tied into the modem & my network printer & NAS are functioning properly. Still have to string cables to tie in my Photoshop...
David L commented on Shrinking the world
My curiosity got the better of me so I now the town where you moved. They have Ting fiber internet service. Everyone I know who has it LOVES it. Which I can't say about any of the other providers. Their business plan is to avoid the major cities and towns for now and hit up the edges of tech areas. Just an FYI. Also, I'm a big fan of Backblaze. If you don't want them then at least read this article. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/ars-archivum-top-cloud-backup-services-worth-your-money/4/...
JohnS commented on Shrinking the world
David L @ 545: My curiosity got the better of me so I now the town where you moved. They have Ting fiber internet service. Everyone I know who has it LOVES it. Which I can't say about any of the other providers. Their business plan is to avoid the major cities and towns for now and hit up the edges of tech areas. Just an FYI. I'm not actually "in town" and I checked Ting just now and it's not available for my address. Apparently Spectrum Cable is the ONLY thing available here (unless you go with satellite TV/internet),...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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