David L

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• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  I still expect anything designed to run Win NT would NOT be power light....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  The basic problem with chips based on Intel's x86 was, and still is, they are power hogs. So satchel / shoe phones would be the norm....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  From this morning's Washington Post. Escaped army horses careen through London, crashing into vehicles A number of horses from the king’s mounted bodyguard broke loose escaped their keepers and galloped through central London on Wednesday morning during rush hour, one...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  (I'll delete it again in some hours) That was quick....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  Phone companies were laying dark fibre in the 80s. I worked on prototype projects back then. Circuit-switched because processing was the bottleneck rather than bandwidth. Yeah. My neighbor was the project manager for the first fiber CO-CO link in the...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  probably make an average of one ATM withdrawal a year these days (deployment of contactless payments is almost universal now, and a lot of coffee shops and similar no longer take cash at all). But attempts to phase out cash...
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  were impossible in standard MS products. Yep. 123 was a 1981 or 82 thing. Multiplan was what MS had. Excel didn't come out (again first on the Mac) until 86. I owned a copy of v1.0. $400. Ouch....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  someone not a complete idiot took the helm of WordPerfect So the software comes on 3 DMR protected 3.5" floppies (the rigid ones) and the printer drivers on 8 DVDs....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  ISDN is a thing. So the phone network is still circuit switched. And we get to the Internet via a peering point in phone company central offices. Modems on steroids? I bet we have 1.5Mbps to the home....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  I've always had problems distinguishing one speaks in a crowd. I've visited an audiologist and my hearing is fine — it's a software (wetware?) problem not a hardware problem. That I have always had this issue and a similar issue...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  Oh yes: Lotus 1-2-3 was an actual, useful working system. IIRC squeezed out by MicroShaft? Yes. Totally. Accountants, bookeepers, number massagers of all stripes immediately demanded a dual floppy IBM PC. Then a 5MB or 10MB XT. Then expanded/extended/whatever memory...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  Some very smart people I know where involved heavily in OOP back when it was the "next big thing". They basically said it would never really work. Until people spent 10 to 20 years getting the base objects well defined....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  I was in on the ground floor of the dot-com boom from 1995-2000, and the hype back then was absolutely bonkers: that may be part of why I'm so thoroughly soured on the current wave of bilge and bullshit. The...
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  I know you are adamant that you don't watch TV or movies. Or at least not very much. And have not been involved in any production of such. But what you have described as the current tech world is the...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  not just grab bars in showers and by toilets but also tweaks to staircases which could include ripping out the whole damn thing to install shorter steps... When this kind of thing is needed with stairs people need to find...
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  so you don't piss off your non-aged neighbours blasting your TV at max volume so you can listen without your hearing aid… I discovered that this is not always the case. As we age, most of us find it harder...
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  Turns out that the BMW X-series are mostly made in South Carolina and the future e-cars will be too. When my brother worked in that plant they made all of whatever for the entire world. BMW decided that plants that...
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  I just wish more of the jobs from Novo Nordisk & RTP involved hiring & training local people. They are hiring locally. But just how many microbiologists and medical device mechanical engineers with 5+ years experience live here who are...
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  And judges are elected in the US of A True in some but not all cases. It varies a LOT by state....
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  »I bet the insane growth of Novo Nordisk is creating a few issues.« That was a comment by someone else. Not certain how it relates to housing. Or lack thereof. It was me. I had just read an article about...
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  The worst of it happened during a long, hot summer when a lot of people didn’t have AC. I was 14 at the time. Old enough to know WHAT was going on. Not quite old enough to understand it much...
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  People are already wondering if this is to get rid of undesirables in the civil services. (The head of the security and intelligence service has already been replaced with a right wing Basic Finn member. The service itself has deemed...
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  (Re)zoning for larger buildings is harder, and taller being almost impossible. Denmark really wants to stay flat. Yep. Around here (1/2 million in the city, 1 million in the county, and 3 million in the area cities) people get all...
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  This actually is recent/current. The article I linked to (from 2023) explains that the Biden administration has revived the program. The story I'm remembering was about a specific city DOING something. Not a national program and all that entails. Good...
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  This was something recent/current....
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  Finally, Finland seems to have solved their homeless problem by adopting a housing-first strategy. In the last few months I read about or watched a news story about a US city doing similar. But that's all I remember. But you...
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  Time to find a local farmer, because when the Cons get in in 2025 they will open the floodgates, and once open we'll never get them closed again. More and more of these local farms in the US are being...
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  Put wind turbines in the shafts Interesting though experiment. But where does in intake air come from. See Howard's earlier comment about no space at the street level for ventilation. So we do two shafts up into the sky. Like...
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  I'm NOT an expert on this stuff, but if I understand it correctly, the company gave $175m to the justice system, and got a promise of $175m in collateral from DJT in cash and securities. Not quite. A bond (in...
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  The New York Subway has air conditioning?!? Yes it does. But, and things might have changed, it can only take down the temperature by about 20F(11C). So when out off Manhattan in open air it can do a decent job...