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At some level you do have to let rote memorization take place. For 10 digits for example, this is totally reasonable and you can memorize those associations in an hour easily. Then you can apply them to create mnemonics for 1000s of things.

What more do you want an OS to do? What do you expect Apple to add to MacOS? Just don't break stuff. Fix bugs. Once in a while some new kind of hardware or network protocol might need to be added. That's it.

If done with Electron, that will be 100 MB.

Or with Tauri, 5 MB. Which, amazingly, seems tiny.

True, "nm" initially seemed to be nautical miles, but then this square meters thing appeared. The point is that "m" should be meters, but "mi" would be a more customary abbreviation for miles in the U.S.

"A single 1-kW jammer can take down GPS for a 300-nm radius.[...] A CRPA can shrink the effective radius of the 1-kW jammer to 3 nm. The jammer’s area of effectiveness is slashed from 280,000 m² to 28 m²."

An example of the kind of unit confusion that could crash a Mars orbiter?

I thought we were talking about nanometers and square meters here for a second. But this only makes sense if "m²" means square miles and "nm" means nautical miles. How about at least using "mi" for miles to reduce confusion?

Very informative, thanks!

Hilarious, 3000+ votes for a Stack Overflow question that's not a question. But it is an interesting article. Interesting enough that it gets to break all the rules, I guess?

Is there any software that can provide verified, trusted archives of websites?

For example, we can go to the Wayback Machine at archive.org to not only see what a website looked like in the past, but prove it to someone (because we implicitly trust The Internet Archive). But the Wayback Machine has deleted sites when a site later changes its robots.txt to exclude it, meaning that old site REALLY disappears from the web forever.

The difficulty for a trusted archive solution is in proving that the archived pages weren't altered, and that the timestamp of the capture was not altered.

It seems like blockchain would be a big help, and would prevent back-dating future snapshots, but there seem to be a lot of missing pieces still.

Thoughts?

I still can't believe how slow MS Word is to load a .docx document of about 150 pages of text, you can watch the page count in the status bar grow over a period of 10 seconds or more as it loads/paginates it.

On the plus side, it's nostalgic and reminds me of the old MS Word 6 on Windows 95 (or Windows 3.1?) so that's nice.l

I predict this won't be popular. E-ink is great for reading a book, especially on a portable battery-powered device, but on a large desk display connected to a general-purpose computer, it doesn't make sense at all.

Slow and inconsistent refresh rate, limited lifetime cycles that you could wear it out in a year or 2 with frequent use.

To me, spam is unsolicited email or phone calls. People or organizations contacting me when I haven't requested they do so.

Interestingly the Macbook trackpad does not have physical buttons. It uses haptic feedback to simulate the feeling of a "click", but in reality there is no button which could be interrupted by dust.

I did have a Macbook trackpad fail in a similar way, where the "button" seemed to intermittently fail to click. It turned out my battery was swelling (see /r/spicypillows) and this impacted the trackpad operation.

On topic, I took the Macbook with swollen battery in to the Apple Store and they had to replace the entire keyboard+battery assembly as a unit because the battery was not replaceable.