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Comment · 2 months ago
Cross platform bookmark support is my favourite feature.
Comment · 5 months ago
Perhaps this is why BASIC originally used LET in the form LET X = X + 1, to imply a calculation rather than equality.
Comment · 1 year ago
There was a time when I had to goto the bank in person during business hours and interact with a teller. There was zero chance of getting hacked, the tellers knew me, and I had to live a more intentional life. Perhaps business hours for a website means real people are there actively monitoring its security and activity.
Comment · 1 year ago
The 360 played a pivotal role in the Apollo program.
Comment · 1 year ago
Wrote floating point routines in assembler back in college. When you get it, it's one of those aha moments.
Comment · 1 year ago
Accessibility wise, for those people with impaired vision, a larger mouse cursor obscures the tool tip text making it unreadable.
Comment · 5 years ago
> try to go back 30 seconds with it, it's nearly impossible.

Tip: press the mike button and say "go back 30 seconds" ... or "open netflix" etc.

Comment · 6 years ago
Modern hospitals have tested manual downtime processes in place.
Comment · 6 years ago
Try searching for “apple 2e“ on either Duckduckgo or Google.
Comment · 6 years ago
Have an original IBM PC sitting here. It has a 5 pin DIN plug on the back to connect a casette tape drive. I also recall BASICA.COM on diskette leveraged the BASIC routines in the original ROM, so it was about 1/3 the size of GWBASIC.EXE.
Comment · 9 years ago
The CEO and company management should eat their own dogfood. Their personal data should be stored in the same insecure systems as their victims.
Comment · 9 years ago
If it keeps my device free of malware, that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'd recommend adding fuses. One between the panel and charge controller, and one on V+ to the battery.
Comment · 9 years ago
Major bummer ... not compatible with iOS 9 on older devices.

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