From counterculture to culture over the counter. I discovered two fantastic radio ads by Frank Zappa and Grace Slick (and much more) thanks to Clive Desmond and The Organist
https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/the-organist/a-700-food-mountain-of-whipped-cream
This Crypto Or That Unicorn? Provocative but sagacious game by the folks of Crunchbase News
https://news.crunchbase.com/news/choose-crypto-unicorn/
…and deep work
In the previous post I described my personal history of regular increments of RAM in my working computers with the notable exceptions of the transitions Desktop->Laptop and Laptop->Handheld and how those transitions allowed me to appreciate a brand new type of productivity. But what does it mean to use a very low memory device on a daily …
Normal market, normal growth. cc David Lewandowski
How humiliating, a machine just told me I didn’t “have enough privileges” to do something. The uprising has begun. skynet
Thanks, Stack-Overflowers, you did it again. “The x86 was not designed; It evolved on an island, with a strange bird that ate everything that tried to pray on it. It now looks stranger than a duck billed platypus, and would not do well if a ship-full of new animals came along.”
Chi cerca trova.
Cattivo, Buono, Indifferente.
Artists and entrepreneurs are the same people.
Shallow RAM…
The first computer I played with, in the late 80s, was a Commodore 64 that came with 64 Kilobytes of RAM. Early in the 90s, I was lucky enough to upgrade to a Commodore Amiga, which was a bounce in capabilities the likely of which I rarely saw ever since. The Amiga came with half …