kalkulat

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Atkinson, architect of the Mac’s graphical soul, dies at 74⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hypercard (Bill’s baby) was great; it’s HyperTalk was a very cool alternative for many “usual” programming tasks. After it died, I kept using it until the web took off … then, in a couple of hours, I used HyperTalk to make an app to convert my stack content into HTML pages. If it had only had networking built in, it’d probably have become the (much better) basis for the Web.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Partly, yep. Seems like every time I try to pin down an AI on a detail of a question worth asking - a math question, or a date in history, it’ll confidently reply with the first answer it finds … right or wrong.

• We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.www.technologyreview.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As an amateur radio operator, The high bands get wiped first! 80, 160, not so much (no ionosphere? ground wave still works. Easy to throw up a long wire … afterward). Hams (esp. ARES) will become VERY IMPORTANT for a LONG time when it happens. Field Day is a good way to prep for aftermath. (Gear can go into metal containers to escape parts damage until afterward.) Portable generators (best without a lot of electronics on them) will be needed to re-charge the batteries!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are A LOT of BIG countries with big electric grids in the world today. Which countries GRIDS get hit the worst depends on which side of the Earth is facing the ‘hit’. Could the West (US, Brazil) or Europe or the East (China, India).

• The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophegizmodo.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA rover discovers liquid water 'ripples' carved into Mars rock — and it could rewrite the Red Planet's history⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Water scouring the surface? Or was it thousands years of wind-blown sand?
  There is no water on Mars (not to be confused with liquid CO2) until somebody goes there and drinks some. Anything else is hoping for water to justify the $100billion price tag.

• An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton uselesswww.theverge.com ↗
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