--Mike--

Here are some YouTube channels that might be interesting to you: https://www.youtube.com/@HuygensOptics -- if you want to learn about optics https://www.youtube.com/@EEVblog -- an opinionated Australian with one of the oldest EE focused channels https://w…

https://www.youtube.com/@HuygensOptics -- if you want to learn about optics https://www.youtube.com/@EEVblog -- an opinionated Australian with one of the oldest EE focused channels https://www.youtube.com/@CuriousMarc -- deep technical/repair videos https…

Since Doc Searls decided to start blogging daily again, I figured I might just as well follow along.

Upcoming projects include revisiting old ideas Bidirectional compilation - a compiler that can work backwards to enable radical refactoring, possibly into other languages.

The US created a new world order from the ashes of WWII.

I can't get over the feeling that I'm wasting whatever portion of my life I've got left.

If you've read about von Neuman, and wondered what it was like to bootstrap computing, and if there could be another way.... here's an interesting Birthday Gift from me to you... the BitGrid, and a writeup, on an HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…

A few weeks ago, I replied to a thread on Hacker News about a "leaked" talk by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

My friend Jim bought an Apple Macintosh at the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest on Saturday.

So, this morning when I click on my morning link to Peter Zeihan, I've been greeted with this, instead of him talking from some new location.

I've been a programmer since the 1980s.

Here's the text of my most recent interaction with ChatGPT Mike Warot: explain how cesium beam atomic clocks work, in the style of Richard Feynman Ah, yes, cesium beam atomic clocks - a fascinating piece of technology!

If I had a million $USD to do physics, I'd do some experiments.

Well, with the impending demise of Twitter, it looks like I'll be following Dave Rogers, and the rest of the world, on RSS again, along with everyone else.

I'm playing with Stable Diffusion on my PC, to see what kind of things it comes up with, and learn a bit more about the nature of AI.

Any sufficiently popular computing environment contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of capability based security.

We do need to do a hard thing, we need to reconfigure our world to cope with the end of the one time greatest economic bonanza of all times... the fossil fuel pulse.

I've lost multiple nights of sleep, and simply have no coping skills because there exist in this world a large number of people who just love calling abortion "Baby Murder" These people obviously know the difference between a dead child lying on the ground

Closing the "Boyfriend Loophole" could do a great deal to stop future mass shootings.

In 1945, the person in charge of research and development, who oversaw most of the science that won WWII with the help of Logistics, wrote an article about the most pressing task facing mankind, the need to organize and access the ever growing flood of in…

I came across this comparison video, and it makes a comparison of features between Pop Linux and Windows 11 For the most part, they're equivalent.

Krystal Ball lays out exactly how the Clintons sold out the liberal agenda.

Nobody writes well written prose.

Ask HN: As you get older, do you see programming as merely a means to an end?

a "no fly" zone involves acquiring and maintaining air superiority over Ukraine and neighboring territory.