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In 1889, a slender building was unveiled on a commercial stretch of Lower Broadway, snugly situated between two older structures. Rising 11 stories, it wasn’t the tallest tower in the city. N…
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
An acquisition gets weird.
Stockpicking of unloved and undervalued Japanese companies using the Graham and Dodd framwork of value investing.
A key concept for a processor is the management of "state", information that persists over time. Much of a computer is built from logic gate...
I've been contacted a few times recently about the sharp decline in descriptive images on the events listings.
One fine day in January 2017 I was reminded of something I had half-noticed a few times over the previous decade. That is, younger hackers don’t know the bit structure of ASCII and the meaning of the odder control characters in it.
Who really invented the alphabet? Although we are still uncertain about precisely where the world’s most influential communication system came from, we know more than we did 20 years ago.
There was a cultural divide in benshi preferences, rather like the difference in taste between those
For Google’s 25th birthday, we’re celebrating alongside our users with a special Doodle and some surprises in Search.
I set up a Retro PC recently. One of the reasons I did this is because I was inspired by this thread:
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2023200 points121 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
This is the fourth part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1, A2) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.…
Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress and inventor who pioneered the technology that would one day form the basis for today’s WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
On a Saturday night, a security engineer at Equifax was updating an SSL certificate on a Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS). Immediately after, suspicious connections were detected. After a more in-depth investigation, it became evident that the situation was far graver than anticipated. A service had to be…
Archaeologists discover world’s oldest wooden structure
On cartography as historical argument
I ended up going to a small museum run by a passionate enthusiast in the beautiful countryside of south-east Estonia while on vacation, here are my notes on it.
What did Vincent van Gogh look like? His self-portraits provide a good indication. Read on to find out all about them.
HyperTalk, AppleScript, Prograph, Automator, Swift Playgrounds and Shortcuts – all wonderful tools in their day, but none has brought coding to the crowd.
It is now ??????????.??? ( ????-??-??T??:??:??.???Z ) in Unix time , according to your local system clock.
What if you could counterfeit so much money that it stopped being illegal?
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
Do you know what got black currants banned? They nearly destroyed a huge part of American forests. Find out how this healthy berry became a threat.
The Book8088 is an interesting little machine. It is essentially a 1980's computer in a laptop form factor. With apologies to Sergey Kiselev...
HDMI is a relatively modern video connector we take for granted on modern PCs and monitors. Now vintage PCs can join in the fun too with a native connection to modern HDMI monitors without any additional adapter. (A production run has been made for this board. You can contact explit[at]mailbox[dot]org if you wish to…
