Prusa video about their colour systems

The blog post is practically the transcript of this video

I think that’s the flavour of free that Joseph Prusa likes, for maximum distribution, but not ensuring freedom for future versions from other people

My 386 had turbo on practically all the time except when playing earlier era games where half speed made them playable

It really was an unturbo button

It’s not that internet explorer was good that made it successful, it was packaged with windows where Netscape wasn’t. People used the one that was already on their computer, then as they got market share they extended http to encourage sites to make stuff that wouldn’t work in Netscape, and couldn’t due to patents

By the time Microsoft was forced to unbundle IE and windows it was very hard for Netscape to get market share back

I’m sure that back in the day there were adults in charge of the big companies. I know that where I work management used to listen to tech areas for tech stuff. Now they just trust whatever the Microsoft agent tells them

DOS 5 docko was fine. I wonder* when they went wrong

*I don’t really

Maybe. Maybe it’s just having 5x as many print heads so 5x as many failure points

What was the website? I just had books in '95 and later, Geocities wasn’t great for chat, IRC and network news groups were the best places to get help

The web was pretty small in the '90s

I spent my time in newsgroups in role playing game flame wars

The system I work on uses “Y” and “N”.

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Same. I got the XL 5 head

No java sounds like the best first choice in selecting a language

Prusa make a 5 toolhead printer with a tool changer and they’re dedicated to reprap and open source

Raise Derry!

I think I knew it was a clit mouse before I was looking on the internet for porn. IBM laptops were well respected and highly available on the secondhand market - I got my university machine from an excess (obsolete) business equipment auction for something like fifty bucks and looking up the machine on Usenet introduced me to the term

https://xkcd.com/303/ vs this guy who thinks 20 seconds is a long time

Following computer security stuff makes every smart thing suspicious

Socks are built to lowest cost. If you want good socks, get wool or cotton from a small company

Lower quality? Modern houses here (Canberra, Australia) typically have all the energy stars (compared to my '70s place’s half a star), are much larger and are proof against termites

A 2026 house beats mine in every respect

Sometimes documentation doesn’t help. My workplace used to be waterfall and we still have systems analysts producing documentation

One piece of work came to my team as “this calculation fails in this case and we can’t tell why”

Looking at it there were two updates in the documentation showing updates ten years ago the first fixing that corner case with the second fixing a side effect of the fix

Why didn’t it work? It was never built, or perhaps built but never merged

On the good side we have an excellent plan for how to fix that corner case, on the bad side we aren’t funded to do that amount of work so we have to half arse a solution