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@theoff-keybard.bsky.social@theoff-keybard.bsky.social@theoff-keybard.bsky.socialdesigned so future generations could continue the argument and amend the law.
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@theoff-keybard.bsky.social@theoff-keybard.bsky.social@theoff-keybard.bsky.socialUnderstanding the Holocaust means recognizing how ordinary administrative machinery laid the foundation long before the killing centers were built.
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@theoff-keybard.bsky.socialA technology designed for 1950s computers is still hiding in plain sight.
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@theoff-keybard.bsky.social But the story didn't end with “Gage was no longer Gage.”
His later life may also tell us something remarkable about the brain's ability to adapt.
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@theoff-keybard.bsky.social Consumer protection. 230M acres conserved. Panama Canal. Big Stick diplomacy. Nobel Peace Prize. TR didn't create the presidency.
He helped create the modern presidency.
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@theoff-keybard.bsky.socialToday we put tens of billions of transistors on a single chip.
The revolution started remarkably small.
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@theoff-keybard.bsky.social@theoff-keybard.bsky.socialJust an extraordinarily early glimpse of how we'd eventually use computers every day.
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@theoff-keybard.bsky.social👇 What is a firewall actually doing?
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@theoff-keybard.bsky.socialNine days later, a fault damaged 53 magnets and shut it down for more than a year.
Four years later?
It helped discover the Higgs boson.
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@theoff-keybard.bsky.social🔌 Charger: Here's what I can provide.
📱 Phone: Here's what I'll accept.
🧵 Cable: Here's what I can handle.
The slowest part can limit everything.
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@theoff-keybard.bsky.socialThe term “bug” for technical faults was already decades old. That's what made the joke funny. For once, the computer bug really was a bug.
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@theoff-keybard.bsky.socialbusiness collapses & mass unemployment. The Pullman Strike ended with Cleveland sending federal troops into Chicago. Same president. Very different presidency. theoffkeybard.com/bards-desk/h...
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@theoff-keybard.bsky.socialA file extension tells software what format to expect. Actually converting the file requires rewriting its data into the new format.
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