Regardless of if we consider Holmes a drug addict, abuser or merely a controlled user, it is clear from the stories that Watson was very concerned as both a Friend and Medical expert, that Holmes is damaging his mental faculties

My all time favorite laptop was the 1994 Apple PowerBook DUO 280 with active greyscale screen. These screens actually looked the best in direct sunlight with no backlighting

The battery life was listed as 2-4 hours. Normally it was under 3 hours. However, with no backlighting and booting a stripped down Mac OS and apps off a RAM disk, I could get close to 6 hours in BBedit or WriteNow. I would spin up the HD to save data and turn it off again.

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_duo/specs/mac_p...

Beyond the UHK keyboards there are others with trackpoints

TEX had a whole line https://tex.com.tw/products/shura

The classic Happy Hackers Keyboard has one. https://hhkeyboard.us/hhkb-studio/product

And Lenovo itself offers several usb keyboards with TrackPoint https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F3U4TQS

I've had two of those Lenovo keyboards, beware the USB connector gets damaged ridiculously easily.

The first time I remember seeing a “no use, no pay” plan was with the ProVUE’s Panorama X excellent database application for macOS.

https://provue.com/

oh this is interesting because I feel like it wouldn't work with infra as that runs in the background and you almost never have zero usage on a DB.

IaaS is mostly like this already. There are some things where it’s not used like VMs which serverless tries to solve. Additionally people tend to waste tons of resources with IaaS because they don’t scale on usage.

Yeah that's exactly what I thought: Infra is usually more usage based

I will give this a try. I am needing something to use at my coffee shop/bakery for my staff. Currently, we use Paprika and I am Svelte developer, so this maybe a perfect fit.

Awesome man, I did chat with a mate about adding baker's percentages to the app, but I guess with scaling, you shouldn't really need to use them. Let me know how you get on, I'm basically on this for the moment, so happy to tweak any additions that are feasible and fit into the design ethos.

This resonated with me, having such a passion for computers, yet sad at what this industry has brought us.

> There’s a good chance this page wouldn’t exist had I not read Timothy Snyder’s powerful little book, On Tyranny

This is such a great book. https://timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny

Me too. The industry has now brought so much disrepute on itself that I've become very hesitant to tell people what I do for a living.

This is great news. I had hacked together some bash and fish scripts to mostly do this but they still had some rough edges. I missed that uv now had this ready for preview

I just found that a couple weeks ago.

I'm an end user, too. I don't have anything to do with uv development. I stumbled across it in a GitHub issue or something and passed along the info.

Pricy is relative. Looks like Amazon sells it for $125 (the SRP is $230)

As an engineering student in 1987, I bought a HP-28C. I recall it was the first calculator to do symbolic math

Original Price $235 which is close to what I paid. Adjusted for inflation $657

I think it was worth it.

There is a long distance between a 0% and 100% rise in a tax.

It sounds like you are saying the only reason to work is so that your children will never have to work.

I used DESQview for a number of years, and always think about it when see new TUI systems

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview

I tried to use desqview but it was too slow on my 386 33mhz machine… not sure how much RAM it had back then but I recall it was the bottleneck and swapping to disk caused everything to lag.

I think you are confusing old memories here.

DESQview did not do any memory management of its own, and it did not use graphics. It was entirely local and had no networking. It was famously fast. It was a DOS multitasker so it managed DOS tasks, meaning multiple slots of 640kB. On a 386 with 4MB of RAM you could have 6 full-size DOS VMs with a bit left over.

If you were a power user you could still have say a big 1-2-3 spreadsheet in EMS plus a few DOS VMs.

DESQview delegated memory management to QEMM386, and QEMM386 did not do swapping. It didn't need to.

DESQview/X was a totally different product, with a full GUI, so much bigger and slower -- and it added an optional extension that added full virtual memory with swapping to disk.

I am wondering if you are mixing up DESQview (small, fast, local) with DV/x (big, complicated, networked, had optional VM)?

Or indeed DV/x with something else altogether? OS/2 maybe?

Because if it was swapping, it wasn't DESQview, not in any normal sane config anyway. It might be possible to add DV/x VM to plain old DESQview but I never heard of anyone doing that.