Published on: 2025-07-22 16:24:18
How Visual Basic became the world's most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development. The Spring of 1988 In the spring of 1988, Alan Cooper sat in front of a computer in a large boardroom at the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, patiently waiting for Bill Gates to arrive. At the time, Cooper's main business was writing desktop application software to sell to publishers. “I was one of the fi
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A Critical Look at MCP "MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs. Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications. Just as USB-C provides a standardized way to connect your devices to various peripherals and accessories, MCP provides a standardized way to connect AI models to different data sources and tools." ― Anthropic TL;DR I would like for this to turn out to be a skill issue on my part, and hope that I'm missing something. During the past mo
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PCB Strain Gauge A strain gauge, with amplifier, where the sensing element is the circuit board itself. Sensitive enough to measure deflections in the range of micrometers while having a full scale deflection range of +/- 3cm. strain_demo.mp4 Manufacturing The recommended board thickness is 0.6mm, although it could be made thicker or thinner for different applications. Thinner boards will result in a smaller output voltage swing. strain_gauge_3.zip 20 mm x 118 mm, 2 layer 0.15mm (~6mil) min
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ASUS laptops generally have a feature that lets the user toggle the fan speed. Fn-F5 on some models, Fn-F on others. The direct effect is to limit the fan speed, from whisper mode to megablast, and indirectly control performance. But it doesn’t work in OpenBSD, so I needed to write an ASUS ACPI WMI driver. acpi ACPI is a hardware abstraction layer that lets the computer tell the operating system how to do things. It provides functions in byte code which the OS interprets to perform certain tas
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Painting weddings for a few years now, I have spent a fair bit of time observing strangers move through a room. Seeing someone new, I always have a feeling of noticing their internal architecture. I did not realize that some people do not feel this way, at least not as intensely. By internal architecture, what I mean is, when someone talks to me, what I notice first are the supporting beams propping up their words: the cadence and tone and desire behind them. I hear if they are bored, fascinate
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Gaming Content Creators & Long-Time Giant Bomb Staff Jeff Bakalar & Jeff Grubb Taking Full Ownership & Operations of the Gaming Media Brand News Announced on Stage During Giant Bomb Panel at PAX East Conference San Francisco, CA - May 10, 2025 - Fandom, the world’s largest fan platform, is selling Giant Bomb to long-time Giant Bomb staff and gaming content creators Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb. Financials of the deal were not disclosed. Giant Bomb’s programming, which was paused in order to wor
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Online security doesn’t have to hurt your wallet. In fact, it rarely does, especially when you pick the right VPN. NordVPN poses as the best currently available option, with a comprehensive sale and meaty discounts. Discounts, however, don’t mean quality reduction. We’d venture to say that NordVPN offers more and costs less – a paradox, we know. However, thousands have already taken advantage of this sale, and for a good reason. See Deals at NordVPN NordVPN Flash Sale Explained NordVPN is ma
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Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections puzzle is pretty fun. I patted myself on the back when I spotted the purple connection right away. Say some of the clues out loud to yourself, and look for a word that fits into a phrase with four of them. Read on for clues and today's Connections answ
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Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. I recognized a distinctive three-word title in today's Connections: Sports Edition, and was off to the races, so to speak. You might find that same phrase, which will help you solve the blue group. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its d
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Forward-looking: Apple's M5 chip is expected to make its debut in the MacBook Pro and iPad Pro later this year, but Apple is already deep into development on the M6 and M7 processors. Apple is advancing its custom silicon ambitions, with a sweeping roadmap that spans next-generation Macs, its first smart glasses, and a powerful new AI server chip. Sources familiar with the company's plans told Bloomberg that Apple is building on its recent momentum in chip design, aiming to set new standards in
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Cutting corners: Gamers who purchase physical copies of Doom: The Dark Ages should probably slide the disc into their consoles as soon as possible, as the game requires downloading dozens of gigabytes. Although the Nintendo Switch 2's game-key cards have faced sharp criticism for requiring full game downloads, an online database shows that the practice has also affected major recent releases on other platforms. According to DoesItPlay.org, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X discs for Doom: The
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Red Bull Gaming has signed a deal with Fortnite star Ali “SypherPK” Hassan. With more than 26.4 million followers across platforms, SypherPK’s decade-long streaming career took off alongside the rise of Fortnite in 2018. His educational content and tips and tricks earned him his very own Fortnite skin in 2022 as well as a spot among the top 25 most subscribed-to streamers on Twitch. Beyond streaming, he’s made a name for himself as an entrepreneur and fitness advocate, bringing that same disci
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Bigger models aren’t driving the next wave of AI innovation. The real disruption is quieter: Standardization. Launched by Anthropic in November 2024, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes how AI applications interact with the world beyond their training data. Much like HTTP and REST standardized how web applications connect to services, MCP standardizes how AI
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A few weeks ago, I was browsing Apple deals on Amazon (as one does) – and something stuck out to me. High-end iPad Pros, particularly 12.9-inch models, are surprisingly cheap. I saw M1 models with 1TB and cellular for under $700. Given the rumors of iPadOS 19 becoming “more like macOS” with the major overhaul set to be unveiled next month at WWDC, I figured these deals would be worth a share. First things first, it’s worth noting that we know very little about the rumored iPadOS 19 overhaul se
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If you think tech nerds are excessively obsessive about their hobbies, you don’t know watch nerds. The horology corners of the internet host deep, sprawling discussions that make even the longest John Siracusa explainer or episode of The Talk Show seem superficial. Recently, none other than the newly elected Pope caught the attention of this ever-watchful crowd. And it turns out, His Holiness is an Apple Watch guy. To be fair, Pope Leo XIV doesn’t wear just the Apple Watch. During his first pu
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Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. CarStream for Twitch lets you listen to audio versions of Twitch streams on CarPlay, without needing to fiddle with your phone while driving. Think radio stations, but with Twitch livestreams. It offers an intuitive CarPlay interface, and offers everything you’d need to listen to a Twitch stream. How it
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new device called the Teal Wand, which its creator describes as an "at-home vaginal sample self-collection device for cervical cancer screening." It could be especially useful for women who find pap smears uncomfortable, painful and even traumatic, as well as for those who may not have time to go to a doctor or have disabilities preventing them from traveling to consult one. Users who get the Teal Wand will have to swab their vagina with the sponge
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As first reported by 9to5Mac , PS5 users now have a direct way to buy games in the PlayStation store with Apple Pay. When you purchase a game on your PS5 with Apple Pay, you'll be shown a QR code that you can scan with your iPhone or iPad to complete the transaction from there. Previously, PS5 users had to go through the console's browser or the PlayStation App on iOS to buy games with Apple Pay. The latest update is a simple quality of life upgrade for PS5 owners since most already have a cred
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The Federal Trade Commission has delayed the start of a rule that aims to make the process of canceling subscriptions less of a nightmare. Last year, the FTC voted to ratify amendments to a regulation known as the Negative Option Rule, adding a new "click-to-cancel" rule that requires companies to be upfront about the terms of subscription signups and prohibits them "from making it any more difficult for consumers to cancel than it was to sign up." Surprising no one, telecom companies were not h
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Disposable Email Addresses Need a temporary email address for a one-time use with an untrusted service? We've got you covered. Generate as many temporary aliases as you need, and disable them once you're done to prevent unwanted spam.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-18 18:48:41
Introduction Mobile app users increasingly expect seamless experiences regardless of network conditions. Whether on a subway, in an elevator, or in areas with spotty reception, users want to access their data, make changes, and continue using apps without interruption. This expectation has driven the rise of local-first application architecture, which prioritises local data storage and synchronisation to deliver superior user experiences. You can see this architecture in action across many po
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 09:32:01
I realized recently that the way I have been handling answers to Prolog questions on Stack Overflow contravenes the rules. I don’t mind ignoring rules if it serves a higher purpose, but I have also come to realize that it actually is counterproductive. There is a constant flow of pre-beginner questions about Prolog on Stack Overflow. The questions I’m referring to typically sound like this: “my professor said a few incoherent things about Prolog and here’s my assignment and I don’t know where t
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Why you should join Weave At Weave, we’re building the best software for the best engineering teams to move faster, and we want to hire exceptional engineers to help us do so. We are a well-funded startup, backed by top investors, growing rapidly and currently profitable.
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Microsoft is working on adding a new Teams feature that will prevent users from capturing screenshots of sensitive information shared during meetings. Those joining from unsupported platforms will be automatically placed in audio-only mode to protect shared content. The company plans to start rolling out this new Teams feature to Android, desktop, iOS, and web users worldwide in July 2025. "To address the issue of unauthorized screen captures during meetings, the Prevent Screen Capture feature
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Published April 2025 In the spring of 2021, Talgar Shaybyrov embarked on a heartbreaking journey. For twenty years, Talgar had hunted with a golden eagle he called Tumara. The two lived at nearly 6,000 feet above sea level, in the quiet town of Bokonbaevo, Kyrgyzstan, where guesthouses and yurt camps line the shore of Issyk Kul, the world’s second-largest saltwater lake. They had spent the past two decades hunting jackals and foxes together, often traveling in Talgar’s run-down Volkswagen Golf,
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When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The pain jolted me awake. It was barely dawn, a misty February morning in 2023. My side felt as if I’d been stabbed. I had been dealing with pain for
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A few months ago I was working on an image classification problem with severe class imbalance - the positive class was much rarer than the negative class. As part of the model tuning phase, I wanted to explore the impact of class imbalance and try to mitigate it. A popular “off-the-shelf” solution to imbalance is weighting classes in inverse proportion to their frequency - which didn’t yield an improvement. This happened to me several times in the past, and other than basic intuition I couldn’t
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[Editor’s Note: I recently asked Steve Wozniak via email about why the original Apple II did not support lowercase letters. I could have guessed the answer, but it’s always good to hear the reason straight from the source. Woz’s response was so long and detailed that I asked him if I could publish the whole thing on VC&G. He said yes, so here we are. –Benj] In the early 1970s, I was very poor, living paycheck to paycheck. While I worked at HP, any spare change went into my digital projects that
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LoopMix128: Fast and Robust 2^128 Period PRNG This repository contains LoopMix128 , an extremely fast pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) with a guaranteed period of 2^128, proven injectivity, and clean passes in both BigCrush and PractRand (32TB). It is designed for non-cryptographic applications where speed and statistical quality are important. Features High Performance: Significantly faster than standard library generators and competitive with or faster than other modern high-speed PRNG
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