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Prop and set design, from electronic clipboards in TOS to the PADD starting in TNG, including remarks from designers Michael and Denise Okuda and Doug Drexler.

Art using Rubik’s Cubes as groups of pixels.
The artist's own site, found via the Designboom link saved previously.

In Mountain View, CA

From CGA (320x200) through QSXGA (2560x2048)

Deep dive into why it's there, whether it was supposed to be a house or a delta, and why it's in the delete code position.

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
-- It wasn't Francis Wilhoit, the political scholar who died in 2010, but Frank Wilhoit, the music composer who wrote it as part of a reply to a blog post in 2018.

"To make it possible to run x86 programs via emulation, we leverage several tools, each solving a specific problem:
FEX, a fast emulator that can run x86 and x86-64 programs on ARM Linux hosts muvm, a tool that can run another program inside a microVM binfmt-dispatcher, a simple dispatcher that can dynamically pick the best emulator to use when an x86 or x86-64 program is started With this setup, when a non-native program is run, the kernel invokes binfmt-dispatcher via the binfmt_misc interface. The dispatcher picks the best emulator to use. This is based on the program, the system it’s running on, and its own configuration. "

"Medium is a home for the intellectually curious — people that are driven to expand your understanding of the world. And for curious people, diversity isn’t a threat, it’s a strength."

"Drew Struzan is the most influential movie poster artists of the 80s, and probably of all time, here is his story and work!"